The diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success, clothes and comfort. After her husband, then her mother, die from ca...
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The second last prose text, Worstward Ho, the latter is a novella written in 1983, shortly after the largely autobiographical Company and an ironic theological speculation...
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and...
Hamish Henderson lived one of the great lives of twentieth-century Scotland, a dramatic life of epic European scale, a life of major artistic, political and spiritual achi...
Das Durchbrechen einer jahrzehntealten Gewohnheit führt in dem 1985 zuerst erschienenen Prosaband mit dem Untertitel »Komödie« von Thomas Bernhard dazu, daß der Privatgele...
Роман молодой писательницы, в котором она откровенно рассказала о своем детстве и трагической первой любви, вызвал жаркие дискуссии и стал одним из главных культурных собы...
Wir kennen Pieter Bruegels Gemälde. »Das Gleichnis von den Blinden«: Sechs ausgemergelte, stumme und blinde Gestalten. In diesem Buch beginnen sie zu reden...
Hempel's now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to b...
Издание представляет собой произведение "Канувшие и спасенные" Примо Леви, автора автобиографических книг о лагерном опыте - "Человек ли это?" и "Передышка".
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Если все русские писатели вышли из "Шинели" Гоголя, то роман южноамериканского писателя и нобелиата Дж. М. Кутзее "Мистер Фо" тоже имеет одного прародителя. Это Даниель Де...
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must ...
A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City, ...
From the author of The Devil's Feather comes a haunting psychological thriller about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner turmoil of a ki...
The story of a writer's singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind t...
Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter ...
Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though ...
Von einem Dezember-Nachmittag handelt die 1987 von Peter Handke veröffentlichte Erzählung. Die Arbeit am Schreibtisch ist für diesen Tag beendet, sie wird erst am nächsten...