The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankment...
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Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a dec...
Collection of short stories, published in 1991, by the acclaimed author of Edisto and A Woman Named Drown.
For Victor's 80th birthday, his right-hand man Rook prepares a country feast in the heart of the city. But Victor is making preparations of his own: to dismiss Rook and to...
This novel is semi-autobiographical and based on the author's own experience of traveling with her mother Bernadine Coverley, in North Africa, between the ages of four and...
"DESTROY," H.D. had pencilled across the title page of this autobiographical novel. Although the manuscript survived, it has remained unpublished since its completion in t...
<p>На небольшом островке Чаппаквидик у восточного побережья штата Массачусетс была устроена вечеринка для пятерых мужчин (среди — них сенатор Эдвард Кеннеди) и пятерых мол...
<p>История, действие которой разворачивается в маленьком ирландском городке в начале шестидесятых, рассказывает о том, как домашние проблемы заставляют школьника Фрэнсиса ...
Indigo is a shimmering, lyrical novel about power and transformation. Inspired by Shakespeare's magic play The Tempest, prizewinning writer Marina Warner refashions the dr...
A provocative novel about an African tribal woman’s battle with madness after the trauma of a childhood genital mutilation.
Dit monumentale boek is verfilmd door Jeroen Krabbé, met in de hoofdrollen Stephen Fry, Greg Wise en Emma Fielding. De ontdekking van de hemel, waarin alle thema's en obse...
Ein Roman über die Kindheit eines Mädchens, das Portrait eines Landes und seiner Städte (Ankara, Istanbul) in denen Mythos und Moderne dramatisch aufeinanderprallen, ein B...
Блестящая американская писательница Донна Тартт, лауреат Пулитцеровской премии 2014 года, покорила читателей в 1992 году первым же своим романом ""Тайная история"". Книга ...
Melancholische Erzählungen der Trauer und Erinnerung, über Entwurzelung, Verzweiflung und Tod - Sebald bewegt sich in seinem vielgerühmten Meisterwerk am »Rand der Finster...
Even Zenia’s name is enough to provoke the old sense of outrage, of humiliation and confused pain. The truth is that at certain times—early mornings, the middle of the nig...
This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth in a kitchen in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy's lif...
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal app...
В «Операции “Шейлок”» Филип Рот добился полной неразличимости документа и вымысла. Он выводит на сцену фантастический ряд реальных и вымышленных персонажей, включая себя с...
A first novel which dissects the intricate difficulties of human relationships, from a Scotswoman's passionate attachment to her father and her more problematic involvemen...