Герой книги навещает в доме престарелых старую слепую фрау Брюкер, пытаясь выяснить, на самом ли деле она открыла секрет приготовления колбасы "карри". И та рассказывает и...

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1001 книга, которую нужно прочитать
1 001 книга

1001 книга, которую нужно прочитать
This novel that echoes the styles of Joseph Conrad and V. S. Naipaul follows a young Guyanese engineer appointed to help save and shore up a Kent coastal village's sea def...
Prvotina Jáchyma Topola patří k nejpřekládanějším polistopadovým českým románům. Jde o osobitou výpověď o životě v bývalém Československu na konci 80. a počátku 90. let 20...
Книга "Утверждает Перейра" принесла автору мировую известность. Роман получил 4 итальянские премии (включая "Премию читателей"), был экранизирован ( в главной роли - Марче...
Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is intr...
Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the...
Writing with rare power and insight, one of England's most distinguished thinkers and scholars takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the soul, plumbing her own...
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come tog...
Феноменальный успех романа современного немецкого писателя Бернхарда Шлинка "Чтец" (1995) сопоставим разве что с популярностью вышедшего двадцатью годами ранее романа Патр...
В недалеком будущем пациенты реабилитационной клиники ЭннетХаус и студенты Энфилдской теннисной академии, а также правительственные агенты и члены террористической ячейки ...
Autobiografische teksten van Hella Haasse
As World War I winds to a close, two men--Dr. William Rivers, a psychologist whose dedicated healing sends men back to the brutal front, and Billy Prior, a shell-shocked s...
An intricate and self-reflective novel about that most delicate of relationships--meaning the one between writers and readers. The narrator, an anonymous graduate student,...
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document o...
Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we kno...
At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunte...
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in...
Patrick Scully used to be his school's best striker, but now he's just a frustrated 18-year-old working in Dublin. Balls O'Reilly is getting all the attention, even from S...
This brilliant recounting of the events surrounding John Brown's legendary raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry is a masterpiece of modern American storytelling that will b...



















