Like the May of Teck Club itself, "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit," the young women of London after WWII do their best to act as if the wor...
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Big Jubilee Read
Ксения Ахметзянова70 книг
Ксения АхметзяноваBig Jubilee Read
Первый роман нобелевского лауреата Ж.М.Г.Леклезио, полный взрывной силы и тонкого лиризма, принес двадцатитрехлетнему автору мгновенное признание, престижную литературную ...
The fully restored fiftieth anniversary edition Foreword by Martin Amis First published by William Heinemann in 1962, A Clockwork Orange is widely acknowledged as one of...
He was struck again and again by the wonder of being in his own house, the audacity of it: to walk in through his own front gate, to bar entry to whoever he wished, to clo...
When a woman refuses to sit next to him on the bus, Rick Braithwaite is saddened and angered by her prejudice. In post-war cosmopolitan London he had hoped for a more enli...
Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India's most corrupt tourist gu...
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners is a classic novel of immigrant life in 1950s London.
At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals...
An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century.
When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African (Nigeria) Yoruba oral fol...