For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas commits a violent act that affects both th...
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Ha...
The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.' For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted h...
Опубликовавшая свою первую книгу в возрасте двадцати одного года, Эллис Хоффман на сегодняшний день - автор пятнадцати романов, двух сборников рассказов и шести книг для д...
“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chr...
Little Bill and his friends love the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy. But when Little Bill asks hi...
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the daughter of Carolina gentry. He was a skinny tena nt farmer who had never owned anyt...
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of El...
When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest things possible to one another, Little Bill shows ...
A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three...
Morris, author of IA Dangerous Woman/i, explores the relationship between a trusting, needy divorcee and a shady con man. Raising her children without any support from her...
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our...
At the Church of Fire and Brimstone and Gods Almighty Baptizing Wind, Grandpa Herman makes the rules for everyone, and everyone obeys, or else. Try as she might, Ninah has...
From the author of Floating in My Mother's Palm. Born in the small German town of Burdorf, Trudi Montag is a Zwerg--a dwarf--who yearns to stretch and grow and be like eve...
Завораживающая история женщины по имени Долорес Прайс.
История пути к себе длиною в жизнь.
История одиночества и поисков дружбы, любви и верности в нашем изменчивом ...
Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author ...
Роман принадлежит к числу наиболее интересных произведений американской прозы 1970-х гг.
Центральный конфликт, воплощенный в судьбе главного героя Мейкона Помера, отража...
An unforgettable debut of a major storyteller, this bestselling novel now in paperback recounts every mother's most terrifying nightmare: the disappearance of her child.