The story of Ruth, who grows up, with her sister Lucille, under the care of her grandmother, two comically fumbling great-aunts, and the transient sister of her dead mothe...
Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray ...
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the ...
Америка превратилась в ад. Из секретной лаборатории вырвался на свободу опаснейший вирус. Умерли сотни тысяч, миллионы ни в чем не повинных людей...
Однако и это еще не в...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST
‘Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation’ Harpers
‘A life changing read for me. Describ...
A revolutionary novel, "A Contract With God" re-creates the neighbourhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of interwoven stories. Called "a masterpiece" by R. Crum...
Молочник Помер – колоритнейший персонаж. Сын бизнесмена, он всю жизнь был что-то должен семье: матери, чья любовь порой напоминала болезнь, и отцу – так и не смирившемуся ...
Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is coming home. But, returning to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, he finds himself scarred by his experiences as a...
One of the most acclaimed novels of the late 20th century is back.
When members of the National Book Critics Circle were polled to see which book they would most like t...
A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance, now adapted for film by Alex and Andrew Smith, starring Chaske Spencer and produced by Sherm...
A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City
Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents...
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, ...
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright...
The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages
Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and upr...
"Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas…"
So begins the courtship of a certain Ungu...
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spar...
Всё началось с бездомного кота. Софи Бентвуд захотела угостить его молоком, поделиться с несчастным толикой своего благополучия, столь недосягаемого для многих её соседей ...
Тонко, увлекательно и с юмором раскрывает перед нами автор душу взрослеющей Маргарет, которая трепетно осознает свою женскую сущность и всем сердцем ищет дружбы с Богом, д...