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Познакомьтесь с Эйлин Тумулти. Она родилась в бедном районе Нью-Йорка, в панельном доме, где отчаяние сменяется бурным весельем в зависимости от количества принятого. С са...
В этом удивительном романе, который Э.С. Грейлинг, член жюри Букеровской премии 2014 года, назвал шедевром, Флэнаган расскажет о судьбе австралийских военнопленных, брошен...
Он был еще юн и о том, как устроена жизнь вокруг, представлял себе очень смутно. Да и каменные джунгли Токио разительно отличались от той среды, в которой Цкуру жил ранее....
Впервые на русском - новейший роман от автора таких международных бестселлеров, как "Багровый лепесток и белый" и "Побудь в моей шкуре" (книга экранизирована в 2014 г. со ...
«Простые смертные» — долгожданный роман от Дэвида Митчелла, каждая книга которого становится событием в мировой литературе. На страницах этого произведения Митчелл создал ...
Впервые на русском — новейший роман от лауреата многих престижных литературных премий Энтони Дорра. Эта книга, вынашивавшаяся более десяти лет, немедленно попала в списки ...
From the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World, here is a dazzling tragicomedy about three brothers whose father takes on the occult and both wins and lo...
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History
Генри Киссинджер
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(6)In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates...
Anand Giridharadas's deeply moving new work of narrative non-fiction tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a former Bangladeshi Air Force officer who moved to America with...
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused ...
In this darkly funny work of literary nonfiction, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters—one a young prodigy, the other an aging jour...
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright takes us through each of the 13 days of the 1978 Camp David conference when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli Prime Mi...
In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.
An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science.
Why is glass see-through? What mak...
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to th...
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth.
Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to...
When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was ro...
Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, “abortion” is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American wom...
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-con...