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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...
Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who ...
Winner of the Egon Hostovský Prize as the best Czech book of the year, this epic novel powerfully captures the sense of dislocation that followed the Czechs’ newfound free...
Действие романа "Земля" выдающейся корейской писательницы Пак Кён Ри разворачивается в конце 19 века. Главная героиня — Со Хи, дочь дворянина. Её судьба тесно переплетена ...
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...
В.Г. Зебальд (1944-2001) - немецкий писатель, поэт и историк литературы, преподаватель Университета Восточной Англии, автор четырех романов и не скольких сборников эссе. Р...
В недалеком будущем пациенты реабилитационной клиники ЭннетХаус и студенты Энфилдской теннисной академии, а также правительственные агенты и члены террористической ячейки ...
Dealing with the themes of alienation and estrangement, this collection of stories reflects the impressions the author absorbed during her childhood and youth in the Indie...
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...
Athos and I stood together on deck and looked across the water at the bright city. From this distance no one would guess the turmoil that had torn apart Greece . The sea b...
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,...
In the resort of Estrella de Mar, Charles Prentice has just arrived from London to save his brother, Frank, who has confessed to setting an explosive fire that has taken f...
UNDERWORLD opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits the Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the G...
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...
"Меньше чем ноль" - неприкрашенный портрет "золотой молодежи", слишком рано познавшей секс, наркотики и разочарование.
Герой приезжает домой на Рождество, но каникулы в Л...
The Poisonwood Bible tells the story of an American family in the Congo during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. The story is told by the wife and four d...
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...