Gabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house. His mother works nights in a pub and sleeps days. Navigating his way through the shattered ...
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Проза Мирослава Крлежы резка, экспрессивна, жестоко правдива. В романе "Возвращение Филиппа Латиновича", написанном в 1932 году, автор исследует вопрос о судьбе художника ...
During his long and distinguished career, the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza (1893-1981) battled against many forms of tyranny. In On the Edge of Reason, his protagonist ...
Роман "У Германтов" продолжает семитомную эпопею французского писателя Марселя Пруста "В поисках утраченного времени", в которой автор воссоздает ушедшее время, изображая ...
Das einem Marstheater zugedachte Drama, mit dem Karl Kraus Wesen und Wirklichkeit des Ersten Weltkriegs einzufangen suchte, bildet ungeachtet seines Umfangs, der jedes The...
A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance,...
The Fan Man is a comic novel published in 1974 by the American writer William Kotzwinkle. It is told in the first-person by the narrator, Horse Badorties, a down-at-the-he...
Fantasist William Kotzwinkle takes readers on a wild ride in this thriller set in the sleazy world of the tabloids. Howard Halliday, the editor of the Midnight Examiner an...
The daily routine of a man in charge of children at a state welfare organizat and the demands that are made upon him are depicted in this novel set in present day Hungary.
Set in Czechoslovakia before, during and after the "Velvet Revolution", this is the story of Pavel, a middle-aged television cameraman working uneasily within the boundari...
"В романе "Сад, пепел" (1965) сербский писатель Данило Киш (1935-1989) в свойственной ему лирической манере описывает столкновение хрупкого мира детства (сад) со смертью (...
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Catcher in the Ry...
A first novel which dissects the intricate difficulties of human relationships, from a Scotswoman's passionate attachment to her father and her more problematic involvemen...
From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love...
Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain,...
Hamish Henderson lived one of the great lives of twentieth-century Scotland, a dramatic life of epic European scale, a life of major artistic, political and spiritual achi...
Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his fam...
From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in tur...