Call it natural selection, call it the law of the jungle, what rises to the top in the seething turmoil of Barcelona is the cream - or is it the scum? In the late 1940s, t...

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Мои 1001
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Мои 1001
В сборник произведений великого американского писателя Германа Мелвилла (1819-1891) вошли произведения из цикла "Рассказы на веранде" (за исключением рассказа "Торговец гр...
<p>In a new novel by one of the premier writers of the ''new'' South Africa, an exile returns from America--where he fled during the apartheid regime--to find his newly de...
Heather McGowan’s widely praised first novel introduces a literary artist of consummate skill, and a narrative voice of astonishing sensitivity and sensuousness. Tracking ...
Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his ch...
Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though ...
Meskaris, a young mother whose husband is away fighting, takes as her lover a shy Italian soldier, so as to better feed and clothe her children. With victory, the villager...
Миф Эвы Марии Дуарте Перон - одно из самых загадочных явлений в истории Аргентины. Незадачливая фотомодель, малоизвестная актриса, ставшая Первой дамой страны. О ней сочин...
'The bravura and lyricism of the prose (for which translator George Leeson is also to be thanked), the casual deftness of the symbols, and most of all the brilliant conclu...
Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary peop...
Экспериментальный роман американского писателя Дэвида Марксона (1927–2010), признанный классикой постмодернизма. Роман — путешествие в одиночество, куда уводит читателя гл...
Costas Haritos, a CID chief in central Athens, is uncomfortably married, aggressive and pessimistic, and only manages to relax when he is at home reading his English dicti...
In a return to the British setting of his much loved novel All Souls, Javier Marias embarks on a remarkable 'novel in parts', set in the murky world of surveillance and es...
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the me...
First published in 1929, this is a classic novel of World War I, and a lasting tribute to all who participated in it. The shocking language of the trenches gave rise to a ...
This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare and poison gas, a married couple whose pacificism complels them to opt o...
Тема "утраченных иллюзий" не нова для европейской литературы. Но у бразильского писателя Машаду де Ассиза она решается в чисто психологическом плане. Изменение характера ч...
Смерть любимого отца расколола жизнь Хелен на ""до"" и ""после"", однако она нашла необычный способ справиться с горем, взяв на воспитание ястреба-тетеревятника. Страдающа...
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.
Set o...
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