With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an ind...
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Here, collected for the first time, are the three internationally acclaimed novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s ‘African Trilogy’.
In Thi...
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around ...
The tragic tension between Franklin's need to communicate the horror which has shaped his life, and the guilt which has kept him silent are at the heart of this unforgetta...
The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee.
In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park....
Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China. At times scarcely credible in the details ...
Предлагаем вниманию читателей один из самых известных романов английской писательницы Вирджинии Вульф, ведущей фигуры модернистской литературы первой половины XX века. Ее ...
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and together, they query the relationship ...
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitter...
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии.
Книги из этой сер...
Ils ont miraculeusement survecu au carnage de la Grande Guerre, aux horreurs des tranchees. Albert, un employe modeste qui a tout perdu, et Edouard, un artiste flamboyant ...
n mécanicien de locomotive, tourmenté par une lourde hérédité, et qui ne s'entend vraiment qu'avec sa machine... Une femme qui semble née pour faire le malheur de tous les...
Comment s'imposer « quand on a le malheur d'être né au confluent de Hugo et de Balzac » ?Comment écrire La Comédie humaine après ce dernier ? Les tâtonnements d'Émile Zola...
Le Second Empire vise a faire de Paris la capitale de la mode et du luxe. La ville se modernise. Les boutiques du Paris ancien laissent place peu a peu aux grands magasins...
Роман "Germinal" ("Жерминаль") известнейшего французского писателя Эмиля Золя - один из документов эпохи - цикла "Ругон-Маркары", являющегося художественным воплощением до...
In his magnificent new work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his acute intelligence to the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in ...
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly scre...
Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel―a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself.
Nearly two we...
Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. ...
A great masterpiece by William Gaddis, with a new introduction by Rick Moody.
Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the many ways in which...