A powerfully redemptive novel about one woman's search for herself--from Guadeloupe to France to the United States
Ranelise is a cook in the small village of La Pointe ...
Disciples of Passion chronicles the civil war in Lebanon through the troubled and sometimes quasi-hallucinatory mind of a young man who has experienced kidnapping, hostage...
“On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big paraboli...
Повесть прогрессивного индийского писателя направлена против могущественной власти традиций, в значительной мере задерживающих поступательное движение страны. В повести за...
“Intizar Husain is one of Pakistan’s—and South Asia’s— greatest living writers. Basti, a haunting modernist echo chamber of voices from Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic tradit...
Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, "Dream of Ding Village" is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke'...
'Davis's short stories are perfected economies, witty devices, precision-made, primed to release intelligence, philosophy, hilarity. They celebrate the thinking universe w...
Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of ...
The girl had always been called Taya. Her companion Kort had always been with her. She accepted these things, and why not? They were her world. But Taya wondered why every...
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision o...
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of ...
Поиски пропавшего друга приводят Лиру и ее деймона Пантелеймона на далекий Север, где на ледовых просторах царят бронированные медведи, а в морозном небе летают ведьмы. И ...
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. With a surgeon’s s...
?I had but that one arrow’, says Chotti Munda, the hero of this epic tale. A ?magic? arrow that stood for the pride, the wisdom, the culture of their society, a society th...
In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparab...
"День опричника" – это не праздник, как можно было бы подумать, глядя на белокаменную кремлевскую стену на обложке и стилизованный под старославянский шрифт в названии кни...
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(13)В антологию современной французской прозы "Полночь. XXI век" вошли произведения авторов издательства "Les Editions de Minuit", впервые переведенные на русский язык, - Ж.Эш...
Действие нового романа Петера Штамма происходит во Франции и Швейцарии. Андреас, главный герой книги, возвращается из Парижа в родную швейцарскую деревушку, чтобы встретит...
Аарон Аппельфельд, один из самых читаемых израильских авторов, родился в Черновцах. В годы войны скитался по Бессарабии и Буковине, скрываясь от немцев и румын. В пятнадца...