Brodeck

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Хрестоматия по истории Древнего Рима

The wait is agonizing, but the anticipation is delicious. Can we finally unravel the mystery?

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Дневник. 1876-1878

The way you laugh makes me want to lose myself in you entirely.

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There's a certain electricity in the air whenever you're near. Perhaps we can rewrite the script tonight, with a touch of playful fire that ignites a desire that lingers long after the last spark fades, leaving us wanting more tomorrow.

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Your laugh makes me feel lighter. Maybe we can create a connection that goes beyond laughter, one built on exploring desires with a playful touch and whispered secrets?

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Hearing you speak ignites a fire within me. Perhaps we can create a different kind of heat together, one that lingers long after tonight.

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I can't decide what's more tempting, that smirk on your face or the feeling of your hand in mine.

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Гостеприимство по-соседски (СИ)

Обожаю этот рассказ. Он просто великолепен. Впервые прочла на фикбуке, и сразу добавила к любимым. А потом рассказ там исчез, и для меня это была просто трагедия. Рада, что снова его нашла ☺☺

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Автор: Claudel Philippe

Язык: английский

Год: 2009

Издатель: Nan A. Talese

Переводчик: John Cullen

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Аннотация

Forced into a brutal concentration camp during a great war, Brodeck returns to his village at the war’s end and takes up his old job of writing reports for a governmental bureau. One day a stranger comes to live in the village. His odd manner and habits arouse suspicions: His speech is formal, he takes long, solitary walks, and although he is unfailingly friendly and polite, he reveals nothing about himself. When the stranger produces drawings of the village and its inhabitants that are both unflattering and insightful, the villagers murder him. The authorities who witnessed the killing tell Brodeck to write a report that is essentially a whitewash of the incident.
As Brodeck writes the official account, he sets down his version of the truth in a separate, parallel narrative. In measured, evocative prose, he weaves into the story of the stranger his own painful history and the dark secrets the villagers have fiercely kept hidden.
Set in an unnamed time and place, Brodeck blends the familiar and unfamiliar, myth and history into a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Readers of J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Kafka will be captivated by Brodeck.