An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother’s funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling...
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A novel set in Dublin in the mid-1980s — a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College, it tells of their fascination with the formidably talented but...
Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the...
Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nassim, now married to his former love Hind, and old friends from the leftist...
The Melancholy...
From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day: a beautiful new period novel — a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time — based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great astronomer William Herschel and an...
Single mother Jane Hartley is frantic when her 16-year-old daughter Kelly disappears from home one night. To Jane's frustration, the police believe that Kelly ran off willingly with her boyfriend. Unaware that her daughter even had a boyfriend, Jane...
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Автор: Housewright David
Серия: Holland Taylor #3
Язык: английский
Год: 1999
Статус: Закончена
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Private eye Holland Taylor helps a sleazy lawyer find a missing woman believed to have been murdered. Taylor's investigation leads him to a rural Wisconsin town, where he uncovers a gambling and resort scheme with stakes high enough to cost...
Автор: Stratton Thomas
Серия: The Man From UNCLE #12
Язык: английский
Статус: Закончена
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Два лучших агента Наполеон Соло и Илья Курякин из организации UNCLE (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) сражаются с возмутителями спокойствия, в...