In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life,...
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Levé hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. Autoportrait is a physical, psychological, sexual,...
«J’aime quelqu’un d’autre.»
Ma tête s’est remplie de sang. Mes yeux, sous la poussée, ont vibré dans leur orbite ; quelques millilitres de plus et ils s’exorbitaient. Ça m’a paru tellement insensé que j’ai jeté un oeil à...
Kirils Partiks
Avalona
Žurnālists - neveiksminieks aizbraucis uz vientuļu taigas ciematu, lai ar tautas medicīnas līdzekļiem izārstētu augoni smadzenēs. Izrādās, ka attālajā nomalē notiek mežonīga taigas mežu izciršana,...
John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
As we grow older — most of all, in what we remember and what we dream — we live in the past....