A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniella, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn...
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Stephen Dixon is a very skillful storyteller. His grasp of the life of ordinary American citydwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination, without for a moment sacrificing its essential...
Wladimir Kaminer, der gefeierte Autor der »Russendisko«, ist wieder da. Und diesmal hat er auch seine Freunde mitgebracht. Gemeinsam gelingt ihnen das Kunststück, eine ganz neue Literatur zu präsentieren – hinreißende Geschichten...
Before the Cultural Revolution, narrator Tadpole's feisty Aunt Gugu is revered as an obstetrician in her home township in rural China. Renowned for her sure hands and uncanny ability to calm anxious mothers, Gugu speeds around town on her bicycle...
A multi-layered and frequently hilarious family epic — Dixon combines interrelated novels, stories, and novellas to tell the story of Howard Tetch, his ancestors, children, and the generations that...
Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health,...
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty.
Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burnt.
Jonas Palmason, a poet and...
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction
Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University — his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than...
Роман написан в электронных письмах. В этих письмах за целый год — вся жизнь героини, ее отношения с близкими людьми, с которыми она...
Одно из первых произведений Виктора Зеновича Телегина, прозаическая поэма FUCKультет, была написана в 1989 году. Книга рассказывает о...