Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel.
Agnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes — she wanted to be a pleasing Grace. Alas, she remained the terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic...
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Что делать, если реальность превращается в жуткий кошмар, где ты не можешь найти свой дом и вернуться к любимому? В этом кошмаре есть все...
«Когда мы называем мистикой какие-либо явления, мы просто расписываемся в своей беспомощности. Нам не дано понять истинной сущности...
Артур Хейли — классик современной американской литературы. Его произведения — это своеобразные «куски жизни». Аэропорт, отель,...
With a geography as diverse as the streets of Beverly Hills and the charnel grounds of India, a Mexican beach resort and the Russian Tea Room in New York City, this is a spare, eloquent, and deeply informed novel about the world of the movies. It...
Time Out New York's #1 Best Book of 2008.
"[A] funny, inquisitive novel [that] asks readers to re-examine their ideas of the Western frontier and personal freedom." — Jeffrey Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal
"May be the most...
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In...
Praised for his "beautifully crafted and strangely surreal" (Peter Matthiessen) stories, Terrence Holt had been operating under the literary radar for more than fifteen years, placing award-winning stories in such noted journals as Zoetrope,...
Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random...
Автор: Тавада Ёко , Ёсимото Банана
Серия: Новая японская проза
Язык: русский
Год: 2003
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...Сейчас в Японии разворачивается настоящей ренессанс «женской» культуры, так долго пребывавшей в подавленном состоянии. Литература...