Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the Second World War, and is an innovative departure from her previous three lesbian Victorian historical fictions. Tipping the Velvet (1998), Affinity (1999)...
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The nightwatchman's occurrence book: and other comic inventions
V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction — two novels and a collection of stories — that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England...
A NOVEL OF ALIENATION FOR THE DOOMER GENERATION
The story of a young man at the end of his rope—his girlfriend has left him, he hates his job, he has no friends, no beliefs, no hope, no future.
During the course of a week he will plunge...
9-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, decietful, and accident prone. When he falls off a cliff, the accident seems almost predestined. He survives but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is...
Современная русская и зарубежная проза
The ninth symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and other lost songs
The ninth symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and other lost...
"The thought of calling off work is like the thought of suicide, just nice to think about."
In The No Hellos Diet, Sam Pink brings you straight into a world you've never been to before — your own life. Find yourself working at a department...
A cryptic, self-negating series of notes for an unfinished work of fiction, this astonishing book is made up of ideas for characters and plot points, anecdotes and tales, literary references both real and invented, and populated by an array of...
"One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." — Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature
From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical and powerfully written novel-excerpted in The New...
"A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world of gruesome violence and perversity, where 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim: but where a very faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de...
An elderly man reads to an elderly woman every day from a yellowed notebook that he carries around with him. He hopes that this notebook, which contains the memories of his love and life, will jog her memory, but it is not to be. Yet, he tries...