In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and...
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A brilliant novel from Alejandro Zambra, “the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction” (Marcela Valdes, The Nation).
Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy. He lives...
Впервые за полгода залез на почту, обнаружил там шикарный подарок. Огромная благодарность Михаилу Черкашину, за то что взялся за...
Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed.
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Едва лишь электpонная pулетка часов выбpосит на табло счастливое число: два нуля, а пеpед ними цифpу пять, я аккуpатно отложу шаpиковую...
Блондинка с битой в руках и силой воздуха наперевес. Рыжая с редким даром. Шатен с высшими огненными силами. Братец рыжеволосой - высший...
Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war. The story “Evie M.” is about a vet turned office clerk whose petty neuroses derail even her...
We Five tells the story of five young female friends and co-workers through the voices of five different authors, the story unfolding against five distinct historic backdrops. The driving conceit is that an anonymously authored manuscript from the...
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We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times best-selling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity...
The Freeman family-Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie-have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus...