Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwin-dling. From her window a middle-aged woman watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to the...
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The Man Booker Prize
Orange Prize for Fiction (nominee)
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The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him – although that certainly helped – it...
JRZDVLZ (pronounced “Jersey Devils”) is the autobiography of a sympathetic monster on a centuries-spanning quest for redemption. Based on long-suffering legend and historical fact, it’s about the sacrifice, civility, endurance, and humility...
It is winter 1943 and the once victorious armies of the Third Reich are on the retreat, burning, slaughtering and destroying everything in their path.
Under the command of Captain Josef Kleiser, an SS unit massacres the villagers of Prokev.
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Jonas on a Farm in...
First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War...
With the same élan and wit that inform her internationally acclaimed and award-winning plays, Yasmina Reza’s second novel, Adam Haberberg, revels in the tragicomedy of one man’s midlife crisis.
While slumped on a park bench in Paris, a man...
The stormy tale of a wife trapped in the antiquated ways of the past, and of two brothers who have fought on opposing sides of the Civil War.
Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil...
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A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father — Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people....
Михаил Петрович Погодин (1800–1875) — историк, литератор, издатель журналов «Московский вестник» (1827–1830), «Московский наблюдатель» (1835–1837;...