This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They...
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The English-language debut of an exciting new award-winning voice from Taiwan — a stunning novel that is at once fantasy, reality, and dystopian environmental saga, in which the lives of two people from very different worlds intertwine under the...
Castle by J. Robert Lennon is a mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence.
In the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.” So begins,...
An international sensation, this startling and heartbreaking debut introduces us to precocious eleven-year-old Djata, whose life in the totalitarian state he calls home is about to change forever.
Djata doesn’t know what to make of...
Другие детские, Историческая проза
The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction
Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction—is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that’s impossible now...
Современная русская и зарубежная проза
The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North
The best fiction from across the Nordic region, selected and introduced by Sjon—Iceland’s internationally renowned writer.
This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from...
Ian McEwan’s Atonement meets Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth in this extraordinary debut.
A novel set between the past and present with magical realist elements. Goblin is an outcast girl growing up in London during World War 2. After...
Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the...
Happy Valley is a place of dreams and secrets, of snow and ice and wind. In this remote little town, perched in its landscape of desolate beauty, everybody has a story to tell about loss and longing and loneliness, about their passion to escape....
Автор: Witt L A
Серия: Warriors of Rome #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
Статус: Закончена
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Former gladiator Saevius is certain Fortune’s smiling on him when a Pompeiian politician buys him to be his bodyguard. But then his new master, Laurea Calvus, orders Saevius to discover the gladiator with whom his wife is having an affair. In...