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A Partial History of Lost Causes
Историческая проза, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

A Partial History of Lost Causes

Автор: DuBois Jennifer
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable...
Europe Central
Историческая проза

Europe Central

Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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Audacious. Wildly ambitious. Prolific. All describe William T. Vollmann, author of the seven-volume nonfiction work Rising Up and Rising Down and “Seven Dreams” sequence of novels, which the Chicago Tribune hailed as “likely to...
A River Town
Историческая проза

A River Town

Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Fleeing to Australia to escape the repressive life of British-controlled Ireland, Tim Shea is alarmed by his new home's equally stifling social order and its inclination towards prejudice. By the author of Schindler's...
Land of Marvels
Историческая проза

Land of Marvels

Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Barry Unsworth, a writer with an “almost magical capacity for literary time travel” (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels, a thriller set...
Unforgiving Years
Историческая проза

Unforgiving Years

Автор: Serge Victor
Серия: NYRB Classics
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most...
Jia: A Novel of North Korea
Историческая проза

Jia: A Novel of North Korea

Автор: Kim Hyejin
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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The first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West. A moving and true-to-life tale of courage in the face of oppression and exile. Hyejin Kim’s Jia follows the adventures of an orphaned young woman, Jia, who has the...
Island Madness
Историческая проза, Триллер

Island Madness

Автор: Binding Tim
Язык: английский
Год: 1999
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It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning to turn. But on Guernsey and the rest of the Channel Islands, the only...