Bafana Kuzwayo is a young man with a weight on his shoulders. After flunking his law studies at the University of Cape Town, he returns home to Soweto, where he must decide how to break the news to his family. But before he can confess, he is greeted as a hero by family and friends. His uncle calls him “Advo,” short for Advocate, and his mother wastes no time recruiting him to solve their legal problems. In a community that thrives on imagined realities, Bafana decides that it’s easiest to...
Bafana Kuzwayo is a young man with a weight on his shoulders. After flunking his law studies at the University of Cape Town, he returns home to Soweto, where he must decide how to break the news to his family. But before he can confess, he is greeted as a hero by family and friends. His uncle calls him “Advo,” short for Advocate, and his mother wastes no time recruiting him to solve their legal problems. In a community that thrives on imagined realities, Bafana decides that it’s easiest to...
Determined to improve his struggling family's financial situation, sixteen-year-old Tom Wade leaves England in 1860 and sets out for the untamed wilderness of the American Far West. Arriving in the small western outpost of Denver, Colorado to mine for gold, he soon encounters Native American warriors, takes part in big-game hunts, and learns how to survive a mountain winter with nothing but resourcefulness and perseverance.Young readers get valuable, exciting lessons in history from the...
Шпионский роман 21 века – по Чаку Паланику. Это уже даже не смешно – это или истерически смешно, или попросту страшно. Итак – группа старшеклассников из неназванной страны с режимом победившего тоталитаризма получает задание – под видом “студентов по обмену” внедриться в простые американские семьи среднего класса, затаиться и начать подготовку к массовому теракту… Проблема в том, что они – как бы это поизящнее – морально устарели в своих устремлениях. В Ад нельзя принести Апокалипсис – факт, в...
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Determined to improve his struggling family's financial situation, sixteen-year-old Tom Wade leaves England in 1860 and sets out for the untamed wilderness of the American Far West. Arriving in the small western outpost of Denver, Colorado to mine for gold, he soon encounters Native American warriors, takes part in big-game hunts, and learns how to survive a mountain winter with nothing but resourcefulness and perseverance.Young readers get valuable, exciting lessons in history from the...
In her own time, the works of Kate Chopin (1851–1904) shocked readers and critics with their challenge to contemporary mores. Her stories and novels reveal unsparing truths about the interior lives of women, some of whom experienced profound disillusionment with the rigid yoke of marriage, combined with an unfulfilled longing for self-realization. Celebrated today as a precursor of twentieth-century feminism, Chopin's fiction is considered to be among the masterpieces of American...
У писательской палитры Темникова очень широкий спектр – сквозь искусную вязь его прозы проглядывает то лисья мордочка из новелл Пу Суньлина, то лукавая улыбка Борхеса, то томный эротизм бунинских «Темных аллей». Возможно, блестящие истории Темникова – это прообраз будущего евразийского письма, сбрасывающего оковы постылых жанров и смеющегося над их скучной геометрией, ведь его гармония выверена ходом небесных светил, а не портняжным лекалом.
Книга рассказываете рождении и развитии русского рейва – одного из главных достижений русской культуры XX века. В основу книги легли интервью участников техно-движения 1990-х годов.