Контркультура
19049 кн.
Publisher’s Weekly hailed the “wit and subtlety” in Gerald Duff’s fiction as “simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,” and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazetter said “Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like.” This new collection of short stories by the author of Coasters (2001) features the Ploughshares Cohen Prize-winning story “Fire Ants.”
| Автор | Gerald Duff |
A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises riches and security to everyone, but delivers them only to a chosen few. With Asian society changing around him, like many he remains trapped in a world of poorly paid jobs that just about allow him to keep...
| Автор | Tash Aw |
From the international, million-copy bestselling author comes another addictive psychological thriller!‘B A Paris has done it again! The Breakdown is a page turning thriller that will leave you questioning the family you love, the friends you trust, and even your own mind’ Wendy WalkerIf you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?It all started that night in the woods.Cass Anderson didn’t stop to help the woman in the car, and now she’s dead.Ever since, silent calls have been plaguing Cass and...
| Автор | B A Paris |
An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering.At the very edge of England, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the land and visitors flock in with the summer like seagulls, there is a Cornwall that is not shown on postcards.It is a place where communication cables buzz deep beneath the sand; where satellite dishes turn like flowers on clifftops, and where people drift like flotsam,...
| Автор | Lucy Wood |
The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver‘Genius’ Stylist‘Phenomenal’ Observer‘Brilliant’ The TimesIn her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age’s most enduring obsessions: property.A woman creates a deeply personal wedding present for her best friend; a thirty-something son refuses to leave home; a middle-aged man subjugated by service to his elderly father discovers that the last place you should finally assert yourself is airport...
| Автор | Lionel Shriver |
This new collection of short stories by Charles Rose, author of In the Midst of Life: A Hospice Volunteer’s Story, features works previously published in The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Willow Springs, Crazyhorse, The Chattahoochee Review, Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, and Shenandoah, among others.
| Автор | Charles Rose |
“ The Magician’s Study is a sparkling tour de force. Seamon leads us through the odd memorabilia belonging to Robert ‘The Great’ Rouncival and along the way gives us his marvelously bizarre and convoluted biography. . . . If anything is more astounding than Rouncival’s trickery, it’s the endless inventiveness of the author.”—Eugene Mirabelli
| Автор | Tobias Seamon |
A madman recalls his first erotic encounter, a priest loses sleep over a heretic, a scholar searches for the anomaly that inspired the Hindu divinities, a spinster hallucinates her own seductions, a pope suckles a wet nurse. Erotic and fiercely funny, these stories range across many centuries and cultures, from Algeria to Egypt to Italy to France, and all demonstrate time and again why Rikki Ducornet has been called «one of the most interesting American writers around» (Nation).
| Автор | Rikki Ducornet |
Children think we make them, but we don’t … They come into the world and make us. They make us by breaking us first. ‘Utterly gripping’ Karin Slaughter ‘Impossible to put down’ Booklist ‘Undeniable, brilliantly written’ Theodore Wheeler ‘Thrilling’ Lydia KangThe world is mostly water when Pearl is born. The floods have left America a cluster of small islands with roving trade ships and raiders.Pearl knows little of her father Jacob and elder sister Row, who left her mother Myra when she was...
| Автор | Kassandra montag |
‘Brilliant. Among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad’ Garth GreenwellSo. We were Americans abroad. We weren’t the doomed travellers in a Paul Bowles novel, and we weren’t the idealists or the malarial, religion-damaged burnouts in something by Greene; but we were people far from home nevertheless. Our naivety didn’t have political consequences. We had G.P.S. in our smartphones. I don’t think we were alcoholics. Our passports were in the same drawer as our...
| Автор | Ian Mackenzie |
Scotland, 1940 In a house on the east coast, Jane faces motherhood alone. With her husband away at war, there is no one to protect her from small town suspicions and she must learn to keep her secrets to herself.Three decades later her daughter Felicity leaves their life behind for Montreal, glad to flee the unknowns that have plagued her so far. But her personal battles are nothing compared to the unrest here, where a commune in rural Quebec and a child of her own might be her saviours.The...
| Автор | Katie Munnik |
THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNERA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK‘A sharp, funny, wonderful writer’ Diana Evans, bestselling author of Ordinary People‘Compelling…finely crafted, compassionate’ Guardian‘A warm, confident writer with the lightest of touches’ Observer‘Pacey and powerful’ Mail on Sunday‘The type of story that will stay with you long after you’ve read the last page’ Closer‘Brilliant…touches on race, mental health and community in a fresh way’ Good Housekeeping‘Costa...
| Автор | Luan Goldie |
An urgent literary phenomenon sold in over 22 languages before publication, a gripping tale of one woman’s desperate battle to survive the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela.In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother – the only family Adelaida has ever known.Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside her window tear gas rains down on protesters in the streets....
| Автор | Karina Sainz Borgo |
The latest red-hot romances from Mills & Boon Modern!The Baby the Billionaire Demands by Jennie LucasLola Price didn’t dare tell Rodrigo Cabrera she was pregnant, after he spurned her. But now he’s discovered her secret, he’s determined his child will take his name! Whilst their mutual desire in the marriage bed is undeniable, Rodrigo keeps himself at a distance. Yet fiery Lola won’t be pushed away again. She’ll show Rodrigo that their son – and their relationship – is worth fighting...
| Автор | Дженни Лукас |
Two generations of an American family come of age – one before 9/11, one after – in this moving and original novel from the “intellectually restless, uniquely funny” (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell ZinkPam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals – a daughter for Pam and Daniel, a solo hit single for Joe. As the ‘90s wane, the three friends share...
| Автор | Nell Zink |
Was gibt es schöneres als «den Alten» zuzuhören, wenn diese von den vergangenen Weihnachtszeiten erzählen? Christian Berkel liest Joseph Roths «Weihnachten bei den Alten», Erinnerungen an die frühere Weihnachtzeit in Berlin.
| Автор | Йозеф Рот |
Lola Dominguez is a young, single Cuban-American born and raised in Miami, Florida. She is beautiful and sexy; and wasn’t looking for love. That is, until she met Mauricio Hernandez on her flight from New York. This tall, tanned and scrumptious looking Cuban-Dominican man immediately caught her attention. And he was definitely interested in this Cuban queen.
| Автор | Bella Dama |
This LLG: Life, Love & God Poetry Collection expresses the greatest cluster of impactful words this generation has yet to encounter. Incorporating the loftiness and lowliness of life, the pleasure and pain of love, and the marvelous way God makes sense of it all. This decade worth of introverted poetry is now available for the world to read.
| Автор | Justin C. Hart |
Family secrets of sexual abuse and betrayal torment and destroy the innocence of a teenage girl. Darkness prevails as the animosity and violence erupts within her battered soul. While battling her own demons, can this single mother bury the pain of her own life to raise her children? Will she overcome reocurring nightmares of rape and bloodshed? Will the fight to remain among the living, be stronger than her eternal desire to die?
| Автор | Betsy Jiron |
The new book from award-winning writer and comedian Mark Watson – available to pre-order now!As James boards the sleeper train to Edinburgh on a Saturday evening, he sends a message to everyone in his phone contacts list, to tell them all that he plans to end his life in the morning. James then turns his phone off – job done. But for friends, family and near-strangers across the world, receiving this shocking message is only the beginning of their journeys. What follows is a heart-breaking...
| Автор | Mark Watson |