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Eliza Orzeszkowa was a trailblazing Polish novelist who, alongside Leo Tolstoy and Henryk Sienkiewicz, was a finalist for the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. Of her many works of social realism, Marta (1873) is among the best known, but until now it has not been available in English. Easily a peer of The Awakening and A Doll’s House, the novel was well ahead of the English literature of its time in attacking the ways the labor market failed women. Suddenly widowed, the previously...
| Автор | Eliza Orzeszkowa |
In the early 1980s, a pharmaceutical company administers an unethical drug trial to residents of the Niger Delta village of Kreektown. When children die as a result of the trial, the dominoes of language extinction and cultural collapse begin to topple. Decades later the end looms for the Menai people. Continents-apart twin brothers separated at birth, an excommunicated daughter living an urbane life with her doctor husband, and an infamous vigilante are among the indelible characters whose...
| Автор | Chuma Nwokolo |
Jonathan Harker saadetakse kaugesse Euroopa nurka kohtuma ühe oma firma kliendiga. Loss on mahajäetud ja krahv väga veider võõrustaja. Kuid noor Jonathan ei oska kahtlustadagi, et ta ise ja talle kõige lähedasemad inimesed satuvad kohutavasse ohtu ja peavad läbi elama jubedusi, mida keegi ei oska isegi ette kujutada. Nüüd peavad nad Dracula leidma ja hävitama, enne kui vampiir nemad hävitab.
| Автор | Bram Stoker |
Maniakkide Tänava romaanivõistlusel esiletõstetud teos on kui meeletu postmodernne kompott, milles segunevad õuduskirjandusest tuttavad öised surnuaiad, veri, soolikad ja mootorsaed, punkkultuurile omane õhustik, vaimukas ja kaasahaarav jutustamislaad, hoogne stiil ning moodsale linnafantaasiale omane maagilis-realistlik element.
| Автор | Maniakkide Tänav |
"Seesama jõgi" on 2007. aastal ilmunud autobiograafiline romaan. Teos jutustab kolmandas isikus üliõpilasest noormehe, kelle nime ei nimetata, naissuhetest ja eneseotsingutest.
| Автор | Jaan Kaplinski |
Uhkuse maja, Pidalitõbine Koolau, Hüvasti, Jack, Aloha Oe, Chun Ah Chun, Kona Šerif, Jack London iseendast
| Автор | Jack London |
Sacred chants are Ada Franklin’s power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day in 1953 that her family’s barn is consumed by flame, her identity as a healer is upended. The heat, the roar of the blaze, and the bellows of the trapped cows change Ada. For the first time, she fears death and—for the first time—she doubts God....
| Автор | Jim Minick |
Gene Logsdon’s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America—a raw and barren strip-mined landscape—and saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve patiently, acre by acre, a beautiful little farm out of a seemingly worthless wasteland. Wally’s...
| Автор | Gene Logsdon |
Polish émigrés have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction. But it is Danuta Mostwin’s fiction, until now unavailable in English translation, that bridges the divide between Poland and America, exile and emigration. Mostwin and her husband survived the ravages of World War II, traveled to Britain, and then emigrated to the United States. Mostwin devoted her scholarly career...
| Автор | Danuta Mostwin |
In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country’s transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the diverse perspectives of his many characters. An elite white housewife married to a radical intellectual; a rock guitarist; the same guitarist’s granddaughter thirty years later; a teenaged boy at the mercy of mob justice—each story takes place over one...
| Автор | Imraan Coovadia |
Maailmakirjanduse romantikavaramusse kuuluv teos Tatjana Hallapi tõlkes.
| Автор | George Sand |
Maailmakirjanduse romantikavaramusse kuuluv teos Tatjana Hallapi tõlkes.
| Автор | George Sand |
Dorfi on väike saar Läänemeres, kus ühe suve jooksul toimub saareelanike elus mitmeid tulevikku määravaid sündmusi. Panoraamse külaelu kujutuse keskmes on kirglik armastuslugu, mis jõuab sügise saabudes oma loogilise lõpuni. Peeter Urmi kujutuslaad on ka selles teoses jõuline ja lugejat köitev.
| Автор | Peeter Urm |
Hea lugeja, sinu ees olev romaan on juba kolmas «Ippoliti»sarja liigituv teos. Kui küsida, mis teeb selle eriliseks võrreldes kaheeelnevaga, siis tegemist pole enam kogumikuga, vaid romaaniga. Maa on võõreluhaardes. Säilinud on vaid väike lapike, kus osutatakse vastupanu. Veel oninimesi, kes teevad kõik, mis nende võimuses, et inimkonna koduplaneet jääksneile alles. See lapike on Eesti. Need inimesed on eestlased.
| Автор | Maniakkide Tänav, J. J. Metsavana |
Desire Mensah, a disgraced schoolteacher in her thirties, sees moving to sleepy little Cape Coast, Ghana, as her chance to get away from a shameful secret not buried deeply enough. And maybe, just maybe, she will find the love she craves and the husband her mother craves for her. But in Cape Coast, the past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. That’s the kind of thing Wolfgang “Wolf” Ofori would say. Everyone says the eleven-year-old is a genius—eccentric though he is—and is bound to win Wonderkids,...
| Автор | Ayo Tamakloe-Garr |
Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. In the title story, two women in 1850s Virginia marry brothers who promptly uproot them to follow the Oregon Trail west, until an unexpected shift of allegiance separates the sisters forever. Elsewhere in the book, a young boy’s kidnapping ignites tensions in a sorority house; frontier figure Cynthia Ann Parker...
| Автор | Cary Holladay |
We Are All Zimbabweans Now is a political thriller set in Zimbabwe in the hopeful, early days of Robert Mugabe’s rise to power in the late 1980s. When Ben Dabney, a Wisconsin graduate student, arrives in the country, he is enamored with Mugabe and the promises of his government’s model of racial reconciliation. But as Ben begins his research and delves more deeply into his hero’s life, he finds fatal flaws. Ultimately Ben reconsiders not only his understanding of Mugabe, but his own...
| Автор | James Kilgore |
Brendan Leary, assigned to an Air Force photo squadron an hour from L.A., thinks he has it made. But when the U.S. invades Cambodia and he joins his buddies who march in protest, he is shipped off to an obscure air base in upcountry Thailand. There, he finds himself flying at night over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in a secret war that turns the mountains of Laos into a napalm-scorched moonscape. As the emotional vise tightens, his moral fiber crumbles and he sinks ever deeper into a netherworld of...
| Автор | Terence A. Harkin |
Jätkuvad põnevad ajaloolised sündmused, mis on toimunud õhtusel ajal. Võime lugeda Boriss Godunovist, Vale-Dmitri trooniletõusust, Portugali Vale-Sebastianist jt.
| Автор | Rafael Sabatini |
Kui Henry pole ettevaatlik, teeb naine ta lolliks oma metsikute, sardooniliste naljadega ja ajab ta farmist ja oma peast igaveseks välja. Ta peab olema ettevaatlik. Ta peab naise kinni püüdma, nagu püütakse hirve või metskurvitsat, kui jahile minnakse. Pole kasu metsa minemisest ja hirvele ütlemisest: «Palun lange mu püssi ees.» ei, see on aeglane, õrn lahing.
| Автор | Дэвид Лоуренс |
Rain is a young woman under the influence of a charismatic drifter named Wolf and his other “wife,” Winter. Through months of wandering homeless through the cities, small towns, and landscape of Appalachia, the trio have grown into a kind of desperate family, a family driven by exploitation and abuse. A family that Rain must escape. When she meets Stratton Bryant, a widower living alone in an old east Tennessee farmhouse, Rain is given the chance to see a bigger world and find herself a place...
| Автор | Charles Dodd White |