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Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarin's daughter he cannot forget. Over five decades Joseph's life becomes enmeshed with the political intrigues of two of Saigon's most influential families, the French colonist Devrauxs, and the...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
"Dr. Deborah Serach Gold died on the cross sometime during a night of freezing rain in late October of my last year at Three. It probably wasn't the worst thing that happened to her that day, but it had been over two decades in the making . . ." The day after a terrible storm, electricity still crackling in the air, a woman is found dead on the outskirts of a Texan town. She has been brutally attacked and nailed to a cross. The victim is Dr Deborah Gold, a psychologist who has...
| Автор | Tom Wright |
Maniakkide Tänav, Eesti juhtiv õuduskirjanik, ütles ise oma kogu kohta nii: see annab läbilõikelise pildi tervest minu loometeest päris algusajast kuni verivärskete lugudeni. See on punktiir läbi õuduslugude viieteistaastaku, üks kena ja keerukas ornament eesti ulmetempli altari kohal, raiutud raamatusse ihu ja hingega, higi, vere ja pisaratega ning piisakese huumorisoonega.
| Автор | Maniakkide Tänav |
Pärast tütre välismaale õppima saatmist teeb Anna oma elus kannapöörde: ta võtab abielupuhkuse, sõidab Hispaaniasse ja hakkab uuesti maalima. Lõpuks ometi saab ta pühendada aega iseendale. Väljasõidul ühte mägilinna kohtub ta aga ootamatult oma nooruspõlve armastusega, avanevad vanad haavad ning sünged saladused. Mõlema elu jõuab teelahkmele, kus peab tegema raske valiku. Kas neil jätkub jõudu andestada?
| Автор | Ulvi Kullerkupp |
His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come equipped for the job. Newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labour in the pits of his small town. But the world is changing, and, lying next to him, Conn's father Tam has decided that his son's life will be different from his own. Gritty, dark and tender,...
| Автор | William McIlvanney |
SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE, 2018 A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate examine the dead body before them; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father. Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories uncover human feeling in the ordinary...
| Автор | James Kelman |
Meet Tannie Maria – recipe writer turned crime fighter – and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life under threat and Tannie Maria is determined to find out who wants to kill him. But her boyfriend is keen to keep Tannie out of danger, and she's pretty sure he's hiding something so Tannie has...
| Автор | Sally Andrew |
The Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to follow: beautiful, compassionate, entrancing, she is the greatest blessing in their lives of Manhattan luxury. But as Heather grows – and her empathy sharpens to a point, and her radiance attracts more and more dark interest – their perfect existence starts to fracture. Meanwhile a very different life, one raised in poverty and in violence, is beginning its own malign orbit around Heather. Matthew...
| Автор | Matthew Weiner |
When a teenage boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, Detective Harry McCoy is sure of one thing. It wasn't a random act of violence. With his new partner in tow, McCoy uses his underworld network to lead the investigation but soon runs up against a secret society led by Glasgow's wealthiest family, the Dunlops. McCoy's boss doesn't want him to investigate. The Dunlops seem untouchable. But McCoy has other ideas ....
| Автор | Alan Parks |
Nikolai Gogoli tuntud jutustus. Jutustuse ainetel on kirjutanud ooperi Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov.
| Автор | Nikolai Gogol |
"Tuisune talv" on järg triloogia esimesele osale «Sügisvalgus». Laanehaua majakese omanikuks saanud linnamees Sander Karm on talveperioodiks kohaliku saeveski tööliseks hakanud ja püüab elu realiteetidele alistudes unustada järgmisse põlvkonda kuuluva Liis Melliku vastu tekkinud õrnu tundeid. See aga polegi nii lihtne, sest tuisune talv veeretab Harinõmme küla elanike ette mitmeid katsumusi.
| Автор | Erik Tohvri |
“Kuningas Saalomoni kaevandustest” tuntud Allan Quatermain jutustab selles raamatus oma sõpradele loo, kuidas ta seikles Aafrikas müütilist koletist otsides ja selle preestritega võideldes, milles teda aitas kuulus kohalik nõid Zikali.
| Автор | Henry Rider Haggard |
1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book – could those simple pages really be so dangerous? Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience,...
| Автор | Ismail Kadare |
A black, motherless loner tries to come to terms with her radically unfamiliar surroundings as a Yale freshman; 14-year-old church girl Tia runs away to the big city; a bright young man makes a last-ditch attempt to understand his loser father on the Million Man March in Washington DC; at summer camp, an all-black Brownie troop decide to teach a troop of white Brownies a lesson for a racial insult they think they overheard. Teeming with life, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a collection that...
| Автор | ZZ Packer |
Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on the door. Her uncle Nosrat returns from Tehran with a glamorous woman, while on the rooftop, Shahbal longs only for a television to watch the first moon landing. But not even the beloved grandmothers can foresee what will happen in the days and months to come. The household is set to experience great love and loss as it opens the doors to...
| Автор | Kader Abdolah |
'If I vanished he wouldn't notice, if I died he wouldn't care. I think of him all the time, and he thinks of me not at all. I love him, and my love torments me. There are times when I feel like a ghost beside him; as if he alone is real, and I'm just a daydream.' This is the story of two brothers. One is impassioned and one reserved. One is destined to go down in history and the other to be forgotten. In Pullman's hands, this sacred tale is reborn as one of...
| Автор | Philip Pullman |
‘The best-kept secret in modern British literature.’ Andrew Marr A haunting story of violence and love. Calum and Neil are the cone-gatherers – two brothers at work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the obsessive hatred of Duror, the gamekeeper. Set during the Second World War, Robin Jenkins’ greatest novel is an immensely powerful examination of good and evil, and mankind’s propensity for both. Removed from the destruction...
| Автор | Robin Jenkins |
Prantsuse 19. sajandi kirjanduse igihaljas tähtteos, esmailmumisel ebakõlblussüüdistusega autorile kohtuprotsessi kaela toonud romaan.
| Автор | Gustave Flaubert |
Autor: Ivan TurgenevKirjastus: FUTU Print OÜ6.77 € SirviVene 19. sajandi kirjandusklassiku jutustuste kogu. Sisu: Liigse inimese päevik Mumuu Sissesõiduhoov Vaikne nurgake Asja Esimene armastus Stepi kuningas Lear Kevadveed Punin ja Baburin
| Автор | Ivan Turgenev |
Agnes Taari (1897-1976) omaeluloolise taustaga romaan ühest lapse- ja koolipõlvest 20. sajandi esimese kümnendi Mulgimaal pakub meeleolukaid pilte tolleaegsest eesti külaelust väikese tüdruku pilgu läbi: mängudest koduõuel, karjalapse kogemustest, esimese kooliaasta rõõmudest ja muredest, jõuludest kodus ja koolitoas, põnevatest laadalkäikudest ja esimesest armastusest.
| Автор | Agnes Taar |