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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 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 'Unsettling, deeply moving and very, very readable. I loved it' NATHAN FILER, The Shock of the Fall 'A striking and highly enjoyable debut' SOPHIE HANNAH Yasmin would give anything to have a friend . . . And do anything to keep one. The first time I saw you, you were standing at the far end of the playing field. You were looking down at your brown straggly dog, but then you looked up, your mouth going slack as...
| Автор | Tasha Kavanagh |
It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire. In this gripping thriller, a death at police hands has repercussions far beyond one family plunged into grief. When violence grips Cathy's estate, the dead man becomes a useful tactic (or an urgent threat) in political games at the highest level. So while lives are at risk on Cathy Mason's...
| Автор | Gillian Slovo |
The Graybar Hotel offers a glimpse into the reality of prison life through the eyes of the people who spend their days and years behind bars. A man sits collect-calling strangers every day just to hear the sounds of the outside world; an inmate recalls his descent into addiction as his prison softball team gears up for an annual tournament; a prisoner is released and finds freedom more complex and baffling than he expected. In this stunning debut story collection, Curtis Dawkins, who is...
| Автор | Curtis Dawkins |
Winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Prize Longlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize Taking its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing, Murmur is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with love, honour and a rigorous, unsentimental curiosity about the ways in...
| Автор | Will Eaves |
Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of the enemy. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait patiently for the enemy to advance across the desert, for one great and glorious battle . . . ...
| Автор | Dino Buzzati |
Viimase suure sõja päevil alustavad oma teekonda läände, igaüks ise ajal ja erinevatel põhjustel, kolm eestlast – kodumaad kaitsta ihkav nooruk, põgenemisteekonda pildistav eraklik fotograaf ja kahe lapsega sõja jalust põgenev ema. Sõjakeerises põimuvad nende saatused vahetevahel, et varsti taas lahkneda. Koju tagasi jõuab siiski vaid üks. Kelle vastu neist oli saatus kõige armulisem?
| Автор | Rein Põder |
"Lühiromaan «Silm» koondab endas Kaplinski parimad looja-omadused, intensiivsesisevaatluse, teo- ja filosoofilise diskursuse ning allegooria. Lugu kõikejälgivast ja erinevateskehastustes korduvast «silmast» on lisaks viimaste aegade parimale filosoofilise proosanäitele ka õpetlik jutt kõigile neile, kes arvavad end võimelised elama absoluutselt vabana."(Rein Veidemann, Eesti Päevaleht 10.03.00).
| Автор | Jaan Kaplinski |
Nothing else comes so I set the notebook beside me. What else is here? I ask myself and listen. This section of stream purls and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear . . . Above the Waterfall is the story of Sheriff Les Clary. A man on the verge of retirement, he is plunged into deep and dangerous waters by one final case. A case that will draw him to the lyrical beauty of his surroundings and, in doing so, force him to come to terms with his own past. Echoing the...
| Автор | Ron Rash |
ENHANCED ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MATT HAIG'S SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover – working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach...
| Автор | Matt Haig |
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor,...
| Автор | Katie Hale |
'Muriel Spark's most celebrated novel . . . This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction' Independent 'A brilliantly psychological fugue' Observer The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's most significant and celebrated novel, and remains as dazzling as when it was first published in 1961. Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher unlike any other, proud and cultured, enigmatic and freethinking; a...
| Автор | Muriel Spark |
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and...
| Автор | John Fante |