Контркультура
19049 кн.
Stjuardessina alustanud Laura teeb lennukompaniis karjääri ning satub keerulisse armukolmnurka, mis sunnib teda silmitsi seisma sügavamate küsimustega, kes ta on ja mida elult tahab. Otsides vastuseid, mida ja keda ta kõige rohkem armastab ning milline mees talle sobib, avastab noor naine perekonnas läbi mitme põlvkonna edasi kandunud käitumismustri. Saatusel on aga tema jaoks veel palju põnevat varuks… muu hulgas rohkelt reise, pidusid, glamuuri, seiklusi ja rõõmu.
| Автор | Katariina Tammert |
A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of violence follows, and its mysterious cause is unraveled as events progress toward a heartbreaking revelation. Lyrical and...
| Автор | Eka Kurniawan |
From the beginning the bright and articulate English teacher and the tall, strong, and equally bright minister sense they are different, but they assume they can still enjoy a friendship. And they do; Mary Kerrigan and Walter Macdonald play and probe and spar. Then the unanticipated happens: friendship deepens into love, and differences that were intriguing when they were just friends become ominous. She's irreverent; he's traditional. She's unfettered; he's committed....
| Автор | Douglas Alan Walrath |
Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulations Vivek Chibber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication as “without any doubt … a bomb,” and “the most substantive effort to dismantle the field through historical reasoning published to date.” It immediately unleashed one of the most important recent debates in social theory, ranging across the humanities and social sciences, on the status of...
| Автор | Rosie Warren |
Vermin. Vandalism. Violence. A foul stench pollutes the atmosphere within St. Aloysius Episcopal Church. Reverend Silas DeBassompierre is a young clergyman with a lot of enemies within his congregation; and he trusts no one, not even his capable and devoted administrative assistant, Grace. Is Satan responsible for the strange phenomena at St. Aloysius, or is a force far more subtle and sinister at work to sabotage the reverend's ministry? More than what meets the eye will inevitably be...
| Автор | David L. Carter |
Explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelist It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s “Hot Autumn.” A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. He is frequently late for work,...
| Автор | Nanni Balestrini |
Vaiksesse Londoni eeslinna saabub salapärane avantüristist aristokraat, kes on äsja üle noatera pääsenud maffia küüsist. Juba sõlmub huvitav armuintriig, aga ookeani tagant on kohale jõudnud ka mõrvar…
| Автор | Edgar Wallace |
Suur on sõpruse vägi, mis paneb meid kaaslase nimel raskusi taluma ja end ohtu seadma. Sageli peame oma heaolu tühiseks ja elu õlekõrreks, kui saame need teiste heaks anda. Seda õpetavad meile mõistulood ja ajalugu on neist juhtumitest tulvil. Selles loos toon teile näite, mida vanaema minuga seostada tavatses. Avage siis oma kõrvad, sulgege suu ja kuulake, mis mul teile öelda on.
| Автор | Itaalia muinasjutt |
Southern Discomfort tells the story of Masey Bumgarner, recently widowed, who returns from her summer vacation to discover that her town, Pineville, North Carolina, has decided to pave a four-lane highway through her front yard . . . without her permission or even sufficient advance notice. After consultation with her pastor, she decides to contest the location of this project in court. Along the way, her lawyer and his detective discover all sorts of shady dealings. Southern Discomfort...
| Автор | Ben Witherington III |
Niniane Westvane wants to make the world a better place . . . especially for non-human animals. So when a chicken on her aunt's farm develops the ability to read and write, Niniane is certain that she's found in Charlie the perfect «spokes-chicken» for the animal liberation movement. But, as Charlie's own interests develop along unforeseen lines that lead to theological study and ultimately to the Vatican, Charlie, Niniane, and eventually the Church, become entangled in thorny...
| Автор | David L. Carter |
Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic glaciologist. Now in his early sixties, Zeno bewails the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his marriage, and the foundering of his increasingly irrelevant career. Troubled in conscience and goaded by the smug complacency of the...
| Автор | Ilija Trojanow |
In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, The Quick-Change Artist is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic. Romance, a sense of place and belonging, and the supernatural—especially in the lives of...
| Автор | Cary Holladay |
Telesaate „Selgeltnägijate tuleproov 2017“ võitja Alisa Verde kirjutab selles raamatus oma hullumajas veedetud päevadest ning inimestest, keda seal kohtas. Mis toimub, mida mõeldakse ja tehakse nende seinte taga? Miks on üks või teine sinna jõudnud? Sellest kõigest ja palju enamastki räägib Alisa kohati jõhkralt avameelne raamat „Sinuga ühes palatis“. „Lõppude lõpuks, ainus, millel on tähtsust, on see, kui ilus on sinu viimane tegu. Iga päev.“
| Автор | Alisa Verde |
Tõlkinud Eva Luts Toimetanud Leiger Luts ja Ats Miller Kaanepilt Meelis Krošetskin 365 lk „Tähevaade” on „Taevasselennu” järg. Spensa on hea piloot ja krellid on kaugemale kosmosse surutud, kuid inimkonna tulevik on lootusetu, kuni nad on Detritusel lõksus. Ja siis korraga ilmub võõras laev. Üsna inimesesarnane tulnukas saab maandumisel raskelt viga, kuid annab Spensale võimaluse, millest ta lihtsalt peab kinni haarama.
| Автор | Brandon Sanderson |
Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbingride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow—microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche. Everythingis there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people’s lives, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with...
| Автор | Phaswane Mpe |
The reincarnation of a legendary nineteenth-century Caribbean emperor as a contemporary African leader is at the heart of this novel. Sacred River deals with the extraordinary lives, hopes, powerful myths, stories, and tragedies of the people of a modern West African nation. It is also the compelling love story of an idealistic philosophy professor and an ex-courtesan of incomparable beauty. Two hundred years after his death, the great Haitian emperor Henri Christophe miraculously appears in a...
| Автор | Syl Cheney-Coker |