Руперт Томсон – лучшие книги

Having spent decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, this murderer has finally died of natural causes but is no less notorious in death than she was in life. Billy Tyler, a career policeman, has been assigned the task of guarding her body — to make sure, he’s told, that nothing happens. But alone on a graveyard shift his wife begged him not to accept, Billy has occasion to contemplate the various turns his life has taken, his complicated thoughts about violence in himself and society, the unease that distances him marital disappointment and a damaged daughter, and, finally, why it is that this reviled murderer, in the eerie silence of the hospital morgue, seems to speak to him directly and know him more fully than anyone else. In this dark night of the soul, his own problems and anxieties gradually acquire a new and unexpected significance, giving rise to questions that should haunt us all: Whom do we love, and why? How do we protect our children? And what separates us those we call monsters?

Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever. Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another. Exploring addiction, celebrity, racism, immigration, pornography, and self-delusion, Barcelona Dreaming has the feeling of a modern fable, underpinned by a longing for the inaccessible and a nostalgia for what…

Book Description Following The Book of Revelation —“a premise made terrifyingly real by a hugely talented writer,” wrote The New York Times Book Review —Rupert Thomson now explores a radical social experiment in

Однажды ясным весенним днем в Амстердаме человек выходит за сигаретами. Он - танцор. Талантливый, обаятельный и физически красивый человек. То, что происходит с ним дальше, оказывается полной неожиданностью для него и накладывает неизгладимый отпечаток на всю его дальнейшую жизнь. Он попадает в плен к трем незнакомкам, которые держат его в таинственной белой комнате. Последствия этого заключения оказываются очень тяжелыми и мучительными.

It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out. When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. One spring evening, while Martin is practising in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens.

Все, кто увлекается живописью и любит рисовать и лепить, найдут в ней не только множество весёлых и увлекательных заданий, головоломок, лабиринтов, развивающих воображение, память, творческое начало, но и забавные факты о знаменитых художниках и шедеврах мирового искусства.
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In his first venture into non-fiction, the celebrated novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs of recent years. On a warm, sunny day in July 1964, Thomson returned home from school to discover that his mother had died suddenly while playing tennis. Twenty years later, Thomson and his brothers receive word that their father, who suffered chronic lung damage during the war, has died alone in hospital. In an a