Остин Кларк0.0 Austin Clarke’s luminous novel, written in vivid, hypnotic prose, reveals the dislocations of place and the nature of memory and the past. Two elderly Barbadian men, childhood friends who haven’t seen each other in fifty years, collide in a snowstorm on a Toronto street. In the warmth of a nearby bar, through the afternoon and into the night, they relate stories, exchange opinions, and share memories of a past in Barbados when, as children, neither could conceive any other place existed for them. As these two men confess to each other their innermost truths, their exploits and their love affairs, one tells the haunting story of a young Chinese woman, the other of the real reason for his visit to Toronto. Infused with pathos and humour, and with an affecting nostalgia for the idea of home, The Origin of Waves is a stunning and original novel by one of the country’s most gifted writers.
Мордехай Рихлер4.2 Словом "игра" определяется и жанр романа Рихлера, и его творческий метод. Рихлер тяготеет к трагифарсовому письму, роман написан в лучших традициях англо-американской литературы смеха - не случайно автор стал лауреатом престижной в Канаде премии имени замечательного юмориста и теоретика юмора Стивена Ликока. Рихлер-Панофски владеет юмором на любой вкус - броским, изысканным, "черным". "Версия Барни" изобилует остротами, шутками, каламбурами, злыми и меткими карикатурами, читается как "современная комедия", демонстрируя обширную галерею современных каприччос - ловчил, проходимцев, жуиров, пьяниц, продажных политиков, оборотистых коммерсантов, графоманов, подкупленных следователей и адвокатов, чудаков, безумцев, экстремистов.
Элизабет Хэй0.0 A collection of linked stories that navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and endings, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations.
Брайан Мур0.0 Summoned to the grand country estate of Napoleon III, the famed illusionist Henri Lambert and his wife Emmeline are drawn into an elaborate plan to further French influence in North Africa and subdue the rebellious Arab tribes. An ambitious, intelligent man, Lambert will go to desperate lengths to satisfy his emperor. Emmeline, meanwhile, undergoes a spiritual conversion, shedding her former notions of patriotism and propriety in the hot glare of the desert sun. From the splendor and intrigue of the French royal court of the 1850s to the wild majesty of the Sahara, "The Magician's Wife" is an exciting, exotic, and glamorously seductive novel.
Jane Urquhart0.0 In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old artist, Austin Fraser, is creating a new series of paintings recalling the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affected him--his peculiar mother, a young Canadian soldier and china painter, a First World War nurse, the well-known American painter Rockwell Kent, and Sara, a waitress from the wilderness mining settlement of Silver Islet, Ontario, who became Austin's model and mistress. Spanning more than seven decades, from the turn of the century to the mid-seventies, The Underpainter--in range, in the sheer power of its prose, and in its brilliant depiction of landscape and the geography of imagination--is Jane Urquhart's most accomplished novel to date, with one of the most powerful climaxes in contemporary fiction.
