Франсуа Рикар0.0 Cette biographie de Gabrielle Roy signée par un intellectuel de renom éclaire de façon nouvelle la vie et l'œuvre de l'auteure de Bonheur d'occasion. Fruit d'un travail minutieux et de plusieurs années de recherche, l'ouvrage brosse le portrait d'une femme totalement dévouée à la littérature.
Стейси Шифф4.3 Книга "Вера (Миссис Владимир Набоков)" Стейси Шифф, в 2000 году была удостоена Пулитцеровской премии. Это серьёзное биографическое исследование читается легко, словно увлекательный роман. Его главная героиня, женщина, одаренная тонким умом и яркой красотой, натура сильная и незаурядная, - Вера Набокова, жена великого писателя.
"Без моей жены, - говорил Набоков, - я бы не написал ни одного романа". Любой, кто прочтет книгу Стейси Шифф, убедится, что в этих словах нет преувеличения. Вера, возлюбленная, верная спутница и муза писателя, во многом определила его жизненный путь и творческий успех. Она всю жизнь служила ему опорой и источником вдохновения, ей он посвятил свои лучшие произведения.
Уэйсон Чой0.0 From the author of the popular and widely acclaimed novel, The Jade Peony, comes this new autobiographical exploration of past and present, culture and selfhood, history and memory, immigration and family life--in other words, the modern-day collision of Eastern and Western experiences and worldviews.
Three weeks before his 57th birthday, Choy discovered that he had been adopted. This astonishing revelation inspires the beautifully-wrought, sensitively told Paper Shadows, the story of a Chinatown past both lost and found. From his early life amid the ghosts of old Chinatown, to his discovery, years later, of deeply held family secrets that crossed the ocean from mainland China to Gold Mountain, this engrossing, multi-layered self-portrait is "a childhood memoir of crystalline clarity" (The Boston Globe) that will speak directly and arrestingly to all students of Chinese immigrant history.
Уэйн Джонстон0.0 In this loving memoir Wayne Johnston returns to Newfoundland-the people, the place, the politics-and illuminates his family's story with all the power and drama he brought to his magnificent novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.
Descendents of the Irish who settled in Ferryland, Lord Baltimore's Catholic colony in Newfoundland, the Johnstons "went from being sea-fearing farmers to sea-faring fishermen." Each generation resolves to escape the hardships of life at sea, but their connection to this fantastically beautiful but harsh land is as eternal as the rugged shoreline, and the separations that result between generations may be as inevitable as the winters they endure. Unfulfilled dreams haunt this family history and make Baltimore's Mansion a thrilling and captivating book.
