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Однажды вечером микробиолог Айлиш Стэк, мать четверых детей, отвечает на стук в дверь. На пороге — двое оперативников свежеобразованной Государственной службы национальной безопасности, которые хотели бы поговорить с мужем Айлиш, активистом учительского профсоюза. А после демонстрации протеста ее муж пропадает — и Айлиш оказывается в плену логики кошмара: общественные институты рассыпаются на глазах, правительство превратило тихий пригород в зону боевых действий, и, чтобы спасти семью, Айлиш вынуждена решиться на невозможное…

Однажды вечером микробиолог Айлиш Стэк, мать четверых детей, отвечает на стук в дверь. На пороге — двое оперативников свежеобразованной Государственной службы национальной…

A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.

Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property.

Inside the house, although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill...

A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more…

If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. --Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory and like nothing you've read before. --Marlon James, author of Moon Witch, Spider King

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.



In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what their younger son, Trelawny, calls "the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive."

Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck. After a fight with Topper--himself reckoning with his failures as a parent and his longing for Jamaica--Trelawny claws his way out of homelessness through a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin, Cukie, looks for a father who doesn't want to be found. As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net.

Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery's debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With If I Survive You, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.

If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. --Ann…

A novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers.

In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys’ descendants remain there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their nocturnal brood; the prophetic Zachary Hand To God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who carves Biblical images in a hollow tree. Then comes the intrusion of “civilization”: eugenics-minded state officials determine to cleanse” the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities’ institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah’s Ark.

Full of lyricism and power, This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.

A novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers.

In 1792, formerly…

A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete‘s struggle to transcend herself.

Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo.

But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.

An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.

A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete‘s struggle to transcend herself.

Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old…

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.

Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil - can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart...

The…

Сколько людей погибло и по чьей вине? Только мёртвые знают ответ.

Коломбо, 1990 год. Маали Алмейда, военный фотограф, просыпается где-то вроде небесного визового центра. Его расчлененное тело лежит на дне озера, и он понятия не имеет, кто его убил. Когда идёт гражданская война, список подозреваемых удручающе длинный.
У Маали есть всего семь лун – семь дней, чтобы найти своего убийцу и передать фотографии, доказывающие военные преступления, живым. В этом ему будут помогать духи, демоны и любимые люди.

Юлия Чегодайкина, шеф-редактор издательства «Строки»:
Актуальный и увлекательный роман, который способен рассорить даже самых сдержанных собеседников: настолько острые, болезненные и важные темы в нем затрагиваются. Автор прямым текстом говорит о том, что за все войны и трагедии ответственность лежит на каждом из нас: на каждом активном участнике и на каждом равнодушном наблюдателе. На первый взгляд, книга о гражданской войне на Шри-Ланке, на самом деле – она про сегодняшнюю нашу реальность, а если ничего не менять, молча позволять злу действовать, прощать и забывать несправедливость, то и про завтрашнюю.

Сколько людей погибло и по чьей вине? Только мёртвые знают ответ.

Коломбо, 1990 год. Маали Алмейда, военный фотограф, просыпается где-то вроде небесного визового центра. Его…

«Я решила записывать всё, что сейчас происходит, потому что мне кажется, что я подвергаю себя опасности», — пишет молодая женщина, расследующая самоубийство своей сестры. Придумав для себя альтер-эго харизматичной и психически нестабильной девушки по имени Ребекка Смитт, она записывается на приём к скандально известному психотерапевту Коллинзу Бретуэйту. Она подозревает, что именно Бретуэйт подтолкнул её сестру к самоубийству, и начинает вести дневник, где фиксирует детали своего общения с психотерапевтом.

Однако, столкнувшись с противоречивым, загадочным, а местами насквозь шарлатанским миром психиатрии 60-х годов, героиня начинает сильно сомневаться не только в её методах, но и в собственном рассудке.

«Я решила записывать всё, что сейчас происходит, потому что мне кажется, что я подвергаю себя опасности», — пишет молодая женщина, расследующая самоубийство своей сестры. Придумав…

Best Book of the Year
Real Simple - AARP - USA Today

From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.

In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one--is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.

As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country's leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy.

Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family.

Best Book of the Year
Real Simple - AARP - USA Today

From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate…

I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are.

So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret—one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. What happens next is nothing less than another example of what Hilary Mantel has called Elizabeth Strout’s “perfect attunement to the human condition.” There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together—even after we’ve grown apart.

At the heart of this story is the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who offers a profound, lasting reflection on the very nature of existence. “This is the way of life,” Lucy says: “the many things we do not know until it is too late.”

I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has…

Даже рев и грохот бурных двадцатых не могли заглушить их имена. Он легендарный магнат с Уолл-стрит, она — дочь эксцентричных аристократов. Вместе они поднялись на вершину мира, полного иллюзии безграничного богатства. Но какую цену они заплатили за столь огромное состояние? Мы узнаем об этом из нескольких источников. Из книги о жизни миллионера. Из его собственных мемуаров. От машинистки, которая записывает их и замечает, что история и реальность начинают расходиться. И — из дневников его жены. Чей голос честнее, а кто самый ненадежный рассказчик? Как вообще представления о реальности сосуществуют с самой реальностью? «Доверие» — одновременно захватывающая история и блестящая литературная головоломка.

Даже рев и грохот бурных двадцатых не могли заглушить их имена. Он легендарный магнат с Уолл-стрит, она — дочь эксцентричных аристократов. Вместе они поднялись на вершину мира,…

Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.

The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America’s pulse.

Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi…

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him.

'Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!'

Joe looked up from his comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on it. A man was sitting at a front corner of the cart, holding the reins. His face was creased. He wore a long coat and a floppy high-crowned hat, with hair straggling beneath, and a leather bag was slung from his shoulder across his hip.

Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day - a wanderer, a healer - an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined.

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind…

This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman’s life—told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease.

Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia’s past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform.

Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia’s youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia’s body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day.

Pivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman’s life to symphonic effect.

This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman’s life—told in part by the…

Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent--which has more than doubled--and to keep the nine-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed.

One night, what begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. Her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department.

Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family…

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.

Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels…

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a novel that chronicles the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaotic, kinetic potential for real liberation that rises in its wake.

Glory centers around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president of nearly four decades, Bulawayo's bold, vividly imagined novel shows a country imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices who unveil the ruthlessness and cold strategy required to uphold the illusion of absolute power, and the imagination and bullet-proof optimism to overthrow it completely.

As with her debut novel We Need New Names, Bulawayo's fierce voice and lucid imagery immerses us in the daily life of a traumatized nation, revealing the dazzling life force and irrepressible wit that lies barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances. At the center of this tumult is Destiny, who has returned to Jidada from exile to bear witness to revolution--and focus on the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the women who have quietly pulled the strings in this country.

The animal kingdom--its connection to our primal responses and resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairytales that define cultures the world over--unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulwayo plucks us right out of it. Glory is a blockbuster, an exhilarating ride, and crystalizes a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest of fiction can.

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a novel that chronicles the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaotic, kinetic…

“The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.” Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past.

“The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by…

Маленький ирландский остров живет своей жизнью, и ему решительно наплевать, что где-то есть Цивилизация и происходит Прогресс, а по соседству гремит гражданская война. Острову хватает своих радостей и проблем. Но однажды на острове появляются два чужака: английский художник и французский лингвист. Такое соседство мало кто способен снести без моральных потерь, а уж жители маленького острова и подавно. Тем более что в гущу медленного, но верного сползания к развязке оказывается вовлечен едва ли не единственный местный подросток: в очень медлительной местной жизни ему в рекордный срок предстоит пройти все те этапы становления, на которые у мировой культуры и цивилизации почему-то ушло много, много веков.

Маленький ирландский остров живет своей жизнью, и ему решительно наплевать, что где-то есть Цивилизация и происходит Прогресс, а по соседству гремит гражданская война. Острову…

The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for -- not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.

The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.

In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.

'Gorgeous and pleasurable' Tessa Hadley

'The most important book of the last ten years' Edmund White

'Simply: you must read it' Claire Messud

The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton…

Есть ли жизнь после интернета?

Она — современная женщина. Она живет в Сети. Она рассуждает о политике, религии, толерантности, экологии и не переставая скроллит ленты соцсетей.

Но однажды реальность настигает ее, как пушечный залп. Два коротких сообщения от матери, и в одночасье все, что казалось важным, превращается в пыль перед лицом жизни.

Есть ли жизнь после интернета?

Она — современная женщина. Она живет в Сети. Она рассуждает о политике, религии, толерантности, экологии и не переставая скроллит ленты соцсетей.…

Астробиолог Тео Бирн ищет жизнь в далеком космосе и после смерти жены в одиночку воспитывает своего девятилетнего сына Робина, необычного умного мальчика, который сочиняет стихи и может часами в мельчайших подробностях рисовать животных и растения. А еще его хотят исключить из школы за то, что он избил собственного друга. С каждым месяцем состояние Робина ухудшается, и тогда отец прибегает к новейшему методу лечения – нейронной обратной связи. Робин начинает контролировать собственные эмоции, взаимодействуя с моделью, которая основана на предварительно записанном образе эмоций его покойной матери, ранее участвовавшей в эксперименте. А тем временем мир вокруг Бирнов и по всей Земле начинает разрушаться.

Астробиолог Тео Бирн ищет жизнь в далеком космосе и после смерти жены в одиночку воспитывает своего девятилетнего сына Робина, необычного умного мальчика, который сочиняет стихи и…

Роман вошел в шорт-лист Букеровской премии 2021 года! Одна из лучших книг года по версии журнала Time. Понравится любителям романов Викрама Сета, Арундати Рой, Дипы Аннапара.

Молодой шриланкиец Кришан едет на север страны, растерзанный гражданской войной, чтобы присутствовать на похоронах Рани, сиделки своей бабушки. Рани потеряла на войне двух сыновей и, так и не оправившись от пережитого, страдала от посттравматического стрессового расстройства.

Была ли ее смерть несчастным случаем, самоубийством или убийством?

Одновременно с известием о смерти Рани Кришан получает письмо от своей бывшей девушки, индийской активистки Анджум, которую он все еще любит.

Поездка Кришана одновременно и географическое путешествие — к усеянному пальмами ландшафту севера Шри-Ланки, и психологическое — к травме войны и собственному прошлому.

Роман вошел в шорт-лист Букеровской премии 2021 года! Одна из лучших книг года по версии журнала Time. Понравится любителям романов Викрама Сета, Арундати Рой, Дипы Аннапара.…

1952 год. Кардифф, район Тайгер-Бэй, пристанище сомалийских и вест-индских моряков, мальтийских дельцов и еврейских семей. Эти люди, само существование которых в чужой стране целиком зависит от удачи, оберегают ее, стараются приманить, холят и лелеют, и вместе с тем в глубине души прекрасно понимают, что без своей удачи они бессильны.

Махмут Маттан — муж, отец, мелкий аферист и рисковый малый. Он приятный собеседник, харизматичный мошенник и удачливый игрок. Он кто угодно, но только не убийца. Когда ночью жестоко убивают хозяйку местного магазина, Махмуд сразу же попадает под подозрение. Он не сильно беспокоится, ведь на своем веку повидал вещи и похуже, тем более теперь он находится в стране, где существует понятие закона и правосудия. Лишь когда с приближением даты суда его шансы на возвращение домой начинают таять, он понимает, что правды может быть недостаточно для спасения.

1952 год. Кардифф, район Тайгер-Бэй, пристанище сомалийских и вест-индских моряков, мальтийских дельцов и еврейских семей. Эти люди, само существование которых в чужой стране…

Мэриен Грейвз была сорвиголовой всю свою жизнь. После встречи с пилотами-каскадерами она навсегда влюбляется в небо. В четырнадцать лет Мэриен бросает школу и встречает богатого бутлегера, который предоставляет ей самолет и оплачивает уроки пилотирования. В 1950 году она отправляется в свое самое захватывающее приключение — полет вокруг земного шара, и бесследно исчезает.

Полвека спустя Хэдли Бэкстер, скандально известная голливудская актриса, получает предложение сыграть Мэриен Грейвз. Возможно, эта роль поможет ей раскрыть тайну знаменитого исчезновения? И примириться с трагедией, которая изменила ее жизнь.

Мэриен Грейвз была сорвиголовой всю свою жизнь. После встречи с пилотами-каскадерами она навсегда влюбляется в небо. В четырнадцать лет Мэриен бросает школу и встречает богатого…