Иноязычная линия №12. Голосование закрыто — 4 книги

The ghost story comes alive in a spellbinding first novel. Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman's life is irrevocably changed. What is the invisible, ever-present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? And why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life? Gerard's quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family, and his life, will lead him from Mawson to London, to a long-abandoned house and the terror of a ghost story comes alive.

+1 svasilevskaya

Tayafenix 10 июля 2014 г., 12:01

Story of a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany narrated by Death. Told from a perspective of an fascinated observer, the girl's interaction with family and friends against the background of war and the Holocaust is told in a straightforward manner that captures the amazing capacity of humans to survive and support one another - or not.

Видение современным австралийским автором Второй мировой войны. Повествование ведется от лица Смерти.

Tayafenix 10 июля 2014 г., 10:55

1926. Tom Sherbourne is a young lighthouse keeper on a remote island off Western Australia. The only inhabitants of Janus Rock, he and his wife Isabel live a quiet life, cocooned from the rest of the world.
Then one April morning a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a crying infant - and the path of the couple's lives hits an unthinkable crossroads.
Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision they made that day - as the baby's real story unfolds ...

Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards for Best Newcomer.

+1 Sunrisewind неизвестный автор, стало любопытно :) и еще люблю читать про эту эпоху.
+1 equilibrium

equilibrium 10 июля 2014 г., 16:05

Невил Шют родился в Великобритании, но в возрасте около 50 переехал в Австралию. Его роман Город как Элис стал мировым бестселлером (в частности, вошел в список "200 лучших книг по версии BBC").
Объем 256 страниц в формате .epub, язык реально очень интересный и не очень сложный, много любопытных англо-австралийско-языковых фишек. Несколько совершенно разных сюжетообразующих тем - тем интереснее по ходу чтения следить, как они пересекаются. Книга не отпускает до самого конца.

+1 poncha

Miguera 10 июля 2014 г., 16:24