Кэти Китамура – лучшие книги

Переводчица-синхронистка приезжает в Гаагу, чтобы работать в Международном уголовном суде. Вся ее жизнь — череда бесконечных переездов, и в пасмурном городе на берегу моря она надеется наконец обрести дом. Но не так-то просто сблизиться с людьми тому, кто привык говорить чужими словами, улавливая малейшие изменения тона и настроения. Когда ей поручают работать с…

Жизнь вынуждает ее играть роль жены даже после развода: они с Кристофером решили, что их расставание пока что должно остаться в секрете. Но Кристофер неожиданно исчез, и она вынуждена отправиться на поиски и начать собственное расследование. Ей предстоит множество испытаний в Афинах, она откроет для себя неожиданные подробности о своей жизни и, возможно, даже найдет причину измен мужа. В ходе поисков она осознает причину развала их брака и поймёт, что Кристофер — не тот человек, которого она любила…

Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel by one of literature’s rising young stars weaves a brilliant tale of family drama and political turmoil. Since his mother’s death ten years earlier, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained peace on their family farm. Everything is frozen under the old man’s vicious, relentless control—even, Tom soon discovers, his own future. When a young woman named Carine enters their lives, the complex triangle of intrigue and affections escalates the tension between the two men to the breaking point. After a catastrophic volcanic eruption ignites the nation’s smoldering discontent into open revolution, Tom, his father, and Carine find themselves questioning their loyalties to one another and their determination to salvage their way of life.

With the author’s trademark spare, spellbinding prose, Gone to the Forest delivers a powerful tale of unfathomable loss and ultimate redemption.

Cal and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with legendary fighter Rivera. Four years ago, Cal became the only mixed martial arts fighter to take Rivera the distance -- but the fight nearly ended him. Only Riley, who has been at his side for the last ten years, knows how much that fight changed things for Cal. And only Riley really knows what's now at stake, for both of them.
Katie Kitamura's brilliant and stirring debut novel follows Cal and Riley through the three fraught days leading up to this momentous match, as each privately begins to doubt that Cal can win. As the tension builds toward the final electrifying scene, the looming fight becomes every challenge each of us has ever taken on, no matter how uncertain the outcome.

In hypnotic, pared-down prose, "The Longshot" offers a striking portrait of two men striving to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how.