Дэвид Пис — новинки

Знаменитый автор книг «Оккупированный город», «Токио — Год Зеро» и «Квартет красных всадников» теперь представляет нам потрясающее художественное произведение — двенадцать связанных между собой рассказов о странной и короткой жизни гениального японского писателя XX века Рюноскэ Акутагавы.

Призрачные и вызывающие, жестокие и сюрреалистичные, эти двенадцать связанных между собой рассказов повествуют о жизни японского писателя Рюноскэ Акутагавы (1892-1927), чей рассказ «В роще» послужил вдохновением для знаменитого фильма Акиры Куросавы «Раcёмон», а повествование с использованием нескольких точек зрения и различных версий одного события повлияло на многие поколения сказочников. Опираясь на свою собственную одержимость Акутагавой, Дэвид Пис погружается в известные факты и события жизни и внутреннего мира писателя — рождение в семье психически больной матери и умершего вскоре после этого отца; его собственные сражения с психическими заболеваниями; его сложная реакция на начало модернизации и вестернизации Японии; его короткая, но плодотворная писательская карьера; его самоубийство в возрасте тридцати пяти лет — и создает потрясающе атмосферный и глубоко трогательный фикшн, который рассказывает свою собственную историю об уникальном блестящем уме.

August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors.
Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case; as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realises that his own past and secrets are indelibly linked to those of the dead women and their killer.

Рассказанный с точки зрения Клафа, роман написан как поток его сознания — он пытается и терпит неудачу навязать свою волю команде, унаследованную от своего непримиримого соперника, Дона Реви, и игроки которой все еще верны своему старому главному тренеру. В романе перемежаются воспоминания о его более успешных днях в качестве главного тренера «Дерби Каунти». Описанный автором как «вымысел, основанный на фактах», роман смешивает вымысел, слухи и домыслы с документально подтвержденными фактами, изображая Клафа как глубоко несовершенного героя: сквернословящего, мстительного и одержимого внутренними демонами и алкоголизмом.

The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work.
Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigat

Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927.

These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen -

Inspired and informed by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act and obsession of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own.

In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England. And the most passionately supported club. Their manager was revered as a god.Destined for immortality. Their manager was Bill Shankly. His job was his life. His life was football. His football a form of socialism. Bill Shankly inspired people. Bill Shankly transformed people. The players and the supporters.His legacy would reveberate through the ages.

In 1974, Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly stood on the verge of even greater success. In England and in Europe. But in 1974, Bill Shankly shocked Liverpool and football. Bill Shankly resigned. Bill Shankly retired.

Red or Dead is the story of the rise of Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly. And the story of the retirement of Bill Shankly. Of one man and his work. And of the man after that work. A man in two halves. Home and away. Red or dead.

A fierce, exquisitely dark novel that plunges us into post–World War II Occupied Japan in a Rashomon-like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime.

On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he explains, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the “official” has fled...

Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks, for all the victims, from the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of one of the case detectives, the desperate letters of an American occupier, the testimony of a traumatized survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, an “occult detective,” a Soviet soldier, a well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell.

August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Among the survivors of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, panic is spreading. Facing the threat of a second purge the officers and detectives, with their changed identities and false names, realise that they can trust no one, least of all each other. Meanwhile another war is breaking out, as the different ethnic groups fight for control of the city's black markets.

Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case, and as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realises that his own past and secrets are indelibly linked to those of the dead women and their killer.

Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him.

David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s.

Год "двух семерок". Британия готовится к "Серебряному юбилею" - 25-летию коронации Елизаветы II. В моде панк-рок - "Клэш" и "Секс Пистолз". В графстве Йоркшир убивают проституток. Сержант полиции Боб Фрейзер и журналист Джек Уайтхед пытаются во что бы то ни стало найти и остановить серийного убийцу.