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Best Book of the Year
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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.

Семейство Куков, когда-то благополучное, окружает некая тайна. Розмари, студентка университета, вспоминает, что в детстве была удивительно общительным, даже болтливым ребенком, но теперь замкнута, с трудом вступает в контакт с людьми, ее мучают странные комплексы. Ее старший брат Лоуэлл давно ушел из дома. Мать пережила тяжелую депрессию, отец, известный ученый,…

Amerykański bestseller, który znalazł się w finale Bookera i otrzymał prestiżową nagrodę Faulknera. Przetłumaczony na blisko 30 języków. Świetnie przyjęty zarówno w Stanach Zjednoczonych, jak i w Europie.
Karen Fowler, autorka słynnego „Klubu miłośników Jane Austen" tym razem napisała zaskakującą historię rodzinną. Nic w tej powieści nie jest oczywiste. Pojawiające się wciąż nowe fakty, zwroty akcji, narastające napięcie, a przy tym świetny literacki język sprawiają, że to książka, od której trudno się oderwać. Powieść-patchwork, poszarpana jak pamięć.
Pod wrażeniem lektury była m.in. słynna amerykańska pisarka Ursula K. Le Guin: To opowieść o niezwykłej rodzinie, w której wszyscy kochają się i równocześnie okrutnie ranią. Mocna, głęboka i poruszająca historia.

The Sweetheart Season

A brilliantly comic and intelligent literary mystery from Karen Joy Fowler, the bestselling Man Booker shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own. Who stole a small and highly valuable object from Addison's kitchen? Why is Rima corresponding with an obsessive fan, using someone else's family name? Most importantly: what exactly was the relationship between Addison and Rima's father, and why did Addison name a murderer after him in one of her novels?

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of Sister Noon, Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and the short story collection Black Glass. She is a PEN/Faulkner prize finalist, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and lives in California.

Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone -…

This title is written by the author of worldwide bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club: you can't choose your family, but they can make choices for you. Big, life-defining choices. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves…

Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind. Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for…

When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort the ugliest woman he could imagine away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.

После смерти отца, журналиста-международника, тридцатилетняя Рима Лэнсилл переезжает к своей крестной, знаменитой писательнице Аддисон Эрли, в ее старый викторианский особняк «Гнездо», стоящий на высоком утесе с видом на Тихий океан. Самое известное творение Эрли, частный детектив Максвелл Лейн, давно зажило собственной жизнью: письма поклонников адресованы не…