Дэвид Безмозгис — новинки

"Предатели" - второй роман Дэвида Безмозгиса - рассказывает об одном дне из жизни Баруха Котлера, видного израильского общественного и государственного деятеля, в прошлом - знаменитого диссидента-отказника, отсидевшего долгие годы в советской тюрьме. В этот день Котлер нежданно-негаданно встречает человека, в свое время донесшего на него в КГБ. И этот день переворачивает его представления и о событиях своего прошлого, и его планы на будущее. За этот день Баруху Котлеру предстоит не только понять, как и почему друг его предал, но и понять, как и почему сам он сейчас предал жену, которая долгие 13 лет боролась за его освобождение, и детей.

Award-winning author David Bezmozgis’s first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the Toronto Star as “intelligent, funny, unfailingly sympathetic” In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A mysterious tech conference brings a writer to Montreal, where he discovers new designs on…

These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fierce young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where, in an unexpected turn of events, he comes face-to-face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost 40 years earlier.

In a mere 24 hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a teenage daughter, a son facing his own ethical dilemmas in the Israeli army, and the wife who stood by his side through so much.

In prose that is elegant, sly, precise, and devastating, David Bezmozgis has rendered a story for the ages, an inquest into the nature of fate and consequence, love and forgiveness.

"Наташа и другие рассказы" - первая книга писателя и режиссера Д. Безмозгиса (1973), иммигрировавшего в возрасте шести лет с семьей из Риги в Канаду, была названа лучшей первой книгой, одной из 25 лучших книг года. А по списку "Нью Йоркера" 2010 года Безмозгис вошел в двадцатку лучших писателей до сорока лет. Критики увидели в Безмозгисе наследника Бабеля, Филипа Рота и Бернарда Маламуда. В этом небольшом сборнике, рассказывающем о том, как нелегко было советским евреям приспосабливаться к жизни в такой непохожей на СССР стране, драма и даже трагедия - в духе его предшественников - соседствуют с комедией.

Welcome to Rome. It's the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family are passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy (especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them), and it's harder still when their sponsor in the USA lets them down and they…

In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of "20 Under 40"―the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of writers over the course of the summer. They are now collected for the first time in one volume. The range of…

A dazzling debut, and a publishing phenomenon: the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm.

Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper's, Zoetrope, and The New Yorker all printed stories from his forthcoming collection. In the space of a few weeks, America thus met the Bermans--Bella and Roman and their son, Mark--Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams.

Told through Mark's eyes, the stories in Natasha possess a serious wit and uniquely Jewish perspective that recall the first published stories of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth, not to mention the recent work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander, and Adam Haslett.