Луи де Берньер – лучшие книги

Древний остров Кефалония помнит многих воинов: хитроумного Одиссея и его соратников-ахейцев, гордых эллинов на триерах, римлян с их железной поступью, искушенных в интригах византийцев, жестоких турецких поработителей... И теперь под оливы Кефалонии, где жизнь текла мирно и весело, как горный ручеек, снова пришла война. Страшная, беспощадная Вторая мировая. Итальянские войска оккупировали остров, и уютный мир кефалонийцев распался на "до" и "после". Таков фон, на котором предстоит разыграться истории итальянского капитана Антонио Корелли и юной дочери местного врача Пелагии. Истории страстной, всепоглощающей любви, которую…

История Рыжего пса породы ред клауд келпи – история совершенно реальная, и произошла она несколько десятилетий назад в Австралии. Рыжий пёс – Блюи, как ещё его звали, – настоящая легенда северо-запада страны. Добродушный, умный, обаятельный, этот пёс цвета тёмной меди с янтарно-жёлтыми глазами был всеобщим любимцем. Он мог появиться в каком-нибудь посёлке и прожить среди людей несколько недель, а то и месяцев, а потом вдруг, остановив попутку (внезапно выскочив на дорогу перед знакомой машиной), отправлялся в путешествие и оказывался за несколько десятков километров от прежнего места обитания. Но Рыжий никогда не привязывался к одному…

Бассейн капризной донны, причиндалы веселого дона и один бездарный офицер приводят селение на грань катастрофы. Латиноамериканская страна истерзана экономическим кризисом, политической неразберихой и произволом военных. Президент увлечен алхимией.

Луи де Берньер, автор бестселлера «Мандолина капитана Корелли», латиноамериканской магической трилогии и романа-эпопеи «Бескрылые птицы», рассказывает пронзительную историю любви. Ему сорок, он англичанин, коммивояжер поневоле. Его жизнь проходит под новости по радио и храп жены и незаметно превратилась в болото. Ей девятнадцать, она сербка, отставная проститутка. Ее жизнь полна событий, но она от них так устала, что хочет уснуть и никогда не просыпаться. Она рассказывает ему истории — кто знает, насколько правдивые? Он копит деньги, надеясь однажды ее купить. Шехрияр и его Шехерезада. Похоже, они влюблены друг в друга. Они друг для друга…

In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will…

Британский писатель, лауреат множества европейских литературных премий Луи де Берньер написал "Войну и мир" XX столетия, величайшую сагу о любви и войне. История греко-армяно-турецкого геноцида в Малой Азии, история жизни захолустного турецкого городка Эскибахче, захлестнутого Первой мировой войной и турецкой войной за независимость, история любви, покореженной Временем, - в романе "Бескрылые птицы". Остров, затерянный в Средиземном море; народ, захваченный вихрем Второй мировой; люди, пронесшие страсть через десятилетия, - в романе "Мандолина капитана Корелли", продолжении "Бескрылых птиц". Две блистательные истории любви, две грандиозные…

Что изменилось со времен средневековых крестовых походов? Да почти ничего. Страх, кровь и смерть – по-прежнему расплата за право думать и сомневаться. Тщеславие, самодовольство и нетерпимость – вот и все, чему готовы научить паству католические чины в латиноамериканской банановой республике. Кардинала терзают бесы и угрызения совести. Священники в глубинке не расстаются с дробовиками. Черных ягуаров, хранителей Кочадебахо де лос Гатос, изгоняют как нечистую силу. Городу грозит нашествие озверевших крестоносцев. Боги не желают ссориться друг с другом и потому хранят молчание. Кошки, призраки и хохот – больше горожанам рассчитывать не на…

Не успев передохнуть после изнурительной войны с партизанами и собственными генералами, латиноамериканская страна, которой правит алхимик-любитель, тонет в кокаиновом бандитизме. Против беспредела наркоторговли выступает преподаватель философии.

В 2011 году по роману Луи де Берньера «Рыжий пёс» был снят одноимённый фильм о знаменитом австралийском псе-путешественнике. Фильм, основанный на реальных событиях, имел оглушительный успех, и продюсеры решили снять предысторию Рыжего, ведь никто не знает, откуда в районе Пилбары (Австралия) появился этот пёс, кто был его хозяином, как и где жил он раньше. Когда фильм, в отличие от предыдущего являвшийся абсолютной выдумкой, был завершён, продюсеры обратились к автору романа «Рыжий пёс» с предложением написать по сценарию историю Рыжего до его странствий по Австралии. В итоге родилась эта книга – «Синий пёс» – своеобразная «биография»…

This great love story is set against the background of the tragedy of war. It is 1941, and Italian soldiers take over the Greek island of Cephallonia. An Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelagia's fiance is fighting the Italian army...

Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War. Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the conflicts he faces are closer to home. Daniel's marriage has fractured beyond repair and Daniel's relationship with his son, Bertie, has been a failure since Bertie was a small boy. But after his brother Archie's death, Daniel is keen for new perspectives. He first travels to Peshawar to bury Archie in the place he loved best, and then finds himself in Canada, avoiding his family and friends back in England. But some bonds are hard to break. Daniel and Bertie's different experiences of war, although devastating, also bring with them the opportunity for the two to reconnect. If only they can find a way to move on from the past. Louis de Bernieres' new novel is a moving account of an extraordinary life in extraordinary times. Daniel is a flawed but captivating hero, and this coming-of-old-age story illuminates both the effect of two World Wars on a generation and the irrepressible spirit and love that can connect

From the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, the spellbinding story of a young boy and his dog adventuring through the outback.
When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle station is a tough place for a child, where nature is brutal and the men must work hard in the heat and dust. However, after a cyclone hits, things change for Mick. Exploring the floodwaters, he finds a lost puppy covered in mud and half-drowned. Mick and his dog immediately become inseparable as they take on the adventures offered by their unusual home, and the business of growing up, together.
In this charming prequel to the much-loved Red Dog, Louis de Bernieres tells the moving story of a young boy and his Granpa, and the charismatic and entertaining dog who so many readers hold close to their hearts.

As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics—a retired colonel who has eschewed clothes, a spiritualist living with the ghost of her husband, and a dog named Archibald Scott-Moncrieff—almost fit in. In this delightfully evocative collection of stories, in which a young couple falls in and out of love by letter alone, an eleven-year-old boy battles a monstrous fish, and a man of the cloth has a premonition of death, Louis de Bernières conjures up a rural idyll long since forgotten. Funny, bittersweet, and deeply felt, Notwithstanding is the bestselling author of Corelli’s Mandolin at his most enchanting.

The Edwardian era has just begun, and in the idyllic countryside outside of London, young Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up inseparable from their neighbors, the two Pitt brothers and the three Pendennis boys. But twelve years later, the outbreak of World War I brings their days of youthful camaraderie to an abrupt end. In the years that follow, these childhood pals will be scattered across Europe—from the trenches of France to the British hospitals where the McCosh sisters serve. Some will lose their lives, some their loved ones, some their faith—and all of them will lose their innocence. At the center of their stories, always, is Rosie—in love with one of her childhood friends and beloved by another—facing the collapse of the world she has always known, and the birth of another from its ashes. A sumptuous, sweeping, powerfully moving work of fiction, The Dust That Falls from Dreams is a story of profound loss and indelible hope.

They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends. Some were lost to the battles of the First World War, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended. Now, at the dawn of the 1920s, they’ve scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain, each of them trying to answer the question that fuels this sweeping novel: If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die, what are you supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over? The narrative unfolds in brief, dramatic chapters, and we follow these old friends over the decades as their paths re-cross or…

This is a true story about a dog in Western Australia in the 1970s. There is a life-sized statue of him in the town of Dampier, put there by his friends after his death. People in the north-west still remember him, and tell stories about him . . . and smile.
Red Dog had many names. At different times he was called Tally Ho, Bluey, the Dog of the North-West, but mostly he was called Red Dog, or just Red. Everybody in the north-west knew Red. He never really belonged to anyone, but he had many friends. He was never without a place to sleep, or a good meal, before he moved on - because he was also a great traveller. It is a hard, hot country, up in the Pilbara region, but Red knew how to get around. He rode on buses and trucks, in people's cars, and on trains. If people saw Red Dog on the road, they always stopped and gave him a ride.
But there was one thing about Red Dog. You really, really didn't want to travel with him in a car with the windows closed . . .

For cooks, collectors and cat-lovers, this story is a tale about an obsession, which contains both tender parts and grizzly bits and may even teach public health inspectors a thing or two.

It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician.
When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiance - a member of the underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?

From the master of historical fiction, this book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War.
Some bonds are hard to break...
Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the conflicts he faces are closer to home.
Daniel's marriage has fractured beyond repair and Daniel's relationship with his son, Bertie, has been a failure since Bertie was a small boy.
But after his brother Archie's death, Daniel is keen for new perspectives. He first travels to Peshawar to bury Archie in the place he loved best, and then finds himself in Canada, avoiding his family and friends back in England. Daniel and Bertie's different experiences of war, although devastating, also bring with them the opportunity for the two to reconnect.
If only they can find a way to move on from the past...