Лучшие книги Дэвида Духовны

Конец 1970-х. Тед Сплошелюбов, по кличке Господин Арахис, обрюзгший, неопрятный недо-хиппи, мало похож на других выпускников колледжей Лиги плюща. Он живет в крошечной квартирке вместе с электрической рыбкой Голдфарб, спит среди своей писанины – постмодернистскими претензиями на литературу, надеется, что однажды ему удастся написать великий американский роман, и…

Эмер — обычная жительница Нью-Йорка, по городу она перемещается на метро, покупает мороженое в лавочке на углу, преподает первоклашкам, но хотела бы стать писательницей. А еще у нее есть любимый мужчина, его зовут Кон. Но путь, которым она движется, — единственный ли жизненный путь? Дэвид Духовны, вдохновляясь древнеирландской легендой о герое Кухулине и его…

Holy Cow by David Duchovny is a comic delight that will thrill fans of Jasper Fforde and Ben Aaronovitch. And anyone who enjoys a witty wisecrack in a novel.
Elsie Bovary is a cow and a pretty happy one at that. Until one night, Elsie sneaks out of the pasture and finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God - and what the Box God reveals about something called an 'industrial meat farm' shakes Elsie's understanding of her world to its core.
The only solution? To escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Shalom, a grumpy pig who's recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave turkey who can't fly, but can work an iPhone with his beak. Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises, they head for the airport ...
Elsie is a wise-cracking, slyly witty narrator; Tom dispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent; and Shalom ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians. David Duchovny's charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance the world desperately needs.

Такий собі освічений, небагатий, не метросексуал, не качок — пересічний чоловік за тридцять. Він з тих, кому байдужі загальноприйняті цінності «дім-сім’я-кар’єра». Він ще й невизнаний письменник і недолюблений батьком син.
Чи зможе він примиритися з батьком, воскресити недописаний роман і створити свою щасливу сім’ю?

From the New York Times–bestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes

For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence―controversial, difficult, but Edenic―is upended when the ambitious young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit, she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a deadly chain of events.

Maya, threatening to report the family to social services, convinces them to enter three of their children into a nearby public school. Bronson and his wives agree that if Maya can prove that the kids do better in town than in their desert oasis, they will sell her a chunk of their priceless plot of land. Suddenly confronted with all the complications of the twenty-first century that they tried to keep out of their lives, the Powerses must reckon with their lifestyle as they try to save it.

"Truly Like Lightning", David Duchovny’s fourth novel, is a heartbreaking meditation on family, religion, sex, greed, human nature, and the vanishing environment of an ancient desert.