Колм Тойбин3.6 1950-е годы. Юная Эйлиш живет в ирландском городке, где жизнь скучна, предсказуема и в то же время невероятно уютно. Эйлиш не рвется никуда уезжать, она довольна своей привычной жизнью, счастлива с родными в любимом старом доме. Но однажды ей подворачивается случай изменить жизнь. Уехать в совершенно иной мир, в далекую и почти мифическую страну, откуда никто не возвращается и откуда разве что доходят вести об удивительной жизни уехавших. Эйлиш не хочет покидать мать, сестру, дом, но от такой возможности не отказываются. Ее там ждет хорошая работа, уже присмотрено жилье… И девушка из ирландской глухомани оказывается в никогда не затихающем нью-йорском Бруклине, с его роскошными универмагами, широченными улицами, сверкающими автомобилями. Эйлиш тоскует по дому, грустит от одиночества, но время идет, и постепенно она привыкает к Бруклину, становится его частью, и вот она уже своя в Америке, она уже ухватила свою птицу счастья. Пока не происходит событие, заставляющее ее вернуться в Ирландию…
Поразительно тонкий, полный завораживающего света и меланхоличной то грусти, то радости роман о жизни на стыке двух миров и двух эпох. Роман о выборе и поисках себя, о сомнениях и их преодолении, о тоске по прошлому и предвкушении будущего. Медитативное описание жизни обычной ирландской девушки, перебравшейся в Америку, ее тоски, грусти, обрастания связями. Это тихая мелодрама про то, что жизнь – не огневой калейдоскоп, а рутинная вереница маленьких трагедий с секундными вспышками счастья.
Колм Тойбин – один из лучших сегодня ирландских романистов – написал историю-портрет, его Эйлиш – воплощение тихой силы, умения смотреть вперед и сдержанного оптимизма. «Бруклин» – о том, как прошлое сменяется настоящим, которое уже теснит будущее, о том, что проходит все – и хорошее, и плохое, но остается память о прожитом вместе со светлой грустью о нем.
Penelope Lively0.0 Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In Family Album, lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect façade to reveal the unsettling truths.
All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a blissful childhood. Its creation, however, became an obsession that involved Ingrid, the family au pair. As adults, Paul, Gina, Sandra, Katie, Roger, and Clare return to their family home and as mysteries begin to unravel, each must confront how the consequences of long-held secrets have shaped their lives.
Хилари Мантел4.2 Англия, двадцатые годы XVI века. Страна на грани бедствия: если Генрих VIII умрет, не оставив наследника, неизбежна гражданская война. На сцену выступает Томас Кромвель, сын кузнеца-дебошира, политический гений, чьи орудия - подкуп, угрозы и лесть. Его цель - преобразовать Англию сообразно своей воле и желаниям короля, которому он преданно служит.
В своем неподражаемом стиле Хилари Мантел показывает общество на переломе истории, общество, в котором каждый с отвагой и страстью идет навстречу своей судьбе.
Рафаэль Селборн0.0 Beauty—in both name and appearance—is a 20-year-old Bangladeshi, returned to England after having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Forced onto the job-hunter’s treadmill and under extreme domestic pressure, she cracks and runs away. Her encounters with officialdom, fellow claimants, and strangers in the city streets, complicated by the restrictions and comfort of her language and culture, place her at the mercy of such unlikely helpers as Mark, a friendly, Staffordshire bull terrier-breeding ex-offender, and Peter, a middle-class underachiever on the rebound from a bitter relationship. With determination and good humor, Beauty moves ever closer to making her choice between family duty and personal freedom. All the while, however, her brothers are searching for her across town. Can she make the choice herself, before she’s forced to? A sharply rendered, compassionate, and challenging portrait of a fragmented, multicultural urban England.
Али Шо0.0 Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Magical winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts who has only visited the islands once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure.
Патрик Несс4.3 Во второй книге трилогии Тодд и тяжело раненная Виола попадают прямо в руки своего заклятого врага - мэра Прентисса. В разлуке с Виолой Тодд вынужден и сам осваивать сомнительные методы нового режима. Но какие тайны хранят леса Нового света? Где Виола? Жива ли она? И что за группировка орудует в городе? Однажды прогремит первый взрыв...
Шиван Доуд3.3 Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her.
Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She’s not Holly anymore, she’s Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk. She’s older, more confident—the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland, and find her mum. The kind of girl who can face the world head-on.
So begins a bittersweet and sometimes hilarious journey as Solace swaggers and Holly tiptoes across England and through memory, discovering her true self and unlocking the secrets of her past.
Mary Hoffman0.0 A story of persecution and poetry, love and war set in 13th century Southern France. As crusaders sweep through the country, destroying all those who do not follow their religion, Bertrand risks his life to warn others of the invasion. As a troubadour, Bertrand can travel without suspicion from castle to castle, passing word about the coming danger. In the meantime Elinor, a young noblewoman, in love with Bertrand, leaves her comfortable home and family and becomes a troubadour herself. Danger encircles them both, as the rising tide of bloodshed threatens the fabric of the society in which they live.
Анна Перера0.0 Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man
Кэтрин Килали0.0 Written by one of poetry's most original and gifted young voices, this collection of portraits and experiments embraces both the ordinary and the surreal in its attempt to make sense of an ever-changing, often disorienting world. Offering a wry approach to love and relationships, the poems are woven with a thread of romances spanning the author's native South Africa and her adopted home of London. At times playful and at others deeply moving, the verses reflect on everyday forms, imagining that the geometry of a chair, for example, might more accurately express love than the traditional lines of a sonnet. With familiar and uncomplicated language, these delicately crafted poems present a truly unique perspective on the mundane and marvelous aspects of life.
Рут Пэйдел0.0 This remarkable book brings us an intimate and moving interpretation of the life and work of Charles Darwin, by Ruth Padel, an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendant of the famous scientist.
Charles Darwin, born in 1809, lost his mother at the age of eight, repressed all memory of her, and poured his passion into solitary walks, newt collecting, and shooting. His five-year voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, when he was in his twenties, changed his life. Afterward, he began publishing his findings and working privately on groundbreaking theories about the development of animal species, including human beings, and he made a nervous proposal to his cousin Emma.
Padel’s poems sparkle with nuance and feeling as she shows us the marriage that ensued, and the rich, creative atmosphere the Darwins provided for their ten children. Charles and Emma were happy in each other, but both were painfully aware of the gulf between her deep Christian faith and his increasing religious doubt. The death of three of their children accentuated this gulf. For Darwin, death and extinction were nature’s way of developing new species: the survival of the fittest; for Emma, death was a prelude to the afterlife.
These marvelous poems—enriched by helpful marginal notes and by Padel’s ability to move among multiple viewpoints, always keeping Darwin at the center—bring to life the great scientist as well as the private man and tender father. This is a biography in rare form, with an unquantifiable depth of family intimacy and warmth.
Клив Джеймс0.0 Well-known for his prose, as well as his TV appearances, Clive James has also established a name for himself in the world of poetry. His previous collections, Other Passports and The Book of My Enemy, were critically acclaimed and accomplished, yet simultaneously accessible and entertaining - and his new book promises more of the same. Bringing together poems written over the last five years, Angels over Elsinore is impressive not only in terms of its execution, but also in terms of its scope and versatility.
Graham Farmelo0.0 Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. In 1933 he became the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Dirac's personality, like his achievements, is legendary. The Strangest Man uses previously undiscovered archives to reveal the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind.
Саймон Грэй0.0 From heartbreaking reflections on his own mortality to characteristically outrageous asides—"everybody knows somebody who knows somebody who was given six months to live, and here they are, only just dead, eight years later or, in exceptional cases, here they still are, eating oysters and boring the shit out of people"—Gray's self-proclaimed "last written words on the subject of myself" records his extraordinary emotional journey. Darkly comic depictions of the medical team are set against joyful accounts of sunlit days with this beloved wife, Victoria, in Crete and a beautiful early summer in Suffolk. Woven into the narrative are arguments with himself, "Dialogue between a Thicko and a Sicko," a shameful childhood memory, and a masterfully tense "distraction," written in real time while waiting for his final prognosis—and smoking one last cigarette. Written with exceptional candor and a poignant reluctance to leave this world behind, Coda is painful and beautiful.
Кэролайн Мурхед0.0 Born Lucie Dillon, to a half-French mother and an Anglo-Irish father, her world was Versailles and the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She married a French aristocrat, and narrowly survived the French Revolution, escaping to America at the time of Washington and Jefferson. Here, she lived a life of milking cows and chopping wood, having previously been accustomed to the lavish life of the French court.
Returning to France prematurely, Lucie had to flee again, this time to England, where she took up sewing in order to support herself and her family. Repeatedly in the right place at the right time, Lucie saw the Battle of Waterloo, the fall of Napoleon and the return of Louis XVIII, and the Restoration. She was an outstanding diarist and a remarkable woman, who witnessed one of the most dramatic and brutal periods of history, playing the part of observer, commentator and, often, participant.
For the last years of her life she was ambassadress to Holland and the Kingdom of Sardinia. Her friends included Wellington, Lafayette, Alexander Hamilton, Talleyrand and Madame de Stael. She died, aged 83, in Pisa. Mixing politics and court intrigue, social observation and everyday details about food, work, illness, children, manners and clothes, Caroline Moorehead paints a vivid and memorable portrait of an era - lasting three-quarters of a century - that saw the fortunes of France, as well as those of Lucie herself, rise and fall and rise again. Both as a witness and as a survivor, Lucie is a superb subject for an exemplary biographer.
