Джумпа Лахири4.0 Герои третьей книги Джумпы Лахири не чувствуют себя чужими ни в строгих пейзажах Массачусетса, ни в уютных лондонских особняках. Эти молодые люди, выпускники элитных колледжей Новой Англии, уже, казалось, полностью ассимилировались, воспринимают себя уже настоящими американцами. Но все-таки что-то не дает им слиться с успешными яппи, своими однокашниками, и спокойно воплощать американскую мечту. И это не только экзотически звучащие имена и цвет кожи, выдающие их бенгальское происхождение...
Давид Албахари0.0 In self-exile in Canada after the collapse of Yugoslavia and his mother's death, the narrator of Bait is listening to a series of tapes he recorded of his mother years before. As her story is told, he reflects on her life and their relationship, attempting to come to terms with his Jewishness and his own new life in a foreign culture.
Эндрю Шон Грир3.5 A Today Show Summer Reads Pick
A Washington Post Book of the Year
"We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship--how we can ever truly know another person.
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health, but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep, and everything changes.
Дебора Айзенберг5.0 Deborah Eisenberg is almost unmatched in her mastery of the short story form. In this, her seventh collection, she demonstrates her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, unflinchingly honest studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luxurious Manhattan sublet becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away from the news of her ex-husband's life-threatening illness; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg evokes painful and tender truths, both poetic and deeply political. 'The stories are, in their masterly crosshatching of light and dark, concentrated bursts of perfection' - The Times. 'Wonderful ...written with a ruthless, compassionate eye and a subtle humour' - Guardian. 'Further confirms her reputation as one of the most imaginative and exquisitely perceptive of today's short story writers' - Scotland on Sunday. 'She makes you smile as much as she haunts with stark truths ...In the US, many people consider Eisenberg to be up there with Alice Munro, the female monarch of the short-story form. It's time the UK considered putting her up there too' - Financial Times
Richard Ford0.0 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Best Book of the Year
A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father –Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms “the Permanent Period” is fraught with unforeseen perils. An astonishing meditation on America today and filled with brilliant insights, The Lay of the Land is a magnificent achievement from one of the most celebrated chroniclers of our time.
Инго Шульце3.4 Надо ли давать номер своего мобильного телефона случайным людям? Даже если это жилец соседнего бунгало, и на его домишко, как и на твой, нападают хулиганы — ломают забор, переворачивают баки?...
