Лили Кинг3.8 National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.
In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her controversial work studying South Pacific tribes, her intelligent and aggressive husband Fen, and Andrew Bankson, who stumbles into the lives of this strange couple and becomes totally enthralled. Within months the trio are producing their best ever work, but soon a firestorm of fierce love and jealousy begins to burn out of control, threatening their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives...
Сара Уотерс3.7 Сара Уотерс — современный классик, «автор настолько блестящий, что читатели готовы верить каждому ее слову» (Daily Mail). О данном романе газета Financial Times писала: «Своими предыдущими книгами, три из которых попадали в Букеровский шорт-лист, Сара Уотерс поставила планку качества очень высоко. И даже на таком фоне “Дорогие гости” — это апофеоз ее таланта». Итак, познакомьтесь с Фрэнсис Рэй и ее матерью. В Лондоне, еще не оправившемся от Великой войны, они остались совершенно одни в большом ветшающем доме: отца и братьев нет в живых, держать прислугу не позволяют средства. Отчаявшись, Фрэнсис и миссис Рэй сдают полдома совершенно незнакомым людям — молодым супругам Барбер, Леонарду и Лилиане, из «класса клерков». И вся жизнь семейства Рэй меняется, но совершенно не так, как они рассчитывали. «Это книга о старом капризном бойлере, фарфоровых чашках и прогнивших половицах. Это книга о любви и страсти, потрясающей до основания и сводящей с ума. И еще это настоящий детектив, с трупом, полицией и нагнетанием атмосферы в духе Достоевского» (Fem_books).
Билл Рурбах0.0 The Remedy for Love is a harrowing story about the truths we reveal when there is no time or space for artifice.
They're calling it the "Storm of the Century," so Eric stops at the market for provisions on his way home from work. But when the unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman in front of him in line comes up short on cash, a kind of old-school charity takes hold of his heart - twenty bucks and a ride home is the least he can do, right? Trouble is, Danielle doesn't really have a home. She's squatting in a cabin deep in the woods, no electricity, no heat, nothing but the nearby river to sustain her. She'll need food, water, firewood, and that's just to get her through the storm: there's a whole Maine winter ahead.
So he gets her set up, departs with relief, climbs to the road, but his car has been towed with his phone inside, and the snow is coming down with historic speed and violence. There's no choice but to return to the cabin. Danielle is terrified, then merely hostile - who is this guy with his big idea that it's she who needs rescuing? As the snow keeps mounting, they're forced to ride out the storm together. For better and for worse.
The Remedy for Love is a harrowing story about the truths we reveal when there is no time or space for artifice.
Брайан Мортон0.0 A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes.
A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes.
Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence has earned her right to set down the burdens of family and work and shape her legacy at long last. But just as she is beginning to write her long-deferred memoir, her son Daniel returns to New York from Seattle with his wife and daughter, and they embroil Florence in their dramas, clouding the clarity of her days with the frustrations of middle-age and the confusions of youth. And then there is her left foot, which is starting to drag.
With searing wit, sophisticated intelligence, and a tender respect for humanity in all its flaws, Brian Morton introduces a constellation of unforgettable characters. Chief among them, Florence, who can humble the fools surrounding her with one barbed line, but who eventually finds there are realities even she cannot outsmart.
Динау Менгесту4.5 All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart—one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom.
Siri Hustvedt3.5 Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men.
Presented as a collection of texts compiled by a scholar years after Burden's death, the story unfolds through extracts from her notebooks, reviews and articles, as well as testimonies from her children, her lover, a dear friend, and others more distantly connected to her. Each account is different, however, and the mysteries multiply. One thing is clear: Burden's involvement with the last of her 'masks' turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man's bizarre death.
This is a polyphonic tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of What I Loved, an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that explores the way prejudice, fame, money and desire influence our perceptions of one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic and playful, The Blazing World is as gripping as it is thought-provoking.
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast’s memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.
When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”—with predictable results—the tools that had served Roz well through her parents’ seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed.
While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies—an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades—the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care.
An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast’s talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Элизабет Колберт4.2 Что отличает происходящее сейчас массовое вымирание от тех пяти, что Земля уже претерпела за последние 500 миллионов лет? Пятое, уничтожившее всех нептичьих динозавров, было вызвано падением астероида. Теперь, говорят ведущие ученые, мы, люди, - астероид. Штатный сотрудник журнала The New Yorker Элизабет Колберт переносит читателя в те места на планете, где признаки Шестого вымирания наиболее очевидны. Возможно ли его остановить? Тревожная, но совершенно необходимая всем нам книга.
Томас Пикетти4.0 В "Капитале в XXI веке" Томас Пикетти предложил новый взгляд на проблему, которая в последние десятилетия обращает на себя все больше внимания, - проблему неравенства. Проанализировав огромные количества данных, французский экономист обнаружил следующую закономерность. При прочих равных быстрый экономический рост уменьшает роль капитала и его концентрацию в частных руках и приводит к сокращению неравенства, в то время как замедление роста имеет следствием возрастание значения капитала и увеличение неравенства. В исторической ретроспективе - а книга Пикетти охватывает огромный период от начала XVIII века до наших дней - рост влияния капитала прерывался лишь в двадцатом столетии как следствие двух мировых войн и кейнсианской политики Славного тридцатилетия (1945-1975).
Сегодня же мир возвращается к ситуации, когда неравенство неуклонно увеличивается, что может привести к тяжелым социальным и политическим последствиям. Впрочем, в отличие от Карла Маркса, с которым Пикетти часто сравнивают, француз не ограничивается лишь мрачной констатацией сложившегося положения и не предрекает крах капиталистической системы. Он предлагает меры, которые могли бы приостановить неблагоприятные тенденции.
The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they develop in the womb or in the egg. He founded a science. It can even be said
that he founded science itself.
In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle’s science. He revisits Aristotle’s writings and the places where he worked. He goes to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them. He explores Aristotle’s observations,
his deep ideas, his inspired guesses—and the things he got wildly wrong. He shows how Aristotle’s science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and reveals that he was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest.
The Lagoon is both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science. And it shows how a philosopher who lived almost two millennia ago still has so much to teach us today.
