Грейс Макклин3.8 Впервые на русском — самый ошеломляющий дебют в современной британской литературе, самая трогательная и бескомпромиссно оригинальная книга нового века! В этом романе находят отзвуки и недавнего бестселлера Эммы Донохью «Комната» из «букеровского» шорт-листа, и такой нестареющей классики, как «Убить пересмешника» Харпер Ли, и даже «Осиной Фабрики» Иэна Бэнкса. Но с кем бы Грейс Макклин ни сравнивали, ее ни с кем не спутаешь.
Итак, познакомьтесь с Джудит Макферсон. Ей десять лет. Она живет с отцом. Отец работает на заводе, а в свободное от работы время проповедует, с помощью Джудит, истинную веру: настали Последние Дни, скоро Армагеддон, и спасутся не все. В комнате у Джудит есть другой мир, сделанный из вещей, которые больше никому не нужны; с потолка на коротких веревочках свисают планеты и звезды, на веревочках подлиннее — Солнце и Луна, на самых длинных — облака и самолеты. Это самая прекрасная земля на свете, текущая молоком и медом, краса всех земель. Но в школе над Джудит издеваются, и однажды она устраивает в своей Красе Земель снегопад; а проснувшись утром, видит, что все вокруг и вправду замело и школа закрыта. Постепенно Джудит уверяется, что может творить чудеса; это подтверждает и звучащий в Красе Земель голос. Но каждое новое чудо не решает проблемы, а порождает новые…
Рейчел Джойс4.2 Гарольд Фрай, самый обычный человек, который всю жизнь ощущал себя ненужным, лишним, пускается в необычное путешествие. На противоположном конце страны в хосписе его ждет женщина по имени Куини Хеннесси. Мы не знаем, был ли у них роман, но она, одна из немногих, понимала и ценила его. Гарольд верит — пока он идет, преодолевая милю за милей, Куини будет жить. Эта одиссея стала для Гарольда возвращением к себе и — переосмыслением всей его жизни.
Патрик МакГиннесс0.0 The socialist state is in crisis, the shops are empty, and old Bucharest vanishes daily under the onslaught of Ceaucescu's demolition gangs. The author creates an absorbing sense of time and place as the city struggles to survive this intense moment of history.Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award.Longlisted for the 2012 Desmond Elliot Prize.
David Whitehouse4.0 Mal Ede, a child of untamed manners and unbounded curiosity, is the eccentric eldest son of an otherwise typical middle-class family. But as the wonders of childhood fade into the responsibilities of adulthood, Mal's spirits fade too. On his twenty-fifth birthday, disillusioned, Mal goes to bed, back to his childhood bed and never emerges again.
Narrated by Mal's shy, diligent younger brother, Bed details Mal's subsequent extreme and increasingly grotesque transformation: immobility and a gargantuan appetite combine, over the course of two decades, to make him the fattest man in the world. Despite his seclusion and his refusal to explain his motivations, Mal's condition earns him worldwide notoriety and a cult of followers convinced he is making an important statement about modern life. But Mal's actions will also change the lives of his haunted parents, his brother and the woman they both love, Lou.
С. Дж. Уотсон4.0 Каждое утро Кристин Лукас просыпается в незнакомой комнате, в постели с мужчиной, которого не узнает. Каждое утро этот мужчина терпеливо объясняет Кристин, что он ее муж, а она страдает амнезией с тех пор, как в молодости попала в аварию. По совету врача, занимающегося ее случаем, Кристин втайне от мужа начинает вести дневник, записывая туда все, что ей удается узнать и вспомнить в течение дня. Отчаянно пытаясь сложить из обрывков воспоминаний свое прошлое, Кристин задает все больше вопросов — себе и окружающим. Но каждое новое воскресшее воспоминание все больше пугает ее, ей все сложнее понять, что же на самом деле случилось с ней много лет назад, что именно стерло из памяти всю ее прежнюю жизнь?
Бенджамин Вуд3.5 Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a Cambridge nursing home, until the fateful day when he is lured into King's College chapel by the otherworldly sound of an organ. There he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether and her privileged, eccentric clique, led by her brother Eden. A troubled but charismatic music prodigy, Eden convinces his sister and their friends to participate in a series of disturbing experiments. However, as the line between genius and madness begins to blur, Oscar fears that danger could await them all ...
Уилл Уайлс0.0 A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice. Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for his piece "Variations on Tram Timetables". He lives with his wife and two cats in an unnamed Eastern European city. But this book isn't really about Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage dismantled by lawyers. Meanwhile, he has entrusted an old friend to take care of his perfect, beautiful apartment. Despite Oskar leaving extensive notes on how to keep his flat in pristine condition, a tiny oversight initiates a chain of farcical, and even fatal, disasters. "Care of Wooden Floors" is about loneliness, friendship and the quest for, and struggle against, perfection. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors.
Дженни Эрдал0.0 Of French and Scottish parentage, Edgar has come to Edinburgh from Paris to work on a French edition of Hume's essays, flat-swapping with a Scottish academic writing a book on Sartre ("no doubt in my mind as to who had got the better deal"). While in Edinburgh he is sucked into the orbit of a charismatic, self-hating philosopher, Harry Sanderson, and his enigmatic artist wife, Carrie. Edgar has "always worked on the principle that a translator is a guest in somebody else's house"; as he listens to both versions of the breakdown of their marriage, he realises that he is a guest in Harry and Carrie's city, their language and their lives, and begins to wonder why he has never fully occupied his own.
Чибунду Онузо0.0 Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep.
A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slums, lives an eighteen-year-old hawker struggling to make sense of the world. His family lost everything after his father's death and now he sells ice cream at the side of the road to support his mother and sister.
When Abike buys ice cream from the hawker one afternoon, they strike up a tentative and unlikely romance. But as they grow closer, revelations from the past threaten their relationship and both Abike and the hawker must decide where their loyalties lie.
Патрик Флэнери0.0 In this stunning literary debut, Patrick Flanery delivers a devastating and intimate portrait of post-apartheid South Africa, and the perils of taking sides when the sides are changing around you.
Told in shifting perspectives, Absolution is centred on the mysterious character of Clare Wald, a controversial writer of great fame, haunted by the memories of a sister she fears she betrayed to her death and a daughter she fears she abandoned. Clare comes to learn that in this conflict the dead do not stay buried, and the missing return in other forms--such as the small child present in her daughter's last days who has reappeared, posing as Clare's official biographer. Sam Leroux, a South African expatriate returning to Cape Town after many years in New York, gradually earns Clare's trust, his own ghosts emerging from the histories that he and Clare begin to unravel, leading them both along a path in search of reconciliation and forgiveness.
