Ричард Флэнаган4.0 В этом удивительном романе, который Э.С. Грейлинг, член жюри Букеровской премии 2014 года, назвал шедевром, Флэнаган расскажет о судьбе австралийских военнопленных, брошенных на строительство печально известной Дороги смерти. Дороги, забравшей жизни десятков тысяч людей, погибших в нечеловеческих условиях вдали от дома. Но это не просто рассказ о трагических временах – это история любви, смирения и отваги. Это книга о том, что может сделать человек, поверивший, что шанс на будущее все еще есть.
Джошуа Феррис3.3 Эту книгу сравнивают с романами Джозефа Хеллера и Курта Воннегута, отмечая талант автора смешивать иронию, абсурд, тоску и одиночество в таких пропорциях, чтобы создать повествование, которое трогает, увлекает, дает пищу для размышлений.
Главный герой, Пол О’Рурк, прекрасный стоматолог, рьяный атеист, фанат бейсбольной команды «Ред Сокс», мизантроп и циник, в один прекрасный день обнаруживает сайт собственной стоматологической клиники. Он никогда ничего подобного не создавал — хотя бы потому, что с Интернетом у него непростые отношения. Дальше — больше. От его имени в Сети появляются разнообразные комментарии религиозного характера о некоем древнем и почти вымершем народе с богатым духовным наследием – ульмах. Что это — над ним смеются? Пытаются вывести его из себя? А может — дарят шанс обрести душевное равновесие?
Karen Joy Fowler3.7 This title is written by the author of worldwide bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club: you can't choose your family, but they can make choices for you. Big, life-defining choices. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. So now she's telling her story; a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice. It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you're telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern - it's pretty hard to resist - don't worry.
Howard Jacobson3.4 Set in the future, a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.
Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a world starting with a J. It wasn't then, and isn't now, the time or place to be asking questions. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about who she was or where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. He doesn't ask who hurt her. Brutality has grown commonplace. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?
Neel Mukherjee4.0
'Ma, I feel exhausted with consuming, with taking and grabbing and using. I am so bloated that I feel I cannot breathe any more. I am leaving to find some air, some place where I shall be able to purge myself, push back against the life given me and make my own. I feel I live in a borrowed house. It's time to find my own. Forgive me.' Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is this note. The ageing patriarch and matriarch of his family, the Ghoshes, preside over their large household, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. More than poisonous rivalries among sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the family business, this is a family unravelling as the society around it fractures. For this is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: the chasm between the generations, and between those who have and those who have not, has never been wider. Ambitious, rich and compassionate The Lives of Others anatomises the soul of a nation as it unfolds a family history. A novel about many things, including the limits of empathy and the nature of political action, it asks: how do we imagine our place amongst others in the world? Can that be reimagined? And at what cost? This is a novel of unflinching power and emotional force.
Али Смит3.9 Роман «Как быть двумя» — это две истории о любви и несправедливости, сплетенные в одну нить. Здесь время становится вечностью, знание — тайной, фантазия — правдой, а всему живому дается еще один шанс. Али Смит, один из самых блестящих мастеров британской прозы, исследует в своей книге любовь, одержимость, сексуальность и многоликий образ искусства. Ошеломляющее произведение, которое одновременно бросает вызов читателю — и вознаграждает его.
