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Можно ли повернуть время вспять? Таинственный амбициозный мистификатор Гаустин считает, что можно. С этой целью он открывает первый в мире центр «Возвращение прошлого». Данное учреждение предлагает необычный метод лечения пациентов с болезнью Альцгеймера. Каждый этаж здания с точностью воспроизводит то или иное десятилетие, позволяя людям воскресить воспоминания, казалось бы, навсегда утраченные.

Будучи помощником Гаустина, рассказчик охотно включается в игру, принимаясь собирать достоверные обломки прошлого — от мебели 1960‑х годов, пуговиц и рубашек 1940‑х до вызывающих приступ ностальгии духов. Но чем более убедительной становится инсценировка, тем больше здоровых людей начинает обращаться в клинику, чтобы вырваться из тупика повседневной жизни, — будущее уже никого не привлекает, все хотят вернуться в прошлое.

События стремительно приобретают неконтролируемый масштаб. Не обернется ли смелая задумка настоящей катастрофой, когда государства однажды решат переписать историю?

Этот роман о том, как выжить в условиях неопределенного будущего. Пронзительное и трагикомичное повествование о временном убежище, которое мы ищем в прошлом, когда настоящее нам не подвластно.

Можно ли повернуть время вспять? Таинственный амбициозный мистификатор Гаустин считает, что можно. С этой целью он открывает первый в мире центр «Возвращение прошлого». Данное…

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la vida en un buc, la situació perfecta: una cabina, l'oceà, moltes hores per encara el buit i algún port per conèixer dones. Fins que una la reté, se l'emporta entre les quatre parets d'una casa i l'embarca en la gestació assistida d'una criatura. ¿Què en farà, la maternitat, de l'amant coneguda en un bar?

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la vida en un buc, la situació perfecta: una cabina, l'oceà, moltes hores per…

While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot speak, introduced a the Queen of Red Bricks, it quickly situates her story within a longer multi-generational saga composed of three parts. While we learn of Chunhee s tragic path to her becoming someone who makes bricks of the highest quality, the novel retraces the familial circumstances that shaped her. While poignant yet brutal, "Whale" is also a satire of how we the general public, mass media, even artists and writers tend to romanticize voiceless figures of history."

While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot speak, introduced a the Queen of Red Bricks, it quickly situates her story…

Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood – whether or not to have children – with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim. Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When Alina’s daughter survives childbirth – after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite – and Laura becomes attached to her neighbour’s son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions.

In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon’s touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.

Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood – whether or not to have children – with the intelligence and…

A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Condé follows his journey in search of his origins and mission.

"Throughout her four-decade literary career, the Guadeloupean writer has explored a global vision of the Black diaspora, and placed Caribbean life at the center. In the past few years, Condé has been showered with honors and accolades across the globe. The Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat sees Condé as a “giant of literature,” whose prolific work connects continents and generations. One thing is certain: Condé is finally receiving the acclaim her wide-ranging body of work deserves.” ——Anderson Tepper, The New York Times

One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: “A miracle!” Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal? For all its beauty, vivacity, humor, and power, Maryse Condé’s latest novel is above all a work of combat. Lucid and full of conviction, Condé attests that solidarity and love remain our most extraordinary and lifesaving forces.

A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Condé follows his journey in search of his origins and mission.…

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.
The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift.
Babies adore the security guard. Perhaps because he does not drag babies to the sales.
The 1960s - Ferdinand arrives in Paris from Cote d'Ivoire, ready to take on the world and become a big somebody.
The 1990s - It is the Golden Age of immigration, and Ossiri and Kassoum navigate a Paris on the brink of momentous change.
The 2010s - In a Sephora on the Champs-Elysees, the all-seeing eyes of a security guard observes the habits of those who come to worship at this church to consumerism.
Amidst the political bickering of the inhabitants of the Residence for Students from Cote d'Ivoire and the ever-changing landscape of French immigration policy, Ferdinand, Ossiri and Kassoum, two generations of Ivoirians, attempt to make their way as undocumented workers, taking shifts as security at a flour mill.
Sharply satirical, political and poignant, Standing Heavy is a searingly witty deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption, an unprecedented and unforgettable account of everything that passes under a security guard's gaze.

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.
The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift.
Babies adore the…

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will and Testament

'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought about a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonious absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother's house.

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her…

Андрей Курков — журналист, писатель-сценарист (по его сценариям поставлено 18 документальных и художественных фильмов), автор более двух десятков книг. Его произведения переведены на 34 языка, в том числе английский, немецкий, французский, голландский, испанский, японский, турецкий и др.
Курков — один из двух писателей постсоветского пространства, чьи книги попали в топ-десятку европейских бестселлеров. Недаром он признан в Европе современным русскоязычным писателем № 1.

«В жизни самое интересное — это жизнь», — сказал однажды писатель, обращаясь к своим читателям. И его новый роман «Львовская гастроль Джими Хендрикса», где переплетаются действительность и вымысел, где нет границы между реальностью и сюрреализмом, прекрасное тому подтверждение.
Над сухопутным Львовом летают чайки, и в городе временами пахнет морем. Бывшие хиппи в компании с экс-капитаном КГБ собираются на Лычаковском кладбище у могилы... американского рок-певца и гитариста Джими Хендрикса. А по древним улочкам города носится ночами старенькая иномарка с людьми, желающими излечиться...

Андрей Курков — журналист, писатель-сценарист (по его сценариям поставлено 18 документальных и художественных фильмов), автор более двух десятков книг. Его произведения переведены…

Il ne reste presque plus rien à La Bassée : un bourg et quelques hameaux, dont celui qu’occupent Bergogne, sa femme Marion et leur fille Ida, ainsi qu’une voisine, Christine, une artiste installée ici depuis des années.
On s’active, on se prépare pour l’anniversaire de Marion, dont on va fêter les quarante ans. Mais alors que la fête se profile, des inconnus rôdent autour du hameau

Il ne reste presque plus rien à La Bassée : un bourg et quelques hameaux, dont celui qu’occupent Bergogne, sa femme Marion et leur fille Ida, ainsi qu’une voisine, Christine, une…

Nach den Kinderspielen kommen die Kämpfe: Rico, Mark, Paul und Daniel wachsen auf im Leipzig der Nachwendejahre, zwischen Autoklau, Alkohol und Angst, zwischen Wut und Zerstörung. Jede Nacht ziehen sie durch die Straßen. Sie feiern, sie klauen, sie fahren ihr Leben gegen die Wand. Sie sind frei und dem Leben ausgeliefert. Mit direkter, wütender, sensibler und authentischer Stimme erzählt dieser Roman von dem Traum, dass irgendwo ein besseres Leben wartet.

Nach den Kinderspielen kommen die Kämpfe: Rico, Mark, Paul und Daniel wachsen auf im Leipzig der Nachwendejahre, zwischen Autoklau, Alkohol und Angst, zwischen Wut und Zerstörung.…

Först kom Sebastian, sen kom Clara, sen kom Matilda. Sen kom kalabaliken när en pappa kände för att lätta sig hjärta och någon annans hjärta kom av sig. Den natten föddes inte bara trillingar på Lunds lasarett, utan också nog med hemligheter för en kvarts livstid.

Tjugofem år senare: En ung kvinna hänger sig i en dörrkarm. En mamma möter djävulen på en kolonilott i Lund. Sebastian reser till London, Clara till Påskön och Matilda till Västerbotten. Sedan blir allting plötsligt väldigt komplicerat.

Hur långt ifrån varandra kan en familj komma innan den upphör att höra ihop? Amanda Svenssons nya roman Ett system så magnifikt att det bländar är en stor familjeberättelse om tre syskon som försöker nå varandra i en värld som blivit alltmer splittrad.

Eller är det snarare så att alltför mycket hänger samman? Lösningen kanske står att finna i källaren till en hierarkiskt ordnad byggnadsstruktur vid Russel Square. Eller i kärleken till en sorgsen kvinna. Även om en viss apa anser att det är ett villospår.

Först kom Sebastian, sen kom Clara, sen kom Matilda. Sen kom kalabaliken när en pappa kände för att lätta sig hjärta och någon annans hjärta kom av sig. Den natten föddes inte…

"Ninth Building" is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about—the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate situations. Jeremy Tiang’s enthralling translation of this important work of fiction was awarded a PEN/Heim Grant.

"Ninth Building" is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a…

In northern India, an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention – including striking up a friendship with a hijra person – confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the two.

To her family’s consternation, Ma insists on travelling to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist.

Rather than respond to tragedy with seriousness, Geetanjali Shree's playful tone and exuberant wordplay results in a book that is engaging, funny, and utterly original, at the same time as being an urgent and timely protest against the destructive impact of borders and boundaries, whether between religions, countries, or genders.

In northern India, an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the…

Середина XVIII века. Новые идеи и новые волнения охватывают весь континент. В это время молодой еврей, Яков Франк, прибывает в маленькую деревню в Польше. Именно здесь и начинается его паломничество, которое за десятилетие соберет небывалое количество последователей. Яков Франк пересечет Габсбургскую и Османскую империи, снова и снова изобретая себя самого. Он перейдет в ислам, в католицизм, подвергнется позорному столбу как еретик и будет почитаться как Мессия. За хаосом его мысли будет наблюдать весь мир, перешептываясь о странных ритуалах его секты.

История Якова Франка — реальной исторической личности, вокруг которой по сей день ведутся споры, — идеальное полотно для гениальности и беспримерного размаха Ольги Токарчук.

Рассказывая с точки зрения его современников — тех, кто почитает его, тех, кто ругает его, тех, кто любит его, и тех, кто в конечном итоге предает его, — "Книги Якова" запечатлевают мир на пороге крутых перемен и вдохновляют веру в себя и свои возможности.

Середина XVIII века. Новые идеи и новые волнения охватывают весь континент. В это время молодой еврей, Яков Франк, прибывает в маленькую деревню в Польше. Именно здесь и…

Дочь Элены находят повешенной на церковной колокольне. Полиция уверена: это самоубийство, но Элена не верит, что её Рита могла пойти на такой отчаянный шаг. Она хочет провести собственное расследование и отправиться через весь город к человеку, способному всё прояснить. Но сделать это не так уж и просто — всему виной тяжкая, сковывающая тисками болезнь Паркинсона, с которой Элена вынуждена бороться день изо дня.

Дочь Элены находят повешенной на церковной колокольне. Полиция уверена: это самоубийство, но Элена не верит, что её Рита могла пойти на такой отчаянный шаг. Она хочет провести…

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society. Anton Hur's translation skilfully captures the way Chung's prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous. Winner of a PEN/Heim Grant.

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses…

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjørgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions.

In this final instalment of Jon Fosse's Septology, the major prose work by 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde), we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults in flashbacks: the narrator meets his lifelong love, Ales; joins the Catholic Church; and makes a living by trying to paint away all the pictures stuck in his mind. A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjørgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by…

In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experiences similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other with immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most, the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror?

Unflinching yet tender, sharply observed, intimate and multi-layered, this simple yet profound novel stands as yet another dazzling testament to Mieko Kawakami's uncontainable talent. There can be little doubt that it has cemented her reputation as one of the most important young authors at work today.

In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going…

From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret that needs to be told.

More Than I Love My Life is the story of three strong women: Vera, age ninety; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at thirty-nine is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother-and-daughter pair, though Gili--abandoned by Nina when she was just three--has always been close to her grandmother. With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together to Goli Otok, a barren island off the coast of Croatia, where Vera was imprisoned and tortured for three years as a young wife after she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. This unlikely journey--filtered through the lens of Gili's camera, as she seeks to make a film that might help explain her life--lays bare the intertwining of fear, love, and mercy, and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental passion.

More Than I Love My Life was inspired by the true story of one of David Grossman's longtime confidantes, a woman who, in the early 1950s, was held on the notorious Goli Otok (the Adriatic Alcatraz). With flashbacks to the stalwart Vera protecting what was most precious on the wretched rock where she was held, and Grossman's fearless examination of the human heart, this swift novel will thrill his many readers and bring new ones into the fold.

From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret…

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor—an attractive married woman and mother—while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.

Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society—with its racist, classist, hyperviolent tendencies—and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing…

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul.

Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores, went into twenty-six printings, and was praised for its unique literary voice and perspective. It is now poised to capture a worldwide readership.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life.

A brilliantly written novel that takes us into the glittering nighttime of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning after with both humor and emotion, Love in the Big City is a wry portrait of millennial loneliness as well as the abundant joys of queer life.

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man…

Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of ‘decreation’, and often drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, these tales put queer characters in situations and plots conventionally filled by hetero characters.

The stories talk to each other, echo phrases and themes, and even shards of stories within other stories, passing between airports, stacks of men’s lifestyle magazines and memories of Toy Story 3, such that each one almost feels like a puzzle piece of a larger whole, but with crucial facts – the saddest ones, the happiest ones – omitted, forgotten, unbearable.

A blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a powerful puff of fresh air, aimed at destabilising the heteronormative world and exposing its underlying absences.

Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of ‘decreation’,…

A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes.

A prizewinning tour de force when it was published in France, Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is about a daughter’s inextinguishable love for her magnetic, mercurial mother. Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, a.k.a. “Maman,” smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn’t have it any other way.

But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother’s return, once she’s back Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the story of Catherine’s own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive.

With spectacular ferocity of language, a streak of dark humor, and stunning emotional bravery, The Book of Mother is an exquisitely wrought story of a mother’s dizzying heights and devastating lows, and a daughter who must hold her memory close in order to let go.

A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes.

A prizewinning tour de force…

Federico and Lorenço are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist for the police; their mother is white. Federico – distant, angry, analytical – has light skin, which means he’s always been able to avoid the worst of the racism Brazilian culture has to offer. He can ‘pass’ as white, and yet, because of this, he has devoted his life to racial justice. Lorenço, on the other hand, is dark-skinned, easy-going, and well-liked in the brothers’ hometown of Porto Alegre—and has become a father himself.

As Federico’s fiftieth birthday looms, he joins a governmental committee in the capital. It is tasked with quelling the increasingly violent student protests rocking Brazil by overseeing the design of a piece of software that will adjudicate the degree to which each university applicant is sufficiently black to warrant admittance under new affirmative-action quotas. Before he can come to grips with his feelings about this initiative, not to mention a budding romance with one of his committee colleagues, Federico is called home: his niece has just been arrested at a protest carrying a concealed gun. And not just any gun. A stolen police service revolver that he and Lorenço hid for a friend decades before. A gun used in a killing.

Paulo Scott here probes the old wounds of race in Brazil, and in particular the loss of a black identity independent from the history of slavery. Exploratory rather than didactic, a story of crime, street-life and regret as much as a satirical novel of ideas, Phenotypes is a seething masterpiece of rage and reconciliation.

Federico and Lorenço are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist for the police; their mother is white. Federico – distant, angry, analytical – has light…

Сборник "После солнца" моментально завоевал популярность в странах Европы, поскольку затрагивает резонансные и провокационные темы. Пять историй – "Алвин", две части "Мексиканской шавки", "Рэйчел, Невада", "Я, Рори и Аврора" - это смелые фантазии о мире в эпоху глобализации, о сексуальности, темной стороне капитализма и людских желаниях. Воображаемое и гиперреалистичное то и дело балансируют на острие пера автора, в очередной раз доказывая, что в гротеске сокрыта поразительная красота.

Сборник "После солнца" моментально завоевал популярность в странах Европы, поскольку затрагивает резонансные и провокационные темы. Пять историй – "Алвин", две части "Мексиканской…