Алис Зенитер4.1 Сильная и откровенная сага о трех поколениях одной семьи, прошедшей три войны, сменившей континенты. «Искусство терять» — роман о том, какую цену платят наши потомки за выбор, который делаем мы.
Наима почти ничего не знает об Алжире — родине ее предков. Она не понимает арабского, не увлекается национальной кухней и не видит ценности в семейных безделушках. Ее бабушка с дедушкой бежали из государства, разоренного гражданской войной. Их детям пришлось отречься от прошлого и своей культурной идентичности, чтобы получить шанс на будущее во Франции. Теперь Наима отправляется в самостоятельное путешествие в Алжир, где обнаруживает, что с этой страной ее связывает гораздо больше, чем она ожидала.
История о том, как мы продолжаем жить перед лицом утраты: утраты страны, идентичности, языка, связей. О наследии колониализма, иммиграции, о семье и войне.
Давид Диоп3.6 Альфа Ндие и Мадемба Диоп — сенегальские солдаты, сражающиеся на стороне Франции во время Первой мировой войны. Когда Мадембу серьезно ранят в бою, он умоляет Альфу убить его и избавить от долгой и мучительной смерти.
Неспособный совершить это убийство, Альфа начинает сходить с ума, говорить с Богом и обвинять себя в трусости. Стремясь отомстить за смерть своего друга и найти прощение для себя, он устраивает жуткий ритуал: каждую ночь пробирается через линию фронта, чтобы убить солдата вражеской стороны и вернуться на базу с трофеем - отрубленной рукой. Сначала его товарищи смотрят на подвиги Альфы с восхищением, но вскоре начинают распространяться слухи, что этот суперсолдат - не герой, а колдун, пожиратель душ. Строятся планы, как убрать Альфу с фронта и положить конец его растущей коллекции рук, но возможно ли договориться с демоном? И как далеко готов зайти Альфа, чтобы загладить вину перед своим погибшим другом?
Роман — лауреат Международной Букеровской премии 2021 года, Европейской литературной премии и Гонкуровской премии лицеистов.
Катрин Чиджи0.0 Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all – right on their doorstep – are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other officers’ wives living in this small community anything they could possibly desire: new curtains from the finest silks, furniture designed to the most exacting specifications, execute a fresco or a mural even.
The looming presence of the nearby prison camp – lying just beyond a patch of forest – is the only blot to mar what is otherwise an idyllic life in Buchenwald.
Frau Hahn’s husband, SS Sturmbannführer Dietrich Hahn, has taken up a powerful new position as camp administrator. The job is all consuming as he wrestles with corruption that is rife at every level, inadequate supplies, and a sewerage system under ever-growing strain as the prison population continues to rise.
Frau Hahn’s obliviousness is challenged when she is forced into an unlikely alliance with one of Buchenwald’s prisoners, Dr Lenard Weber. A decade earlier he invented a machine – the Sympathetic Vitaliser – that at the time he believed could cure cancer. Does the machine work? Whether it does or not, it might yet save a life.
Линн Бетасамосаке Симпсон0.0 Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics.
Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman who represents their conscience; Sabe, the giant who represents their marrow; Adik, the caribou who represents their nervous system; Asin, the human who represents their eyes and ears; and Lucy, the human who represents their brain. Each attempts to commune with the unnatural urban-settler world, a world of SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, Fjällräven Kånken backpacks, and coffee mugs emblazoned with institutional logos. And each searches out the natural world, only to discover those pockets that still exist are owned, contained, counted, and consumed. Cut off from nature, the characters are cut off from their natural selves.
Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for “in the bush,” and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodie’s 1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. To read Simpson’s work is an act of decolonization, degentrification, and willful resistance to the perpetuation and dissemination of centuries-old colonial myth-making. It is a lived experience. It is a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits, who are all busy with the daily labours of healing — healing not only themselves, but their individual pieces of the network, of the web that connects them all together. Enter and be changed.
Danielle McLaughlin0.0 In this "delicate slow burn of a novel" (Jan Carson), a woman's marriage and career are threatened by an old indiscretion just as she receives the opportunity of a lifetime--from the award-winning author of the "extraordinary" (Colum McCann) Dinosaurs on Other Planets.
Nessa McCormack's marriage is coming back together again after her husband's affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retrospective art exhibition for a beloved artist, the renowned late sculptor Robert Locke. But the arrival of two enigmatic outsiders imperils both her personal and professional worlds: A chance encounter with an old friend threatens to expose a betrayal Nessa thought she had long put behind her; and at work, an odd woman comes forward with a mysterious connection to Robert Locke's life and his most famous work, the Chalk Sculpture.
As Nessa finds the past intruding on the present, she realizes she must decide what is the truth, whether she can continue to live with a lie, and what the consequences might be were she to fully unravel the mysteries in both the life of Robert Locke and her own. In this gripping and wonderfully written debut, Danielle McLaughlin reveals profound truths about love, power, and the secrets that define us.
Akwaeke Emezi3.9 Named one of the year’s most anticipated books by The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, BuzzFeed, and more
What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew?
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men. But Vivek’s closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek’s escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom.
Propulsively readable, teeming with unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.
