Лучшие книги 2014 года по версии Publishers Weekly — 86 книг

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Biss, while making an unimpeachable case for childhood vaccination, delves into the metaphors that accompany notions of purity and invasion, and recounts the medical history of vaccine development. It’s a touching personal story that seeks to understand why the antivax crowd exists and why it’s such a well-meaning, if misguided, movement.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:06

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Wright’s meticulous account of the 1978 Camp David Accords weaves a nail-biting chronicle of the accords themselves with the histories of the three leaders and the land that has been an unending center of conflict since biblical times. It’s an unparalleled work and one that deserves to be called objective.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:09

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Powerful and disturbing, these stories of the war in Iraq from an Iraqi perspective combine the grit of reality with the surreal. Wise and terrifying, comic and gripping, Blasim, in exile from his native Iraq, is an original voice whose writing is justifiably compared to Gogol, Bolaño, and Borges.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:13

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No run-of-the-mill biography, this witty, fascinating portrait of the paradoxical Edward Limonov—a far-right ally of Serbian war criminals and principled opponent of Putin; a butler in New York City; and a literary rock star in Paris—has biographer Carrère giving himself a supporting part in the story as he ponders his own relationship to a confounding man who mirrors Russia’s many transformations.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:14

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Ferrante’s series of Neapolitan novels has cemented its place as one of the greatest in modern fiction. This third installment, which follows the evolving and complicated relationship between girlhood friends Elena and Lila, is the best so far.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:14

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A virtuosic performance detailing three turbulent decades in Jamaican history, centering on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley. The voices of government agents, gang members, ex-girlfriends, and ghosts all contribute, and the result is shocking, cerebral, and exhilarating.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:14

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Jamison is ever-probing and always sensitive in her first collection of essays, providing a heady and unsparing examination of pain. Her observations of people, reality TV, music, film, and literature serve as starting points for unconventional metaphysical inquiries into poverty tourism, prison time, random acts of violence, abortion, bad romance, and stereotypes of the damaged woman artist.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:15

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In Moore’s fourth story collection, her characters seem to have caught up to her sly, sharp voice. The young women are gone, replaced by divorcées. The sadness may outweigh the humor, but the balance here may be Moore’s ideal combination, authentic and wise. No one captures what it’s like to live in today’s world quite like Lorrie Moore.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:15

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The unnamed narrator of O’Neill’s novel is an American adrift in Dubai, where he works as an “officer” for a wealthy Lebanese family, turning a blind eye to ethically questionable activity and knowingly pursuing his own dead end. It’s a devastating story of a man circling the drain, lost in the last society that will have him.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:16

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Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Tobar movingly revisits the story of the 33 miners who spent 69 days in 2010 trapped in Chile’s San José Mine. He captures, with compassion and without sensationalism, the experience of surviving more than 2,000 feet underground, and of emerging above ground into a media frenzy.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:16

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The third and final book in his Shoah trilogy, The Wall, a towering meditation on the self and spirit, follows a survivor of the Holocaust living in London, where he has “ceased to exist, called it quits.”

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:24

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A keen ear and eye have set Atwood apart for all of her illustrious career, and she shines again in this collection, which begins with a woman conversing with her dead husband. His presence in their house sets her to remembering her youthful, often subservient relationships with men and how, ultimately, she’s triumphed.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:24

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In just over 100 pages, Bolaño stuffs trademark dread and mystery into the story of Bianca, an aimless young woman who befriends an old, blind movie actor in order to rob him.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:27

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(В английском переводе - Pushkin Hills)

Broke and divorced, Boris has taken a job as a tour-guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve, where he immediately goes about hilariously ridiculing the visitors and staff who so revere Pushkin. Dovlatov’s short novel begins as a comedy but, rife with pathos, progresses toward a moving final act.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:29

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Newly widowed Harriet “Harry” Burden pulls a fast one on the New York art scene by creating three art installations and presenting them as the works of three different men. Hustvedt’s writing is always sharp, but never before has it felt so alive.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:29

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Bringing to mind Margaret Mead and her reputation-making South Seas sojourn, King’s novel, a thought-provoking story with a barrelful of surprises, is about a trio of anthropologists living in a primitive society as observers.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:30

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In his signature blend of page-turner and exploration of the dark side of human nature, Koch follows The Dinner with a doctor and his famous patient (whom he doesn’t like much), as well as their two families, in a summer house. Bad things happen, and not always to good people.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:30

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Sixteen-year-old Fan abandons the city of B-Mor (a dystopic Baltimore, whose residents also supply the collective narrative voice) to search for her missing boyfriend, and the result is a series of wildly imaginative set pieces that shows Lee as a world-builder of the first order.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:31

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The fragmented voice of McBride’s narrator, growing up in rural Ireland under her mother’s religious mania, her brother’s brain tumor, and her sexual abuse, is overwhelming and unforgettable. McBride’s debut deconstructs and reconstructs language to great effect.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:31

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McCracken’s stories are often macabre, but always precise: plots in this collection include a librarian living with a disastrous memory and a grieving mother finding companionship in a neighbor’s child. With her askew perspective of the world and great psychological depth, McCracken proves she’s one of our finest practitioners of the form.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 06:31