In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Niccolo is a recovering alcoholic and addict whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice.

Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills--and what it represents to each of them--and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge on an explosive collision course. Combining unadorned realism with profound empathy, House of Sand and Fog is a devastating exploration of the American Dream gone awry.

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In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a… Развернуть 

Исабель Альенде (р.1942) считается самой популярной писательницей Латинской Америки. Всемирная слава пришла к ней после публикации романа "Дом Духов", написанного в лучших традициях магического реализма. И. Альенде родилась в Чили, а знаменитой фамилией обязана своему дяде Сальвадору Альенде, президенту Чили, погибшему в 1973 г.

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Исабель Альенде (р.1942) считается самой популярной писательницей Латинской Америки. Всемирная слава пришла к ней после публикации романа "Дом Духов", написанного в лучших… Развернуть 

The stories in How to Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer's debut collection, swim with tragedies both commonplace and horrific. A fall from a treehouse, an ailing mother, a near-drowning, a premature baby, a gun--each is the source of a young woman's coming-of-age, which we witness through Orringer's lovely, driving prose. The author possesses an uncanny ability to capture scenes and complex emotions in quick strokes. In "Pilgrims," young Ella is taken to a hippie household for Thanksgiving, where her mother joins several other cancer patients in search of natural remedies: "Some of them wore knitted hats like her mother, their skin dull-gray, their eyes purple-shaded underneath. To Ella it seemed they could be relatives of her mother's, shameful cousins recently discovered." Shame is as omnipresent as water in this collection, sadly appropriate for stories about girls becoming women. Orringer possesses an acute understanding of the many rules of girlhood, in particular the uniquely childish importance of "not telling" (for fear of becoming a traitor, and consequently, an outcast). But though her subjects may take us to the murky depths--submerging us in the cruelties girls and siblings commit against each other--Orringer's nimble writing and subtle humor allow us to breathe.

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The stories in How to Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer's debut collection, swim with tragedies both commonplace and horrific. A fall from a treehouse, an ailing mother, a… Развернуть 

Sixteen-year-old Australian exchange student Louise (Lou) is ecstatic that she has left behind her rough family, who mock her for using big words, and their tiny flat choked with cigarette smoke. Placed in a wealthy Chicago suburb, in a pristine McMansion with the Harding family, Lou is stunned by the glossy perfection: "There are so many healthy, good-looking teenagers that a few crooked teeth, or short, fat fingers, suddenly take on the proportions of deformities." The Hardings are earnest and warm, but Lou's high-strung insecurity and wary independence begin to widen the cracks in her host family's strained domesticity, particularly when Lou turns increasingly to booze and drugs. Hyland's debut loses momentum as it drifts to its open ending. But Lou's furious, first-person voice is filled with piercing observations that beautifully balance Lou's teenage detachment and aching, intelligence and self-absorption, yearning and recklessness. And like Holden Caulfield, with whom she invites inevitable comparison, Lou is unmerciful toward those satisfied with easy answers: "What kind of a moron thinks there's a rational explanation for human behavior?"

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Sixteen-year-old Australian exchange student Louise (Lou) is ecstatic that she has left behind her rough family, who mock her for using big words, and their tiny flat choked with… Развернуть 

"Вопль" — поэма Аллена Гинзберга, написанная в 1955 году и опубликованная в сборнике "Вопль и другие поэмы". Поэма является одним из культовых произведений битников наряду с "На дороге" Джека Керуака и "Голым завтраком" Уильяма Берроуза.

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"Вопль" — поэма Аллена Гинзберга, написанная в 1955 году и опубликованная в сборнике "Вопль и другие поэмы". Поэма является одним из культовых произведений битников наряду с "На… Развернуть 

Великий Гюго построил свой ""Собор Парижской Богоматери"" из образов и слов, он даровал нам удивительную возможность утолить жажду времени, воплощенную в камне, постичь смысл собственного немого изумления перед лицом застывшего совершенства - на примере живых страстей, движимых противостоянием добра и зла к неизбежному обращению в прах. Самый известный роман Виктора Гюго, шедевр эпохи романтизма, который живописует Париж ХV века, при этом оставаясь редчайшим случаем сосуществования литературы и архитектуры в одном творении.

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Великий Гюго построил свой ""Собор Парижской Богоматери"" из образов и слов, он даровал нам удивительную возможность утолить жажду времени, воплощенную в камне, постичь смысл… Развернуть 

Предания о богах и героях, мифы и подлинные события тесно переплелись в героико-эпической поэме Гомера "Илиада", повествующей об одном из поворотных моментов истории Древней Греции - десятилетней осаде Трои.

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Предания о богах и героях, мифы и подлинные события тесно переплелись в героико-эпической поэме Гомера "Илиада", повествующей об одном из поворотных моментов истории Древней… Развернуть