15 книг
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London Belongs to Me Norman Collins
ISBN: 978-0-141-44233-4 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Penguin Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьAlso known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of the Second World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium. It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city simply doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God CD Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 0060776536 Год издания: 2004 Язык: Русский РазвернутьTheir Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative, it pays quiet tribute to a Black woman who, though constricted by the times, still demanded to be heard. Originally published in 1937 and long out…
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Something to Answer For P. H. Newby
ISBN: 0-571-08557-1 Год издания: 1969 Издательство: Faber & Faber, Faber and Faber Язык: Английский РазвернутьThis book is the winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969. It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts Townrow was reasonably certain. He had been summoned there, to Egypt, by the widow of his deceased friend, Elie Khoury. Having been found dead in the street, she is convinced he was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What of Leah Strauss, the mistress? And of the invading British paratroops? Only an Englishman, surely, would take for granted that the British would have behaved themselves. In this weirdly disorientating world, Townrow is forced towards a re-examination of the basic rules by which he has been…
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The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People Джеймс Миченер
ISBN: 0812986741, 9780812986747 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Dial Press Trade Paperback Язык: Английский РазвернутьThe Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping, the classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future--until, at four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of Budapest woke to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution was over. But freedom beckoned in the form of a small footbridge at Andau, on the Austrian border. By an accident of history it became, for a few harrowing weeks,…
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A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul
ISBN: 978-0-330-52299-1 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Picador Язык: Английский РазвернутьSet in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent's remote interior and is selling sundries – little more than this and that, really – to the natives. This spot, this "bend in the river", is a microcosm of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence: a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation…
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Контур Рейчел Каск
ISBN: 978-5-91103-526-6 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: Ad Marginem Press Язык: Русский РазвернутьРоман современной канадско-британской писательницы Рейчел Каск (род. 1968), собравший множество премий, состоит из десяти встреч и разговоров. Нестерпимо жарким летом в Афинах главная героиня, известная романистка, читает курс creative writing. Ее новыми знакомыми и собеседниками становятся соседи, студенты, преподаватели, которые охотно говорят о себе — делятся своими убеждениями, мечтами, фантазиями, тревогами и сожалениями. На фоне их историй словно бы по контрасту вырисовывается портрет повествовательницы — женщины, которая учится жить с сознанием большой потери. «Контур» — первый роман трилогии, изменившей представления об этой…
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The Expatriates Janice Y. K. Lee
ISBN: 978-0525429470 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: Viking Язык: Английский РазвернутьJanice Y. K. Lee’s New York Times bestselling debut, The Piano Teacher, was called “immensely satisfying” by People, “intensely readable” by O, The Oprah Magazine, and “a rare and exquisite story” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Now, in her long-awaited new novel, Lee explores with devastating poignancy the emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she…
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The Debut Anita Brookner
ISBN: 9780679727125 Год издания: 1990 Издательство: Vintage Язык: Английский Since childhood Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, and from the hothouse attentions of her tyrannical and eccentric parents into the gentler warmth of lovers and friends. Now Dr. Weiss, at forty, a quiet scholar devoted to the study of Balzac, is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature, and that once again she must make a new start in life.
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The Northern Clemency Philip Hensher
ISBN: 9780007174805 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Fourth Estate Язык: Английский РазвернутьAn epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, `The Northern Clemency' is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history on the move. Set in Sheffield, it charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours, the Sellers family, newly arrived from London so that Bernie can pursue his job with the Electricity Board. The day the…
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Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth
ISBN: 978-0525434115, 0525434119 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Anchor Язык: Английский РазвернутьLiverpool, 1752. William Kemp has lost a fortune in cotton speculation, and must recoup his losses if his son is to marry the wealthy woman whom he loves. His last resort is a slave ship, one that will take him to the Guinea coast, where he will trade for human cargo, then embark on the infamous Middle Passage. When disease ravages the ship and the African prisoners mutiny, William’s profit-seeking venture falls apart. Slaves and sailors alike will join together to found a utopian community on the coast of Florida—not knowing that the vengeful, younger Kemp is in pursuit. Unsworth’s tour de force is a profound meditation on the sacred…
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Dadland: A Journey Into Uncharted Territory Кегги Кэрью
ISBN: 1784740772 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: Chatto & Windus Язык: Английский РазвернутьKeggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a member of an elite SOE unit he was parachuted behind enemy lines to raise guerrilla resistance in France, then Burma, in the Second World War. But his wartime exploits are only the start of it... Dadland is a manhunt. Keggie takes us on a spellbinding journey, in peace and war, into surprising…
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Синяя соляная тропа Джоанн Харрис
ISBN: 978-5-04-177026-6 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: Like Book Язык: Русский РазвернутьКогда-то в клане Серых тюленей, самых свободолюбивых среди шелки, жил юноша. Он любил слушать истории о Народе, плавать у их берегов и следовать за рыбацкими лодками. В то время на острове Народа жила прекрасная девушка. Она была упряма, требовательна и горда, и никому не удавалось завоевать ее сердце. В ночь полной луны она вышла на берег и разрыдалась. Из воды явился юноша из племени шелки: высокий, с длинными черными волосами и темной, как вино, кожей. Девушка полюбила его и не собиралась отпускать. Она украла его шкуру, и он потерял все воспоминания о родине и своей семье, и навсегда оказался привязан к суше. Но однажды он…
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Berlin 1936. Sechzehn Tage im August. Oliver Hilmes
ISBN: 9783827500595 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: Penguin Verlag Die Diktatur im Pausenmodus: Stadt und Spiele im Sommer 1936
Im Sommer 1936 steht Berlin ganz im Zeichen der Olympischen Spiele. Zehntausende strömen in die deutsche Hauptstadt, die die Nationalsozialisten in diesen sechzehn Tagen als weltoffene Metropole präsentieren wollen. Oliver Hilmes folgt prominenten und völlig unbekannten Personen, Deutschen und ausländischen Gästen durch die fiebrig-flirrende Zeit der Sommerspiele und verknüpft die Ereignisse dieser Tage kunstvoll zum Panorama einer Diktatur im Pausenmodus.
Die »Juden verboten«-Schilder sind plötzlich verschwunden, statt des »Horst-Wessel-Lieds« klingen Swing-Töne durch die Straßen. Berlin scheint für kurze Zeit eine ganz normale europäische Großstadt zu sein, doch im Hintergrund arbeitet das NS-Regime weiter daran, die Unterdrückung zu perfektionieren und das Land in den Krieg zu treiben.
In »Berlin 1936« erzählt Oliver Hilmes präzise, atmosphärisch dicht und mitreißend von Sportlern und Künstlern, Diplomaten und NS-Größen, Transvestiten und Prostituierten, Restaurantbesitzern und Nachtschwärmern, Berlinern und Touristen. Es sind Geschichten, die faszinieren und verstören, überraschen und bewegen. Es sind die Geschichten von Opfern und Tätern, Mitläufern und Zuschauern. Es ist die Geschichte eines einzigartigen Sommers. -
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan Сигэру Мидзуки
ISBN: 1770461353 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Drawn and Quarterly Язык: Английский РазвернутьA fascinating period in Japanese history explored by a master of manga "Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan" is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life the Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease. When the Showa era began, Mizuki himself was just a few years old, so his earliest memories coincide with the…
