25 книг
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Mysterious Skin Scott Heim
ISBN: 0060841699, 9780060841690 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Harper Perennial Язык: Английский At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time.
During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years, curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a terrorist of sorts, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth. -
Мастер Колм Тойбин
ISBN: 978-5-389-20645-8 Год издания: 2024 Издательство: Азбука-Аттикус, Иностранка Язык: Русский Впервые на русском — роман Колма Тойбина, автора «Волшебника» и «Дублина», книга — финалист Букеровской премии, лауреат Международной Дублинской премии IMPAC, «изысканное освещение внутреннего мира Генри Джеймса» (New York Times). Современный классик отдает дань уважения одному из столпов американской и мировой литературы, предтече модернизма. Выдающийся художник, мастер тонкого психологического портрета, показан во всей своей уязвимости и одиночестве — от провала постановки его пьесы «Гай Домвиль» в лондонском театре Друри-лейн, пока в соседнем театре публика рукоплещет премьере «Как важно быть серьезным» Оскара Уайльда, до визита в провинциальный английский городок Рай, где Джеймс поселился на склоне лет, его брата, философа Уильяма Джеймса, и с многочисленными реминисценциями к ключевым эпизодам биографии прославленного добровольного изгнанника, который предпочел Лондон, Флоренцию и Париж родному Бостону…
«Негромкий шедевр, работа необычайной серьезности и сопричастности, раскрывающая нам гения во всей его человеческой полноте. И написан этот глубокий роман — не побоимся слова — мастерски» (New York Observer). -
The Gathering Anne Enright
ISBN: 978-0-099-50163-3 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Vintage Язык: Английский The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968.
The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. -
Shroud John Banville
ISBN: 9780330483148 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Picador Язык: Английский Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets – and carefully concealed identity – Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.
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The Romantics Pankaj Mishra
ISBN: 0385720807, 9780385720809 Год издания: 2001 Издательство: Random House Язык: Английский Pankaj Mishra is one of the most promising talents of his generation, and this stunning, universally praised novel of self-discovery heralds a remarkable career.
The young Brahman Samar has come to the holy city of Benares to complete his education and take the civil service exam that will determine his future. But in this city redolent of timeworn customs, where pilgrims bathe in the sacred Ganges and breathe in smoke from burning ghats along the shore, Samar is offered entirely different perspectives on his country. Miss West and her circle, indifferent to the reality around them, represent those drawn to India as a respite from the material world. And Rajesh, a sometimes violent, sometimes mystical leader of student malcontents, presents a more jaundiced view. More than merely illustrating the clash of cultures, Mishra presents the universal truth that our desire for the other is our most painful joy. -
Cloudsplitter Russell Banks
ISBN: 074758530X, 9780747585305 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Bloomsbury Язык: Английский This brilliant recounting of the events surrounding John Brown's legendary raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry is a masterpiece of modern American storytelling that will be remembered as the crowning achievement of Russell Banks' celebrated career. Russell Banks' gift for creating compelling stories populated by gritty and startlingly realcharacters has resulted in such acclaimed masterworks as "Continental Drift," "The Sweet Hereafter" and his most recent bestseller, "Rule of the Bone." Now Banks takes on one of American history's most misunderstood figures, John Brown, whose October 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, crossed the line from civil protest to armed struggle, prefiguring the greatest conflagration in this country's history. Narrated by the enigmatic abolitionist's son Owen, the novel dazzlingly recreates the fractured political and social landscape of pre-Civil War America, when slavery and talk of secession were tearing the country apart. But "Cloudsplitter" is about much more than one man's quest for political change and social justice. It is a moving and powerfully told story of fathers and sons, of racial conflict and division, as well as an intimate portrait of 19th-century family life. Rich in incident and exquisite detail, "Cloudsplitter" is the novel that will elevate Russell Banks to the highest rank of 20th-century American authors. -
Następca Исмаиль Кадаре
ISBN: 978-83-247-0809-3 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Świat Książki Язык: Польский 13 grudnia 1981 roku w niewyjaśniony do dziś sposób stracił życie ówczesny następca komunistycznego dyktatora Albanii Envera Hodży. Czy było to morderstwo, czy samobójstwo? A jeśli morderstwo, to kto je popełnił? Szef bezpieki, by zająć miejsce Następcy? Sam Wódz, a może jeszcze kto inny? Wychodząc od tego konkretnego zdarzenia, Kadare stworzył uniwersalną przypowieść o ludziach rządzących totalitarnym państwem, którzy stali się ofiarami swych lęków, paranoi i wyimaginowanych spisków. Mistrzowskie połączenie zaskakującej intrygi z kafkowską atmosferą i duchem Orwella.
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Against the Day Thomas Pynchon
ISBN: 9780099512332, 978-0-099-51233-2 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: Vintage Язык: Английский Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, "Against the Day" moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; from London to Venice, to Siberia, Mexico during the revolution; silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. It is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives Dean Buonomano
ISBN: 978-0393342222 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: W. W. Norton & Co. РазвернутьThe human brain is more beautiful and complex than anything we could ever build but it's far from perfect. Our memory is unreliable; we can't multiply large sums in our heads; advertising manipulates our judgment; we tend to distrust people who are different from us; supernatural beliefs are hard to shake and we prefer instant gratification to long-term gain. Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of these "bugs" in terms of the brain's innermost workings and their evolutionary purposes. He then goes a step further, examining how our brains function - and malfunction - in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated,…
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Полуденная женщина Юлия Франк
ISBN: 978-985-6888-31-4 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Издательство В. Хурсика Язык: Русский Действие происходит в Германии ХХ века, на фоне двух мировых войн. Мы прослеживаем судьбу женщины по имени Хелена. Она наполовину еврейка, и ей приходится скрывать это даже от собственного сына. Ее мать - сумасшедшая, а это тоже преступление в нацистском обществе. Как выжить в жутком мире, где люди уничтожают друг друга, а сердца каменеют? Как при этом сохранить свое собственное сердце живым? Хелен тоже не вполне это удается. Измученная, уставшая от чужой жестокости и потерь, она бросает маленького любящего сына... И когда тот вырастает - отказывается от матери.
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Home Marilynne Robinson
ISBN: 1844085503, 978-1844085507 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Virago Язык: Английский Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson and namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his father's old friend John Ames. -
Cost Roxana Robinson
ISBN: 0007284535, 978-0007284535 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Harper Perennial Язык: Английский РазвернутьPowerful, moving and gripping, this is an extraordinary novel about the ways that secrets and lies can tear a family apart. When Julia Lambert settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationship with her father, a retired but demanding neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending, unnoticed, into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: her youngest son Jack, far from being the charming and much-loved maverick of the family, has spiralled into heroin addiction. Desperate to save him, Julia calls on all the members of her loose-knit family: her elderly…
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Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon
ISBN: 0330393502, 9780330393508 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Picador Язык: Английский The mind- and language-bending adventures of Hemon's endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek.
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Lulet e ftohta të marsit Ismail Kadare
ISBN: 9789928164 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Shtepia Botuese Onufri Язык: Албанский Është hera e parë që Kadareja del hapur përballë realitetit shqiptar, i zymtë dhe pesimist, për një tokë që e braktisën perënditë, për një mars, që, në të vërtetë, nuk është mars, për ca lule të rreme, të ftohta. -
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Стив Силберман
ISBN: 1760113638, 9781760113636 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Allen & Unwin Язык: Английский What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. WIRED reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.
Going back to the earliest days of autism research and chronicling the brave and lonely journey of autistic people and their families through the decades, Silberman provides long-sought solutions to the autism puzzle, while mapping out a path for our society toward a more humane world in which people with learning differences and those who love them have access to the resources they need to live happier, healthier, more secure, and more meaningful lives.
Along the way, he reveals the untold story of Hans Asperger, the father of Asperger’s syndrome, whose “little professors” were targeted by the darkest social-engineering experiment in human history; exposes the covert campaign by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner to suppress knowledge of the autism spectrum for fifty years; and casts light on the growing movement of "neurodiversity" activists seeking respect, support, technological innovation, accommodations in the workplace and in education, and the right to self-determination for those with cognitive differences. -
2666 Роберто Боланьо
ISBN: 978-5-17-116780-6 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: АСТ Язык: Русский РазвернутьЛегендарный роман о городе Санта-Тереза, расположенном на мексикано-американской границе, где сталкиваются заключенные и академики, американский журналист, сходящий с ума философ и таинственный писатель-отшельник. Этот город скрывает страшную тайну. Здесь убивают женщин, количество погибших растет с каждым днем, и вот уже многие годы власти ничего не могут с этим поделать. Санта-Тереза охвачена тьмой, в городе то ли действует серийный убийца, то ли все связала паутина масштабного заговора, и чем дальше, тем большая паранойя охватывает его жителей. А корни этой эпидемии жестокости уходят в Европу, в США и даже на поля битв Второй Мировой…
