Deep in the heart of seventh-century Arabia, a new prophet named Muhammad has arisen. As his message of enlightenment sweeps through Arabia and unifies the warring tribes, his young wife Aisha...
Маленькие девчонки – страшная сила! Такая, что порой хочется от них спрятаться в шкаф! А девочка Боруэлла нагоняет страха в десять раз больше – потому что раньше она была всезнающим туманом, который...
"Oни еще придут. Они всегда приходят – на запах. Как кошки"
"И на какой запах они приходят. Фаренгейт, кожа, деньги, известность. Или это суть одно и то же – Запах Силы..."
"...Люди не меняются....
George Saunders has earned enthusiastic acclaim and a devoted cult-following with his first two story collections and the recent novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. With his new book, In...
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the...
From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son – fugitives in 20th-century North America.In 1954, in the cookhouse of...
The publishers of Chris Cleave's new novel "don't want to spoil" the story by revealing too much about it, and there's good reason not to tell too much about the plot's pivot point. All you should...
У Клары Хатт, героини современного городского романа `Моя жизнь на тарелке`, есть все, что способна пожелать женщина: красота и независимость, хорошая работа и в меру ужасные дети, привлекательный и...
Z okruch?w uczu? i emocji, drobnych i wi?kszych spraw, noc? i dniem, powstawa?a ta niezwyk?a ksi??ka.Przez 188 dni i nocy Ma?gorzata Domagalik i Janusz L. Wi?niewski pisali do siebie e-maile o...
Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking...
Ferocious and funny, penetrating and exuberant, Theft is two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's master class on the things people will do for art, for love . . . and for money.“I don't know if my...
Чим насправді є ця книга? Історія дуже дивного кохання (чи кількох кохань, чи, може тільки їх ілюзій), щедро присмачена наркотичними візіями, прикольними історіями з життя марґіналів, авторефлексіями...
Sam Hunter, a yuppie salesman who has everything he needs except the beautiful Calliope's love, confronts Coyote, the Indian trickster god, and his own forgotten and buried life as Samson Hunts...
Tofu casseroles, communes, clothing-optional kindergarten, antiwar proteststhese are just a few of the hallmarks of a counterculture childhood. What became of kids who had been denied meat, exposed...
The sequel to "Porterhouse Blue". With a new master, Scullion, now in charge and doubts still surrounding the death of the late Master, more unspeakably awful goings-on are inevitable at Cambridge's...
Изумрудный глаз последнего правителя Мексики Моктесумы оказывается зашитым в ягодицу невинного русского туриста. Попадает он туда весьма причудливым образом. Не менее любопытны для нашего уха дела и...
