Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

One family, two generations of women and a war that will change their lives forever

Ha Noi, 1972. Huong and her grandmother,...

In one of the most talked about and hilarious debuts of the year, Afi Tekple, a bright young seamstress from a small town in...

'My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.'

Secrets

Dana and Chaurisse are sisters, bound together by the life-changing...

From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness

How far would you go to...

When twelve-year-old Alex receives an old tin robot in the post, the note from his grandfather simply reads: ‘This one is...

Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek‘s list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however,...

Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize.
Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave...

Wanted:
Diligent volunteer to carry out two months'
painstaking archival work for private library.
Board and lodging...

Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize.

Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and...

‘He had never married and had never been with one woman for long; he had always remained a collector of first times.’

Edward...

From one of Brazil’s rising literary stars, an acclaimed novella about the violation of a woman and a city, based on true...

Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain - but will they see the same...

The stories in The Safety of Objects are both bizarre and believable, very funny but also frightening and sad. A girl's blonde...

In 1940, Helene, young, naive, and recently married, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her...

Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past...

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of...

In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport,...

District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this...

A man is thrown out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn’t...

Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu’s reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young...

In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community. For Comrade...

The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but with sinister overtones of...

In January 1945, the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their...

Gustavo ‘Highway’ Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few...

A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality...

Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something...

This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores...

A blackly comic epic – a voyage through small-town America, and through the interior life of its most neurotic mailman. Albert...

When Wolf's recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire world is turned upside down. Wolf and his daughter, Ruth,...

Margit is at the point in life when things should have cohered. She's married, she's got a degree, she's got friends who throw...