Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now...

One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour.

In this remarkable...

Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She...

When the Khurana boys and their friend Mansoor set out for one of Delhi's markets, disaster strikes without warning. A 'small'...

A family divided by war but united by love.

Marianne seems to have everything. She is married to a handsome naval officer,...

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she...

There's something wrong next door. At least, that's what neighbors Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Since his daughter...

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits,...

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking...

Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny...

Vienna, 1903.

Outside one of the city's most splendid baroque churches, the decapitated body of a monk is found. Then, the...

Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy,...

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young...

The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older...

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But...

Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation....

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house....

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are...

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead....

It all started with a silly prank, a play and a dance - a love so enduring, so indestructible that it would survive against all...

'Wickedly good' John Updike

In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram...

France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought...

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.
Why did a Hercules...

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by...

Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the...

Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life-...

Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology...

'I came fully equipped with the old prejudice that anything to do with Egypt involved corruption and deceit.'

AD 77. Egypt was...