Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

By an author described by critics as ‘the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop’. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating...

In 2011, Mr. Watanabe, a Japanese electronics executive, is in Tokyo when the earthquake that precedes the Fukushima nuclear...

Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In...

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a...

Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years...

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a...

One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are...

On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she...

Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a...

Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he...

Dinslaken, Germany. July 1945. The war is over, and the Allied forces are beginning to assess the damage. Among them is a war...

It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and...

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a...

A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly...

A young woman, Violet, lies in a hospital bed in the closing days of the war. Her pregnancy is over and she is no longer able to...

Jeanne moves from room to room. In the anonymous hotel bedrooms of Paris – Hotel Agate, Hotel Prince Albert, Hotel Prince...

Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all...

Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now...

Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the...

Frances is a young graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and...

Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate...

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man...

It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother”s former care-giver, Rani, has died in...

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered...

1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian...

‘What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most...

Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling...

In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about...

Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a...

Jorge said he wasn’t coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . . But before he drove off he gave me a new...