Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

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...

New York, 2000.
Kate and Ben meet at a party and immediately fall in love. It is the first year of the new millennium, the first...

Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field....

Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan’s many ‘old-elderly’; men and women who...

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...

It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to...

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins’s Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak...

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 past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart...

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...

Winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel of the Year

In his classic debut novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling...

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom – and loneliness – marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The...

In the late 1970s, a young boy disappears from a summer cabin in the Swedish woods. His mother claims that he was abducted by a...

Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his...

Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.

Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to...

Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern’s short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has...

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back...

Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope.

Samia...

Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes – rural, industrial,...

‘Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .‘

The explosion that detonates the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain’s most accomplished...

In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the kind of men capable of...

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a...