Жанр "Современная зарубежная литература на английском"

An elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman on his way home from the cinema. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a...

A moving story of liberation that shatters tired prejudices about womanhood, sex, and society.
Josephine teaches in a high...

Ties is the story of a marriage. Like many marriages, this one has been subject to strain, to attrition, to the burden of...

Following her mother’s untimely death, Delia sets off on a breathtaking odyssey through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her...

The second instalment in the Ottoman Quartet—the masterful saga of Turkish history by Ahmet Altan—follows the vast and vivid cast...

A novel of devastating beauty set in Buchenwald during the Second World War.
Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich...

By turns dark and hilarious, at times solemn and mysterious, Your Duck Is My Duck cements Deborah Eisenberg’s reputation as one...

A small culturally mixed community living an apartment building in the center of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the...

New York in the 1900s. A young girl, fascinated by rare books, defies the odds and climbs all the ranks. She becomes the director...

Whoever the lambdas might be, and wherever they really come from, they’re already here among us.
Outwardly alien arrivals from a...

A couple travel to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. Their...

How did Danny die?
On a summer's day in 1955, the drowned body of young Danny Masters is discovered by three of his teenage...

Sabine dreams of living as an artist in Paris; Helene has grown up living between her middle-class aunt and uncle and her more...

A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead
Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979...

The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the "thick, curdled knots...

From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in...

Leda is devoted to her work as an English teacher and to her two children. When her daughters leave home to be with their father...

The Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man is facing a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He reflects on his...

It’s the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister's door. Who is she running from? What...

Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they...

Perfectly pitched and gorgeously penned, this astonishingly bold collection of stories explores the boundary between the wild and...

The thrilling sequel to Monstrous Devices – Alex and his grandfather hold the fate of history itself in their hands in a Rick...

It’s 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black are waking up to a very...

A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a remote Argentinian hospital. A boy named David sits beside her.

She’s not his...

An award-winning story of friendship and the power of imagination, from the celebrated author of The Peculiar Life of a Lonely...

Bea's daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overpopulated metropolis they...

Ninni Holmqvist’s eerie dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future where men and women deemed economically...

After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to...

It’s hard to plan your future when the ghosts of the past won’t leave you alone…

Stella tries very hard to be good. She tries...

Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.

Jia Khan has always lived like this.

Successful London lawyer...