Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

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...

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

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, ‘Sensei’,...

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...

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. As youths, she and her cousin Yuu spent the summers in the wild Nagano mountains, hoping for...

Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let...

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an...

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...

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to...

Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.

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

A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that...

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...

Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in...

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A...

I was a girl once, but not any more . . .

A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child...

A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year’s sabbatical...

In Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the ‘hush-hush...

Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Her hopes for the...

The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.

An...

The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic...

Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational...

In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number...

Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old...

Rooney... , Neville...

Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber’s long running...

That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists.

Joe and Kate...

An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines....

With your book sales at an all-time low, your family falling apart, and your agent telling you you’re not black enough, what’s an...

In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with...

Capturing the texture of life growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the stories in The Sun on My Head tell us of days...