Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing...

Galip’s wife has disappeared. Could she have left him for Celal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celal, too, seems to have...

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a...

One father. Two sons. An impossible choice.

When thirteen-year-old Paul doesn’t return home one afternoon, even his twin...

Winner of the Encore Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem,...

A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision...

Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. Lucy's inner...

Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster’s remarkable novel. Bones is the sidekick of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but...

For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home and worked in Idaho at a reservation for wolves. As one of the few...

A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar’s sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming...

At his high school basketball try-outs, nerdy sports-obsessed Brian Blum meets new kid Marcus Hayes. As a sportswriter, Brian...

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without...

I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.'

Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of...

A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage,...

From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by...

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast...

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging...

Anne Marie’s Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that...

At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents....

Following the incredible success of his first book, In His Own Write, John Lennon’s second collection of stories, drawings and...

I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who only had...

Forty years after John Edgar Wideman’s first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vital reading for anyone...

A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten...

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still...

‘My oshi was on fire. Word was he’d punched a fan’
High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her...

Translated for the first time into English, cult German author Rainald Goetz’s debut novel Insane draws upon his clinical...

Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives’ stories and...

Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other...