Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen...

Another day! And then another and another and another. It seemed as if it would all go on forever in that exquisitely boring and...

What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours?

For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with...

July, 1981. London.
Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen-years-old, he dreams of being a fashion designer....

Rob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses....

Marie owes Michka more than she can say - but Michka is getting older, and can't look after herself any more. So Marie has moved...

One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of Everything in This...

An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one.

These are...

When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for 'kidnapping' the white child she's actually babysitting, it sets off an explosive...

Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother: a whirlwind, spinning stories of the family's former...

A young, broke Irish woman narrates her relationship with a successful comedian in New York; two hapless university students take...

After the unexpected death of her partner, Carolina Setterwall found herself bereft and rudderless at thirty-six, faced with the...

American pilot Major Ellie has crashed his plane in the middle of a desert. Lucky for him there's room for him at the very...

Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from...

First published as Whatever Makes You Happy, the hilarious and moving novel about mothers and their adult sons, now a Netflix...

Frances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged,...

1970s London. Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, has gone to visit Edmund Greenslay in his riverside home. At the heart of the...

Peach is a teenage girl like any other. She has college, and her friends, and her parents and the new baby, and her gorgeous...

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir....

The world is shrouded in snow. With transport ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape...

Ten-year-old Abdullah would do anything for his younger sister. In a life of poverty and struggle, with no mother to care for...

An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing examines the ugly truths at the...

In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual...

Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are...

Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and Cannes' red carpets, lies the pretty town of...

Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement and fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious...

Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised...

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer...

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice: a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references. And when she disappears from Alice's...

Sisters Ellen and Lydia live out an idyllic girlhood in Oxford, their wayward adventures of no concern to their passive, donnish...