Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Diane is raised by a mother so plagued by jealousy of her own daughter that she is incapable of showing affection to her. Despite...

In Igboland, the lives of two Nigerian women change forever…
In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming...

Without warning or explanation, a 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with...

June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night...

An emblematic story of the shipwreck of the Arab Spring
At his father’s funeral, to the great consternation of all present,...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

What happens when growing up means growing apart?

1997. New York.

Earnest, bookish Rose.

Brash, extrovert...

For readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love story that will move...

He was the brother of ‘the Arab’ killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Angry at the world and...

Set in the underbelly of New York, Preparation for the Next Life exposes an America as seen from the fringes of society and, in...

Winston 'Tuffy' Foshay is a 19-year-old, 24-stone 'player-king' to a hapless gang in Spanish Harlem, a denizen who breaks jaws...

White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty’s electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced...

They had not lost anyone that year, or the ones they had lost were not worth remembering…

Set in the fictional Kenyan town of...

Here are three things you should know about my husband:

1. He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going...

In one of the most talked about and hilarious debuts of the year, Afi Tekple, a bright young seamstress from a small town in...