Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Delhi, 1946.
Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter -...

The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the...

Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling.
Helena is the toast of Broadway.
Maggie is an extremely beautiful but...

On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name...

When March Briscoe returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife, the Briscoe...

Naomi's job is locating missing children, but she cannot find her own sister, lost for 20 years. She has no picture, no name,...

When Katharine is found dead at the foot of her stairs, it is the mystery of her life that consumes her daughter, Laura. The...

Salma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts her, she is tempted to risk it...

If you could choose just sixteen moments to define your entire life, what would they be?
Cass Wheeler has seen it all - from the...

Childhood friends Asghar and Zahra were born into the same British Muslim community in west London. But they grow up into very...

The setting: Europe. A continent overrun by tourism, where tapas-crawlers cross paths with machine-gun-wielding cops, graffiti...

Stupendo the dog has died. But that's just the beginning of his story.

To love and protect. The code of the good dog is clear....

You don't need talent to join this group of actors. The ability to remember lines or stay awake throughout a performance is...

Mysteries are there to be solved. Aren't they?
Jack has been working with the Shadow Doctor for a little while now. He thinks...

Reunions. Recriminations. Reckonings.

Ireland. Great nationalists, bad mothers and a whole lot of secrets. Ryan Cusack is...

How good are people? Let me tell you, Dee: people are as good as the pair of eyes they believe is on them...

When Claudia...

During the chaotic months leading up to the Iranian Revolution, four young people navigate the increasingly dangerous situation...

A Man Called Ove meets Inspector Montalbano, Auntie Poldi leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers.

Wine and murder -...

The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world.

There are stories about those who...

After an eventful start to his first ever teaching post in the sleepy village of Risingdale, Tom Dwyer is hoping for a bit of...

In a field outside Bromsgrove, two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages. No one visits and they never speak to...

When the meaning of 'home' is complicated, we strive for a sense of connection.

Yet sometimes being alone feels like the...

Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their...

Wildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and...

For several months Marnie, a middle-aged poet and mother, has experienced sightings of her long-dead identical twin sister,...

For as long as she can remember, Samantha Song has dreamed of having her own byline in a high-society magazine. But the death of...

A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism, from an electrifying new voice

Set in Philly...

One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and job have gone. Suddenly she has to start...

Iraq, 2002.
As night falls in Huda's fragrant garden of apricot trees, a breeze sweeps in from the desert, warning of visitors...

With words come power. But do you speak out or shut up?

Everywhere Sara Javed goes - online or outside - everyone is...