Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Not all that is hidden is lost.

For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed...

On a boat offshore, a fisherman guts a mackerel as he anxiously awaits a midnight rendezvous.

Villagers, one by one, disappear...

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities:...

Alice is just twenty when she becomes involved with Louis, a brooding, older man who has spent his life building some of the...

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...

A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little...

On a beautiful spring day, a small village in Western Germany wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is...

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...

Deftly weaving from one end of life to another - from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an...

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

A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A group...

An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle...

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...

The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to...

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

This is the story of Wulfgar, the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor, and of his nemesis, Scoble the trapper, in the seasons leading up...

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...

An unflinching portrait of contemporary Traveller culture by the award-winning author of The Gallows Pole

John-John wants to...

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...