Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Thousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts,
crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts.
This is the...

Cyprus in the run up to the civil war of the 1970s... the threat of it hangs in the atmosphere like a fine mist. A terrible...

Fleeing her husband's explosive temper, Miriam has brought her two daughters, Joan and Mya, back to Memphis, to the home her...

An all-girls boarding school in a hilly corner of Connecticut, Atwater is a haven for progressive thinking and feminist...

The five of them - Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and Polly - met at university, their lives full of lazy afternoons and late nights....

Their ideals brought them together, but how closely should you follow your heart?
It's the mid-90s, and rebellion is in the...

Sometimes you have to fall apart to become whole again...

Kate is a successful interior designer with two wonderful...

Born in a refugee camp, all Subhi knows of the world is that he’s at least 19 fence diamonds high, the nice Jackets never stay...

It all began with the whale.

When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, it is clear to the villagers...

Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the...

Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's...

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

Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress...

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...

Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when...

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,...

In 2011, the peace of the Syrian city of Homs is disturbed by protests and shelling. A young girl, Nour, is forced to flee across...

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

Jakop is a lonely man.

Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life...

How far would you go to belong?

Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the...

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...

Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both...

Diana O’Toole’s life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she’s up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at...

Who would you be, if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are now?

Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping...

A poignant ode to love and the memories that make a well-lived life, from the author of The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement...

A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and friendship, for anyone who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Keeper...