Жанр "Современная проза на английском языке"

Isobel and Jen have spent their entire lives following the rules - of their marriages, and their religion.
But when Isobel's...

In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that...

Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with...

State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything.

An unlikely trio: Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of...

Without even noticing, Esther Fairchild has become locked into routine.
Living with her adored brother, Christian, she divides...

My name’s Johanna Morrigan. I’m fourteen, and I’ve just decided to kill myself.

I don’t really want to die, of course! I just...

Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects,...

A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the...

To tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for...

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent...

Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing...

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina...

There's a superstition in our family about falling...

Marta's great-great-grandfather Jiri was said to have given a gentle...

In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her...

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss.

Since her mother's...

Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her . . .

When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her...

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more...

On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated...

How did the good life go so wrong?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap...

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life.

One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for...

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she...

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt...

A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with...

On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their...

Chinatown, New York. After a chance encounter with an old friend, Simon Hanlon, an Irish architect, experiences a seizure, his...

Gridlock is when a city dies.

Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide...

I believe every word you say. That was always my mistake.

Bright, promising Emma is entangled in a toxic romance with her old...

Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna

By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it)

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Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William...