Copper Canyon Press, 2022. — 71 p. “An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible. Smoking the Bible is an arresting collection of poems thick with feeling, shaped by Chris Abani's astounding...
D. S. Brewer, 1979. — 222 p. Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne, was the first English man of letters; up to 1100, his prose writings were the most widely read of any Latin literature produced in Anglo-Saxon England. His surviving prose works include a long treatise 'De Virginitate', and a number of letters; these in...
London: Puffin, 2003. — 226 p. I’m not sure how I can tell the real story of the Provencal girl I knew as Lelée, back in the 1950s. I know so much more about her now than I did when she literally burst from the sea under my dinghy, emerging like a samite thing from the blue lagoon of the Bay of Angels at Villefranche-sur-Mer. But, looking back on it, I suppose that an organised...
Atria Books, 2025. New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them–three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous...
Atria Books, 2025. New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them–three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous...
Translation by Natasha Wimmer.
Изданный посмертно роман чилийского писателя Роберто Боланьо (1953—2003). Роман состоит из пяти частей, которые автор по экономическим соображениям собирался опубликовать как пять независимых книг, чтобы таким образом обеспечить жизнь своих детей после его смерти. Тем не менее после его смерти, наследники оценили литературную ценность произведения и...
Winner of 2013 Booker Prize
Epic novel about the New Zealand goldrus. Intricately crafted shaggy dog story.
The stellar and planetary positions in this book have been determined astronomically. This is to say that we acknowledge the celestial phenomenon known as precession, by which motion the vernal equinox, the astrological equivalent of the Greenwich meridian, has come...
The Man Booker Prize . The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him – although that certainly helped – it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister, Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just...
Macmillan, 1990. The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five sisters. The Lisbon girls fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for their acts. The book's first chapter appeared in Issue No. 117 of The Paris...
Graywolf Press, 2021. An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett's. The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the...
With Illustrations by Brian Robb. — Penguin Books Ltd, 1954. — 255 P. Introduction . The fable in greece before aesop. Aesop. Later history of the fable. The anonymous collections. Translation . A case for patience. Friend or foer. Sour grapes. Actions speak louder than words. Fools die for want of wisdom. Dead men tell no tales. Look before you leap. Cut off your tails to save...
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.
The story begins in the 1950s,...
Bold Strokes Books, 2006. — 205 p. “The Montana frontier of the 1860s might be dangerous, but only if you have something to lose. Dr. Vance Phelps lost everything in the War Between the States—her professional future, her place in Philadelphia society, and her faith in herself. She travels to New Hero, Montana with no hero of happiness and no desire for anything except...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2024. From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's T he Women —at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the...
Collins, 2025. — 256 p. The incredible story of Manfred Gans, who raced across Germany in May 1945 to free his parents from a concentration campFour days after Germany’s surrender in May 1945, a young British officer hopped in a Jeep and headed east into Germany. But this was no ordinary soldier. Manfred Gans was searching for his family.As a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany, Manfred...
Collins, 2025. — 256 p. The incredible story of Manfred Gans, who raced across Germany in May 1945 to free his parents from a concentration campFour days after Germany’s surrender in May 1945, a young British officer hopped in a Jeep and headed east into Germany. But this was no ordinary soldier. Manfred Gans was searching for his family.As a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany, Manfred...
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on...
Translated by Kirsten Lodge. — Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2015. — 141 p. A Gothic Soul is not a novel in the usual sense of the word: it is a diary of emotions and moods, of the undulating play of the spiritual world, an account of stories of the soul , of everything that agitates the inner self beneath the waves of nuances, fragrances, and tremors with which the real world...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on the...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on the...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on the...
Winner of 1971 Booker Prize
«V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times «A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker «The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New...
Winner of 1971 Booker Prize «V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times «A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker «The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New...
Simon and Schuster, 2017. — 400 p. The epic adventures Evelyn creates over the course of a lifetime will leave every reader mesmerized. This wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet and her tumultuous Tinseltown journey comes with unexpected twists and the most satisfying of drama.
The Man Booker Prize The 1993 Booker Prize-winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.
The Man Booker Prize Set in South Yorkshire, this is the story of Colin's struggle to come to terms with his family – his mercurial, ambitious father, his deep-feeling, long-suffering mother – and to escape the stifling heritage of the raw mining community into which he was born. This book won the 1976 Booker Prize.
Shorter edition. — New York: Norton, Rev., 1970. — 660 p. The Shorter Edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry, like the larger book of English and American poetry from which it is compacted, is particularly ample at both ends of the chronological spectrum, the medieval being lyrically richer than is sometimes recognized and the contemporary, denied the endorsement of...
Transl. by Jennifer Croft. — New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school...
Transl. by Jennifer Croft. — New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school...
Foreign Languages Press, 1995. — 660 p. “A masterpiece from the Ming dynasty, Wu Ching-tzu's The Scholars ranks with Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West , and the Water Margin as one of the greatest classic novels of China. The Scholars is the first Chinese novel of its scope not to borrow any characters from history or legend and it is the first work of satiric...