Книги в жанре «Современная проза» (4384 книги)

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01. The Beach Читать →

Автор: The Beach is the most compelling adventure story of the last decade. It tells of a young traveling in Thailand, Richard, who is looking for that special, undiscovered place. When a fellow traveler dies, leaving Richard a map, he thinks he has found the island paradise of his dreams. And so he has, until his…

02. After This Читать →

Автор: OVER the course of her five previous novels, Alice McDermott has staked an impressive claim on a subject matter and a turf – Irish-American Catholic families congregated, for the most part, in New York City and its suburbs on Long Island. The Irish have, of course, long been a significant presence in American fiction, appearing…

03. The Bonesetter's Daughter Читать →

Автор: In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile,…

04. The Joy Luck Club Читать →

Автор: The Joy Luck Club, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1989, presents the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share that vision with her daughter. The daughters try to…

05. A Hero's Daughter Читать →

Автор: Early works of an author who has hit the big-time are often reissued for reasons more venal than literary. None of the pre- and post- publications of Tracy Chevalier come anywhere near the standard of The Girl with the Pearl Earring, but that didn't stop them being rushed into instant print once best-sellerdom was declared…

06. Dreams Of My Russian Summers Читать →

Автор: In an era when everything is an event, and nothing just happens naturally, it's hard not to be suspicious of the a novel that is the first ever to win both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis, by a Russian Г©migrГ© who has been compared to Nabokov, Pasternak, and Proust. Add in the fact,…

07. Music of a Life Читать →

Автор: A superb new novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summersand Requiem for a Lost Empire,set in the period just before, and two decades after, World War II. “Makine is without doubt one of the greatest living writers. Music of a Life proves it.” -Le…

08. Once Upon The River Love Читать →

Автор: A novel of love and growing up by AndreГЇ Makine, whose bestselling Dreams of My Russian Summerswas hailed by the Los Angeles Timesas one of the “best autobiographical books of the century.” In the immense virgin pine forests of Siberia, where the snows of winter are vast…

09. Requiem For A Lost Empire Читать →

Автор: In Makine's fifth novel, the memories of an unnamed narrator weave through the 20th century as he recalls episodes in the life of his family-experiences that include those of a battlefield doctor in Afghanistan who was also a KGB agent, a Russian villager who defied the Soviet regime, and a man who swears to avenge…

10. The Crime Of Olga Arbyelina Читать →

Автор: Olga Arbyelina is a princess who fled Russia during the revolution; now she lives in a town near Paris tending to her hemophiliac son, keeping ghosts at bay-an existence hollowed out by history. The town gossips obsess over her, making her into the prime character in their “game of a thousand voices.” They “had a…

11. The Earth And Sky Of Jacques Dorme Читать →

Автор: After a problematic start, Andrei Makine is getting better with every new book. His earlier setbacks were partly due to the snobbery of the French, who did not believe that a Russian could write better than they could in their own language. When he pretended his novels had been translated, they began to earn high…

12. Все голубые фишки Читать →

Автор: Роман: Детектив Andrew ЛебедевЪ

13. Гаs Читать →

Автор: Любовно-производственный роман о людях, работающих в ГАЗПРОМЕ

14. Проститутка Дева Читать →

Автор: модный роман Andrew ЛебедевЪ

15. Скотство и чуть чуть о плохих грузинах Читать →

Автор: О шоу бизнесе (к Бернарду Шоу отношения не имеет)

16. ТВари Читать →

Автор: Вы когда-нибудь видели убийство в прямом эфире? А сексуальные забавы олигархов? Задумайтесь: то, что вы видите на ТВ, – это сценарий или реальность? Две соперницы – богиня прайм-тайма и восходящая звезда – сошлись не на жизнь, а на смерть за телезрителей и рейтинги. А за кулисами этого соперничества…

17. The Tin Can Tree Читать →

Автор: In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long, comfortable silence. Then there is ten-year-old Simon, who is…

18. Brokeback Mountain Читать →

Автор: Ennis Del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames. The shirts hanging on a nail shudder slightly in the draft. He gets up, scratching the grey wedge of belly and pubic hair, shuffles to the gas burner, pours leftover coffee in a chipped enamel pan;…

19. A Clockwork Orange (UK Version) Читать →

Автор: In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Burgess creates a gloomy future full of violence, rape and destruction. In this dystopian novel, Burgess does a fantastic job of constantly changing the readers’ allegiance toward the books narrator and main character, Alex. Writing in a foreign language, Burgess makes the reader feel like an outsider. As the…

20. ABBA ABBA Читать →

Автор: Abba Abba is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli a great poet, though little known outside Rome. The first part of the book is about Keats and…