Книги в жанре «Современная проза» (4503 книги)

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91. Veronika decides to die Читать →

Автор: On November 11, 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had—at last!—arrived. SheВ does not die; instead, she wakes up in Villette—the “famous and much-feared lunatic asylum”—only to be told that, having damaged her heart irreparably, she has just a few days to live. What she…

92. Hawksmoor Читать →

Автор: In recent years serial killer novels and films have become something of a cliche. It's a genre which has been done to death with only a few works standing above the herd. So Hawksmoor was a very refreshing change. A novel set in London, with two threads, one in the 1800's and one in contemporary…

93. Illywhacker Читать →

Автор: “Illywhacker is such an astonishing novel, of such major proportions, that before saying anything else one must record gratitude for its existence.” – Geoffrey Dutton, Bulletin “The finest and funniest picaresque novel yet written in Australia” – Peter Pierce National Times …

94. Vernon God Little Читать →

Автор: The Man Booker Prize Winner–2003 When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office,…

95. A Good Year Читать →

Автор: From Publishers Weekly Mayle's breezy, uncomplicated fifth novel (Chasing Cezanne, etc.) and ninth book follows 30-something Max Skinner from a sabotaged financial career in London to his adoption of the ProvenГ§al lifestyle on an inherited vineyard in France. Max spent holidays at his Uncle Henry's vineyard as…

96. A Year In Provence Читать →

Автор: Amazon.com Review Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? ProvenГ§al cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all CГґtes-du-RhГґne and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter…

97. Everyman Читать →

Автор: “I"m thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you"re seventy-five.” Philip Roth's new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The best-selling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from “one family's harrowing encounter with history” (New York Times) to one man's lifelong confrontation with…

98. Portnoy Complaint Читать →

Автор: “Touching as well as hilariously lewd…Roth is vibrantly talented…as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been produced by the most verbal group in human history.” Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books “Deliciously funny…absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious…a brilliantly vivid reading experience.” The New York…

99. Jonathan Livingston Seagull Читать →

Автор: Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull’s right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding his greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams.

100. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Читать →

Автор: The Man Booker Prize Winner–1993 It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves George Best, Geronimo, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He hates zoos, kissing,…

101. The Commitments Читать →

Автор: This funky, rude, unpretentious first novel traces the short, funny, and furious career of a group of working-class Irish kids who form a band, The Commitments. Their mission: to bring soul to Dublin!

102. The Snapper Читать →

Автор: Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne’er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family is forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the family is the father of Sharon’s child?…

103. Fury Читать →

Автор: Life is fury. Fury—sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal—drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise—the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from…

104. Midnight's children Читать →

Автор: I was born in the city of Bombay… once upon a time. No, that won't do, there's no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar's Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. And the time? The time matters, too. Well then: at night. No, it's important to be more… On the stroke…

105. The Satanic Verses Читать →

Автор: No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable.…

106. The Night Watch Читать →

Автор: Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the Second World War, and is an innovative departure from her previous three lesbian Victorian historical fictions. Tipping the Velvet (1998), Affinity (1999) and Fingersmith (2002) depend on melodramatic scenes of excess and chicanery, with occasional references to postmodern thinking.…

107. Nothing lasts forever Читать →

Автор: The Incomparable Sidney Sheldon Best known today for his exciting, blockbuster novels, Sidney Sheldon is the author of The Stars Shine Down, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Memories of Midnight, The Sands of Time, Windmills of the Cods, If Tomorrow Comes, Master of the Came, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger in the Mirror, and The Other…

108. Tell me your dreams Читать →

Автор: Meet Ashley Patterson, the brainy, babelicious “computer whiz” and confused heroine of Tell Me Your Dreams. Although she has a cushy job at Global Computer Graphics, a fast-growing start-up in Silicon Valley, her life falls short of fulfilling. She's lonely, shy, and absolutely convinced she's being stalked. What's worse, the only sympathetic ear around is…

109. The Doomsday Conspiracy Читать →

Автор: Sheldon spices his latest thriller, a 17-week PW bestseller in cloth, with science fiction, including aliens who arrive from another planet on an enviromentalist mission.

110. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic Читать →

Автор: From the outside, it looks as if Rebecca Bloomwood has everything. She's a financial journalist, confident, single and happily living in Fulham. A debut novel of love, credit cards and spending sprees – the ultimate retail therapy.