Книги в жанре «Современная проза» (4503 книги)

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51. Slow Man Читать →

Автор: One day while cycling along the Magill road in Adelaide Paul Rayment is knocked down by a car, resulting in the amputation of his leg. Humiliated, he retreats to his flat and a succession of day-care nurses. After a series of carers who are either “unsuitable” or just temporary, he happens upon Marijana, with whom…

52. Waiting For The Barbarians Читать →

Автор: “[A] distinguished piece of fiction…[Its] power of historical immediacy gives the novel its thrust, its larger and, if you wish, "universal" value.” The New York Times “I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of man. He is an artist of…

53. Cocaine Nights Читать →

Автор: There’s something wrong with Estrella Del Mar, the lazy, sun-drenched retirement haven on Spain’s Costa Del Sol. Lately this sleepy hamlet, home to hordes of well-heeled, well-fattened British and French expatriates, has come alive with activity and culture; the previously passive, isolated residents have begun staging boat races, tennis competitions, revivals of Harold Pinter plays,…

54. Super-Cannes Читать →

Автор: Super-Cannes – a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback – was the winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Eurasian region. 'sublime: an elegant, elaborate trap of a novel, which reads as a companion piece to Cocaine Nights but takes ideas from that novel and runs…

55. The Master of Petersburg Читать →

Автор: From Publishers Weekly South African novelist Coetzee takes Fyodor Dostoyevski as his protagonist in a novel set amidst the political ferment of 19th-century Russia. From Library Journal St. Petersburg is poised…

56. On The Road Читать →

Автор: Jack Kerouac's On the Road is one of the most controversial American novels of the 20th century. When critics concede that the book and its author were instrumental in triggering the rucksack revolution, this is to damn with praise, as Kerouac is reduced to a one-book author (though he published some twenty volumes containing a…

57. The Dharma Bums Читать →

Автор: One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he"d become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who…

58. Billennium Читать →

Автор: All day long, and often into the early hours of the morning, the tramp of feet sounded up and down the stairs outside Ward's cubicle. Built into a narrow alcove in a bend of the staircase between the fourth and fifth floors, its plywood walls flexed and creaked with every footstep like the timbers of…

59. The Dead Astronaut Читать →

Автор: CAPE KENNEDY has gone now, its gantries rising from the deserted dunes. Sand has come in across the Banana River, filling the creeks and turning the old space complex into a wilderВ­ness of swamps and broken concrete. In the summer, hunters build their blinds in the wrecked staff cars; but by early November, when Judith…

60. The Garden Of Time Читать →

Автор: Towards evening, when the great shadow of the Palladian villa filled the terrace, Count Axel left his library and walked down the wide rococo steps among the time flowers.В  A tall, imperious figure in a black velvet jacket, a gold tie-pin glinting below his George V beard, cane held stiffly in a white-gloved hand, he…

61. The Siege of Krishnapur Читать →

Автор: The Man Booker Prize Winner—1973 India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the…

62. Братик Читать →

Автор: «- Почему киты выбрасываются на сушу? Может быть, по той же причине, по которой люди летают в космос?» Высказывание неизвестного студента, покурившего угадайте-чего. Я вошел в квартиру под аккомпанемент ритмичных ровных ударов и тонких усталых всхлипов, долетающих из дальней комнаты даже сквозь закрытую дверь.  Фазер опять бил братика. Морщась от начинающейся мигрени, гнусно скривилась мне из…

63. Middlesex Читать →

Автор: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction—2003 “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as…

64. Chocolat Читать →

Автор: Vianne Rocher and her six-year-old daughter Anouk arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes–”a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux”–during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a mouth-watering variety of hot chocolate drinks. It's Lent, the shop is…

65. Shroud Читать →

Автор: One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from…

66. The Book Of Evidence Читать →

Автор: The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish author John Banville. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38 year old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbor. Freddie is an aimless drifter, and though he is a perceptive observer of himself…

67. Улики Читать →

Автор: Номинант на Букеровскую премию 1989 года. «Улики», роман одного из ярких представителей современной ирландской литературы Джона Бэнвилла, рождается в результате глубокого осмысления и развития лучших традиций европейской исповедальной и…

68. Bullet Park Читать →

Автор: An allegory of the struggle between good and evil, in which Eliot Nailles, a chemist, meets Paul Hammer, who is not the ordinary citizen he seems to be. “We"re the Hammers,” The stranger said to the priest. Nailles did not think this funny, anticipating the fact that almost everyone else in the neighborhood would. How…

69. Fancies and Goodnights Читать →

Автор: John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With…

70. Мир глазами Гарпа Читать →

Автор: «Мир глазами Гарпа» – лучший роман Джона Ирвинга, удостоенный национальной премии. Главный его герой – талантливый писатель, произведения которого, реалистичные и абсурдные, вплетены в ткань романа, что делает повествование ярким и увлекательным. Сам автор точнее всего определил отношение будущих читателей к книге: «Она, возможно, вызовет порой улыбку даже у самого мрачного типа, однако разобьет немало…