Книги в жанре «Современная проза» (4503 книги)

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71. Blindness Читать →

Автор: Without warning, a driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind.A good samaritan takes pity on him, and drives him home to his wife. The next morning, the wife takes her husband to see an optician, who is baffled. That afternoon, the wife goes blind. So does the samaritan. The following morning, the doctor goes blind.…

72. Seeing Читать →

Автор: Some years ago a reliable friend told me I should read JosГ© Saramago's Blindness. Faced with pages of run-on sentences and unparagraphed dialogue without quotation marks, I soon quit, snarling about literary affectations. Later I tried again, went further, and quit because I was scared. Blindness is a frightening book. Before I"d let an author…

73. Closing Time Читать →

Автор: In Joseph Heller's two best novels, Catch 22 and Something Happened, the narrative circles obsessively around a repressed memory that it is the stories" business finally to confront. We feel the tremors of its eventual eruption in each book even as the narrator frantically distracts us with slapstick improvisation. In his newest novel, Closing Time,…

74. Таверна трех обезьян (пер. Е.Антропова) Читать →

Автор: Хуан Бас профессиональный киносценарист. Работал с журналами «Плейбой» и «Пентхауз», там же опубликовал свои первые рассказы. В 1999 г. выходит его первая книга «Тайные страницы истории», а в 2000 г. вторая, «Таверна Трех Обезьян», тут же замеченная испанской критикой; в том же году книга переводится на португальский, немецкий, французский. …

75. Трактат о похмелье (пер. Т.Машкова) Читать →

Автор: «Трактат о похмелье», по словам самого автора, своего рода «руководство по выживанию для тех, кто пьет сверх всякой меры». Очень занимательная и веселая книга, где с «научной» точки зрения рассматривается огромное многообразие всех видов и подвидов похмелья, а также даются «практические» советы, как с ним бороться.

76. Arthur & George Читать →

Автор: The Booker Prize (nominee) The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (nominee) Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late 19th century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Catholic Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a…

77. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Читать →

Автор: The forces of history and the exceptional talents of this young writer combine to produce a work of nonfiction with the breadth and drama of the richest, most memorable fiction classics. Wild Swans is a landmark book, with the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic vision of a monumental human saga, which tells of the…

78. Never Let Me Go Читать →

Автор: From the acclaimed author of “The Remains of the Day” and “When We Were Orphans,” a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love. As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in…

79. Demon Box Читать →

Автор: From Publishers Weekly The central theme running through this collection of stories (many of which seem to be primarily nonfiction with elements of fiction thrown in) by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the struggle to come to terms with the legacy of…

80. One flew over cuckoo's nest Читать →

Автор: Chief Bromden, half American-Indian, whom the authorities believe is deaf and dumb, tells the story of a mental institution ruled by Big Nurse on behalf of the all-powerful Combine. Into this terrifying grey world comes McMurphy, a brawling gambling man, who wages total war on behalf of his cowed fellow-inmates. What follows is at once…

81. Somersault Читать →

Автор: Writing a novel after having won a Nobel Prize for Literature must be even more daunting than trying to follow a brilliant, bestselling debut. In Somersault (the title refers to an abrupt, public renunciation of the past), Kenzaburo Oe has himself leapt in a new direction, rolling away from the slim, semi-autobiographical novel that garnered…

82. The Brief History of the Dead Читать →

Автор: “Remember me when I"m gone” just took on a whole new meaning. The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents…

83. The Inheritance of Loss Читать →

Автор: This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family's neighbors include…

84. The Sirens of Titan Читать →

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85. Dancing Girls and Other Stories Читать →

Автор: This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood’s startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Each of the fourteen stories shimmers with feelings, each illuminates the interior landscape of a woman’s mind. Here men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different…

86. Oryx and Crake Читать →

Автор: As the story opens, the narrator, who calls himself Snowman, is sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride,…

87. The Blind Assassin Читать →

Автор: The Man Booker Prize Winner–2000 Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in…

88. The Handmaid’s Tale Читать →

Автор: Reviewed by Kathleen A. Cameron, Justice Studies, Social Sciences Department, Pittsburg State University. Email: kcameron [at] pittstate.edu. Imagine a society where a sign in red paint reads, “We warn against not wearing a headscarf and wearing makeup. Those who do not abide by this will be punished.…

89. Fools die Читать →

Автор: I read Fools Die for the first time when I was sixteen and it was chosen by me because of my desire to learn more about Mario Puzo's work aside from The Godfather. It changed me. Even after five years of college and university, I have yet to find a novel with characters which touched…

90. A Spot Of Bother Читать →

Автор: As he demonstrated in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a canine murder mystery from the point of view of an autistic boy, former children's book author and illustrator Mark Haddon has a gift for reaching inside the inner world of characters whose minds should prove difficult to penetrate. …