Книги в жанре «Современная проза» (4503 книги)Показаны книги с 81 по 9081. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Читать →Автор: Haddon Mark Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little… 82. The Godfather returns Читать →Автор: Winegardner Mark Even before you open the book, the stark red, white and black cover sparks the strains of Nino Rota's “The Godfather Waltz” begin playing in your mind. Mark Winegardner has been granted to task of writing a sequel to Mario Puzo's essential 1969 novel The Godfather, a novel which not only must pick up the… 83. Einstein's Monsters Читать →Автор: Amis Martin MARTIN AMIS hates nuclear weapons, and he doesn't care who knows it. In fact, he wants everyone to know it. At mid-career, he has virtually ceased to be a writer of fiction-from 1974 to 1984, he published five comic novels, including the hugely successful Money-and has metamorphosed instead into a kind of anti-nuclear polemicist. Einstein's… 84. The Five People You Meet in Heaven Читать →Автор: Albom Mitch Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years—from the Loop-the-Loop to the… 85. Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson Читать →Автор: Albom Mitch Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly… 86. Get A Life Читать →Автор: Gordimer Nadine Get a Life begins with Paul Bannerman, a South African ecologist, being treated for thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine. To spare his wife and child any peril from the radioactivity, he returns to his parents" home to recuperate. He's returned to his childhood state, being cared for by his mother, a civil rights lawyer, and… 87. Half of a Yellow Sun Читать →Автор: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by the Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. … 88. A Bend in the Road Читать →Автор: Sparks Nicholas Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. Missy had been his first love, and Miles fervently believes she will be his last. As a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, he not only grieves for Missy, but longs to… 89. The Notebook Читать →Автор: Sparks Nicholas An elderly man reads to an elderly woman every day from a yellowed notebook that he carries around with him. He hopes that this notebook, which contains the memories of his love and life, will jog her memory, but it is not to be. Yet, he tries each day and does not give up because… 90. A Long Way Down Читать →Автор: Hornby Nick New Year’s Eve at Toppers’ House, North London’s most popular suicide spot. And four strangers are about to discover that doing away with yourself isn’t quite the private act they’d each expected. Perma-tanned Martin Sharp’s a disgraced breakfast TV presenter who had it all—the family, the pad,… 91. About a Boy Читать →Автор: Hornby Nick Will is thirty-six and doesn’t really want children. Why does it bother people that he lives so happily alone in a fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers and a mammoth record collection, hardwood floors, and an expensive cream-colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on? Then Will meets Angie. He’s never been out… 92. Fever Pitch Читать →Автор: Hornby Nick In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that’s before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call… 93. High Fidelity Читать →Автор: Hornby Nick High Fidelity is the story of Rob, a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend Laura has just left him for Ian from the flat upstairs. Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? This narrowly… 94. How to Be Good Читать →Автор: Hornby Nick “How to Be Good” is a story for our times—a humorous but uncompromising look at what it takes, in this day and age, to have the courage of our convictions. In his third novel, Nick Hornby, whom “The New Yorker” named “the maestro of the male confessional,” has reinvented himself as Katie—the consummate liberal, urban… 95. My Name is Red Читать →Автор: Pamuk Orhan From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel-part murder mystery, part love story-set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul. When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he… 96. Barabbas Читать →Автор: Lagerkvist Par Nobel Prize Winners The central crisis of the Modern Age is the crisis of faith, the failure of our belief in God. Our disbelief is an inevitable outgrowth of increased scientific understanding of the world around us, particularly in the realms of Physics and Evolutionary theory. It… 97. Monkey King Читать →Автор: Chao Patricia Monkey King tells the story of twenty-eight-year-old Sally Wang, a young Chinese-American woman whose mental breakdown and sojourn in a hospital set her firmly on the path of memory. Her recovery takes place against a rich tapestry of culture and personality that unfolds before our… 98. The Butcher Boy Читать →Автор: McCabe Patrick SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE IRISH TIMES-AER LINGUS LITERATURE PRIZE FOR FICTION “BRILLIANT, UNIQUE. Patrick McCabe pushes your head through the book and you come out the… 99. Perfume. The story of a murderer Читать →Автор: Suskind Patrick When critics and readers caught scent of Patrick Suskind's “Perfume”, it became an instant “New York Times” bestseller in hardcover and paperback. The reviews were sensational, word-of-mouth was incredible — and now it is back in an all-new trade paperback format. “A tour de force of the imagination.” — “People.” 100. The Great Railway Bazaar Читать →Автор: Theroux Paul Paul Theroux is a vocal proponent of rail travel over air travel, which he likens to traveling by submarine for all that goes unseen and not experienced by its adherents. The Great Railway Bazaar, his 1975 account of a four month railroad journey through Europe and Asia begins, “I sought trains, I found passengers.” It… |