|
|
|
|
Fear of Flying (Vintage books)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1969.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex
'Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same' - Anonymous (a woman)
Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads. Five years of marriage have made her itchy - itchy for men, and itchy for solitude.
Ditching her second husband during a work conference in Vienna she decides to cut and run, criss-crossing her way across Europe in search of the perfect no-strings-attached tryst - and she won't let a little thing like a fear of flying get in her way.
Witty, fearless and exuberant, Fear of Flying remains as sensational today as when it was first published.
|
|
|
A Dry White Season (Vintage books)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1969.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
A man investigating the death of a friend discovers the dangers of curiosity...
Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate error that can be explained and put right. But as Ben investigates further he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled rebellion - and for a rebel there is no way back.
|
|
|
The Family Holiday (Penguin)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1969.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
The only gift Charlie wants for his 80th birthday is his family all together again.
Ever since his wife Daphne passed away, and the children grew up into their own busy lives, it's felt like they've drifted apart.
So he's invited them all on a family holiday - their first in years.
And by some miracle, everyone has said yes.
Ten days all together in the Cotswolds . . . how hard can it be?
|
|
|
Epitaphs for Underdogs (Vintage books)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1969.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
On a hot summer night, a young man sits in a dark cell in a Hungarian prison. The guards do not explain why he is here; he does not know if he will ever be released. But he is far from alone. Others, too, are trapped within the stone walls - singers and students, sages and spies. As the days pass, the man is drawn into their conversations and their lives, and soon becomes a witness to their sometimes outlandish acts of rebellion.
Written in the early 1980s and inspired by Andrew Szepessy's own experiences, Epitaphs for Underdogs is a beguiling and exhilarating novel about power, justice and freedom, and about the solidarity that can be found in even the most unexpected places.
|
|
|
We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time (Vintage books)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1969.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
Humour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they navigate changing circumstances, accumulating losses, moments of comprehension and tenderness. Here is the woman, hoping for a quiet day at the zoo, who finally snaps at a white man's racist tirade and vents years of fury; the micro-celebrity who practises lines for a chat show on which he'll never appear; and the woman who walks out of her honeymoon suite at midnight, perhaps for good. Unsparing in her close examination of human relationships, A. L. Kennedy proves once again why she is regarded as one of our great storytellers.
|
|
|
|
|
The Voice in My Ear (Vintage books)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1969.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
Ten women, all called Claire, are tangled up in complex power dynamics with their families, friends, and lovers. Though all are different ages, and leading different lives, each is haunted by the difficulty of living on her own terms.
Claire is a teenaged babysitter left alone with a strange little girl and her imaginary friend. Claire is a woman trying to escape her elderly mother by employing an android carer. Claire is a young TV journalist wrecking her first big interview. Claire's boyfriend discovers more than he bargains for when he begins to read her diary.
And whatever she does, Claire is always living in the shadow of a monstrous mother.
|
|
|
Памяти памяти (Новое издательство)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1969.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
"Памяти памяти" Марии Степановой - попытка написать историю собственной семьи, мгновенно приходящая к вопросу о самой возможности сохранять память о прошлом, разбор семейного архива, оборачивающийся смотром способов жизни прошлого в настоящем, и история главных событий XX века, как она может существовать в личной памяти современного человека. Люди и их следы исчезают, вещи лишаются своего предназначения, а свидетельства говорят на мертвых языках описывая и отбрасывая различных посредников между собой и большой историей, автор "Памяти памяти" остается и оставляет нас один на один с нашим прошлым.
5-е издание, исправленное.
|
|
|
A God in Ruins (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn).
"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future."
Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again.
A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather-as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.
An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through ex ...
|
|
|
Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
'Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' Daily Mail
Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize.
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby...
Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of Ruby's own life.
|
|
|
Bridge of Clay (Transworld)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
Our mother was dead. Our father had fled
Five Dunbar brothers are living – fighting, loving, grieving – in the perfect chaos of a house without grown-ups.
This is a family rocked by tragedy and long buried secrets. To understand his family’s story, Matthew Dunbar must travel to find three things. A lost typewriter -- A dead dog -- The bones of the snake that killed it.
He will learn of a mother who crosses continents for a new home; of a father searching for love in the keys of an old piano; and, finally, of a brother named Clay, who will make the most challenging journey of them all, and change their lives for ever.
|
|
|
|
|
A Heart So White (Penguin)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe.
A Heart so White begins as, In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan edges closer to the truth, he begins to question his own relationships, and whether he really wants to know what happened. Haunting and unsettling, A Heart So White is a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the past and the terrible price of knowledge.
|
|
|
The Medusa Frequency (Penguin)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head, Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring, his lost love Luise and, beneath it all, the Kraken awaiting. As Herman will discover, creating art is a tough business.
|
|
|
Brick Lane (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man. Away from her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London's East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and is forced to depend on her husband.
Confined in her tiny flat, Nazneen sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons and linings - until the radical Karim steps unexpectedly into her life. On a background of racial conflict and tension, they embark on a love affair that forces Nazneen finally to take control of her fate.
|
|
|
Identity Crisis (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage.
A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn't 'get' a single thing about anything anymore.
Meanwhile, each day another public figure confesses to having 'misspoken' and prostrates themselves before the judgement of Twitter. Begging for forgiveness, assuring the public "that is not who I am".
|
|
|
American Wife (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller about the marriage of an American First Lady: A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of how an ordinary girl from an unremarkable town grows up to become First Lady of the United States.
Quiet, bookish Alice Blackwell never dreamed of being First Lady. Much less to a President whose politics she doesn't believe in. On perhaps the most important day of her husband's presidency, Alice looks back on the strange and unlikely path that led her to the White House, and to a decision - both treacherous and long overdue - that could jeopardise everything.
Taking inspiration from real life, American Wife is a remarkable portrait of a woman caught between her feelings for her husband, her country, and herself.
|
|
|
Rodham (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.
Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader- and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm No.
How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?
With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men.
|
|
|
Like Water for Chocolate (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
Like Water For Chocolate tells the captivating story of the De la Garza family. As the youngest daughter, Tita is forbidden by Mexican tradition to marry. Instead, she pours all of her emotions into her delicious recipes, which she shares with readers along the way.When Tita falls in love with Pedro, he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. Unfortunately, he's married to her sister...
Filled with recipes, longing and bittersweet humour, this charming story of one family's life in turn-of-the-century Mexico has captivated readers all over the world and was made into an award-winning film.
|
|
|
Sisterland (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths.
Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. Violet is single, and lives a much more flamboyant and eccentric life. Then one day Violet ignites a media storm by predicting a major earthquake in the St Louis area where they live.
As the day Violet has announced for the earthquake draws nearer, Kate must attempt to repair her fraught relationship with her sister, and to face truths about herself she has long tried to deny.
|
|
|
Balancing Act (Black Swan)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men – and the children – in their lives?
Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. Her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. But now he wants something of his past back – the life he had before Susie’s career took off, before they had children. And those children don’t see their mother’s business the way she has always seen it, thereby threatening the balance she has worked so hard to achieve.
And then, amidst the simmering tensions, someone significant from the past, someone almost forgotten, turns up. The problems of the past, the present, and the future all become challenges to the stability of both family and work. Which relationships – if any – will survive?
|
|
|
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby. Scary Fairy Tales (Penguin)
скидки на товар нигде нет ;( это обычная* цена - 1971.00 руб.
|
ОПИСАНИЕ ТОВАРА:
A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face; and a distraught father brings his daughter back to life by eating human hearts in his dreams.
In these blackly comic tales of revenge, disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.
|
|
|
|