Адам - домосед, который работает над историей бомбардировок и восстановления собора в Ковентри. Он хороший человек, и он счастлив. Но однажды ему звонят из школы его дочери и сообщают, что без всякой видимой причины пятнадцатилетняя Мириам упала в обморок и перестала дышать. В этот момент он погружается в мир ожидания, агонии, незнания. История его жизни и жизней его семьи переписывается и пересказывается заново вокруг этого шокирующего центрального события, вокруг тела, которое необъяснимо отказало • В исключительно смелом романе "Зона прилива" Сара Мосс заглядывает туда, куда большинство из нас не осмелилось бы заглянуть, и результат получается захватывающим – невыносимо грустным, но в то же время удивительно забавным и, в конечном счете, обнадеживающим
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They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation • They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly something changes. As the years rush by, fears creep in and doubts accumulate until finally their life as they know it cracks apart and they find themselves forced to reassess what they have lost, what is left, and what they want now • Written with the dazzling lucidity of poetry, Dept. of Speculation navigates the jagged edges of a modern marriage to tell a story that is darkly funny, surprising and wise
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A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet’s regime. Then one night a mysterious girl appears in his neighbourhood and makes a life-changing request
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Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Moss builds a novel in two parts from Falmouth to Tokyo, two maps of absence; from Manchester to Kyoto, two distinct but conjoined portraits of loneliness and determination. An exquisite continuation of the story of Bodies of Light, Signs for Lost Children will amaze Sarah Moss’s many fans
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Подросток Сильвия и ее родители живут в хижине в Нортумберленде. Ее отец - трудный человек, одержимый своими идеями и воплощением суровости жизни железного века • Повествование Сильви в книге Сары Мосс "Призрачная стена" - это история болотной девушки, молодой женщины, принесенной в жертву самыми близкими ей людьми, и пейзаж одновременно хранит и раскрывает секреты прошлого насилия и ритуалов по мере того, как лето приближается к своей мучительной кульминации • Книга на английском языке • Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. Haunting Silvie’s narrative is the story of a bog girl, a young woman sacrificed by those closest to her, and the landscape both keeps and reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual as the summer builds to its harrowing climax
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Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenland. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse society under attack, they also come to uncover their own demons, as it becomes apparent that a plague pandemic is sweeping across the planet and communication with the outside world is breaking down. Increasingly unsure whether their missives will ever reach their destination, each of the characters writes a letter to someone close to them, trying to make sense of their situation and expressing their fears and dwindling hope of ever getting back home …
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Историку Анне Беннетт предстоит написать книгу. У нее также есть малыш, страдающий бессонницей, не по годам развитый семилетний ребенок, одержимый идеей смерти, и часто отсутствующий муж-эколог, который привез их всех на Колси, пустынный остров на Гебридах, чтобы он мог сосчитать тупиков. Жестоко лишенную сна, разрывающуюся между материнством и стремлением к удовольствиям работы и одиночества, Анну преследует мысль об обнаружении скелета ребенка в саду их дома • "Ночное пробуждение" Сары Мосс - это трогательная, но порой и мрачно смешная истории о материнской амбивалентности, о том, как мы пытаемся контролировать детей, и о раздосадованных и страстных отношениях женщин с работой • Книга на английском языке • Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write
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Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century – from Mary Lavin and Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change and shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short-story form. Deft and often devastating, the short story dodges the rolling mythologies of of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful and real • Also includes stories by: Maeve Brennan, Roddy Doyle, Mary Lavin, Colum McCann, William Trevor, John McGahern, Colm Toibin, Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry
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One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are covered in dirt and hungry. They beg food, commit small acts of vandalism, play games that don’t seem to have any rules, and communicate with each other in a strange language. No one knows where they come from or where they disappear to each night. And then, they rob a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town. Thus begins a fearsome and thrilling modern morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civilised and the wild, and drags our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light
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From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine – meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world • In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready • They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it • Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O’Connell set out to meet them
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In 2011, Mr. Watanabe, a Japanese electronics executive, is in Tokyo when the earthquake that precedes the Fukushima nuclear disaster strikes. In the aftermath, he fins himself on a journey to Fukushima, a tourist of the current day tragedy that mimics his own experiences of World War II • For Mr Watanabe is one of the few double hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The earthquake shifts his and others memories of those events. Meanwhile, four women based in Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and Madrid tell their own stories of knowing and loving Mr Watanabe, a victim of one of the largest collective traumas of the last century • A sweeping novel written with intimacy and compassion, Fracture encompasses some of the most urgent political, social and environmental questions of contemporary life, about collective trauma, memory and love
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This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess • Unfolding through series of masterly set-pieces and glancing sketches, this is a novel of brilliance, imagination and sheer style — about what is shown and what is seen, about art and life
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