Vintage books Scenes from Provincial Life Кутзее Джон Максвелл

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling

After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land. David, the boy, has lost his mother and Simon vows to look after him. In this strange country they are each assigned a new name, a new birthday, a new life • Knowing nothing of their surroundings, nor the language or customs, they are determined to find David's mother. Though the boy has no memory of her, Simon is certain he will recognise her at first sight. 'But after we find her,' David asks, 'what are we here for?' • The Childhood of Jesus is a profound, beautiful and continually surprising novel from a very great writer

«Бесчестье» — роман южноафриканского писателя Джона Кутзее, за который он был удостоен Букеровской премии. Спустя четыре года после издания Кутзее был удостоен Нобелевской премии по литературе • После нескольких лет преподавания романтической поэзии в Техническом университете Кейптауна Дэвид Лурье, мужчина средних лет, дважды разведенный, заводит импульсивный роман со студенткой. Роман затягивается; его разоблачают и вызывают в следственный комитет. Признав свою вину, но отказываясь поддаваться давлению и публично раскаяться, Дэвид уходит в отставку и переезжает в уединенное поместье своей дочери Люси • На какое-то время влияние его дочери и спокойная жизнь на ферме помогают ему обрести спокойствие. Но баланс сил в стране меняется. Дэвид и Люси становятся жертвами жестокого нападения, которое выявляет все сложности их отношений

David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make friends and he has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him • But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. Yet it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what adults are capable of • The Schooldays of Jesus is a mesmerising tale about growing up, and about the choices we are forced to make in our lives

David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make friends and he has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him • But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what adults are capable of • The Schooldays of Jesus is a mesmerising tale about growing up, and about the choices we are forced to make in our lives

Притаившегося в нас зверя мы должны натравливать только на самих себя • Безымянный Магистрат много лет был верным служителем безымянной Империи – он управлял делами в крошечном колониальном городке где-то на Ближнем Востоке. Обитатели города живут в постоянном страхе: они так боятся вторжения варваров, что в определённый момент решают взять дело в свои руки. Магистрат, потрясённый жестокостью окружающих, пытается проявить человечность, но это приводит лишь к тому, что государственная машина оборачивается против него самого • Знаменитый роман Кутзее "В ожидании варваров" – это притча о противостоянии человека и режима, угнетении и жестокости. Плотный и сложный текст поднимает вечные вопросы и лишает покоя: перед вами блистательный философский роман, который способен изменить читателя

Simon and David - a tall ten-year-old - are in a new land, together with a woman named Ines. The small family have found a home in which David can thrive • But David is spotted by Julio Fabricante, the director of a local orphanage, playing football with his friends. He shows unusual talent. When David announces that he wants to live with Julio and the children in his care, Simon and Ines are stunned. David is leaving them, and they can only love him and bear witness • The Death of Jesus is the completion of an incomparable trilogy in which J. M. Coetzee explores the meaning of a world empty of memory but brimming with questions

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them • A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house • An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night • As each story unfolds, Amos Oz, builds a portrait of a village in Israel. It is a surreal and unsettling place. Each villager is searching for something, and behind each episode is another, hidden story. In this powerful, hynotic work Amos Oz peers into the darkness of our lives and gives us a glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday existence • By the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize, previous winners of which include Philip Roth, Ivan Klima, Elfriede Jelinek, Harold Pinter and John Banville

"Позор" Джона Максвелла Кутзее - лауреат Букеровской премии 1999 года • После нескольких лет преподавания романтической поэзии в Техническом университете Кейптауна Дэвид Лури, мужчина средних лет и дважды разведенный, заводит импульсивный роман со студенткой. Дело затягивается, на него доносят и вызывают в следственный комитет. Желая признать свою вину, но отказываясь поддаваться давлению и публично раскаиваться, он уходит в отставку и переезжает в уединенное поместье своей дочери Люси • На какое-то время влияние его дочери и естественные ритмы фермы обещают гармонизировать его противоречивую жизнь. Но баланс сил в стране меняется. Он и Люси становятся жертвами жестокого и беспокоящего нападения, которое обнажает все линии разлома в их отношениях

Джон О’Хара. Писатель, который никогда не стремился к громкой славе, однако занял достойное место в ряду лучших американских романистов, таких как Хемингуэй и Фицджеральд. Почему? Уж не потому ли, что подлинный талант проверяется только временем? Перед вами — «Свидание в Самарре». Центральное произведение в творческом наследии Джона О’Хары. Роман, смело и изящно совмещающий реалистические и сюрреалистические мотивы, причем грань, отделяющая сюрреализм от реализма, настолько тонка, что заметить ее порой невозможно…Драма времен «ревущих двадцатых»? Или — литературная легенда своего времени? Судите сами! • Книга на английском языке • 'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarra lives frighteningly in the mind' John Updike • Julian English prides himself a member of his hometown's social elite, but from the moment he throws a cocktail in the face of a powerful business associate his life spirals out of control, taking his loving but troubled marriage with it

From her experience as a survivor of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable hero in whom she distills the experience of life under siege. Though she depicts the harrowing conditions, the reader takes away an impression of the dignity, vitality, and intellectual resilience of the thinking mind as it makes sense of extreme experience. This classic work of documentary fiction, reminiscent of Primo Levi and Albert Camus, will be the first introduction of a major 20th-century Russian writer to many English-language readers

Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting • Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself