Гари Штейнгарт2.5 Новый роман Гари Штейнгарта, автора нашумевших «Приключений русского дебютанта» и «Абсурдистана». Ленни Абрамов, герой «Супергрустной истории настоящей любви», родился не в том месте и не в то время. Его трогательная привычка вести дневник, которому он доверяет самые сокровенные мысли, и не менее трогательная влюбленность в кореянку Юнис Пак были бы уместны несколько веков назад. Впрочем, таким людям, как Ленни, нелегко в любые времена. В «Супергрустной истории» читатель найдет сатиру и романтику, глубокий психологизм и апокалиптические мотивы. По мнению Publishers Weekly, на сегодняшний день это лучший роман Штейнгарта.
Ману Джозеф4.1
Ayyan Mani will not be constrained by Indian traditions. Despite working at the Institute of Theory and Research in Mumbai as the lowly personal assistant to a brilliant but insufferable astronomer, he dreams of more for himself and his family. Ever wily and ambitious, Ayyan weaves two plots: the first to cheer up his weary, soap-opera-addicted wife by creating outrageous fictions around their ten-year-old son; the other to sabotage the married director by using his boss s seeming romance with the institute s first female and very attractive researcher. Meanwhile, as the institute s Brahmins wage a vicious war over theories about alien life, Ayyan sees his deceptions intertwining and setting in motion a series of extraordinary events he cannot stop. Unfailingly funny and irreverent, Serious Men is at once a hilarious portrayal of runaway egos and ambitions and a moving portrait of love and its strange workings. One of 2010 s First Novels to Savor. Sunday Telegraph"
India Knight0.0 This is the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of India Knight's darkly comic "Comfort and Joy". It is read with humour and sensitivity by Lucy Brown, the star of the hit show "Primeval". It's December 23rd and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a blue-arsed fly trying to buy presents. She wants to make Christmas perfect: it's a lifelong ambition. And a challenging one at the best of times, even without taking her sixteen guests - sorry, "loved ones" - and their varying degrees of social dysfunction into account. Meanwhile, something weird has happened to her marriage, and the ho, ho, ho is thin on the ground. Why does Christmas have such an emotional hold over us? Why does family stuff hit the peak of its madness on December the 25th? And is it okay to want more than you have, when what you have seems so enviable from the outside? A blackly funny, tender dissection of the meaning of love - family love, sibling love, children love - "Comfort and Joy" will make you laugh and cry.
Сэм Лейт0.0 At the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable - a secret organisation which many believe doesn't exist - Red Queen is beginning to examine three apparently unrelated situtations. What ensues is a chaotic chase across an imaginary America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity - and a number of delicious snacks.
Catherine O'Flynn0.0 From the bestselling author of What Was Lost comes a spirited literary mystery about a television anchorman's search for the truth about the disappearances that surround him
Frank Allcroft, a television news anchor in his hometown (where he reports on hard-hitting events, like the opening of canine gyms for overweight pets), is on the verge of a mid-life crisis. Beneath his famously corny on-screen persona, Frank is haunted by loss: the mysterious hit-and-run that killed his predecessor and friend, Phil, and the ongoing demolition of his architect father's monumental postwar buildings. And then there are the things he can't seem to lose, no matter how hard he tries: his home, for one, on the market for years; and the nagging sense that he will never quite be the son his mother—newly ensconced in an assisted-living center—wanted.
As Frank uncovers the shocking truth behind Phil's death, and comes to terms with his domineering father's legacy, it is his beloved young daughter, Mo, who points him toward the future. Funny and touching, The News Where You Are is a moving exploration of what we do and don't leave behind, proving once more that Catherine O'Flynn's writing "shimmers with dark brilliance" (Chicago Tribune).
The News Where You Are is a 2011 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original.
