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Джон Ланчестер
The Debt To Pleasure
ISBN: 9781447275381 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: Picador Аннотация
To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death.
Tarquin Winot - hedonist, food obsessive, ironist and snob - travels a circuitous route from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. Along the way he tells the story of his childhood and beyond through a series of delectable menus, organized by season. But this is no ordinary cookbook, and as we are drawn into Tarquin's world, a far more sinister mission slowly reveals itself . . .
Winner of the 1996 Whitbread First Novel Award, John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food; an erotic and sensual culinary journey. Its elegant, intelligent and unhinged narrator is nothing less than a work of art himself. -
Джон Ланчестер
The Wall
ISBN: 978-0-571-29873-0 Год издания: 2019 Издательство: Faber & Faber Язык: Русский Аннотация
Kavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall.
If he’s lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has to do two years of this. 729 more nights.
The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and will never have to spend another day of his life anywhere near it.
But what if something did happen - if the Others came, if he had to fight for his life?
Thrilling and heartbreaking, The Wall is about a troubled world you will recognise as your own - and about what might be found when all is lost. -
Джон Ланчестер
The Wall
ISBN: 978-0393357776 Год издания: 2019 Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company Аннотация
In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline―the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls trapped amid the rising seas outside. A blend of the most compelling issues of our time―climate change,…
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John Lanchester
The Wall
ISBN: 0571298737 Год издания: 2019 Язык: Английский Аннотация
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and are a constant threat. Failure will result in death or a fate perhaps worse: being put to sea and made an Other himself. Beset by cold, loneliness, and fear, Kavanagh tries to fulfill his duties to his demanding Captain and Sergeant, even as he grows closer to his fellow Defenders. A dark part of him wonders whether it would be interesting if something did happen, if they came, if he had to fight for his life. -
John Lanchester
How to Speak Money: What th...
ISBN: 0393243370 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: W. W. Norton Company Язык: Английский Аннотация
How finance really works — by the writer hailed for “explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style” (Economist). To those who don’t speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas too complex to grasp. How to Speak Money is acclaimed writer John Lanchester’s entertaining and informative attempt to bridge the gap between the…
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John Lanchester
Capital
ISBN: 978-0571234622 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Faber & Faber Язык: Английский Аннотация
The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumour, a family of Pakistani shop owners, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive an anonymous postcard one day with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? As the mystery of the postcards…
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Джон Ланчестер
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes E...
ISBN: 1439169845 Год издания: 2010 Язык: Английский Аннотация
Part economic primer, part fiscal and historical analysis, New Yorker and London Review of Books contributor John Lanchester offers his brilliantly witty, succinct overview of the current financial crisis.
For most people, the reasons for the sudden collapse of our economy remain obscure. I.O.U. is the story of how we came to experience such a complete and devastating financial implosion, and how the decisions and actions of a select group of individuals had profound consequences for America, Europe, and the global economy overall. John Lanchester begins with "The ATM Moment," that seemingly magical proliferation of cheap credit that led to an explosion of lending, and then deftly outlines the global and local landscapes of banking and finance. Viewing the crisis through the lens of politics, culture, and contemporary history -- from the invention and widespread misuse of financial instruments to the culpability of subprime mortgages -- Lanchester draws perceptive conclusions on the limitations of financial and governmental regulation, capitalism's deepest flaw, and, most important, on the plain and simple facts of human nature where cash is concerned.
Weaving together firsthand research and superbly written reportage, Lanchester delivers a shrewd perspective and a digestible, comprehensive analysis that connects the dots for the expert and casual reader alike. I.O.U. is an eye-opener of a book -- it may well provoke anger, amazement, or rueful disbelief -- and, as the author clearly reveals, we've only just begun to get ourselves back on track. -
Джон Ланчестер
Рецепт наслаждения
ISBN: 5-483-00050-1 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Ред Фиш Язык: Русский Аннотация
Тарквиний Уино, рафинированный интеллектуал и сноб, зубоскал и сибарит, побрившись наголо и вооружившись руководством по шпионажу, отправляется из Англии в Прованс, который считает своей духовной родиной. Он знакомит читателя со своей жизнью, историей искусства, извечными страстями человеческими через изысканные меню, соответствующие различным временам года.…
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John Lanchester
Fragrant Harbor
ISBN: 0142003379 Год издания: 2003 Язык: Английский Аннотация
It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans seven decades as Hong Kong endures the savagery of the Japanese occupation, emerging as a crossroads of international…
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John Lanchester
The Debt to Pleasure
ISBN: 0312420366 Год издания: 2001 Издательство: Picador Язык: Английский Аннотация
Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food. Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of France, Tarquin Winot, the book's snobbish narrator, instructs us in his philosophy on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of the menu. Under the guise of completing a cookbook, Winot is in fact on a much more sinister mission that only gradually comes to light.