50 писателей завтрашнего дня — 50 книг — стр. 3

Alain Mabanckou’s riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed Broken Glass has been elected to record their stories for posterity. But Broken Glass fails spectacularly at staying out of trouble as one denizen after another wants to rewrite history in an attempt at making sure his portrayal will properly reflect their exciting and dynamic lives. Despondent over this apparent triumph of self-delusion over self-awareness, Broken Glass drowns his sorrows in red wine and riffs on the great books of Africa and the West. Brimming with life, death, and literary allusions, Broken Glass is Mabanckou’s finest novel — a mocking satire of the dangers of artistic integrity.

Alain Mabanckou’s riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former…

В романе представлена эпическая картина жизни людей Сахары — Великой пустыни, где переплелись древние сказания, мудрые изречения далеких предков, устремления ныне живущих, из которых одни ищут Бога, а другие одержимы низменными страстями и вечной погоней за золотом и властью. Это книга о попытках вернуть потерянный рай через создание земного города счастья.

В романе представлена эпическая картина жизни людей Сахары — Великой пустыни, где переплелись древние сказания, мудрые изречения далеких предков, устремления ныне живущих, из…

Герои - молодые врачи Фрэнк Элофф и Лоуренс Уотерс - отсиживают дежурства в маленькой больнице, где почти никогда не бывает пациентов. Фактически им некого спасать, кроме самих себя. Сдержанный Фрэнк и романтик Лоуренс живут на разных полюсах затерянной в африканских лесах планеты. Но несколько случайных встреч, фраз и даже мыслей однажды выворачивают их миры-противоположности наизнанку, нарушая казавшуюся незыблемой границу между идеализмом и скептицизмом.

Сделанный когда-то выбор оказывается необратимым - в мире "без границ" есть место только для одного героя.

Герои - молодые врачи Фрэнк Элофф и Лоуренс Уотерс - отсиживают дежурства в маленькой больнице, где почти никогда не бывает пациентов. Фактически им некого спасать, кроме самих…

How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.

From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some stories survive to become history.

Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can’t locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A few blocks uptown, historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging from the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally, and perhaps even personally.

As these men try to survive in early-twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. Two very different paths—Lamont’s and Adam’s—lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Chicago to Auschwitz.

Epic in scope, this is a remarkable feat of storytelling.

How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.

From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe,…

Джорджи Ютленд под сорок, профессию медсестры и романтические мечты о родственной душе она променяла на тихую жизнь домохозяйки в рыбацком поселке на западном побережье Австралии. Ночи напролет, пока домашние спят, она сидит в Интернете и тихо спивается. Но внезапно в ее судьбу входит Лютер Фокс - браконьер, бывший музыкант, одинокая душа. Изгой.

Действие этого романа с подлинно приключенческим сюжетом разворачивается на фоне удивительных пейзажей Австралии, жесткий реалистический стиль автора удачно подчеркивает драматизм повествования.

Роман австралийского писателя Тима Уинтона (р. 1960) "Музыка грязи" в 2002 году вошел в шорт-лист Букеровской премии.

Джорджи Ютленд под сорок, профессию медсестры и романтические мечты о родственной душе она променяла на тихую жизнь домохозяйки в рыбацком поселке на западном побережье Австралии.…

From internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell comes a tantalizing story of love within marriage—and alongside it.

Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie Carven is no longer the typical banker's wife. When Cliff's horrible skiing accident shifts the balance of their relationship, Connie becomes a willing submissive to her husband's every desire. Cliff is eager to explore new, and troubling, avenues of passion. Connie, ever the dutiful wife, follows wherever he leads. While at first she enjoys a perverse sense of freedom within the ever-tightening bonds of her marriage, Cliff's dark desires soon consume her entirely. She finds herself surrendering to an act that will forever remind her that she belongs to her husband alone—to be unlocked only by him, whenever he pleases.

But it is also this act that awakens Connie from the numbness that has taken over her life. And when she encounters someone new in the communal garden of her Notting Hill home, she discovers the thrill of true intimacy . . . and the price of risking everything for it.

The author of the bestselling phenomenon The Bride Stripped Bare and the exquisite With My Body, Nikki Gemmell brings erotic writing into the twenty-first century. In I Take You she looks to the classic Lady Chatterley's Lover for inspiration, reimagining D. H. Lawrence's celebrated tale as a brutally honest and deeply sensual modern love story.

From internationally bestselling author Nikki Gemmell comes a tantalizing story of love within marriage—and alongside it.

Under her Chanel suit and designer lingerie, Connie…

Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation.
During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from malicious battling between Christian and Communist Koreans. Forty years later, Ryu Yosop, a minister living in America returns to his home village, where his older brother once played a notorious role in the bloodshed. Besieged by vivid memories and visited by the troubled spirits of the deceased, Yosop must face the survivors of the tragedy and lay his brother's soul to rest.
Faulkner-like in its intense interweaving narratives, The Guest is a daring and ambitious novel from a major figure in world literature.

Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation.
During the Korean War,…