Europa Editions Billie Гавальда Анна

Анна Гавальда, известная французская писательница, покорившая мир своими романами и их изысканным, поэтическим стилем, начинала как автор новелл. Сборник "Мне бы хотелось, чтобы меня кто-нибудь где-нибудь ждал" составили очень разные произведения. И в каждом из них автор выглядит по-особенному, являя нам все грани своего дарования: здесь есть и тонкие лирические притчи, и ироничные парижские этюды, и просто грустные "истории из жизни" провинциальной Франции, порой такие нежные, а порой очень жесткие... Все они, конечно, о любви в самых разных ее проявлениях. О том, как пронзительно коротка наша жизнь и как мы одиноки друг без друга

Матильде 24 года. Она бросила изучение истории искусств ради не слишком интересной работы и снимает квартиру вместе с двумя сестрами-близняшками. Она говорит, что счастлива, но прибегает к алкоголю всякий раз, чтобы об этом вспомнить • Однажды она забывает в кафе свою сумочку... Некий молодой человек возвращает ей ее неделей позже. Спустя несколько месяцев - и именно из-за него - она решает изменить свою жизнь

Эта книга о мужестве, о дружбе, о любви. И о том кайфе, который испытываешь, когда меняешь первоначальный расклад. Двое подростков из провинциального захолустного городка имели все шансы обеспечить себе самую что ни на есть наидерьмовейшую жизнь: Билли росла в нищей и пьющей семье, над Франком измывались, потому что он был не такой, как все. Но однажды по воле жребия им выпало вместе разучивать сценку из пьесы Альфреда де Мюссе «С любовью не шутят». С этого момента и начинается история одной большой любви, благодаря которой два гадких утенка, поддерживая друг друга и неустанно напоминая друг другу о том, что оба они красивы, взрослеют и превращаются в прекрасных лебедей

«Луис Мариано, или Глоток свободы» – это рассказ об отлично проведенных выходных. О встрече брата с любимыми сестрами, об их веселом побеге с семейного торжества, о поездке в замок в гости к младшему брату Венсану, о похождениях «великолепной четверки», о луарских винах, о творчестве, о взаимопонимании… О том, что бывает, если, забыв об условностях, попытаться стать просто самим собой. Страницы этой книги дышат очарованием Франции, легкостью и иронией. И пьянящим чувством, что любая встреча неслучайна и один-единственный день может перевернуть всю твою жизнь

A poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters • Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues • Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a local police chief, Julien Seul, who insists on depositing the ashes of his mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. The grave Julien is looking for, and his mother’s story of clandestine love, is intertwined with Violette’s own secret past • The funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, Fresh Water for Flowers brings out the exceptional and the poetic in the ordinary

A kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan novel infused with inky noir • Return to the Dark Valley tells the stories of four immigrants united by their need to return to their place of origin and exact vengeance in some form. Manuela Beltran, haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through books and poetry; Tertuliano, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope’s son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society; Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt; Juana and the consul, central characters in Gamboa’s Night Prayers, who are united in a relationship based equally on hurt and need. And Rimbaud, the precocious, brilliant poet whose life was incessant exploration

It’s the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister's door. Who is she running from? What uncomfortable truth will she deliver? Like a whirlwind, Adriana breaks into her sister’s life bringing chaos and cataclysmic revelations • Years later, the narrator gets an unexpected, urgent summons back to Pescara. She embarks on a long journey through the night, and through the folds and twists of her memory, from her and her sister’s youth, their loves and losses, their secrets and regrets. Back in Borgo Sud, the town’s fishermen’s quarter, in that impenetrable yet welcoming microcosm, she will discover what really happened, and perhaps make peace with the past • Donatella Di Pietrantonio, expert chronicler of the bonds between mothers and daughters, revisits the places and characters of A Girl Returned with a novel focussed on the ambivalent, ambiguous, wavering but steadfast relationship between sisters

From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amongst parties at the Country Club and strolls along the promenade in Puerto Colombia, unfurls a story of sensuality supressed by violence; a narrative of oppression in which Dora, Catalina and Beatriz are victims of a patriarchal system living in and among the fragile threads of the fabric of society • In Lina’s obsessive recounting of the past, this masterful novel transforms anecdotes of a life into an absolute view of the world, a profound panorama of Colombian society towards the end of the 50s • Written from personal memories and historical research, this is a novel that is both precise and poetic, a novel that immortalises—from the distant perspective of its narrator—the events that took place in a small seaside town

Ever since he was murdered, life has not been the same for Andrew Stilman. On the morning of July 9, 2012, New York Times investigative reporter Andrew Stilman is jogging along the Hudson River when he feels a sudden, sharp pain in his lower back. He collapses in a pool of blood. When he regains consciousness, it’s May 7, 2012—exactly two months earlier. Andrew now has sixty days to find out who wants him dead and why. This may be his only chance. From New York City to Buenos Aires, Andrew embarks on a gripping race against time. Expertly plotted and cleverly told, this thrilling page-turner by France’s most popular contemporary novelist builds up to a mind-blowing denouement

A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead • Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village, hoping in this way to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the post-revolutionary chaos that sweeps across their ancient land and its people. Bahar’s mother, after a tragic loss, will embark on a long, eventful journey in search of meaning • The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree speaks of the power of imagination when confronted with cruelty, and of our human need to make sense of trauma through the ritual of storytelling itself

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that’s what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more • Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet

How did Danny die? • On a summer’s day in 1955, the drowned body of young Danny Masters is discovered by three of his teenage friends: Alexander, heir to the country estate that neighbours the village, and siblings Lennie and Tom, whose father is land agent to the Richmond family • Lennie is in love with volatile Alexander, but is he also in love or merely playing with her? Alexander’s mother has been a widow for less than a year, yet her husband’s brother seems always to be by her side. In the weeks that follow the tragic drowning, the river begins to give up its secrets. As the circumstances surrounding Danny’s death emerge, relationships and bonds develop, and other stories gradually come to the surface, threatening to destroy an entire way of life