Историку Анне Беннетт предстоит написать книгу. У нее также есть малыш, страдающий бессонницей, не по годам развитый семилетний ребенок, одержимый идеей смерти, и часто отсутствующий муж-эколог, который привез их всех на Колси, пустынный остров на Гебридах, чтобы он мог сосчитать тупиков. Жестоко лишенную сна, разрывающуюся между материнством и стремлением к удовольствиям работы и одиночества, Анну преследует мысль об обнаружении скелета ребенка в саду их дома • "Ночное пробуждение" Сары Мосс - это трогательная, но порой и мрачно смешная истории о материнской амбивалентности, о том, как мы пытаемся контролировать детей, и о раздосадованных и страстных отношениях женщин с работой • Книга на английском языке • Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write
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Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenland. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse society under attack, they also come to uncover their own demons, as it becomes apparent that a plague pandemic is sweeping across the planet and communication with the outside world is breaking down. Increasingly unsure whether their missives will ever reach their destination, each of the characters writes a letter to someone close to them, trying to make sense of their situation and expressing their fears and dwindling hope of ever getting back home …
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"Фигуры света" - тончайшая и пронзительная история взросления в особенной атмосфере прерафаэлитизма. Алли умна, прилежна и ведет нескончаемую - и неизменно безуспешную - битву за одобрение и привязанность своей матери. Ее мать Элизабет одержима миссией - накормить страждущих и спасти падших, и воспитание дочерей для нее - это соблюдение правил, дисциплина и аскеза во всем. Даже когда Алли получает стипендию и становится одной из первых женщин, изучающих медицину, мать остается равнодушна к успеху дочери. Но роман Сары Мосс о попытках женщины вырваться из цепей запретов и установок - это не столько история о зарождении феминизма, сколько погружение в мир семьи, где любовь запрятана слишком глубоко • Книга на английском языке • Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement
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Адам - домосед, который работает над историей бомбардировок и восстановления собора в Ковентри. Он хороший человек, и он счастлив. Но однажды ему звонят из школы его дочери и сообщают, что без всякой видимой причины пятнадцатилетняя Мириам упала в обморок и перестала дышать. В этот момент он погружается в мир ожидания, агонии, незнания. История его жизни и жизней его семьи переписывается и пересказывается заново вокруг этого шокирующего центрального события, вокруг тела, которое необъяснимо отказало • В исключительно смелом романе "Зона прилива" Сара Мосс заглядывает туда, куда большинство из нас не осмелилось бы заглянуть, и результат получается захватывающим – невыносимо грустным, но в то же время удивительно забавным и, в конечном счете, обнадеживающим
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Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King’s daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King’s Eye watches. And yet the city is full of hearts-defiant-sprayed in yellow, the mark of the Kid • It cannot end well. Can it? Follow the Kid, hear the tale. Roll up! Roll up!
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It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia – where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications – to write about the route for a car rally. It’s a plum job, but his interest is piqued by a personal connection. Here, among the refugees fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945, he was born • Homeland is a nuanced work from one of the great modern European storytellers, in which an everyday German comes face to face with his painful family history, and devastating questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the war
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Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century – from Mary Lavin and Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change and shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short-story form. Deft and often devastating, the short story dodges the rolling mythologies of of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful and real • Also includes stories by: Maeve Brennan, Roddy Doyle, Mary Lavin, Colum McCann, William Trevor, John McGahern, Colm Toibin, Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry
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Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Moss builds a novel in two parts from Falmouth to Tokyo, two maps of absence; from Manchester to Kyoto, two distinct but conjoined portraits of loneliness and determination. An exquisite continuation of the story of Bodies of Light, Signs for Lost Children will amaze Sarah Moss’s many fans
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Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories - and a fantastic adventure begins
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This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life • Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in Los Angeles who needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living-room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, This Book Will Save Your Life reveals what can happen if you are willing to open yourself up to the world around you • Since her debut in 1989, A. M
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Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be there is all but shattered. Now he must pit himself against the pain and rely on his instincts to get back to shore, and to the woman he dimly senses waiting for his return. With its taut narrative and its wincingly visceral portrait of a man locked in an uneven struggle with the forces of nature, this is a powerful new work from one of the most distinctive voices in British fiction
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In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most certainly not to be done. There are rules, conventions. Meg Bailey obeys them. She progresses from Home Counties school to un-Bohemian art college with few outward signs of passion or frustration. Her personality is submerged in polite routines; even with her best friend, Roxane, what can’t be said looms far larger than what can. But circumstances change. Meg gets a job and moves to London. Roxane gets married to a man picked out by her mother. And then Meg does something shocking – shocking not only by the standards of her time, but by our own. As sharp and startling now as when it was written, Don’t Look at Me Like That matches Diana Athill’s memoirs After a Funeral and Instead of a Letter in its gift for storytelling and its unflinching candour about love and betrayal
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