Granta Publication Signs for Lost Children Мосс Сара

Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina’s terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out lies in the flames…

In January 1945, the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family seals itself off from the world • Protected from the deprivation and chaos around them, they make no preparations to leave until a decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing. Finally joining the great trek west, the remaining members of the family face at last the catastrophic consequences of the war • Profoundly evocative of the period, sympathetic yet painfully honest about the motivations of its characters, All for Nothing is a devastating portrait of the complicities and denials of the German people as the Third Reich comes to an end

Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with ‘making things good again’, they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careers well and truly out of control • As A.M. Homes’s incendiary novel unfolds, the technicolour hues of the American good life become nearly hallucinogenic: from a strange and hilarious encounter on the floor of the pantry with a Stepford Wife neighbour, to a house-cleaning team in space suits, to a hostage situation at the school. Homes lays bare the foundations of marriage and family life and creates characters outrageously flawed, deeply human and entirely believable

Подросток Сильвия и ее родители живут в хижине в Нортумберленде. Ее отец - трудный человек, одержимый своими идеями и воплощением суровости жизни железного века • Повествование Сильви в книге Сары Мосс "Призрачная стена" - это история болотной девушки, молодой женщины, принесенной в жертву самыми близкими ей людьми, и пейзаж одновременно хранит и раскрывает секреты прошлого насилия и ритуалов по мере того, как лето приближается к своей мучительной кульминации • Книга на английском языке • Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. Haunting Silvie’s narrative is the story of a bog girl, a young woman sacrificed by those closest to her, and the landscape both keeps and reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual as the summer builds to its harrowing climax

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

"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

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

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine – meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world • In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready • They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it • Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O’Connell set out to meet them

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

Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one is the girlfriend of a classmate, another the best friend of Nishino’s latest conquest. Some are entranced by Nishino, others care more for their freedom, their children (or their cats) • As we come to learn of the torments, desires and delights of each woman, a portrait emerges of a complicated man whose great capacity for love may well be the cause of his downfall

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation • They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly something changes. As the years rush by, fears creep in and doubts accumulate until finally their life as they know it cracks apart and they find themselves forced to reassess what they have lost, what is left, and what they want now • Written with the dazzling lucidity of poetry, Dept. of Speculation navigates the jagged edges of a modern marriage to tell a story that is darkly funny, surprising and wise

One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal. Aged between nine and thirteen, the children are covered in dirt and hungry. They beg food, commit small acts of vandalism, play games that don’t seem to have any rules, and communicate with each other in a strange language. No one knows where they come from or where they disappear to each night. And then, they rob a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town. Thus begins a fearsome and thrilling modern morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civilised and the wild, and drags our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light