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The irrisistable, uplifting and big-hearted story of surviving in a modern family • 'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout • 'Literary sunshine' New York Times • 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls • 'The world will love it' Ann Patchett • The instant New York Times Bestseller • After Astrid Strick - a widowed, 68-year-old mother of three living in upstate New York - witnesses an accident, she resolves to live more honestly. Starting with the mistakes she made in raising her family • But are her kids, tangled in their own messy adult lives, really ready to be treated like grown ups? • Charming, uplifting and well-observed, All Adults Here is the delightful story about the wonders and woes of modern family life • Praise for All Adults Here • 'Perfectly pitched summer reading' Stylist • 'Smartly observant, wryly witty, big-hearted

About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her beloved father Leonard is dying • But after one too many drinks, she wakes up in her childhood home to find forty-year-old Leonard celebrating her sixteenth birthday • Now Alice gets to relive this one day in 1996, over and over. When the slightest change will impact the rest of her life • Can she fix her life and save her father? • Or will her good intentions only cause harm to those she loves most?

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If you could go back, would you do things differently? • Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again • When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood • Alice soon discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and her sixteenth birthday, and realises she can keep on coming, whenever she chooses • But faced each time with different versions of her life, and the consequences of her decisions, it's on her not to lose sight of what she wants most

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' • How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge • Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space

"Расстояние до Луны" взято из "Космикомики", книги рассказов Итало Кальвино, впервые опубликованной на итальянском языке в 1965 году и на английском в 1968 году. Каждая история берет научный “факт” (хотя иногда и ложный в сегодняшнем понимании) и выстраивает вокруг него образную историю • Книга на английском языке • 'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' • Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories • Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' • The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland • Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' • Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece • Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.' • These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour • Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space

Юко Цусима — японская писательница. Настоящее имя — Сатоко Цусима • В романах "О собаках и стенах" и • "Их дом был новым, стена стояла там долгое время." Юко Цусима показывает, как воспоминания, мечты и мимолетные образы описывают границы нашей жизни • Книга на английском языке • 'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.' • In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives • Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space

Пятьдесят новых книг, воспевающих новаторский дух серии Penguin Modern Classics, от вдохновляющих эссе до новаторской художественной литературы и поэзии • - О жестокость времени, которое разрушает все сущее! • "Соблазнительные, странные и вызывающие трепет истории из Японии начала 20-го века: "За тюрьмой" Нагаи, "Доктор философии в чулане" Уно и "глубоко жуткий генерал Ким" Акутагавы • Книга на английском языке • Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry • 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things! • 'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim

Три великих рассказа - "Аврелиан", "Знаки и символы" и "Копье" - последний одновременно является насмешливой атакой на научную фантастику и попыткой представить реальную боль и ужас, которые сопровождали бы космические путешествия • Penguin Modern: пятьдесят новых книг, воспевающих новаторский дух культовой серии Penguin Modern Classics, в каждой из которых сконцентрирован современный международный колорит • В серии представлены авторы от Кэти Экер до Джеймса Болдуина, Трумэна Капоте до Станислава Лема и Джорджа Оруэлла до Ширли Джексон, эссе радикальные и вдохновляющие, стихи трогательные и тревожащие, истории сюрреалистические и сказочные, переносящие нас с глубокого Юга в современную Японию, с нью-йоркской андеграундной сцены в самые дальние уголки космоса