Penguin White Teeth Смит Зэди

Два незадачливых ветерана Второй мировой войны становятся, несмотря на все различия между ними, лучшими друзьями на всю жизнь. Арчи Джонс, чистокровный британец, берет себе в жены молодую крупную девушку с Ямайки. Самад Икбал вступает в брак по договоренности и вынужден ждать, пока его жена появится на свет. И если бы обоих друзей ждало счастливое будущее! Дети приносят головную боль, прошлое наступает на пятки, и никому нет покоя в этом многослойном романе • Один из самых обсуждаемых первых романов Зэди Смит "Белые зубы" - забавный, щедрый, великодушный роман, обожаемый как критиками, так и читателями. Рассказывая - помимо многого другого - о дружбе, любви, войне, трех культурах и трех семьях на протяжении трех поколений, одной коричневой мыши и коварном способе прошлого возвращаться и кусать вас за лодыжку, эта жизнеутверждающая, буйная книга обязательна к прочтению

From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and family • Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? • Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family

Two brown girls dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey the same twists, the same shakes and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time

"Произведение-компаньон" - новая работа Али Смита, которую нельзя пропустить • Мы живем в экстраординарные времена • Это история? • Что происходит, когда мы перестаем доверять правительствам, средствам массовой информации, друг другу? • Что мы потеряли? • Что остается с нами? • Что нужно для того, чтобы открыть наше будущее? • После своего удивительного квартета сезонных романов Эли Смит снова освещает нам путь сквозь кошмарное настоящее, в жизненно важном праздновании товарищества во всех его формах • Книга на английском языке • The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet • 'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.' • Here we are in extraordinary times • Is this history? • What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? • What have we lost? • What stays with us? • What does it take to unlock our future? • Following her astonishing quartet of Seasonal novels, Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now, in a vital celebration of companionship in all its forms

Однажды в Британии после "Брексита", в разгар пандемии, художнице Сэнди Грей неожиданно звонит университетская знакомая Мартина Пелф. Мартина звонит Сэнди, чтобы попросить помощи с загадочным вопросом, который остался у нее после того, как она провела полдня, запертая в комнате сотрудниками пограничного контроля без всякой причины, которую она не может понять • "Кроншнеп или кронштейн? Выбирай" • И какое отношение все это имеет к истории молодого и талантливого кузнеца, изгнанного из своего ремесла и родного дома более пятисот лет назад? • Роман Али Смит "Пьеса партнеров" взлетает и парит между нашим атомизированным настоящим и нашим средневековым прошлым в надежде, что мы сможем открыть наши запертые дома и самих себя для всех других времен, других видов, других историй, других возможностей

The world is a wonderful place to a brave wolf cub, as his mother teaches him all about nature. But then he meets humans. They call him White Fang, and take him away from the wild. Can he learn their ways to survive, and at what cost to himself? Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith • Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil • Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. 'White Nights' tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, 'A Nasty Business' presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while 'The Meek One' is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy

No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment, dissected with razor-sharp intellect, set brilliantly against the context of the utterly contemporary, and considered with a deep humanity and compassion • This electrifying new collection showcases its author as a true literary powerhouse, demonstrating once again her credentials as an essential voice of her generation

One hot summer a stranger arrives at the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family. Intriguing, beguiling, arresting, Amber brings love, joy, pain and not a little upheaval, throwing the carefully ordered world of the Smarts into the air. They will be forever changed by Amber but how will they know whether it is for the bad, the good or something else entirely?

When a confrontation between a radical enivironmental group and a Danish cruiser off the Faroe Islands sinks a ship, trapping her crew beneath the waves, Kurt Austin of NUMA is immediately called to the rescue. Investigating the collision, Austin uncovers a trail of sabotage that leads to a sinister multinational corporation seeking control of the waves. When he is almost killed for his trouble, Austin knows that this is one organization that will let nothing stand in its way. But with an environmental disaster underway, the clock is ticking for Austin and the NUMA team

December, 1938 • Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolution gaining power, her family is forced to flee Germany. When a tragic accident separates Roz from her parents, she finds herself aboard the Kindertransport bound for Holland • Here Roz meets a young lad called Felix and they vow to stick together as their journey takes them to England. Eventually they find themselves in Liverpool with the promise of a new life, until a devastating incident takes Felix away. And, in a desperate attempt to escape the terrible situation she has found herself in, Roz decides to join the Women's Land Army • On the sprawling farm at Hollybank, Roz meets Bernie, a dashing farmer's son, who has more than just friendship on his mind

Лондон, начало века. Среди нестабильности, бедности и упадка Ли, Натали, Феликс и Натан, родившиеся в нищем районе под названием Колдвелл, пытаются отыскать свое место в жизни. Куда приведет их борьба с самими собой и с городом, который способен перемолоть даже самых сильных? • "Северо-Запад" — сложный, стилистически безупречный роман Зэди Смит, одной из важнейших английских писательниц нашего времени