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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma • Danny - formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Denied refugee status, working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney, for four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself, finally coming as close as he ever has to living a normal life • One morning, Danny learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered. A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single ordinary, yet extraordinary day, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights nevertheless has responsibilities
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Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books • Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing • Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside • Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a novel like no other • Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature
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Мир просто идет своим чередом. Ничто особо не имеет значения, понимаешь? Я имею в виду, действительно имеет значение. но потом иногда, всего на секунду, ты обретаешь эту благодать, эту веру в то, что это действительно имеет большое значение • С вступительным словом от Лидии Дэвис • Рассказы Люсии Берлин из "Руководства для уборщиц" составляют один из самых замечательных невоспетых сборников американской художественной литературы двадцатого века • С необычайной честностью и магнетизмом Лючия Берлин приглашает нас в свою богатую странствующую жизнь: выпивку, беспорядок, боль, красоту, моменты удивления и грации, с голосом остроумным, анархичным, сострадательным и совершенно уникальным • Книга на английском языке • Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books • The world just goes along
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Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels, a classic that evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad • Mr Biswas has been told since the day of his birth that misfortune will follow him – and so it has. Meaning only to avoid punishment, he causes the death of his father and the dissolution of his family. Wanting simply to flirt with a beautiful woman, he ends up marrying her. But in spite of endless setbacks, Mr Biswas is determined to achieve independence, and so he begins the gruelling struggle to buy a home of his own • Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature
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Роман Эллиса "Американский психопат" стремительно стал современной классикой, • Патрик Бэйтмен — красивый, хорошо образованный, интеллигентный молодой человек. Днем он работает на Уолл-стрит, но это служит лишь довеском к его истинному призванию. То, чем он занимается вечерами и по ночам, не может присниться разнеженному обывателю и в самом страшном сне. Ему двадцать шесть лет, и он живет своей собственной Американской Мечтой • Книга на английском языке • Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books • I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? • Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and reservations at every new restaurant in town. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare… • With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time
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This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters' The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and author of While You Sleep • 'It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed… Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in your dealings with her.' • The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The Sculptress' • Journalist Rosalind Leigh knew this much before her first meeting with Olive, currently serving a life sentence. How could Roz have foreseen that the encounter was destined to change her life - for ever?
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В юго-западной части Индии, на берегу океана, между Ioa и Каликутом, есть маленький и ничем особо не примечательный городок Киттур. В этом провинциальном местечке жизнь течет медленно, но, как и везде, она наполнена смешным и страшным, трагическим и лирическим. Мальчик-мусульманин, прислуживающий в привокзальной чайной, попадает в сети исламского террориста; скромного продавца книг арестовывают за продажу «Сатанинских стихов»; богатый старшеклассник-полукровка решает взорвать свой колледж; фальшивый сексолог, торгующий снадобьями и раздающий советы по части половой жизни, вынужден искать настоящее лекарство для юноши, который болен таинственным недугом. Эти и другие истории сплетаются в кружево повседневной жизни Киттура и его обитателей, и в результате получается портрет провинциальной Индии в семилетний период между двумя убийствами — Индиры 1анди и ее сына Раджива
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I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my medication. Empty nest syndrome, he tells his friends at the pub, his mother. He's always said I have a vivid imagination. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time - so long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife. But when Hector comes home with a secret, their ordered domestic life begins to unravel, and Marta begins to see things, or perhaps to remember them. In the shadows there is a blonde girl that only Marta can see. And she wants something
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Andrea Camilleri's sensational and darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt • A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigata harbour - and into a puzzling new mystery. The crew of a mysterious yacht - the Vanna - due to dock in the area has discovered a corpse floating in the water, the dead man's face badly disfigured. It isn't long before Montalbano becomes suspicious of the Vanna's inhabitants. Who is the yacht's owner, the glamorous and short-tempered Livia Giovannini? How has she accrued her riches? And why does she spend so much time at sea? • Meanwhile Montalbano finds himself getting into tangles with the dreaded Commissioner, the exasperating Dr Lattes and a very beautiful young woman at the harbour, with whom he becomes dangerously besotted
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Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv • Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth century. They will find themselves - along with their Jewish adopted sister, Ev Solm - caught up in in the maelstrom of their changing times • As the two brothers climb the rungs of society - working first for the government in Nazi Germany, then as agents for the Allied Forces, and eventually becoming spies for the young West Germany - Ev will be their constant companion, and eventually a lover to them both. The passionate love triangle that emerges will propel the characters to terrifying moral and political depths
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1930s King's Cross, London • When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio, Cameron McCabe finds himself at the centre of a police investigation. There are multiple suspects, multiple confessors and, as more people around him die, McCabe begins to perform his own amateur sleuth-work, followed doggedly by the mysterious Inspector Smith • But then, abruptly, McCabe's account ends… • Who is Cameron McCabe? Is he victim? Murderer? Novelist? Joker? • And if not McCabe, who is the author of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor?
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Can someone in prison be more free than someone outside? Would we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy of forgiveness? • Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. Every day he has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and listens as they explore new ways to think about their situation • When Andy goes behind bars, he also confronts his inherited trauma: his father, uncle and brother all spent time in prison. While Andy has built a different life for himself, he still fears that their fate will also be his. As he discusses pressing questions of truth, identity and hope with his students, he searches for his own form of freedom too • Moving, sympathetic, wise and frequently funny, The Life Inside is an elegantly written and unforgettable book
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