Picador Five Tuesdays in Winter Кинг Лили

he stunning short story collection from the bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria • A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. A widow whisks her daughter away for a holiday she can barely afford, desperate to help the two of them grieve. A neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students. A proud man rages helplessly at his granddaughter’s hospital bedside. A writer receives a visit from all of the men who have tried to suppress her voice • The romantic but brutally raw stories in Five Tuesdays in Winter explore desire, heartache, moments of shocking cruelty and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. This profoundly tender collection confirms Lily King as one of our most beloved chroniclers of the human heart

From the author of Writers & Lovers, Euphoria is Lily King's gripping novel inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world • In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her controversial work studying South Pacific tribes, her intelligent and aggressive husband Fen, and Andrew Bankson, who stumbles into the lives of this strange couple and becomes totally enthralled. Within months the trio are producing their best ever work, but soon a firestorm of fierce love and jealousy begins to burn out of control, threatening their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives

«Писатели & Любовники» - портрет художника в молодости. Лили Кинг мастерски пишет о желаниях и потерях, творчестве и вдохновении, о том, как все это влияет друг на друга • Недавно пережив разрушительный любовный роман и оплакивая потерю своей любимой мамы, Кейси потерялась. Роман, который она писала шесть лет, никуда не годится, ее долги растут, и в тридцать один год, когда все ее друзья выходят замуж и заводят детей, она чувствует себя слишком старой для того, чтобы все было так • Потом она встречает Сайласа. Он добрый, красивый, заинтересованный. Но всего несколько недель спустя Оскар - постаревший, очаровательный, проблемный - входит в ее жизнь, ведя за собой двух своих сыновей. Внезапно Кейси оказывается в центре любовного треугольника, разрываясь между двумя совершенно разными отношениями, которые обещают два совершенно разных будущего

Всю свою жизнь Лилия убегает от близких людей. Её преследуют неспособность вспомнить её раннее детство и загадочная тень, повсюду следующая за ней. Лилия постоянно переезжает из одного города в другой, бросая друзей и воздыхателей. Но однажды в её жизни появляется Илай, который не хочет отдавать её без боя • "Последний вечер в Монреале" Эмили Сент-Джон Мандел - ошеломительно красивый, пронизанный напряжением и тревогой роман о жизни, проходящей под знаком расследования, роман об идентичности, любви и памяти, силе семейных уз и, в конечном счёте, природе помешательства • Книга на английском языке • Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a mysterious shadow that seems to dog her wherever she goes, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and friends along the way

A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers • Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself, moving to an unnamed country in the heart of the continent he believes he is doing so to fulfil his duty as a man. He buys a small shop in a sleepy town, at a bend in the river, where he sells sundries to the locals • First published in 1979, A Bend in the River is V.S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. Serving as a microcosm of this changing world, his bend in the river is a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty

A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name • In the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara left his family in Milan and moved to Rome for work. Soon unemployed, he has spent his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between hotels, bars, romantic entanglements, and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends. Rome is indifferent. Leo drifts, aimless and alone • On the evening of his thirtieth birthday, he meets Arianna, a young woman who is both fragile and seductive. All night they drive the city in Leo's run-down Alfa Romeo, talking and talking. They eat brioche for breakfast, drink through the dawn, drive to the sea and back. A whirlwind beginning. This is the story of the year Leo fell in love and lost everything

Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent’s remote interior and is selling sundries – little more than this and that, really – to the natives • This spot, this ‘bend in the river’, is a microcosm of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence: a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. And from this rich landscape emerges one of the author’s most potent works – a truly moving story of historical upheaval and social breakdown

A Voice in the Night is the twentieth compelling crime novel in the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri • Feeling his age, as his birthday rolls round once again, Inspector Montalbano decides to cheer himself up by dealing with a young driver's road rage in his own unique way • But his joy is short-lived, as at police headquarters he receives an angry phone call from a supermarket boss: there's been a robbery at his store and Montalbano's colleague is treating him as a suspect. On arrival at the scene, Montalbano quickly agrees with Inspector Augello that this was no ordinary break-in, but with the supermarket's infamous links to the Sicilian Mafia creating problems at every turn, this isn't going to be an easy case for the inspector to solve

An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann • Walter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit of the Waffen-SS, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, only to be captured and sentenced to death, the friends are reunited under catastrophic circumstances • In a few days the war will be over, millions of innocents will be dead, and the survivors must find a way to live with its legacy

Исследуйте красоту зимы в новой книге Элизабет Дженнер "На что обратить внимание зимой" • Несмотря на голые ветви и долгие темные ночи, зима в Великобритании - время года, полное жизни. Ясное зимнее небо наполнено птицами, а ранний утренний мороз обнажает следы ночных животных. В этой книге подробно рассказывается об инее, лесных грибах, ясном звездном небе и утренних туманах по мере того, как тайны зимы начинают проявляться в окружающем нас мире • Книга на английском языке • Explore the beauty of winter in this new edition of What to Look For in Winter • Despite the bare branches and long, dark nights, winter in the UK is a season full of life. The clear winter skies are filled with birds and the early morning frost reveals the tracks of nocturnal creatures

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