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Падение человека начинается 11 сентября, в дыму и пепле горящих башен • В последующие дни и годы мы прослеживаем последствия этого глобального потрясения в частной жизни нескольких скрытых личностей. Их жизни пронизаны потерями, горем и огромной силой истории • От этих интимных портретов Дон Делилло переходит к экстраполированному видению: он показывает, как события изменили наш эмоциональный ландшафт, нашу память и наше восприятие мира • "Падающий человек" - незабываемый роман, одновременно очищающий, прекрасный и душераздирающий • Книга на английском языке • Falling Man begins on September 11, in the smoke and ash of the burning towers • In the days and the years following, we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals

Джеффри Локхарта вызвали в "Конвергенцию": отдаленный и секретный комплекс, где смерть контролируется с помощью криогенных технологий • Он здесь, чтобы попрощаться со своей мачехой Артис, которая решила отдать свое умирающее тело, сохранив его до будущего, когда достижения биомедицины и новые технологии смогут вернуть ее к жизни, полной трансцендентных надежд • И его здоровый отец, Росс, мог бы присоединиться к ней • Гипнотический и соблазнительный, "Ноль К" Дона Делилло - это фантастический роман о наследии, которое мы оставляем, благородстве смерти и высшей ценности "смешанных удивлений нашего времени здесь, на земле" • Книга на англиийском языке • Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled

Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut • As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover – and Bill's • An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen

Ostensibly, Don DeLillo's blackly comic second novel, End Zone, is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, west Texas • During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war – the language of end zones – become interchanged, the polysemous nature of words emerges, and DeLillo forces us to see beyond the sterile reality of substitution • This clever and playful novel is a timeless and topical study of human beings' obsession with conflict and confrontation

Билл Грей, знаменитый писатель-затворник, выходит из своей изоляции, когда становится ключевой фигурой в мероприятии, организованном с целью принудительного освобождения заложника-поэта в Бейруте • Когда Билл попадает в мир политического насилия, ночной пейзаж со взрывчаткой "Семтекс" и заложниками, запертыми в подвальных помещениях, опасный путь Билла оставляет двух человек в затруднительном положении: его блестящего, зацикленного на себе помощника Скотта и странную молодую женщину, которая является любовницей Скотта - и Билла • Экстраординарный роман Дона Делилло о словах и образах, романистах и террористах, массовом сознании и архи-индивидуалистах "Мао II" исследует мир, в котором способность романиста влиять на внутреннюю жизнь культуры теперь принадлежит изготовителям бомб и стрелкам

Как это странно. У нас есть эти глубокие, ужасные, затяжные страхи. И все же мы ходим, разговариваем с людьми, едим и пьем. Как нам удается продолжать жить. Чувства глубоки и реальны. Разве они не должны парализовать нас? • Джек Глэдни - создатель и председатель отдела изучения Гитлера в Колледже-на-Холме. Это история его абсурдной жизни; жизни, которая идет хорошо, пока утечка химического вещества из вагона поезда не приводит к "воздушно-капельному отравлению", и Джек вынужден столкнуться лицом к лицу со своим самым большим страхом - собственной смертностью • "Белый шум" - это непринужденное сочетание социальной сатиры и метафизической дилеммы, в котором Дон Делилло разоблачает наше безудержное потребительство, насыщенность СМИ и интеллектуализм новизны

The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri • Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so slowly before him, as if wanting to show itself off in all its beauty. The name on the prow said: Halcyon • Two deaths - the suicide of a recently fired worker and the murder of an unscrupulous businessman - lead Inspector Montalbano to the Halcyon, a mysterious ship that visits Vigata's port each day. With very few crewmen, no passengers, and a stern large enough to land a helicopter, it piques the Inspector's interest straight away • In the midst of this, a rare trip to Genoa to visit Livia ends with the Vigata police department in disarray, and Inspector Montalbano's position as the head of the commissariat in jeopardy

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri • In Inspector Montalbano's coastal town of Vigata, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and all the town's hands are on deck to help the arrivals. At the heart of the scene are the police - on the lookout for the people smugglers responsible - and long night-shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted • Then one night, while Montalbano is enduring yet another gruelling stint at the port, a separate crime is committed - unexplained, unexpected, and unpleasant. Elena, the dressmaker at the town's famous tailors, has been found dead - slaughtered by her own scissors

The sequel to Jessie Burton's million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist, The House of Fortune returns to the mysterious Brandt family in 18th-century Amsterdam for a story of fate and fortune • 'Elegant, atmospheric, compelling. I absolutely loved it' - Marian Keyes • 'A book of beauty and insight... awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller' - Elizabeth Day • In the golden city of Amsterdam, in 1705, Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and she is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the city's theatre, Walter, the love of her life, awaits her, but at home in the house on the Herengracht, all is not well - her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, and the Brandt family are selling their furniture in order to eat. On Thea's birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past begin to overwhelm the present

The painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast • In his fifties, and with little money, he retreats to a small island. Arriving in the winter, the island at first seems a desolate and forgotten place. As the seasons turn, Terry begins to see the island’s beauty, and discovers that he is only one of many people who have sought refuge here. These independent outsiders, all with their own considerable struggles, have made a precarious home • The island is owned by the business man and art collector Alex Kaplan. His decision to enforce a rent increase as he seeks to improve his property looks set to destroy this community that cannot afford to lose the little they have left. As an artist, Terry believes making the invisible struggles of the island visible to the world will help – but will his interference save anybody other than himself? • The Painter’s Friend shows the human cost of gentrification for those dispossessed

The intoxicating story of one woman's dreams of freedom in Victorian England and the man whose obsession threatens to destroy them forever… • 'A sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art and obsession' - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train • London. 1850. On a crowded street, the dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. Louis is a painter who yearns to have his work displayed in the Royal Academy, and he is desperate for Iris to be his model. Iris agrees, on the condition that he teaches her to paint • Dreaming of freedom, Iris throws herself into a new life of art and love, unaware that she has caught the eye of a second man. Silas Reed is a curiosity collector, enchanted by the strange and beautiful. After seeing Iris at the site of the Great Exhibition he finds he cannot forget her

The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar; and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her with a call. Sweeping between India and England, and between childhood and the present day, Sunjeev Sahota's generous, unforgettable novel is - as with Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance - a story of dignity in the face of adversity and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit