"Весна" - это глубоко трогательный роман о семье, нашей повседневной жизни, наших радостях и наших трудностях, прекрасно проиллюстрированный Анной Бьергер • Весна следует за отцом и его новорожденной дочерью в течение одного апрельского дня, от восхода до заката. Это день, наполненный маленькими радостями семейной жизни, но также и ее глубокими испытаниями. В этом поразительном романе из "Квартета времен года" Карл Ове Кнаусгаард бескомпромиссно размышляет о самых мрачных моментах жизни и о том, что может поддержать нас в них • Книга на английском языке • Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger • 'Moving... A circadian novel, set over one day... Entirely ingenious' Daily Telegraph • Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset
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When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. With each rehearsal more sparks fly and the chances of the play being ready to perform recede. Black Snow is the ultimate back-stage novel and a brilliant satire by the author of The Master and Margarita on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre
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James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money for nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in a luxury hotel. They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script
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Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold • The clock is ticking on the offer, and with the group irrevocably split, tensions are running high. When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing in the snow, the group is forced to ask - would someone resort to murder, to get what they want?
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Юкио Мисима: Распад ангела • Четвертая и заключительная книга знаменитой тетралогии Мисимы "Море плодородия" • Драматическая кульминация тетралогии "Море плодородия" происходит в конце 1960-х годов. Хонда, ныне пожилой и богатый человек, обнаруживает и усыновляет шестнадцатилетнего сироту Тору в качестве своего наследника, отождествляя его с трагическими героями трех предыдущих романов, каждый из которых умер в возрасте двадцати лет. Хонда растит и обучает мальчика, но в то же время наблюдает за ним, ожидая • Книга на английском языке • The fourth and final book in Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility • The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty
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"Моряк, утративший благодать моря" - величайший роман Мисимы и один из величайших за последнее столетие. Банда свирепых тринадцатилетних мальчишек отвергает мир взрослых как иллюзорный, лицемерный и сентиментальный и воспитывает в себе жестокую черствость, которую они называют "объективностью". Когда мать одного из них заводит роман с корабельным офицером, он и его друзья сначала идеализируют этого человека; но вскоре они приходят к выводу, что на самом деле он мягкий и романтичный • Они расценивают это разочарование как акт предательства с его стороны - и возмездие, следующее за этим, преднамеренное и ужасающее • Книга на английском языке • Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times • A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'
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On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks • The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis, unemployment was on the rise, and yet, underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir • From poets to pop stars, shopkeepers to schoolchildren, and her own family's experiences, Juliet Nicolson traces the hardship of that frozen winter and the emancipation that followed. That spring, new life was unleashed, along with freedoms we take for granted today
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The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong • 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day • 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers • 1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick • 1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time
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A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker • Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead • So reads an enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, a mystery that lives on in the surrounding hill farms • John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his community. John brought ideas as well as gifts, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road • In the twenty-first century, two hundred and fifty years after John's life, Ian and Sal's world resounds with the echo John's death
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'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them' • At the end of the twentieth century an old woman sits among the birch trees and reflects on the joys and tragedies that have befallen her people. A member of the Evenki tribe who wander the forests of north-eastern China, hers was a life lived in close sympathy with nature at its most beautiful and cruel • Then, in the 1930s, the intimate, secluded world of the tribe is shattered when the Japanese army invades China. The Evenki cannot avoid being pulled into the brutal conflict that marks the beginning of the end of life as they know it
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Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house. Behind him, he has a troubled adolescence, a failed marriage and a little daughter, but his meeting with the quiet and beautiful Rachel heralds a new start. However, after their swift marriage, things don't work out quite as planned and the stresses of living with Rachel's family, in their shared house in Cold Spring Harbor, begin to take their toll on the new couple
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Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become divided • It is at this distinctive time in history British travel writer Colin Thubron embarks on a 600 mile trek across the country. Moving from Greek villages to Turkish towns, the author of Shadow of the Silk Road and Night of Fire provides a profound look into the people of Cyprus – from Orthodox monks to wedding parties to peasant families – against the landscape of a beautiful Mediterranean island on the eve of chaos and tragedy. A remarkable quest rich in literature, classics and architecture, Journey Into Cyprus ingeniously intertwines the history and politics of Cyprus and its mythical past with the tumultuous present – from the master of travel books and writing, Colin Thubron
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