Vintage books The Sea, The Sea Мердок Айрис

"Единорог" - остроумное, атмосферное переосмысление викторианского готического романа от Айрис Мердок • Когда Мэриан Тейлор занимает пост гувернантки в замке Гейз, отдаленном доме на красивом, но пустынном побережье, она сталкивается со многими странными загадками. Какое преступление или катастрофа в прошлом все еще держат дом под гнетом мрачных чар? И является ли ее работодательница Ханна невинной жертвой, виновной женщиной, сумасшедшей или ведьмой? • Книга на английском языке • Iris Murdoch's witty, atmospheric subversion of the Victorian Gothic novel • WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALF • When Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries

Discover Murdoch’s wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community • A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean... Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty

Имбер-Корт - тихое пристанище для заблудших душ, утопия для тех, кто не может жить ни в этом мире, ни вне его. Но под спокойной повседневной рутиной этого сообщества скрываются подавленные желания, религиозная тоска и легенда о пагубной любви. Очаровательная, ленивая Дора появляется среди них и, сама того не желая, вызывает эти погруженные в воду существа на поверхность • Книга на английском языке • 'In this holy community she would play the witch.' • Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls, a utopia for those who can neither live in the world, nor out of it. But beneath the gentle daily routines of this community run currents of supressed desire, religious yearning and a legend of disastrous love. Charming, indolent Dora arrives in their midst, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface

Айрис Мердок: Море, Море • Чарльз Эрроуби твердо решил провести остаток своих дней в созерцании, подобном отшельничеству. Он покупает таинственно сырой дом на побережье, вдали от пьянящего мира театра, где он сделал себе имя, и там плавает в море, ест отвратительные блюда и пишет свои мемуары. Но затем он встречает свою возлюбленную детства Хартли, и воспоминания о ней в молодости - вместе с более поздними любовниками и друзьями - вторгаются в его добровольное изгнание. Поэтому вместо того, чтобы "учиться быть хорошим", Чарльз продолжает демонстрировать, каким очень плохим он может быть • Книга на английском языке • ''I saw a monster rising from the waves.' • Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries before Columbus and east to the great rivers of Russia and the riches of the Byzantine empire • One summer’s day in 793, death arrived from the sea. The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings, sea-borne attackers who brought two centuries of terror to northern Europe. Before long the sight of their dragon-prowed longships and the very name of Viking gave rise to fear and dread, so much so that monks were reputed to pray each night for delivery from ‘the Northmen’s Fury’

The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking • But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved. As Hammond Innes' classic tale moves from desperate struggles on the sea to a nail-biting courtroom controversy, the murky truth about the last voyage of the Mary Deare finally comes to light

From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize • On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile’i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive • Across the sea, Alice Shih’s life is interrupted when a vast trash vortex comes crashing onto the shore of Taiwan, bringing Atile’i with it • In the aftermath of the catastrophe, Atile’i and Alice retrace her late husband’s footsteps into the mountains, hoping to solve the mystery of her son’s disappearance. On their journey, memories will be challenged, an unusual bond formed, and a dark secret uncovered that will force Alice to question everything she thought she knew

'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' • On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shih's life is interrupted when a vast trash vortex comes crashing onto the shore of Taiwan, bringing Atile'i with it • In the aftermath of the catastrophe, Atile'i and Alice retrace her late husband's footsteps into the mountains, hoping to solve the mystery of her son's disappearance. On their journey, memories will be challenged, an unusual bond formed, and a dark secret uncovered that will force Alice to question everything she thought she knew

"Щедрость морской девы" - это долгожданный новый сборник рассказов Дениса Джонсона, автора новаторского, получившего широкую известность романа "Сын Иисуса". Написанный в той же яркой прозе, этот сборник выводит Джонсона на новую территорию, где он размышляет о смертности, призраках прошлого и неуловимых и неожиданных способах самоутверждения тайн Вселенной • Законченный незадолго до смерти Джонсона, этот сборник - последнее слово писателя, чье творчество будет жить еще много лет • Книга на английском языке • The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus' Son. Written in the same luminous prose, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating mortality, the ghosts of the past, and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves

A compelling and painfully emotional thriller from the author of international bestseller Star of the Sea • From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, a thrilling novel about a father who takes the law into his own hands • 'Gripping and moving...a taut, expertly crafted plot' Guardian • Dublin, June 1995: the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more than weather on his mind • His youngest daughter lies in a coma in hospital following a mysterious attack on the petrol station where she worked. Devastated by the unfolding consequences of that violent night and frustrated by the system, Billy finally decides to take the law into his own hands

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

A bewitching tale of first love, shattering grief, and the dangerous magic that draws us home • Mara's island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her • Mara's parents - a boxer and a ballerina - chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbulence of their previous lives; they wanted to bring up their children somewhere special and safe. But the island and the sea don't care what people want, and when they claim a price from her family, Mara's world unravels • It takes the arrival of Pearl, mysterious and irresistible, to light a spark in Mara again, and allow her to consider a different story for herself