Virago The Blind Assassin Этвуд Маргарет

Зения – мечта любого мужчины и худший кошмар любой женщины. Она красивая, умная, жадная, манипулирующая, хрупка и беспощадная. А еще мертвая. Чтобы убедиться в этом, Тони, Роз и Чарис отправляются на ее похорны. Но пять лет спустя Зения вновь возвращается в их жизни… • «Невеста-воровка» – это роман Маргарет Этвуд, по мотивам которого был снят одноименный фильм • Книга на английском языке • Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make sure Tony, Roz andd Charis are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share an indulgent, sisterly lunch, the unthinkable happens; 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation', Zenia is back

Мэриен очень хочется быть нормальной. Она кладет голову на плечо своего жениха и покорно ждет свадьбы. Меньше всего она ожидала, что предстоящее торжество вызовет у нее внутренний протест. Мэриен понимает, что она в буквальном смысле не сможет переварить брак… • «Лакомый кусочек» – это забавный и сюрреалистичный дебютный роман Маргарет Этвуд об эмоциональном каннибализме и отношениях мужчин и женщин • Книга на английском языке • Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach ... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and desire to be consumed

«Орикс и Коростель» – это роман канадской писательницы Маргарет Этвуд; увлекательное, провидческое, актуальное и пугающе реалистичное произведение, которое способно изменить мировоззрение читателей • Этвуд переносит нас в обозримое будущее – в странный, и в то же время до жути правдоподобный мир, переживший экологическую и технологическую катастрофу, где обитают персонажи, которые прочно закрепятся в вашем сознании • «Орикс и Коростель» как ничто другое демонстрирует литературный талант Маргарет Этвуд. Первый роман в цикле «Беззумный Адам» перевернет мир читателей с ног на голову • Книга на английском языке • Margaret Atwood's new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it

Художница Элейн Ризли возвращается в Торонто, где провела все свое детство. Воспоминания о пережитом в те времена предательстве оживают в ее памяти, заставляя лицом к лицу столкнуться с призраком Корделии, ее лучшей подруги и главной мучительницы, которая преследовала ее на протяжении сорока лет • «Кошачий глаз» – это роман канадской писательницы Маргарет Этвуд, автора «Рассказа служанки» и «Заветов» • Книга на английском языке • Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years

После свержения правительства было образовано новое государство - Республика Галаад. Вся власть принадлежит военным, которые установили жестокие порядки. Искусство, театр и музыка строго запрещены. Женщины лишены абсолютно всех прав, даже возможности читать и писать • Из-за техногенной катастрофы лишь некоторые женщины способны к воспроизведению потомства. Их называют служанками, они вынашивают и рожают детей для своих хозяев • Фредова - одна из таких служанок. Когда-то у нее было настоящее имя, но теперь оно запрещено. Словно сокровище она хранит это имя и воспоминания о прежней жизни. И точно знает, что когда-нибудь сможет все вернуть • "Рассказ служанки" Маргарет Этвуд и его культовые образы были экранизированы, поставлены в опере, балете и телесериале, удостоенном множества наград

The Daylight and the Dust is the most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four different collections released during her lifetime and featuring many of her best stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection The Lagoon and Other Stories, first published in 1952, right up to the volume You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, published in the 1980s. This new selection also includes five works that have not been collected before • Janet Frame's versatility dazzles. Her themes range from childhood to old age to death and beyond. Within the pages of one book the reader is transported from small town New Zealand to inner-city London, and from realism to fantasy • This volume offers the most comprehensive collection of Janet Frame's unique and powerful writing

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice

The mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan Abbott • Dara and Marie were trained as ballet dancers by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents died in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters took over running the school together with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker - a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration - an interloper arrives and threatens their delicate balance

The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the Guardian observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador

The people of Mount Salus, Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva. He was a quiet, solid reassuring figure, just as a judge should be. Then, ten years after his first wife's death, he marries the frivolous young Wanda Fay. No-one can understand his action, not least his beloved daughter, Laurel, who finds it hard to accept the new bride. It is only some years later, when circumstance brings her back to her childhood home, that Laurel stirs old memories and comes to understand the peculiarities of her upbringing, and the true relationship between her parents and herself • The Optimist's Daughter is a reflective, poignant novel of independence and love, for which Eudora Welty, one of America's gretest contemporary Southern writers, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize

The stories contained here are as American as jazz, and as wise and multifaceted as their writer. Dorothy West's metier is the unique crucible in which America places its black middle class, but her themes are universal: the daily misunderstandings between young and old, men and women, rich and poor that can lead to tragedy; and the ways in which bonds of family and community can bring us together, and tear us asunder • Dorothy West's autobiographical essays explore the poles of her remarkable life - from growing up black and middle-class in Boston to her near-mythic trip to Moscow in 1933 with Langston Hughes and other Harlem Renaissance writers to life on her beloved Martha's Vineyard. They cohere into a beautiful and poignant memoir of a singular American life, a memoir that communicates with her short stories in a host of fertile ways

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place • Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there • She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one day she idly follows it up. This is her leap through the looking glass