Мадлен Тьен4.0 Семья Мари Цзян иммигрировала из Китая в Канаду и осела в Ванкувере. Здесь, после самоубийства отца, Мари вместе с матерью разбирает его бумаги и постепенно погружается в удивительную, жестокую и кровавую историю Китайской Народной Республики, от гражданской войны и культурной революции до событий на площади Тяньаньмэнь. Судьба трех поколений семьи Мари оказывается накрепко связанной с судьбой семьи еще одной эмигрантки – Ай Мин. События настоящего и прошлого наслаиваются друг на друга, а произведение постепенно становится масштабной эпической сагой о жизни людей, брошенных в безжалостные жернова великих перемен, грандиозных свершений и больших надежд.
Эмма Донохью3.9 В этом удивительном романе сплелись воедино нездоровая жажда сенсаций и истинная вера в ЧУДО!
Ирландия середины XIX века. Внимание общественности привлечено к одиннадцатилетней девочке, которая вот уже четыре месяца обходится без еды, но чувствует себя живой и здоровой. В глухую ирландскую деревушку со всего света стекаются желающие поглазеть на чудо. Что на самом деле служит ей пищей для тела и души? Что это — чудо или кто-то манипулирует ребенком, чтобы погубить его?
Впервые на русском языке от автора знаменитого романа «Комната».
Зои Уиттолл3.5 Shortlisted for the Giller Prize • A hometown hero schoolteacher is arrested for sexual impropriety at a prestigious prep school in this provocative, timely novel about loyalty, truth, and happiness in an American family.
Кэтрин Леру0.0 Selected for Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2016
Catherine Leroux's first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she absorbed her twin sister's body in the womb and that she has two sets of DNA; a girl in the deep South pushes her sister out of the way of a speeding train, losing her legs; and a political couple learn that they are non-identical twins separated at birth. The Party Wall establishes Leroux as one of North America's most intelligent and innovative young authors.
Гари Барвин3.0 Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion.
From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking yet poetic bird guides us through a world of pirate ships, Yiddish jokes and treasure maps. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish and Moishe joins a band of hidden Jews trying to preserve some forbidden books. He falls in love with a young woman, Sarah; though they are separated by circumstance, Moishe's wanderings are motivated as much by their connection as by his quest for loot and freedom. When all Jews are expelled from Spain, Moishe travels to the Caribbean with the ambitious Christopher Columbus, a self-made man who loves his creator. Moishe eventually becomes a pirate and seeks revenge on the Spanish while seeking the ultimate booty: the Fountain of Youth.
This outstanding New Face of Fiction is filled with Jewish takes on classic pirate tales--fights, prison escapes, and exploits on the high seas--but it's also a tender love story, between Moishe and Sarah, and between Aaron and his "shoulder," Moishe. Rich with puns, colourful language, post-colonial satire and Kabbalistic hijinks, Yiddish for Pirates is also a compelling examination of mortality, memory, identity and persecution from one of this country's most talented writers.
Kerry Lee Powell0.0 An unflinching and masterful collection of award-winning stories, Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush is a career-making debut. Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are populated by barkeeps, good men down on their luck, rebellious teens, lonely immigrants, dreamers and realists, fools and quiet heroes. In author Kerry-Lee Powell’s skillful hands, each character, no matter what their choices, is deeply human in their search for connection. Powell holds us in her grasp, exploring with a black humour themes of belonging, the simmering potential for violence and the meaning of art no matter where it is found, and revealing with each story something essential about the way we see the world.
A selection of these stories have won significant awards including the Boston Review fiction contest and The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons award for short fiction. For readers of Lorrie Moore, Denis Johnson and Michael Christie.
