"Возлюбленная", самый знаменитый роман Тони Моррисон, ее первый бестселлер, награжден Пулитцеровской (1988), а затем и Нобелевской премией (1993).
В основе книги - реальные события, происходившие в штате Огайо в 80-х годах ХIХ в.: история чернокожей рабыни, которая убивает свою дочь, спасая ее от рабства. В одноименной экранизации, снятой Джонатаном Дэмме и номинированной на Оскар в 1998 году, роль главной героини с неожиданным блеском сыграла суперзвезда американского телевидения Опра Уинфри.
Diane Johnson0.0 From the author of "Le Divorce" comes another alluring, fast-paced novel of an American woman abroad. While visiting Iran with her husband, Chloe Fowler is left to travel alone when he is summoned home unexpectedly. Initially drawn to the life she encounters in Iran, Chloe soon experiences frightening events that exposes the darker side of this "colonial life".
Элис Макдермот0.0 On a warm suburban night, the sound of lawn sprinklers is drowned out by the rumble of hot rods. Suddenly a car careens onto a family’s neat front yard, teenage boys spill out brandishing chains and leather, and a young man cries out for the girl he loves. Tonight fathers will pick up snow shovels and rakes to defend their turf, and children will witness a battle fueled by fierce, true love. This is the night they will talk about and remember as the moment everything changed forever.
Richard Rhodes4.7 In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly—or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began merely as an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers—Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and von Neumann—stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step-by-step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man’s most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.
Beloved, by Toni Morrison