Peter Carey4.4 Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.
Брюс Чатвин3.8 Роман знаменитого журналиста, путешественника и антрополога Брюса Чатвина “Утц” о безумном чешском коллекционере фарфоровых безделушек. Мистическая Прага, тени императора Рудольфа и рабби Лёва, Кафки и Майринка, китайских алхимиков и других не менее почтенных персонажей мелькают на страницах этого интеллектуального романа-мистификации с детективным сюжетом, сдобренным изрядной долей настоящего английского юмора.
Penelope Fitzgerald4.5 Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow.
Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank’s wife Nellie caught the train back home to England, without explanation.
How is a reasonable man like Frank to cope? How should he keep his house running? Should he consult the Anglican chaplain’s wife? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his chief book-keeper? How do people live together, and what happens when, sometimes, they don’t?
Дэвид Лодж3.9 Университетский городок Раммидж, как мы убедились по прошлым произведениям Д.Лоджа ("Академический обмен", "Мир тесен"), - невероятно забавное место. А теперь, на новом этапе своей истории, он вынужден обратиться лицом к миру, командируя на местный завод одну из наиболее талантливых и очаровательных своих представительниц, Робин Пенроуз.
Впрочем, и "старая гвардия", наши добрые знакомые Ф.Лоу, М.Цапп и другие, еще не раз удивят, развеселят и растрогают нас, появившись на страницах нового романа Д.Лоджа.
Salman Rushdie3.7 One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.
Marina Warner0.0 Like Visconti's film The Leopard, this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism.
According to family legend, David Pittagora died as a result of a duel. His death is the mysterious pivot around which his grand-daughter, an independent modern woman, constructs an imaginary memoir of her mother's background and life. She follows the family as they emigrate to New York - where they find only humiliation and poverty - and after their return to Italy in the early 1920's. As she is drawn by the passions and prejudices of her own imagination, we see how family memory, like folk memory, weaves its own dreams.
