В своих рассказах Бёль выносит обвинительный приговор кровавому фашистскому времени и вместе с тем развенчивает годы, предшествовавшие захвату Гитлером власти: эгоизм, распад нравственности, безработицу, полицейские бесчинства, которыми в Германии были ознаменованы конец 20-х – начало 30-х годов.

Алексей Александрович Ростовцев — полковник в отставке, прослуживший в советской разведке четверть века, из них шестнадцать лет — за рубежом; писатель, автор многих книг и публикаций, член Союза писателей России.«…Контрразведка и разведка дали мне неисчерпаемый материал для моих литературных экзерсисов на всю оставшуюся жизнь. В моих рассказах — жестокая правда оперативной работы, которую надо делать чистыми руками. Из соображений конспирации я заменил клички агентов, установочные данные фигурантов, сместил временные и пространственные рамки событий. Всё остальное — правда…»Алексей Ростовцев, полковник советской разведки

Этому роману знаменитого сербского писателя Милорада Павича присущи многозначность и нелинейная направленность повествования, свободное обращение с пространством и временем. «Инвентаризация» случайно купленного старинного ящика для письменных принадлежностей, обследование его отделений и потаённых закоулков оборачиваются раскрытием космоса человеческой души...

Этому роману знаменитого сербского писателя Милорада Павича присущи многозначность и нелинейная направленность повествования, свободное обращение с пространством и временем. «Инвентаризация» случайно купленного старинного ящика для письменных принадлежностей, обследование его отделений и потаенных закоулков оборачиваются раскрытием космоса человеческой души...

Романы французского писателя Марселя Эме (1902–1967) «Ящики незнакомца» и «Наезжающей камерой» публикуются на русском языке впервые. По усложненности композиции и нарочитой обнаженности литературных приемов они близки исканиям некоторых представителей «нового романа», а также линии абсурда у экзистенциалистов.В романе «Ящики незнакомца» на фоне полудетективного, полуфантастического сюжета с юмором, доходящим до сарказма, представлены странно запутанные взаимоотношения героев с их маленькими сиюминутными трагедиями и глобальными философскими изысканиями.Как будто в старой киноленте мелькают герои романа «Наезжающей камерой», в котором дерзко сочетаются глубокие чувства с низменными инстинктами, восхищенные эстетские разговоры с откровенной глупостью, благородная дружба с равнодушным предательством.

Роман, действие которого происходит в постперестроечные годы в Латвии, в бывшем курортном, а теперь безнадежно захолустном городе Юрмале, где сложно переплетаются судьбы и поступки самых разных людей – от талантливого художника до новых буржуа и тех, кто их обслуживает, посвящен любви, той роли, которую играет она в нашей жизни, и тем проблемам, которые она с собой приносит. Произведение адресовано широкому кругу читателей

Роман Марины Юденич, профессионального психолога и одной из самых популярных писательниц России, написан, как и предыдущие ее произведения, в жанре психологической прозы с элементами мистики.Обычный, благополучный московский двор вновь и вновь притягивает к себе безумного серийного убийцу. Маньяка, который не просто творит зло, но словно ведет странную войну — войну по загадочным, одному ему известным правилам. Убийцу необходимо остановить, и, наверное, можно это сделать. Но удастся ли остановить Зло, что вместе с ним вошло в мир? Зло, корни которого лежат в далеком прошлом, когда совершилось нечто, ужасом и болью отозвавшееся теперь?..

A is a work of fiction in which Andre Alexis presents the compelling narrative of Alexander Baddeley, a Toronto book reviewer obsessed with the work of the elusive and mythical poet Avery Andrews. Baddeley is in awe with Andrews's ability as a poet — more than anything he wants to understand the inspiration behind his work — so much so that, following in the footsteps of countless pilgrims throughout literary history, Baddeley actually tracks Andrews down thinking that meeting his literary hero will provide some answers. Their meeting results in a meditation and a revelation about the creative act itself that generates more and more questions about what it means to be "inspired." Alexis further develops this narrative through a reflection in essay form presented as an annex that build layers of thought upon not only the original narrative, but provides Alexis's own motives (and perhaps, obsessions) behind writing A.

«Кто бы мог подумать, что из нитей современности можно сплетать такие изящные кружевные фестоны. Эта книга влюбляет. Нежно, чувственно, телесно», – написал Герман Садулаев о прозе Евгении Добровой. Дилогия «Двойное дно», включающая повести «Маленький Моцарт» и «А под ним я голая» (напечатанная в журнале «Новый мир» под названием «Розовые дома, она вошла в шорт лист Бунинской премии), поражает отточенной женской иронией и неподдельным детским трагизмом, выверенностью стиля и яркостью образов, интимностью переживаний и страстью, которая прельщает и захватывает читателя. В заключительной части, «У небожителей», добавляется исторический фон, наложенный на личную историю, – действие происходит в знаменитой высотке на Котельниках, с ее флером легенд и неповторимой атмосферой.

A highly charged fiction debut about a young woman in India, and the love that both shatters and transforms her.She is twenty, restless in New Delhi. Her mother has died; her father has left for Singapore.He is a few years older, just back to India from New York.When they meet in a café one afternoon, she — lonely, hungry for experience, yearning to break free of tradition — casts aside her fears and throws herself headlong into a love affair, one that takes her where she has never been before.Told in a voice at once gritty and lyrical, mournful and frank, A Bad Character marks the arrival of an astonishingly gifted new writer. It is an unforgettable hymn to a dangerous, exhilarating city, and a portrait of desire and its consequences as timeless as it is universal.

"The burlesque echoes the greatest Spanish classics, from Quevedo to Camilo José Cela." — M. García Posada, El PaísA Bad End is the story of Goyito, a dwarf at the end of his life, who tells us, in a bitter and sarcastic way, the miserable reality of his lonely childhood, his macabre experiences as a circus clown, and his liaisons dangereuses in Madrid's underworld. Mischief, desire, death, ambition, revenge — the life of a rascal told in exuberant, exhilarating language. Winner of the Premio Ojo Crítico.Fernando Royuela is a Spanish lawyer and fiction writer who lives in Madrid, Spain.

Breaking the law in a foolhardy attempt to accommodate his customers, unscrupulous department store owner Leo Feldman finds himself in jail and at the mercy of the warden, who tries to break Leo of his determination to stay bad.

The hugely anticipated sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that’s not exactly true. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl’s path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later, the world is as confused as ever. Andy has picked up April’s mantle of fame, speaking at conferences and online about the world post-Carl; Maya, ravaged by grief, begins to follow a string of mysteries that she is convinced will lead her to April; and Miranda infiltrates a new scientific operation . . . one that might have repercussions beyond anyone’s comprehension. As they each get further down their own paths, a series of clues arrive—mysterious books that seem to predict the future and control the actions of their readers; unexplained internet outages; and more—which seem to suggest April may be very much alive. In the midst of the gang's possible reunion is a growing force, something that wants to capture our consciousness and even control our reality. *A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor*  is the bold and brilliant follow-up to  *An Absolutely Remarkable Thing*. It’s a fast-paced adventure that is also a biting social commentary, asking hard, urgent questions. How will we live online? What powers over our lives are we giving away for free? Who has the right to change the world forever? And how do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?

In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. Missy had been his first love, and Miles fervently believes she will be his last. As a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, he not only grieves for Missy, but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice.Then Miles meets Sarah Andrew. The second-grade teacher of his son, Jonah, Sarah had left Baltimore after a difficult divorce to start over in the gentler surroundings of New Bern. Perhaps it is her own emotional wounds that make her sensitive to the hurt she sees first in Jonah's eyes, and then in his father's. Tentatively, Sarah and Miles reach out to each other. Soon they are both laughing for the first time in years.and falling in love.Neither will be able to guess how closely linked they are to a shocking secret – one that will force them to question everything they ever believed in. and make a heartbreaking choice that will change their lives for ever.In A Bend In The Road, Nicholas Sparks writes with a luminous intensity about life's bitter turns and incomparable sweetness. His affirming message carries a powerful lesson about the imperfections of being human, the mistakes we all make, and the joy that comes when we give ourselves to love.

The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering — illness, regret, mourning, sympathy — in the most unusual of ways. In “Stab,” a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In “Why Antichrist?” a boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. In the remarkable title story, a ne’er do well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent.With Gob’s Grief and The Children’s Hospital, Chris Adrian announced himself as a writer of rare talent and originality. The stories in A Better Angel, some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, and McSweeney’s, demonstrate more of his endless inventiveness and wit, and they confirm his growing reputation as a most exciting and unusual literary voice — of heartbreaking, magical, and darkly comic tales.

The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering — illness, regret, mourning, sympathy — in the most unusual of ways. In “Stab,” a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In “Why Antichrist?” a boy tries to contact the spirit of his dead father and finds himself talking to the Devil instead. In the remarkable title story, a ne’er do well pediatrician returns home to take care of his dying father, all the while under the scrutiny of an easily-disappointed heavenly agent.With Gob’s Grief and The Children’s Hospital, Chris Adrian announced himself as a writer of rare talent and originality. The stories in A Better Angel, some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, and McSweeney’s, demonstrate more of his endless inventiveness and wit, and they confirm his growing reputation as a most exciting and unusual literary voice — of heartbreaking, magical, and darkly comic tales.

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, " and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories""and""Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards." "In her new collection, she enhances her reputation as a true artist of the form.Here are characters confronted with tragedy, perplexed by emotions, and challenged to endure whatever modern life may have in store. A loving mother accompanies her daughter in her journey to become a man, and discovers a new, hopeful love. A stepmother and stepson meet again after fifteen years and a devastating mistake, and rediscover their familial affection for each other. And in "The Story," a widow bent on seducing another woman's husband constructs and deconstructs her story until she has "made the best and happiest ending" possible "in this world."

In this Conradian masterpiece of American innocence and evil set in the fictional Central American country of Boca Grande, two American women face the harsh realities, political and personal, of living on the edge in a land with an uncertain future. Writing with her signature telegraphic swiftness, the author creates a terrifying commentary on an age of conscienceless authority.