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Увлекательный роман о жизни Зельды Сейр Фицджеральд, супруги выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда.Книга удостоена Гонкуровской премии за 2007 год.

Friedrich Baroh, is beset by problems. Anarch, aspiring entrepreneur, and amateur historian of ideas, the aristocratic Baroh is also, unfortunately, a soldier in the East German army. His eventual defection to the West leads to a college degree, marriage, and a good job at his uncle's funeral parlor, but it can't dispel Baroh's other problem, a metaphysical one: each man is alone. Since, paradoxically, this is a predicament he shares with the rest of humanity, Baroh decides to capitalize on it. He embarks on a mind-boggling and macabre enterprise — the construction of Terrestra, an international, nondenominational necropolis situated in the wastelands of Turkey. Soon, secondary businesses are called for: airlines, travel agencies, anything to make Terrestra more accessible to anyone who can afford it. His scheme is so overwhelmingly successful that Baroh is forced to take on help, including the enigmatic Phares, whose unsettling presence and gnomic utterances may, at last, help Baroh to understand the depths of the problem he has set for himself. As mordantly ironic as Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One, Aladdin's Problem is a richly poetic meditation on the rituals of death. In its prismatic complexity, its philosophical depth, Junger's half-mythical, half-political tale becomes a caustic allegory of the conditions of modern life.

Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him.Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him.Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian Railway, he initiates a journey to revitalize his energy and passion. Even so, he never expects to meet Hilal. A gifted young violinist, she is the woman Paulo loved five hundred years before—and the woman he betrayed in an act of cowardice so far-reaching that it prevents him from finding real happiness in this life. Together they will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, traveling a path that teaches love, forgiveness, and the courage to overcome life’s inevitable challenges. Beautiful and inspiring, Aleph invites us to consider the meaning of our own personal journeys: Are we where we want to be, doing what we want to do?

Publisher Comments:Re-creating the lives of two of the most intriguing rulers in history, Shan Sa brings us a novel filled with the sound of hooves, the whistle of arrows, blood, passion, and betrayal. The familiar figure of Alexander the Great comes to new life in this richly imagined tale, which entwines his historical legacy with a fantastic love affair set in a wartime between Western and Eastern civilizations.Abused by his father, King Philip, who loved and hated his beauty; shadowed by his mother, the mystical and overbearing Queen Olympias; educated by Aristotle who wanted him to be a wise philosopher of Macedonia, Alexander develops a complex character. He becomes a brutal warrior, a pitiless strategist, and a poet longing for the world's wonders. Meanwhile, in the remote steppes of Siberia, an abandoned girl grows up among the wild mares, then adopted by the queen of the Amazons – the tribe of female warriors who dominates a wild world of snow and volcano. As a future queen, the young girl is trained to hate men and to fight against all invaders.In the course of his great conquest of Asia, Alexander first meets the stunning Alestria on the battlefield. Surprised to find that his adversary is a woman, he is instantly smitten by the fierce queen. Dazzled by his strength, she decides to kidnap him and make him her "wife." At last, this legendary king – renowned for his beauty and love of men – has found his equal. And at last, this indomitable young woman has found a reason to leave her tribe. Their love, deeply passionate and problematic, evolves against an exotic backdrop of warfare and political turmoil, sweeps from antique Greece to Egypt, across the ancient Iraq and Iran, unto the mysterious kingdoms of India.Review:"An epic fictional romance between Alexander the Great and an Amazon queen drives the latest from Shan Sa (Empress). As a boy, Sa's Alexander is abused by his father, King Philip of Macedonia. Alexander grows into a cruel and narcissistic youth with an unquenchable thirst for revenge. His political ambitions blossom under the tutelage of Aristotle, and after his father's assassination, Alexander sets off to conquer Greece, Persia and Egypt. When he meets Alestria, the young queen of the Amazons (a mythical tribe of nomadic, male-spurning female warriors from the eastern steppes), he has perhaps met his match in love and war. Told in the extravagant voices of Alexander and Alestria, and of Alestria's protector and confidante, Ania, there's little subtlety in this sweeping, heroic romance. But strewn amid the pageantry and clamor are fascinating details about Alexander's world and about the legendary Amazons, who, if they existed at all, might have been his contemporaries – and equals. (July)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)Review:"Romance, action, and intrigue combine to set the stage for a page-turning romp through alternate history." Booklist

Alexandrian Summer is the story of two Jewish families living their frenzied last days in the doomed cosmopolitan social whirl of Alexandria just before fleeing Egypt for Israel in 1951. The conventions of the Egyptian upper-middle class are laid bare in this dazzling novel, which exposes startling sexual hypocrisies and portrays a now vanished polyglot world of horse-racing, seaside promenades, and elegant night clubs. Hamdi-Ali senior is an old-time patriarch with more than a dash of strong Turkish blood. His handsome elder son, a promising horse jockey, can't afford sexual frustration, as it leads him to overeat and imperil his career, but the woman he lusts after won't let him get beyond undoing a few buttons. Victor, the younger son, takes his pleasure with other boys. But the true heroine of the story — richly evoked in a pungent upstairs/downstairs mix — is the raucous, seductive city of Alexandria itself. Published in Hebrew in 1978, Alexandrian Summer appears now in translation for the first time.Yitzhak Gormezano Goren was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941 and immigrated to Israel as a child. A playwright and novelist, Goren studied English and French literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. In 1982, he cofounded the Bimat Kedem Theater.“Helps show why postwar Alexandria inspires nostalgia and avidity in seemingly everyone who knew it … The result is what summer reading should be: fast, carefree, visceral, and incipiently lubricious.”— The New Yorker“Luminous … One of the great triumphs of Alexandrian Summer is the richness of the evocation of this city and the multiple cultures pressed within it … A sultry eroticism pervades.”— The Forward"Alexandria, a lush paradise by the sea, comes to antic, full-bodied life… Gormezano Goren’s characters are vividly depicted as they grow up or grow older in a city of conflicting loyalties, riven by resentment, ready to revolt. Readers will be transported." — Publishers Weekly"This novel recalls one gloriously golden summer in a cosmopolitan city on the verge of upheaval… Fluidly written and soberly enticing." — Library Journal"A gifted writer… Gormezano Goren defines the city and its ambiance in lush, sensuous terms… He also describes so well the Diaspora Jew’s knack for downplaying the danger of gathering storms of hatred, a tendency not limited to Alexandria or to any particular era of exile." — The Jerusalem Post"A powerful novel of tensions — sexual, familial, religious, and political — and an affecting but unsparing portrait of the petit bourgeois world of Egyptian Jews standing obliviously on the edge of a precipice. Alexandria-sensual and enchanting-shimmers in these pages." — Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz"A fine work of art. . riveting from the first page to the last." — Zo Haderekh"A reason to rejoice. . You can't help but keep on smiling with great pleasure." — Maariv"A profound literary experience." — Ahshav

Es una mañana como otra cualquiera. Jonas despierta. Desayuna un café. El periódico no está delante de la puerta de su casa. Cuando no logra sintonizar la radio, ni la televisión, ni puede entrar en Internet, comienza a enfadarse. Su novia no contesta al teléfono. Jonas sale a la calle. No hay nadie. ¿Puede vivir una persona cuando todas las demás han desaparecido? Han quedado el mundo y las cosas: carreteras, supermercados, estaciones de tren, pero todo está vacío. Jonas vaga por Viena, por las calles de siempre, por las viviendas que conoce, pero nada responde a sus preguntas. ¿Es el único superviviente de una catástrofe? ¿Se han ido todos a otra ciudad? ¿Hay otros, o son sólo imaginaciones suyas?

Llevado al cine (como ATRAPADO SIN SALIDA en algunos países) por Milos Forman, protagonizada por Jack Nicholson en una de las actuaciones que lo convirtieron en una marca, con Louise Fletcher como la enfermera más repugnante de la historia del cine, y una reflexión temiblemente perdurable sobre las mecánicas del poder.1975: 5 Oscar: mejor película, director, actor (Jack Nicholson), actriz (Louise Fletcher), guión adaptado / Drama.Randle McMurphy cumple una larga condena en una granja-prisión y se las ingenia para ser trasladado a una institución psiquiátrica. Una vez allí, avisado por el resto de los pacientes sobre los tiránicos métodos de la enfermera jefe, Randle decide declarar la guerra a la señorita Ratchel. Tras una explosión de cólera de Randle, le aplican un tratamiento de electroshock. Pero para entonces ya se ha ganado a los internos…El título `Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco`, es una mala traducción del original en inglés. La frase viene de una rima que recuerda el Jefe Bromden en su estancia en el manicomio. Su abuela decía: `Uno voló hacia el este, uno voló hacia el oeste, y uno voló sobre el nido del cuco`, significando que cada cual es dueño de seguir su destino en diferente dirección que los demás.

Am Vorabend der Russischen Revolution verlieben sich der temperamentvolle Muslim Ali und die schöne Christin Nino ineinander. Eine Verbindung scheint unmöglich, denn Religion und Sitte verbieten es. Mit Hilfe eines Vermittlers, der bei den Eltern vorspricht, rückt die von beiden so ersehnte Hochzeit in greifbare Nähe. Doch dann wird Nino entführt und Ali muß nach islamischem Gesetz den Nebenbuhler und seine Braut, Prinzessin Nino, töten. Mit dem prächtigsten Pferd aus Karabagh verfolgt Ali die in einem modernen Automobil Flüchtenden. Sein Zorn ist groß, aber seine Liebe ist überwältigend. Ali und Nino erschien erstmals 1937 in Wien. Als Verfasser wurde ein gewisser Kurban Said genannt, doch der Autorenvertrag lautete auf Baronin Elfriede Ehrenfels von Bodmershof. Lange war das Buch verschollen und tauchte erst in den 70er Jahren als Übersetzung ins Englische wieder auf. Das Pseudonym Kurban Said wurde jahrzehntelang der vom Orient begeisterten Baronin zugeschrieben, die zudem mit dem Islam-Konvertiten Baron Umar Rolf von Ehrenfels, dem berühmten Asienforscher, verheiratet war. Heute glaubt man, daß nicht nur die Baronin, sondern auch Lev Nussimbaum, ein zum Islam konvertierter Jude, der Urheber der tragischen Liebe zwischen Okzident und Orient sein könnte. Zum erstenmal seit 1937 liegt jetzt die Originalfassung vor, die nichts von ihrem Zauber verloren hat.

When someone very close to you dies your whole life changes. Everything is different. Alice is the central figure in these five inter-connected narratives, which tell of her life at times of loss.

A heart-breaking, page-turning, life-affirming novel about love, marriage, family, and fighting for your life, for readers of Jonathan Franzen and Meg Wolitzer.Alice Culvert is a force: passionate, independent, smart, and gorgeous, she — to her delight — attracts attention wherever she goes, even amid the buzz of mid-90s New York. In knee-high boots, with her newborn daughter, Doe, strapped to her chest, Alice is one of those people who just seem so vividly alive, which makes her cancer diagnosis feel almost incongruous. How could such a being not go on? But all at once, Alice’s existence, and that of her husband Oliver, is reduced to a single purpose: survival. As they combat the disease, the couple must also face off against the serpentine healthcare system, the good intentions of loved ones, and the deep, dangerous stressors that threaten to push the two of them apart. With veracity, humor, wisdom, and love, Charles Bock navigates one family’s unforgettable story — inspired by his own.

Short story from 'All the stories of Muriel Spark'

In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time…. Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.”This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting old favourites, where their new setting in this book may reveal new sides to what once seemed a familiar story; devoted followers may even dispute the exclusion of a specially-beloved story. Readers lucky enough to have found her recently will be delighted, as one masterpiece succeeds another.The 17 stories are carefully arranged in the order in which she wrote them, which allows us to follow the development of her range. “A Wilderness Station,” for example, breaks “short story rules” by taking us right back to the 1830s then jumping forward more than 100 years. “The Albanian Virgin” destroys the idea that her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario’s “Alice Munro Country.” And “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” the story behind the film Away From Her, takes us far from the world of young girls learning about sex into unflinching old age.This is a book to read slowly, savouring each story. It deserves a place in every Canadian book-lover’s library.

In this, his first collection of stories since his celebrated, award-winning Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson takes us even deeper into the riotous, appalling, and mournful oddity of human beings.In prose so perfectly pitched as to suggest some celestial harmony, he writes about every kind of domestic discord: unruly or distant children, alienated spouses, domestic abuse, loneliness, death, divorce. In his masterful title novella, a freshly married teenaged couple are visited by an unusual pair of inmates from a nearby insane asylum — and find out exactly how mismatched they really are.With exquisite tenderness, Watson relates the brutality of both nature and human nature. There’s no question about it. Brad Watson writes so well — with such an all-seeing, six-dimensional view of human hopes, inadequacies, and rare grace — that he must be an extraterrestrial.

Aliens of Affection marks new territory for Padgett Powell, picking up where his first collection of stories, Typical, left off. Although his characters continue to revolt against the received instructions of modern American living-refusing to be dunked in what Saul Bellow has called the "marinade of correctness"-their concerns are less for indepence than for the maintenance of sanity itself. In this sometimes surrealistic terrain, "affection was that which, and the only thing on earth which, you should be eternally thankful for." Emotional estrangement seems both inevitable and worth fighting against to the middle-aged heroine of O. Henry Award-winner "Trick or Treat;" to the unmistakably American roofer of "Wayne" (who was introduced in Typical); to the deserted husband, father, and non-vet of "Dump;" and to the fantastic heroes in three stories grouped as "All Along the Watchtower." The nine stories collected here are hilarious, wrenching, pessimistic, buoyant, low-down, high-strung, and impeccably written.

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of one family and their battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss.In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on.Aliss at the Fire is a haunting exploration of love, ranking among the greatest meditations on marriage and loss.

Alive and Dead in Indiana is a collection of stories focusing on eight famous Americans who have had close connections to Indiana. It is a blend fact and fiction that casts new light on the personalities and the settings.

1982 yilda Coelho hech bir taʼsirga ega boʻlmagan oʻzining birinchi asari, «Hell Archives»'ni («Doʻzax arxivlari») yaratdi. 1985 yilda u keyinchalik «yomon sifati» uchun ommadan qaytarib olishga harakat qilgan «Practical Manual of Vampirism»'ga («Vampirizm boʻyicha amaliy qoʻllanma») hissa qoʻshdi. 1988 yilda Coelho Borges’ning «Ikki hayolparast ertagi»(«Tale of Two Dreamers»)ga asoslangan «Alchemist» asarini nashrdan chiqardi. Dastlabki sekin sur’atlardagi asar sotuvi nashriyotni asarni qaytarishiga olib keldi, lekin aynan ushbu asar Braziliyaning eng koʻp sotilgan asari boʻldi. U 11 milliondan ortiq nusxada sotilib, dunyoning 41 tiliga tarjima qilindi. Ushbu asar asosida Coelho asarlarini sevuvchi Laurens Fishburn kino yaratmoqda. Coelho 150dan ortiq mamlakatda 86 milliondan ortiq asarlari nusxasini sotib, uning asarlari 56 tilga tarjima qilingan. U turli xil adabiyot mukofotlariga, shu jumladan La Legion d’Honneur(Fransiya), Grinzane Cavour (Italiya) mukofotlariga sazovor boʻlgan.Yana Braziliya gazetasi Folha San Pauloda nashr etgan satrlari toplanmasi boʻlgan Maktub asari, «Sat down and wept», «The Valkyries» ni ham yozgan. Koel’o asarlarining Eronda mashhurligiga qaramay, uning 2005 yilda nashr etilgan «The Zahir» asari taʼqiqlanib, 1000ta nusxasi konfiskatsiya qilingan, lekin 1 hafta oʻtmay, ular yana kitob doʻkonlarida paydo boʻlgan. Uning asarlari bestsellerlar qatoridan nafaqat Braziliyada balki AQSh, Birlashgan Qirollik, Fransiya, Germaniya, Eron, Kanada, Italiya, Isroil, Finlandiya, Serbiya, Gretsiya,Ruminiya, Bolgariya, Rossiya, Polsha va Litvalarda ham oʻrin olgan. U har vaqtning eng koʻp sotilgan Portugal tilli muallif hisoblanadi. U yana Sovgʻa(The Gift/Henry Drummond) va Paygʻambarning Sevgi maktublari (Love letters of a Prophet/Kalil Gibran) ham moslashtirgan. Coelho 45 dan ortiq davlatda haftalilik sahifalar uchun yozadi. Ushbular qatorida Turkiyaning Aksam va Austrian Kurier’ning Freizeitʼi ham oʻrin olgan.

In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's Children turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them further north, people who in Jones's masterful hands, emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them.In the title story, in which Jones employs the first-person rhythms of a classic detective story, a Korean War veteran investigates the death of a family friend whose sorry destiny seems inextricable from his mother's own violent Southern childhood. In "In the Blink of God's Eye" and "Tapestry" newly married couples leave behind the familiarity of rural life to pursue lives of urban promise only to be challenged and disappointed.With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw away and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.