"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.***“Kingsolver is giving a new voice to our literature. Animal Dreams solidly establishes Kingsolver as someone who will give her public more than one great book.”-Los Angeles Times Book Review“An emotional masterpiece…A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul.”-New York Daily News“A well-nigh perfect novel, masterfully written, brimming with insight, humor, and compassion. Kingsolver’s clear, purposeful prose spins the narrative like a spider’s web, its interconnected strands gossamer-thin but tensile, strong. This richly satisfying novel should firmly establish Kingsolver among the pantheon of talented writers.”-Publishers Weekly“One of the year’s best works of fiction.”-Detroit News and Free Press“A glorious tapestry… Animal Dreams is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams.”-Denver Post“A fascinating world of myth, memory, and dreams. Following Codi Noline home is definitely a worthwhile journey.”-Dallas Morning News“Barbara Kingsolver gives us the gift of a trip to forgiveness and love through lovingly sensual detail, characters we all know and yet wish we knew better, through evocations of an Arizona landscape both nurturing and mysterious.”-Minneapolis Star Tribune“Kingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one that is rooted in the land and our relationship to it.”-San Francisco Chronicle“You’ll treasure Animal Dreams. A beautiful, memorable novel full of scenes and images that linger in the mind.”-TONY HILLERMAN, author of Talking God and Thief of Time“Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters’ state of mind.”-New York Times Book Review“A novel full of aching sadness-as well as joy, humor, insight, and wonderful writing.”-Arizona Daily Star“Animal Dreams literally bursts with life. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfect… Animal Dreams leaves the reader filled with wonder and hope.”-Houston Post

«Post coitum omne animal triste» — «После соития всякая тварь тоскует». Словами из этого латинского изречения названа книга известной немецкой писательницы, лауреата многих престижных литературных премий Моники Марон. «Animal triste» признана «лучшим романом года» и «глубоко эротичной книгой».Сумасшедшая любовь.Слепая любовь.Любовь до гроба.Это, как выясняется, не метафоры.Перед вами самое пронзительное и достоверное любовное свидетельство из всех обнародованных за последние гады.Сойти с ума от любви…Ослепнуть от любви…Умереть от любви…И несмотря на это: «В жизни можно пропустить все, кроме любви».

«Post coitum omne animal triste» — «После соития всякая тварь тоскует». Словами из этого латинского изречения названа книга известной немецкой писательницы, лауреата многих престижных литературных премий Моники Марон. «Animal triste» признана «лучшим романом года» и «глубоко эротичной книгой». Сумасшедшая любовь. Слепая любовь. Любовь до гроба. Это, как выясняется, не метафоры. Перед вами самое пронзительное и достоверное любовное свидетельство из всех обнародованных за последние гады. Сойти с ума от любви… Ослепнуть от любви… Умереть от любви… И несмотря на это: «В жизни можно пропустить все, кроме любви».

«Post coitum omne animal triste» — «После соития всякая тварь тоскует». Словами из этого латинского изречения названа книга известной немецкой писательницы, лауреата многих престижных литературных премий Моники Марон. «Animal triste» признана «лучшим романом года» и «глубоко эротичной книгой».Сумасшедшая любовь.Слепая любовь.Любовь до гроба.Это, как выясняется, не метафоры.Перед вами самое пронзительное и достоверное любовное свидетельство из всех обнародованных за последние годы.Сойти с ума от любви…Ослепнуть от любви…Умереть от любви…И несмотря на это: «В жизни можно пропустить все, кроме любви».

Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid.When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk — only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the 'Kampani' — Animal plunges into a web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage.Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity, Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy — from the very first page all the way to the story's explosive ending.

It is the moment every twenty-something must confront: the time to grow up. Adulthood looms, with all it's numbing tranquility and stifling complacency. The end of prolonged adolescence is near.Laura and Tyler are two women whose twenties have been a blur of overstayed parties, a fondness for drugs that has shifted from cautious experimentation to catholic indulgence, and hangovers that don't relent until Monday morning. They've been best friends, partners in excess, for the last ten years. But things are changing: Laura is engaged to Jim, a classical pianist who has long since given up the carousing lifestyle. He disapproves of Tyler's reckless ways and of what he percieves to be her bad influence on Laura. Jim pulls Laura toward adulthood and responsibility, toward what society says she should be, but Tyler isn't ready to let her go. But what does Laura want for herself? And how can she choose between Tyler and Jim, between one life she loves and another she's "supposed" to love?Raw, uproarious, and deeply affecting, Animals speaks to an entire generation caught between late-adolescence and adulthood wondering what exactly they'll have to give up in order to grow up.

Kathleen Winter’s luminous debut novel is a deeply affecting portrait of life in an enchanting seaside town and the trials of growing up unique in a restrictive environment.In 1968, into the devastating, spare atmosphere of the remote coastal town of Labrador, Canada, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret: the baby’s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbor and midwife, Thomasina. Though Treadway makes the difficult decision to raise the child as a boy named Wayne, the women continue to quietly nurture the boy’s female side. And as Wayne grows into adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting society of his father, his shadow-self, a girl he thinks of as “Annabel,” is never entirely extinguished.Kathleen Winter has crafted a literary gem about the urge to unveil mysterious truth in a culture that shuns contradiction, and the body’s insistence on coming home. A daringly unusual debut full of unforgettable beauty, Annabel introduces a remarkable new voice to American readers.

Действие романа «Anno domini» основано на реальных событиях в Украине, охваченной так называемой «оранжевой» революцией.Роман изобилует острыми поворотами сюжета, эпизодами приключенческого характера, способными заинтересовать читателя любого возраста и пола. В то же время главный герой находится в поисках философского смысла жизни, своего места в ней.Захватывающее повествование читается на одном дыхании, привлекает своей чистотой, искренностью, узнаваемостью нашей с вами действительности, и в то же время не содержит сцен насилия и жестокости.В целом роман пробуждает добрые чувства, светлую печаль и сочувствие к героям.

Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything — until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant — a part of a future that belonged to them.But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions — sexual, racial, political, artistic — that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s.

To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is already committing it. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

P.B. Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. Living by his wits and his charm, Jones makes his way through the exotic boudoirs of the glitterati — only to discover that the prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.

A sus 16 años, Tessa sabe que le queda poco de vida, por eso elabora una lista con diez cosas que hacer antes de morir, como probar el sexo, las drogas, conducir un coche… y la más desgarradora de todas, enamorarse…Un día como cualquier otro te enteras de que te quedan unos pocos meses de vida. Un golpe difícil de asimilar, sin duda, pues ¿cómo afrontas semejante realidad? ¿Qué mecanismos psicológicos se desatan ante la certeza de lo inevitable?La historia de Tessa ofrece una mirada mucho más amplia que el dudoso espectáculo de compartir un trance doloroso. Una nueva percepción del tiempo, la redefinición de las relaciones con los padres y amigos, las primeras aventuras amorosas; en suma, un proceso de madurez acelerado que, narrado con inolvidables momentos de ironía y humor, destila una vitalidad sorprendente al tiempo que invita a la reflexión sobre el verdadero valor de las cosas.

Las memorias de Ernesto Sabato, es un libro único que constituye su testamento espiritual. Es la historia de un joven nacido en La pampa, que emprende con éxito una carrera altamente especializada en el mundo científico y llega incluso a trabajar en el centro Curie de París, para luego, en contacto con los surrealistas, abandonar la ciencia por la literatura y el arte, en un gesto valeroso y retador, y con su primera novela, rechazada por multitud de editores, obtener el reconocimiento de Albert Camus y Thomas Mann. Es también, por otra parte, la historia de un hombre rebelde, afín desde muy pronto al anarquismo y a la izquierda revolucionaria, que descubre y denuncia las máscaras del totalitarismo soviético para luego, ya en su vejez, presidir con extraordinario coraje personal la comisión que investiga el horror de los desaparecidos en Argentina y desvelar la magnitud del genocidio. La alianza de rigor ético, acento lírico y firme voluntad solidaria con los desposeídos confiere a Antes del fin el carácter de un libro único: constituye, como pocas obras de hoy en día, el legado esencial de un gran escritor para las generaciones que lo suceden.

Ну вот, одна в большом городе… За что боролись?

Страшно, одиноко, но почему-то и весело одновременно. Только в таком состоянии может прийти бредовая мысль об открытии ресторана. Нет ни денег, ни опыта, ни связей, зато много веселых друзей, перекочевавших из прошлой жизни. Так неоднозначно и идем к неожиданно придуманной цели.

Да, и еще срочно нужен кто-то рядом — для симметрии, гармонии и простых человеческих радостей. Да не абы кто, а тот самый — единственный и навсегда!

Круто бы еще стать известным журналистом, например. Всегда такой — на острие атаки. Быть талантливой и востребованной. Попадать в светские хроники…

В итоге — все как-то незаметно и неожиданно срастается. На удивление, без участия СУПЕРВЕЗЕНИЯ. И никаких тебе фей с палочкой.

De la noche a la mañana, Violeta Dasinski se vuelve noticia a causa de una tragedia tan inevitable como providencial, y su amiga Josefa Ferrer -con los diarios de Violeta en la mano- empieza a contar su historia… es decir la de ambas.Aunque Josefa, una exitosa y angustiada cantante chilena, es la narradora, a su voz y la de Violeta se agrega la de `nosotras, las otras` (madres, abuelas, bisabuelas), suerte de coro griego y testigo de la experiencia femenina a través de las generaciones.El relato, en un vívido contrapunto, irá trazando las búsquedas a un tiempo paralelas y divergentes de Violeta y Josefa, desde la infancia común en el Santiago clasista y turbulento de los años sesenta hasta el `viaje terapéutico` a la ciudad de Antigua.El amor y la traición, la sexualidad y el dolor, la utopía y la muerte, las perversiones de la modernidad y la tensión entre lo privado y lo público: las vidas de Josefa y Violeta dibujan, como en un huipil multicolor, los anhelos y conflictos de la mujer contemporánea.

Josefa Ferrer es una exitosa cantautora que al dedicarse exclusivamente a su carrera ha descuidado a su familia y en particular a su marido. Cuando la tragedia alcanza a su amiga Violeta Dasinski, Josefa -con los diarios de Violeta en su mano- empieza a contar su historia… es decir, la de ambas. Muy pronto, a las voces de Josefa y de Violeta se agregan las de «nosotras, las otras» (madres, abuelas, bisabuelas), como un testigo de la experiencia femenina a través de las generaciones.

El sexo que conocemos es un "discurso normativo sobre el sexo". Este discurso, este manual para “todos los públicos”, está escrito siempre desde la moral (científica, religiosa, ecologista, económica o la que sea), nunca desde la voz del propio sexo. El objetivo de esta inmensa arquitectura de palabras es dar justificación a un modelo de sexualidad, nunca a la sexualidad en sí.Partiendo de esta premisa Valérie Tasso busca los puntos de anclaje de ese vastísimo y homogeneizador discurso interesado que llamamos sexualidad humana y lo encuentra en el “tópico”. Las expresiones y valoraciones que sólo por fuerza de repetir y no por su veracidad, nos acabamos creyendo todos. De manera inteligente, amena, asequible y tremendamente descarada, Valérie Tasso va desarmando uno a uno una selección de esos “lugares comunes” no con intención de generar otro discurso sino con intención de cuestionar el existente.Desde la exposición vital de su propia sexualidad, Valérie confecciona este “Antimanual de Sexo” destinado no a disfrutar de trucos y recetas para mejorar nuestras aptitudes y rendimientos en esta sexualidad que nos hacen vivir sino para cuestionar el propio manual de uso.Quien cree, entre otras muchas cosas, que los preliminares anticipan el coito, que la prostituta vende su cuerpo, que el sexo está para pasárselo bien, que la relación sexual concluye en el orgasmo, que con la edad se pierden las ganas, que los afrodisíacos existen, que sabemos de sexo más que antes, que el sexo entraña muchos peligros, que existe algo no natural en el sexo, que la eyaculación precoz es cosa de hombres o que la religión y el sexo nunca se han llevado bien, o quien quiera saber porqué Valérie admira la glicinia debería acercarse a las páginas de esta sofisticada revolución que es Valérie Tasso.“No son temibles las normas, sólo aquellos que se las creen…” En definitiva un libro de Valérie Tasso

As Bolaño’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolaño’s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard — which Bolaño chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he’d written it (“and even that I can’t be certain of”) — as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.Antwerp’s fractured narration in 54 sections — voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from “Roberto Bolaño” all speak — moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.

A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in, its destiny mimics the rise of human civilization. Over the sands and the years, the hero is pursued by a lover who matures into a sibyl-like priestess. The Libyan Tuareg author Ibrahim al-Koni, who has earned a reputation as a major figure in Arabic literature with his many novels and collections of short stories, has used Tuareg folklore about Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, to craft a novel that is both a lyrical evocation of the desert's beauty and a chilling narrative in which thirst, incest, patricide, animal metamorphosis, and human sacrifice are more than plot devices. The novel concludes with Tuareg sayings collected by the author in his search for the historical Anubis from matriarchs and sages during trips to Tuareg encampments, and from inscriptions in the ancient Tifinagh script in caves and on tattered manuscripts. In this novel, fantastic mythology becomes universal, specific, and modern.