Herbjørg Wassmo (g. 1942) yra viena iš skaitomiausių autorių Norvegijoje. 1986 m. rašytoja apdovanota Šiaurės šalių tarybos premija. Jos kūriniai išversti į daugelį kalbų. Garsiausia iš jų - "Dinos knyga" - romanas apie išdavystę ir kaltę, gaivališką ir nepasotinamai juslingą moters prigimtį. Baisus sukrėtimas, patirtas ankstyvojoje vaikystėje, persekioja Diną visą gyvenimą, paveikia jos sąmonę. Rodos, šaltakraujiškai ji žaidžia aplinkinių žmonių gyvenimais. Tuo tarpu pačios likimą valdo griežti ir negailestingi Senojo Testamento dėsniai.  H. Wassmo romanas – nepaprasto originalumo ir įtaigumo saga apie demonišką moterį, kurios nežabotos aistros ir noras viską valdyti neša pražūtį visiems ir jai pačiai. Veiksmas vyksta XIX a. Norvegijoje.

"Dinos knyga" tęsinys - "Likimo sūnūs" ir "Karnos kraitis", kur pasakojama Dinos sūnaus Benjamino, savo akimis išvydusio baisų motinos kerštą, gyvenimo istorija.

Versta iš: Herbjørg Wassmo  DINAS BOK

Iš norvegų k. vertė Eglė Išganaitytė

A woman battles bluebottles as she plots an ill-judged encounter with a stranger; a young husband commutes a treacherous route to his job in the city, fearful for the wife and small daughter he has left behind; a mother struggles to understand her nine-year-old son’s obsession with dead birds and the apocalypse. In Danielle McLaughlin’s stories, the world is both beautiful and alien. Men and women negotiate their surroundings as a tourist might navigate a distant country: watchfully, with a mixture of wonder and apprehension. Here are characters living lives in translation, ever at the mercy of distortions and misunderstandings, striving to make sense both of the spaces they inhabit and of the people they share them with.

The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund — old money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer, are determined to get their hands on.Galen, a New Age believer who considers himself an old soul, yearns for transformation: to free himself from the corporeal, to be as weightless as air, to walk on water. But he's powerless to stop the manic binges that overtake him, leading him to fixate on forbidden desires. A prisoner of his body, he is obsessed with thoughts of the boldly flirtatious Jennifer and dreams of shedding himself of the clinging mother whose fears and needs weigh him down.When the family takes a trip to an old cabin in the Sierras, near South Lake Tahoe, tensions crescendo. Caught in a compromising position, Galen will discover the shocking truth of just how far he will go to attain the transcendence he craves.An exhilarating portrayal of a legacy of violence and madness, Dirt is an entirely feverish read.

From the Booker Prizewinning James Kelman, comes a road trip through the American South'The truth is he didn't care how long he was going away. Forever would have suited him. It didn't matter it was America.'Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, wishes for a life beyond the constraints of his Scottish island home and dreams of becoming his own man. Tom, battered by loss, stumbles backwards towards the future, terrified of losing his dignity, his control, his son and the last of his family life. Both are in search of something new as they set out on an expedition into the American South. On the road we discover whether the hopes of youth can conquer the fears of age. Dirt Road is a major novel exploring the brevity of life, the agonising demands of love and the lure of the open road.It is also a beautiful book about the power of music and all that it can offer. From the understated serenity of Kelman's prose emerges a devastating emotional power.

Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day Catherine became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew-and that person is dead.Now that the past is catching up with her, Catherine’s world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day even if the shocking truth might destroy her.

Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of ‘The Speckled People’ and ‘Sailor in the Wardrobe’, turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin’s central historical importance throughout the twentieth century.1945. At the end of the second world war in Berlin, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings. She flees to the south, where her father finds a young foundling of the same age among the refugee trains to replace the boy. He makes her promise never to tell anyone, including her husband—still fighting on the Russian front—that the boy is not her own. Nobody will know the difference.2008. Gregor Liedmann is a Jewish man now in his sixties. He’s an old rocker who ran away from home, a trumpet player, a revolutionary stone-thrower left over from the 1968 generation. On a single day spent gathering fruit in an orchard outside Berlin with family and friends, Gregor looks back over his life, sifting through fact and memory in order to establish the truth. What happened on that journey south in the final days of the war? Why did his grandfather Emil disappear, and why did the gestapo torture Uncle Max? Here, in the calmness of the orchard, along with his ex-wife Mara and son Daniel, Gregor tries to unlock the secrets of his past.In his first novel since the best-selling memoir ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton has created a truly compelling story of lost identity, and a remarkable reflection on the ambiguity of belonging.

Moving from the Allied zones of postwar Germany to New York City, an astonishing novel of grief and anger, memory and survival witnessed through the experiences of "displaced persons" struggling to remake their lives in the decades after World War IIIn May 1945, Pavel Mandl, a Polish Jew recently liberated from a concentration camp, lands near a displaced persons camp in the British occupation zone of newly defeated Germany. Alone, possessing nothing but a map, a few tins of food, a toothbrush, and his identity papers, he must scrape together a new life in a chaotic community of refugees, civilians, and soldiers.Gifted with a talent for black-market trading, Pavel soon procures clothing, false documents, and a modest house, where he installs himself and a pair of fellow refugees – Fela, a young widow who fled Poland for Russia at the outset of the war, and Chaim, a resourceful teenage boy whose smuggling skills have brought him to the Western zones. The trio soon form a makeshift family, searching for surviving relatives, railing against their circumscribed existence, and dreaming of visas to America.Fifteen years later, haunted by decisions they made as "DPs," Pavel and Fela are married and living in Queens with their young son and daughter, and Chaim has recently emigrated from Israel with his wife, Sima. Pavel opens a small tailoring shop with his scheming brother-in-law while Fela struggles to establish peace in a loosely traditional household; Chaim and Sima adapt cheerfully to American life and its promise of freedom from a brutal past. Their lives are no longer dominated by the need to endure, fight, hide, or escape. Instead, they grapple with past trauma in everyday moments: taking the children to the municipal pool, shopping for liquor, arguing with landlords.For decades, Pavel, Fela, and Chaim battle over memory and identity on the sly, within private groups of survivors. But as the Iron Curtain falls in the 1990s, American society starts to embrace the tragedy as a cultural commodity, and survivor politics go public. Clever and stubborn, tyrannical and generous, Pavel, Fela, and Chaim articulate the self-conscious strivings of an immigrant community determined to write its own history, on its own terms.In Displaced Persons, Ghita Schwarz reveals the interior despairs and joys of immigrants shaped by war – ordinary men and women who have lived through cataclysmic times – and illuminates changing cultural understandings of trauma and remembrance.

Moving from the Allied zones of postwar Germany to New York City, an astonishing novel of grief and anger, memory and survival witnessed through the experiences of "displaced persons" struggling to remake their lives in the decades after World War IIIn May 1945, Pavel Mandl, a Polish Jew recently liberated from a concentration camp, lands near a displaced persons camp in the British occupation zone of newly defeated Germany. Alone, possessing nothing but a map, a few tins of food, a toothbrush, and his identity papers, he must scrape together a new life in a chaotic community of refugees, civilians, and soldiers.Gifted with a talent for black-market trading, Pavel soon procures clothing, false documents, and a modest house, where he installs himself and a pair of fellow refugees – Fela, a young widow who fled Poland for Russia at the outset of the war, and Chaim, a resourceful teenage boy whose smuggling skills have brought him to the Western zones. The trio soon form a makeshift family, searching for surviving relatives, railing against their circumscribed existence, and dreaming of visas to America.Fifteen years later, haunted by decisions they made as "DPs," Pavel and Fela are married and living in Queens with their young son and daughter, and Chaim has recently emigrated from Israel with his wife, Sima. Pavel opens a small tailoring shop with his scheming brother-in-law while Fela struggles to establish peace in a loosely traditional household; Chaim and Sima adapt cheerfully to American life and its promise of freedom from a brutal past. Their lives are no longer dominated by the need to endure, fight, hide, or escape. Instead, they grapple with past trauma in everyday moments: taking the children to the municipal pool, shopping for liquor, arguing with landlords.For decades, Pavel, Fela, and Chaim battle over memory and identity on the sly, within private groups of survivors. But as the Iron Curtain falls in the 1990s, American society starts to embrace the tragedy as a cultural commodity, and survivor politics go public. Clever and stubborn, tyrannical and generous, Pavel, Fela, and Chaim articulate the self-conscious strivings of an immigrant community determined to write its own history, on its own terms.In Displaced Persons, Ghita Schwarz reveals the interior despairs and joys of immigrants shaped by war – ordinary men and women who have lived through cataclysmic times – and illuminates changing cultural understandings of trauma and remembrance.

A man lives in total solitude in an abandoned mountain village. But each night, at the same hour, a mysterious distant light appears on the far side of the valley and disturbs his isolation. What is it? Someone in another deserted village? A forgotten street lamp? An alien being? Finally the man is driven to discover its source. He finds a young boy who also lives alone, in a house in the middle of the forest. But who really is this child? The answer at the secret heart of this novel is both uncanny and profoundly touching. Antonio Moresco's "Little Prince" is a moving meditation on life and the universe we inhabit. Moresco reflects on the solitude and pain of existence, but also on what we share with all around us, living and dead.

During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his house guest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with the French Victor Heredia and his son, known as Andre. There is a hard-edged emphasis on the theme of relations between the Old World and the New, as Branly's twilit, Proustian existence is invaded and overcome by the hot, chaotic, and baroque proliferation of the Caribbean jungle.

Haunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor.

It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment. In an attempt to reform society, the government has divided the population into four groups, each representing a different personality type. The land, too, has been divided into quarters. Borders have been established, reinforced by concrete walls, armed guards and rolls of razor wire. Plunged headlong into this brave new world, the boy tries to make the best of things, unaware that ahead of him lies a truly explosive moment, a revelation that will challenge everything he believes in and will, in the end, put his very life in jeopardy…

The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love — and the end of love — and how hard it can be to let go.There’s a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn’t know — but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate romance. The recollection of this ill-fated trip triggers in him a series of flashbacks through which he narrates his life story, hopscotching between Barcelona and Madrid. Starting from pivotal moments in his childhood — his earliest sexual encounters, his father’s suicide, his mother’s emotional decline — he moves through the years to the origin of his relationship with Helen and the circumstances surrounding its deterioration. The result is a provocative exploration of memory, nostalgia, romance, the ways in which the past takes hold — a powerful portrait of a man struggling with his illusions about life and love.

Nora RobertsaDižā grēcinieka meitasKad nāve aizsauc Džeku Mērsiju, viņa trīs meitas, kas nekad iepriekš nav tikušās, ierodas uz bērēm. Pēc testamenta nolasīšanas izrādās, ka arī no aizsaules Džeks nolēmis valdīt pār tuviniekiem - bagātīgo mantojumu jaunās sievietes varēs saņemt tikai pēc tam, kad gadu būs nodzīvojušas tēva rančo Montānā. Māsām - sveši­niecēm - sadzīvot nav viegli, sevišķi tad, kad rančo sāk risināties baisi notikumi…Šī ir grāmata, kurā grodā sižeta mezglā savijusies nāve, mī­lestība un atriebība, vēlmes un atmiņas, veidojot bezdibenīgus jūtu un kaislību virpuļus, kas, līdzīgi pavasara paliem, noslauka savā ceļā visus saprāta radītos šķēršļus.Šo grāmatu nav īespejams nolikt plauktā puslasītu - reiz iesākta, tā aizraus arī lasī­tāju'līdzi saviem varoņiem grūtajā ceļā uz mīlestību, laimi un mieru.Noras Robertsas romāna "Dižā grēcinieka meitas" publicēšanas tiesības pieder "Apgādam "Kontinents""No angļu valodas tulkojusi Liāna Niedra Vāka autors Aldis Aleks© Nora Robertsa, 1996 © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, mākslinieciskais noformējums, ISBN 9984-740-78-1 "Apgāds "Kontinents"", 2003Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisVeltīts ģimeneiUz abām pusēm pasaule plešas, Tikpat plaša, cik plaša sirds; Pāri pasaulei debesis klājas - Cēlas, cik cēla dvēsele mirdz. Sirds spēj sniegties pār jūru, pār zemi - Tālu, tālu apkārt ap tevi; Dvēsele - pāršķelt debesis pušu, Lai skatienam pavērtu Dieva vaigu. Bet sirdi nomoka Austrumi, Rietumi, Spēka tai nav tos atstumt no sevis; Un debesis vientuļo dvēseli lejā Vajās un vajās vēl rit un parit.Edna Sentvinsenta MileiarudensSkaistais un nāves skartais gads.Pirmā daļaA. E. Hausmens

Opowieść o młodej kobiecie, która dała się wciągnąć w przygodę z Internetem. Wirtualne życie splotło się z realnym i wymknęło spod kontroli. Przygoda, która może spotkać każdego użytkownika Sieci.Historia wzięta z życia. Bohaterka książki – atrakcyjna 30-letnia Ewa – szczęśliwa żona i matka, ze świetnie zapowiadającą się karierą na stanowisku kierowniczym w biurze projektowym, pewnego dnia odkrywa, że jej mąż ma romans z młodziutką dziewczyną. Po chwilowym załamaniu, postanawia zemścić się na niewiernym małżonku i zapisuje się do internetowego portalu randkowego. Nawiązuje rozmaite znajomości z mężczyznami. Bohaterka daje się wciągnąć się wirtualnym znajomym w erotyczną grę, która jednak nie daje jej tego, czego szukała – sposobu na wyrzucenia z siebie uczucia do niewiernego męża.Internetowe znajomości doprowadzają do wielu zmian w jej życiu, ale czy miała nad tym kontrolę?

An extraordinary novel set in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989-the breakout book we've been waiting for from a bestselling, Amazon.ca First Novel Award winner.Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations-those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century. With exquisite writing sharpened by a surprising vein of wit and sly humour, Thien has crafted unforgettable characters who are by turns flinty and headstrong, dreamy and tender, foolish and wise.At the centre of this epic tale, as capacious and mysterious as life itself, are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl, survivors with captivating singing voices and an unbreakable bond; Sparrow's ethereal cousin Zhuli, daughter of Swirl and storyteller Wen the Dreamer, who as a child witnesses the denunciation of her parents and as a young woman becomes the target of denunciations herself; and headstrong, talented Kai, best friend of Sparrow and Zhuli, and a determinedly successful musician who is a virtuoso at masking his true self until the day he can hide no longer. Here, too, is Kai's daughter, the ever-questioning mathematician Marie, who pieces together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking a fragile meaning in the layers of their collective story.With maturity and sophistication, humour and beauty, a huge heart and impressive understanding, Thien has crafted a novel that is at once beautifully intimate and grandly political, rooted in the details of daily life inside China, yet transcendent in its universality.

Mientras Laurel Estabrook practica ciclismo en una carretera solitaria, sufre el ataque de unos hombres que tratan de violarla, pero, por suerte, consigue aferrarse a su bicicleta y salvarse de milagro. Sin embargo, el choque emocional es muy fuerte y a Laurel le cuesta recuperarse, por lo que empieza entonces a trabajar en la entidad gubernamental BEDS, dedicada a buscar alojamiento a los sin techo. Cuando parece que su trabajo puede ayudarle a encauzar su vida, se produce la muerte de uno de los indigentes, Bobbie Croker.Al limpiar las dependencias de Bobbie, aparece una caja llena de fotografías y negativos. Laurel es la encargada de restaurar las fotografías para organizar un homenaje al fallecido y Bobbie Croker resulta ser un fotógrafo lleno de talento por cuyo trabajo ella se apasiona. Pero la joven hace un descubrimiento que le hiela la sangre: entre las fotografías aparece la de una chica montada en bicicleta y que bien podría ser ella el día en que fue atacada.Empieza entonces a investigar el pasado de Bobbie y a recrear su historia para olvidar su propia experiencia.

Książka jest zbiorem felietonów niedawno zmarłej pisarki, publikowanych na łamach magazynu Elle. Lekkie, dowcipne teksty poruszają m.in. tematy mediów, mody, obyczajów i rodziny.W oparciu o własne obserwacje Terakowska pisze z nutką satyry o bezkrytycznym podążaniu za trendami, snobizmie i innych powszechnych przywarach Polaków. Pisarka wykorzystuje oryginalny talent narracyjny do przedstawienia swoich przemyśleń w sposób przystępny, bez publicystycznej czy moralizatorskiej powagi.

Нова книжка талановитого письменника А. Чеха сфокусована на внутрішньому світі молодої людини, яка ніяк не знайде точок зіткнення з оточуючим світом; він не має друзів, його зраджує кохана. Самотність героя стає настільки нестерпною, що для нього залишається тільки один вихід — розповісти про себе і свої почуття всьому світові — написати книжку.