В основі «Doc 1» — реалії сьогодення, притомна історія з життя представників різних поколінь і продуманий сюжет. Молодий хлопець заходить у безвихідь — приходить до такої нестерпної самотності, позбавитися від якого можна, тільки виливши свій біль на папір. Трагедія Дюши полягає в тому, що він з дитинства вважав свої типові підліткові проблеми нетиповими, а себе — унікальними. Хлопчик виріс, комплекси залишилися. Це не киберпанк-литература і не книга про хакерів і програмістів, як може здатися на перший погляд. І навіть не історія любові — це історія самотності типової людини, яка закрилася від усіх, вважаючи себе унікальним без особливих на те причин.

"El esfuerzo de escribir un cuento corto es tan intenso como empezar una novela. Pues en el primer párrafo de una novela hay que definir todo: estructura, tono, estilo, ritmo, longitud, y a veces hasta el carácter de algún personaje. Lo demás es el placer de escribir, el más íntimo y solitario que pueda imaginarse, y si uno no se queda corrigiendo el libro por el resto de la vida es porque el mismo rigor de fierro que hace falta para empezarlo se impone para terminarlo. El cuento, en cambio, no tiene principio ni fin: fragua o no fragua. Y si no fragua, la experiencia propia y la ajena enseñan que en la mayoría de las veces es más saludable empezarlo de nuevo por otro camino, o tirarlo a la basura"."Reescribí todos los cuentos otra vez desde el principio en ocho meses febriles en los que no necesité preguntarme dónde terminaba la vida y dónde empezaba la imaginación, porque me ayudaba la sospecha de que quizás no fuera cierto nada de lo vivido veinte años antes en Europa. La escritura se me hizo entonces tan fluida que a ratos me sentía escribiendo por el puro placer de narrar, que es quizás el estado humano que más se parece a la levitación.Además, trabajando todos los cuentos a la vez y saltando de uno a otro con plena libertad, conseguí una visión panorámica que me salvó del cansancio de los comienzos sucesivos, y me ayudó a cazar redundancias ociosas y contradicciones mortales. Creo haber logrado así el libro de cuentos más próximo al que siempre quise escribir."

'Banville is superb…there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them' — "The Economist". The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life. 'Banville writes novels of complex patterning, with grace, precision and timing' — "Guardian". 'With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov' — "Daily Telegraph". 'A tour de force: a fictional evocation of the great astronomer which is exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world' — "The Times".

Ingvar Ambjørnsens spenningsserie for unge lesere. ”Klokka var halv ti. Vi gikk nedover mot sentrum igjen. Det var ikke nødvendig for oss å avtale noe som helst nå. Proffen visste hva jeg ville. og jeg visste hva Proffen ville. Vi ville finne Lena. Vi måtte finne Lena. Om det så skulle ta oss hele natta, så måtte vi spore henne opp.” Narkotika og prostitusjon er nattsvart realisme for Lena. Pelle og Proffen engasjerer seg — og har noe å stille opp med.

Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine occupying Dodge's apartment. Soon enough, the young women's lives are consumed by absurd legal complications, as well as their own mounting boredom and squalor. Not to mention their trip across Sydney Harbour carrying an antique bookcase in a shopping trolley.Dodge Rose has been described as "the most astonishing debut novel of the decade". With its inventories, irreverence and virtuoso adaptation of colloquial speech, it freewheels its way through law, high finance and a plethora of national myths. The typographical representation of a piano being smashed to pieces with a golf club is just one of many strokes of genius."The most exciting new fiction by a young Australian in years." Saturday Paper

Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger.It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys — including East's hothead younger brother — to kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him, ultimately forcing him to grapple with his place in the world and decide what kind of man he wants to become.Written in stark and unforgettable prose and featuring an array of surprising and memorable characters rendered with empathy and wit, Dodgers heralds the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.

Set in an archly comedic, alternate-reality Indianapolis that is completely overrun by Big Pharma, James Tadd Adcox's debut novel chronicles Robert and Viola's attempts to overcome loss through the miracles of modern pharmaceuticals. Their marriage crumbling after a series of miscarriages, Viola finds herself in an affair with the FBI agent who has recently appeared at her workplace, while her husband Robert becomes enmeshed in an elaborate conspiracy designed to look like a drug study.James Tadd Adcox's first book The Map of the System of Human Knowledge was published in 2012 by Tiny Hardcore Press. His work has appeared in TriQuarterly, the Literary Review, PANK, Barrelhouse, and Another Chicago Magazine.

In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories.A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Custer’s Last Stand reenactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Native American woman who slays him on the battlefield every year; a middle-aged high school janitor caught in a scary dispute over land and cattle with her former stepson: Callan Wink’s characters are often confronted with predicaments few of us can imagine. But thanks to the humor and remarkable empathy of this supremely gifted writer, the nine stories gathered in Dog Run Moon are universally transporting and resonant.Set mostly in Montana and Wyoming, near the borders of Yellowstone National Park, this revelatory collection combines unforgettable insight into the fierce beauty of the West with a powerful understanding of human beings. Tender, frequently hilarious, and always electrifying, Dog Run Moon announces the arrival of a bold new talent writing deep in the American grain.

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action — and profit — by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him.Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers — and the price of survival was dangerously high.

A breakthrough novel from the acclaimed young American writer

Boris Leonidovich, a North American professor who specializes in the history of prison architecture, has been invited to Buenos Aires for an academic conference. He’s planning to present a paper on Moscow’s feared Butyrka prison, but most of all he’s looking forward to seeing his enigmatic, fiercely intelligent colleague (and sometime lover) Ana again. As soon as Boris arrives, however, he encounters obstacle after unlikely obstacle: he can’t get in touch with Ana, he locks himself out of his rented room, and he discovers dog-feeding stations and water bowls set before every house and business. With night approaching, he finds himself lost and alone in a foreign city filled with stray dogs, all flowing with sinister, bewildering purpose though the darkness…

Shadowed with foreboding, and yet alive with the comical mischief of César Aira and the nimble touch of a great stylist, Dog Symphony is an un-nerving and propulsive novel by a talented new American voice.

我觉得前卫。国内人说起前卫可能还停留在“酒吧，奇装异服，性，时尚”之类的，我觉得这里的“前卫”与否，是指一 种说故事的风格，写作潮流。用英文讲，《狗爸爸》是有点“new age"的，属“fantasy"小说，或者说“spiritual”的小说。国内这类的书至少我还没注意到，所以我认为这本书很前卫。（-卫慧）上海女子魏在心绪混乱中拒绝了深爱男友哲的求婚后，哲突然出走，魏带着“露风禅”（一条流浪狗）千里迢迢寻回爱人。途中魏历经千辛万苦，一路上奇遇不断。在挽回自己爱情的过程中，魏也经历了内心的跋涉与探询…《狗爸爸》里有一只会说话的狗，没有性。主旨是宣扬“善良，勇敢，正直，信念”，还有“原谅”。最后两点－－“信念”“原谅”不容易。

A plague of rats, the end of philosophy, the cosmic chicken, and bars that don’t serve Plymouth Gin — is this the Apocalypse or is it just America?“The apocalypse is imminent,” thinks W. He has devoted his life to philosophy, but he is about to be cast out from his beloved university. His friend Lars is no help at all — he’s too busy fighting an infestation of rats in his flat. A drunken lecture tour through the American South proves to be another colossal mistake. In desperation, the two British intellectuals turn to Dogma, a semi-religious code that might yet give meaning to their lives.Part Nietzsche, part Monty Python, part Huckleberry Finn, Dogma is a novel as ridiculous and profound as religion itself. The sequel to the acclaimed novel Spurious, Dogma is the second book in one of the most original literary trilogies since Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.

2005: In the midst of a cold Montreal winter, a Cambodian woman, known only to us as 'Janie', separates from her husband and son. She takes refuge in the apartment of her friend, the neurologist Hiroji Matsui, but one day he leaves the Brain Research Centre where they are both employed and disappears into the night…We journey back thirty years from the moment of his vanishing to Janie as a young girl in Phnom Penh, where Cambodia is ruled by the brutal Khmer Rouge. People are seized in the night, families are torn apart, and hunger is everywhere. Helped by a defector, Janie escapes by sea, and arrives in Canada as a refugee. In Montreal, she meets Hiroji — whose brother James, a Red Cross doctor, disappeared in Cambodia in 1975 — and who, like Janie, is haunted by the many lives we carry within ourselves, and the unwieldy shards of history that we make efforts to displace, but fail to extinguish.Weaving together these fragments in clean, luminous prose, Dogs at the Perimeter is a remarkable, unparalleled map of the mind's battle with memory, loss, and the unspeakable horrors of war.

И не думайте, что это Вы лечитесь от комплекса еврейской вины — доктору тоже нужно выговориться!Итак, пациент и психоаналитик меняются местами. Остается понять, при чем тут… перископ.

И не думайте, что это Вы лечитесь от комплекса еврейской вины — доктору тоже нужно выговориться!Итак, пациент и психоаналитик меняются местами. Остается понять, при чем тут… перископ.

Героиня этой истории – вовсе не рефлексирующая «золушка», как ни соблазнителен такой образ для жанра chick lit. Это настоящая девушка в стиле Cosmo – успешная карьеристка и откровенная с собой, влюбленная женщина. Очень «вкусная» книжка для тех, кто хочет, наконец, узнать всю правду и о русском глянце!Журнал «Cosmopolitan».

Dolly, as you’ll see, is a person who finds it hard to let go of those things she holds dear...