In the heart of Mexico City, a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about her past. She has decided to write a novel about her days at a publishing house in New York; about the strangers who became lovers and the poets and ghosts who once lived in her neighbourhood. In particular, one of the obsessions of her youth — Gilberto Owen — an obscure Mexican poet of the 1920s, a marginal figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a busker on Manhattan's subway platforms, a friend and an enemy of Federico Garca Lorca.As she writes, Gilberto Owen comes to life on the page; a solitary, faceless man living on the edges of Harlem's writing and drinking circles at the beginning of the Great Depression, haunted by the ghostly image of a woman travelling on the New York subway. Mutually distorting mirrors, their two lives connect across the decades between them; forming a single elegy of love and loss.

От автора Люди, знающие меня давно, неоднократно говорили мне, что многое из того, что я люблю рассказывать в хорошей компании, должно быть записано. Сложно сказать что побудило меня начать публиковать многое из практики – наверное то, что мир изменился. В этой рубрике будет много историй – смешных, страшных, нелепых и разных. Произошло это все в самом начале 2000-х годов, с разными людьми, с кем меня сталкивала судьба. Что-то из этого я слышал, что-то видел, в чем-то принимал участие лично. Написать могу наверное процентах так о тридцати от того что мог бы, но есть причины многое не доверять публичной печати, хотя время наступит и для этого материала. Для читателей мелочных и вредных поясню сразу, что во-первых нельзя ставить знак равенства между автором и лирическим героем. Когда я пишу именно про себя, я пишу от первого лица, все остальное может являться чем угодно. Во-вторых, я умышленно изменяю некоторые детали повествования, и могу очень вольно обходиться с героями моих сюжетов. Любое вмешательство в реализм повествования не случайно: если так написано то значит так надо. Лицам еще более мелочным, склонным лично меня обвинять в тех или иных злодеяниях, экстремизме и фашизме, напомню, что я всегда был маленьким, слабым и интеллигентным, и никак не хотел и не мог принять участие в описанных событиях. Косвенно в пользу этого же говорит тот факт, что времени прошло с тех пор гораздо меньше, чем за такое положено сидеть. Не менее несостоятельными будут и обвинения меня в очернительстве Светлой Правой Идеи и уж тем более русофобии - я националист что написано в дисклеймере, а антифашизм считаю явлением, рядоположенным с прогибиционизмом и педерастией.Так уж вышло, что на определенном этапе через мою практику прошла масса дел с участием представителей праворадикальной общественности, и накопилась масса любопытных наблюдений за данной средой, ее представителями и проявлениями. Этим объясняется несколько отстраненный тон повествования, а равно отсутствие националистического пафоса и характерной для многих авторов «оттуда» предвзятости. Взгляд на жизнь у меня довольно глумливый, и там где кто-то увидит героизм и идею, я вижу то что вижу.

La oveja negra de una influyente familia es asesinada en un atentado. Diana Dial, reportera prejubilada metida a investigadora amateur, siente ese pequeño pellizco en el estómago que le indica que algo no encaja en la versión oficial. Dos son los sospechosos: la viuda, exuberante y ambiciosa, y el hermanísimo, heredero del imperio familiar. Con la ayuda de su fiel criada filipina, un singular chófer y un investigador todoterreno, Diana Dial se dejará guiar por su instinto hasta dar con la verdad.Maruja Torres se estrena en la novela policíaca y lo hace por la puerta grande. Fiel a su inconfundible estilo. Fácil de matar es una adictiva e irónica historia que confirma que las apariencias siempre engañan.

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, comical and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour.

En esta novela autobiográfica de sus años de juventud, el autor nos describe la vida de su alter ego Henry Chinaski saltando de un empleo a otro, todos sórdidos, duros, sin sentido, emborrachándose a muerte, con la obsesión de follar, intentando materializar su vida de escritor y nos ofrece una visión brutalmente divertida y melancólicamente horrorizada de la ética del trabajo, de cómo doblega el «alma» de los hombres. Se ha dicho que Bukowski con su prosa lacónica, escueta y contundente como un uppercut es el novelista atroz de la gran selva urbana, de los desheredados, las prostitutas, los borrachos, los desechos humanos del Sueño Americano a nivel del arroyo, y se le ha comparado con Henry Miller, Céline y Hemingway.

One boy’s journey from a life on the streets to the glory of the boxing ring.Albert Kemp is a lonely widower, whose only son was killed in the war. Now, in 1953, he is working in a pub by the railway arches. Downstairs is a traditional bar, upstairs is a famous boxing gym. It is here that Albert brings Danny, a fatherless boy who he rescues from gang life on the streets.But as Danny begins to grow into a champion, the predators start to circle, luring him with glittering promises back into a life of crime in the corrupt world of match fixing. Will Danny listen to his wise old mentor? Or will the prospect of fame and money be too tempting?

Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for TranslationFair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.Fair Play could in fact be called a novel of friendship, of rather happy tales about two women who share a life of work, delight and consternation. They are very unlike each other, but perhaps that is why they manage to play the game successfully, with patience and, of course, a great deal of love.

Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the promises and perils of modern-day Chicago. It is an odyssey that propels Faith from the degradation of prostitution, drugs, and drink into a faceless middle-class reality, and finally into a searing tragedy that ironically leads to the discovery of the real Good Thing. National Book Award-winner Charles Johnson's first novel, originally published in 1974, puts the life-affirming soul of the African-American experience at the summit of American storytelling.

Что вы ищете в социальных сетях, что находите и что теряете.Герой рассказа, Майкл Дуридомов, многому мог бы вас научить.«Вам доступна новая революционная версия ВК! Приобретайте у официальных дилеров сенсорный обруч «Корона», и Вы погрузитесь в мир небывалых чувственных наслаждений – каждое оповещение ВК поступит сразу в Ваш мозг, в центр удовольствия! Потрясающий эффект!» Удовольствие - это импульс в вашем мозге.Все можно подделать, кроме удовольствия.

Что вы ищете в социальных сетях, что находите и что теряете.Герой рассказа, Майкл Дуридомов, многому мог бы вас научить.«Вам доступна новая революционная версия ВК! Приобретайте у официальных дилеров сенсорный обруч «Корона», и Вы погрузитесь в мир небывалых чувственных наслаждений – каждое оповещение ВК поступит сразу в Ваш мозг, в центр удовольствия! Потрясающий эффект!» Удовольствие - это импульс в вашем мозге.Все можно подделать, кроме удовольствия.

Faktotum to powieść złożona z krótkich rozdziałów wypełnionych przygodami tytułowego "totumfackiego", który nieustannie poszukuje zajęcia, a do kwestionariuszy kolejnych pośredniaków wpisuje nieodmiennie: "dwa lata college'u, specjalność: dziennikarstwo i sztuki piękne".W tej książce fascynuje niezwykła, niemal magiczna realność. Sytuacje i zdarzenia, które opowiada nam Bukowski, mają fantastyczną moc: są prawdziwe, nawet jeśli się nie wydarzyły.

A study of the elaborate personalities that develop within prison walls, and their tenuous relation to prisoners' past lives and crimes. A convicted drug addict and murderer adapts to the gloom, fascination and eroticism of the new camaraderie.

Written before stalking became a social issue, Stephen Dixon’s novel about a young man’s obsessive love for a beautiful woman takes place over twenty-four hours in New York City.

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book.Following the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall On Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battle fields of World War One, to the emerging jazz scene of New York city and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The mythically charged Piper family-James, a father of intelligence and immense ambition, Materia, his Lebanese child-bride, and their daughters: Kathleen, a budding opera Diva; Frances, the incorrigible liar and hell-bent bad girl; Mercedes, obsessive Catholic and protector of the flock; and Lily, the adored invalid who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption-is supported by a richly textured cast of characters. Together they weave a tale of inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, of miracles, racial strife, attempted murder, birth and death, and forbidden love. Moving and finely written, Fall On Your Knees is by turns dark and hilariously funny, a story-and a world-that resonate long after the last page is turned.

1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next to each other, both beautifully decorated. One had a large urn – some might say ridiculously large – and the other, almost leaning over the first, an angel – some might say overly sentimental. The two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves were divided even more by social class than by taste. They would certainly never have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends. And furthermore – and even more unsuitably – become involved in the life of the gravedigger's muddied son. As the girls grow up, as the century wears on, as the new era and the new King change social customs, the lives and fortunes of the Colemans and the Waterhouses become more and more closely intertwined – neighbours in life as well as death.

An unsettling novel that traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family from a hidden love triangle to the ten-year-old son whose problem may pull everyone down.

Amazon.com ReviewThe defining moment of turn-of-the-21st-century America is perfectly portrayed in National Book Award winner Don DeLillo's Falling Man. The book takes its title from the electrifying photograph of the man who jumped or fell from the North Tower on 9/11. It also refers to a performance artist who recreates the picture. The artist straps himself into a harness and in high visibility areas jumps from an elevated structure, such as a railway overpass or a balcony, startling passersby as he hangs in the horrifying pose of the falling man.Keith Neudecker, a lawyer and survivor of the attack, arrives on his estranged wife Lianne's doorstep, covered with soot and blood, carrying someone else's briefcase. In the days and weeks that follow, moments of connection alternate with complete withdrawl from his wife and young son, Justin. He begins a desultory affair with the owner of the briefcase based only on their shared experience of surviving: "the timeless drift of the long spiral down." Justin uses his binoculars to scan the skies with his friends, looking for "Bill Lawton" (a misunderstood version of bin Laden) and more killing planes. Lianne suddenly sees Islam everywhere: in a postcard from a friend, in a neighbor's music-and is frightened and angered by its ubiquity. She is riveted by the Falling Man. Her mother Nina's response is to break up with her long-time German lover over his ancient politics. In short, the old ways and days are gone forever; a new reality has taken over everyone's consciousness. This new way is being tried on, and it doesn't fit. Keith and Lianne weave into reconciliation. Keith becomes a professional poker player and, when questioned by Lianne about the future of this enterprise, he thinks: "There was one final thing, too self-evident to need saying. She wanted to be safe in the world and he did not."DeLillo also tells the story of Hammad, one of the young men in flight training on the Gulf Coast, who says: "We are willing to die, they are not. This is our srength, to love death, to feel the claim of armed martyrdom." He also asks: "But does a man have to kill himself in order to accomplish something in the world?" His answer is that he is one of the hijackers on the plane that strikes the North Tower.At the end of the book, De Lillo takes the reader into the Tower as the plane strikes the building. Through all the terror, fire and smoke, De Lillo's voice is steady as a metronome, recounting exactly what happens to Keith as he sees friends and co-workers maimed and dead, navigates the stairs and, ultimately, is saved. Though several post-9/11 novels have been written, not one of them is as compellingly true, faultlessly conceived, and beautifully written as Don De Lillo's Falling Man. -Valerie RyanFrom Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. When DeLillo's novel Players was published in 1977, one of the main characters, Pammy, worked in the newly built World Trade Center. She felt that "the towers didn't seem permanent. They remained concepts, no less transient for all their bulk than some routine distortion of light." DeLillo's new novel begins 24 years later, with Keith Neudecker standing in a New York City street covered with dust, glass shards and blood, holding somebody else's briefcase, while that intimation of the building's mortality is realized in a sickening roar behind him. On that day, Keith, one half of a classic DeLillo well-educated married couple, returns to Lianne, from whom he'd separated, and to their young son, Justin. Keith and Lianne know it is Keith's Lazarus moment, although DeLillo reserves the bravura sequence that describes Keith's escape from the first tower-as well as the last moments of one of the hijackers, Hammad-until the end of the novel. Reconciliation for Keith and Lianne occurs in a sort of stunned unconsciousness; the two hardly engage in the teasing, ludic interchanges common to couples in other DeLillo novels. Lianne goes through a paranoid period of rage against everything Mideastern; Keith is drawn to another survivor. Lianne's mother, Nina, roils her 20-year affair with Martin, a German leftist; Keith unhooks from his law practice to become a professional poker player. Justin participates in a child's game involving binoculars, plane spotting and waiting for a man named "Bill Lawton." DeLillo's last novel, Cosmopolis, was a disappointment, all attitude (DeLillo is always a brilliant stager of attitude) and no heart. This novel is a return to DeLillo's best work. No other writer could encompass 9/11 quite like DeLillo does here, down to the interludes following Hammad as he listens to a man who "was very genius"-Mohammed Atta. The writing has the intricacy and purpose of a wiring diagram. The mores of the after-the-event are represented with no cuteness-save, perhaps, the falling man performance artist. It is as if Players, The Names, Libra, White Noise, Underworld-with their toxic events, secret histories, moral panics-converge, in that day's narrative of systematic vulnerability, scatter and tentative regrouping.

In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama-part play, part prose, pure poetry-to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son.The man-called simply the "Walking Man" — paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Maths Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death's hermetic separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of Grossman's storytelling — a realm where loss is not merely an absence, but a life force of its own.

Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great? But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help you then? What if someone got hold of your cell phone? What if they spoke to your girlfriends, your agent, your director, and started making decisions for you? And worse, what if no one believed you were you anymore? When you saw a look-alike acting your roles for you, what would you do?  And what if one day you realized your magnum opus, like everything else you’d ever written, was a total waste of time, empty nonsense? What would you do next? Would your audience of seven million people keep you going? Or would you lose the capacity to keep on doing it? Fame and facelessness, truth and deception, spin their way through all nine episodes of this captivating, wickedly funny, and perpetually surprising novel as paths cross and plots thicken, as characters become real people and real people morph into characters. The result is a dazzling tour de force by one of Europe’s finest young writers.