On 4 November 2052 Fremder Gorm is found drifting in space a few megaklicks off Badu, a planet in the Fourth Galaxy. He is the only survivor from Clever Daughter, a battered old tanker. Why did Fremder survive?

An acclaimed Chinese writer makes his English language debut with this heart-stopping literary noir, a richly atmospheric tale of espionage and international intrigue, set in Shanghai in 1931—an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femme fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies.A boat from Hong Kong arrives in Shanghai harbor, carrying an important official in the Nationalist Party and his striking wife, Leng. Amid the raucous sound of firecrackers, gunshots ring out; an assassin has shot the official and then himself. Leng disappears in the ensuing chaos.Hseuh, a Franco-Chinese photographer aboard the same boat, became captivated by Leng’s beauty and unconcealed misery. Now, she is missing. But Hsueh is plagued by a mystery closer to home: he suspects his White Russian lover, Therese, is unfaithful. Why else would she disappear so often on their recent vacation? When he’s arrested for mysterious reasons in the French Concession and forced to become a police collaborator, he realizes that in the seamy, devious world of Shanghai, no one is who they appear to be.Coerced into spying for the authorities, Hseuh discovers that Therese is secretly an arms dealer, supplying Shanghai’s gangs with weapons. His investigation of Therese eventually leads him back to Leng, a loyal revolutionary with ties to a menacing new gang, led by a charismatic Communist whose acts of violence and terrorism threaten the entire country.His aptitude for espionage draws Hseuh into a dark underworld of mobsters, smugglers, anarchists, and assassins. Torn between Therese and Leng, he vows to protect them both. As the web of intrigue tightens around him, Hsueh plays a dangerous game, hoping to stay alive.

A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world.As they meet with their tutors – Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet; Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt; and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal – each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse Paris's grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another – and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves.

Cinq séquences d'une vie, cinq démons impossibles à chasser. Tel est le programme de 'Frictions'. Beau gosse, fou de sa mère, marié à un mannequin et ayant trouvé la solution à ses soucis d'argent, le narrateur a tout pour s'en sortir, enfin en théorie, car en pratique c'est beaucoup beaucoup plus compliqué.

A beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo’s life.A few days before Frida Kahlo’s death in 1954, she wrote in her diary, “I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return.” Diagnosed with polio at the age of six and plagued by illness and injury throughout her life, Kahlo’s chronic pain was a recurrent theme in her extraordinary art. In Frida’s Bed, Slavenka Drakulic´ explores the inner life of one of the world’s most influential female artists, skillfully weaving Frida’s memories into descriptions of her paintings, producing a meditation on the nature of chronic pain and creativity. With an intriguing subject whose unusual life continues to fascinate, this poignant imagining of Kahlo’s thoughts during her final hours by another daringly original and uncompromising creative talent will attract readers of literary fiction and art lovers alike.

Halloween 1954, Mitternacht, die Stunde der Geister und Verstorbenen. Über die Friedhofsmauer zwischen der Stadt der Toten und der Filmstadt Hollywood klettert eine Leiche – oder ist es eine Puppe? Ein junger Science-Fiction-Schreiber und Drehbuchautor beobachtet dies …»In einer grandiosen Mischung aus Horrorstück, Detektivroman, Gesellschaftssatire und philosophischem Traktat über die fließenden Übergänge von Sein und Schein schildert Bradbury mit wohldosierter Steigerung von Spannung und Gruseleffekten seine haarsträubende Geschichte von der Stadt der (in der Fiktion) Lebenden, dem Studiogelände von Maximus Films, und der Stadt der Toten, dem direkt daneben liegenden Friedhof Green Glades, deren Grenzen im Laufe der rasanten Handlung immer weiter zusammenfließen. Das liest sich amüsant und spannend, gruselig und aufschlußreich zugleich, und das am besten in einer unheimlichen Nacht vom Anfang bis zum Ende in einem Zuge.«Westfalen-Blatt, Bielefeld»Eine Hollywood-Gruselgeschichte mit allen Merkmalen des reifen Bradbury-Sounds. Bradbury macht seine Leser süchtig nach mehr Bradbury.«Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungTitel der 1990 bei Alfred A. Knopf, New York,erschienenen Originalausgabe:›A Graveyard for Lunatics‹

Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader consideration of love and marriage. The novel delves into its protagonists’ past, describing how the couple first fell in love and then how their marriage deteriorated over the years. It chronicles the toll their acrimony takes on their son and their careers alongside the story of the judge’s own marital troubles.

A best-seller in North Korea, where Paek continues to live and write, Friend illuminates a side of life in the DPRK that Western readers have never before encountered. Far from being a propagandistic screed in praise of the Great Leader, Friend describes the lives of people who struggle with everyday problems such as marital woes and workplace conflicts. Instead of socialist-realist stock figures, Paek depicts complex characters who wrestle with universal questions of individual identity, the split between public and private selves, the unpredictability of existence, and the never-ending labor of maintaining a relationship. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea’s most popular writers offers English-language readers a page-turner full of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world.

A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniella, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished seventy-year-old brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by “friendly fire." Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man’s primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his identity, Jewish and Israeli.With great artistry, A. B. Yehoshua has once again written a rich, compassionate, rewarding novel in which sharply rendered details of modern Israeli life and age-old mysteries of human existence echo one another in complex and surprising ways.

Stephen Dixon is a very skillful storyteller. His grasp of the life of ordinary American citydwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination, without for a moment sacrificing its essential authenticity.

Before the Cultural Revolution, narrator Tadpole's feisty Aunt Gugu is revered as an obstetrician in her home township in rural China. Renowned for her sure hands and uncanny ability to calm anxious mothers, Gugu speeds around town on her bicycle to usher thousands of babies into life.When famine lifts and the population booms, Gugu becomes the unlikely yet passionate enforcer of China's new family-planning policy. She is unrelenting in her mission, invoking hatred in her wake. In her dramatic fall from deity to demon, she becomes the living incarnation of a reviled social policy violently at odds with deep-rooted cultural values.As China moves towards the millennium, a new breed of entrepreneur emerges with a perverse interpretation of the decades-old law. Tadpole finds himself again caught up in the one-child policy and its unpredictable repercussions on the human price of capital.Frog is an extraordinary and riveting mix of the real and the absurd, the comic and the tragic. It presents a searing portrait of China's recent history, in Mo Yan's unique and luminous prose.

A multi-layered and frequently hilarious family epic — Dixon combines interrelated novels, stories, and novellas to tell the story of Howard Tetch, his ancestors, children, and the generations that follow.

Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.

The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty.Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burnt.Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Jonas recalls his gift for curing "female maladies," his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjoll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children."Achingly brilliant, an epic made mad, made extraordinary." — Junot Díaz"Hallucinatory, lyrical, by turns comic and tragic, this extraordinary novel should make Sjón an international name. His evocation of seventeenth century Iceland through the eyes of a man born before his time has stuck in my mind like nothing else I’ve read in the last year." — Hari KunzruSjón was born in Reykjavik in 1962. He won the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize (the equivalent of the Man Booker Prize) for The Blue Fox, which was also longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2009. Sjón was nominated for an Oscar for the song lyrics he wrote for Björk in the film Dancer in the Dark and has been working on Björk's latest project, Biophilia. His work has been translated into twenty-three languages.

Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University — his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing that fiction is the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. Offering a direct view into the mind and craft of a literary master, From Where You Dream is an invaluable tool for the novice and experienced writer alike.

Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University — his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers how to achieve the dreamspace necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction. Proposing that fiction is the exploration of the human condition with yearning as its compass, Butler reinterprets the traditional tools of the craft using the dynamics of desire. Offering a direct view into the mind and craft of a literary master, From Where You Dream is an invaluable tool for the novice and experienced writer alike.

Роман написан в электронных письмах. В этих письмах за целый год — вся жизнь героини, ее отношения с близкими людьми, с которыми она ведет переписку, все нюансы жизни современной женщины в большом городе.

Literaturnobelpreisträger Mo Yan zeigt sich mit seinem neuen großen Roman auf der Höhe seiner Kunst: Gugu ist die begabteste Hebamme in Gaomi. Seit Jahrzehnten bringt sie dort alle Kinder zur Welt. Mit Beginn der Geburtenkontrolle verantwortet die parteitreue Gugu auch Abtreibungen und Zwangssterilisierungen. Für ihre Karriere macht sie sich zum willigen Werkzeug der Partei. Erst im Alter bereut sie ihre Taten, die viele Menschen das Leben kosteten. In farbenprächtigen, autobiografisch grundierten und oft auch komischen Szenen erzählt Mo Yan von den Schicksalen der Frauen und Kinder in seiner ländlichen Heimat und von den dramatischen Folgen der Ein-Kind-Politik für die Menschen in China.Über den AutorMo Yan wurde 1956 in Gaomi, Provinz Shandong, geboren. In Deutschland wurde er 1993 mit dem Roman Das rote Kornfeld bekannt. Mo Yans Werke wurden weltweit übersetzt und mit vielen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet. Für seinen Roman Frösche (Hanser 2013) erhielt er 2011 den Mao-Dun-Literaturpreis. Mo Yan ist Träger des Literaturnobelpreises 2012.Die chinesische Originalausgabe erschien 2009 unter dem Titel 蛙 (Wa) bei Shanghai Wenyi Chubanshe (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House) in Shanghai.

Ставший знаковым роман о поколении нулевых в новом издании.Герои молоды, свободны и порочны, для них жизнь — это бегство по порочному кругу. В их крови похоть, безнаказанность и немного любви. Их враг — любопытство. Их козырь — желание бороться до конца.«Каждый из нас бегал по порочному кругу… Или хотя бы тайно об этом мечтал…»

Ставший знаковым роман о поколении нулевых в новом издании.Герои молоды, свободны и порочны, для них жизнь — это бегство по порочному кругу. В их крови похоть, безнаказанность и немного любви. Их враг — любопытство. Их козырь — желание бороться до конца.«Каждый из нас бегал по порочному кругу… Или хотя бы тайно об этом мечтал…»

Одно из первых произведений Виктора Зеновича Телегина, прозаическая поэма FUCKультет, была написана в 1989 году. Книга рассказывает о студентах, проживающих в общежитии Института Обучения Поэзии, или ЁПа. Через 3 года появилась книга писателя Андрея Иванова "Общага на крови". Многие читатели и критики указали на плагиат, который, по их мнению, допустил Иванов. Виктор Телегин позднее заявил, что собирался подать на Иванова в суд, но затем передумал, отвлекшись идеей об эмиграции во Францию. Книга является лауреатом премии КОНТР и считается важнейшим произведение русского порнопанка.