A sweeping, multifaceted tale of a young Native American pulled between the cherished traditions of a heritage on the brink of extinction and an encroaching white culture, Gardens in the Dunes is the powerful story of one woman's quest to reconcile two worlds that are diametrically opposed.At the center of this struggle is Indigo, who is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who destroy her home and family. Placed in a government school to learn the ways of a white child, Indigo is rescued by the kind-hearted Hattie and her worldly husband, Edward, who undertake to transform this complex, spirited girl into a "proper" young lady. Bit by bit, and through a wondrous journey that spans the European continent, traipses through the jungles of Brazil, and returns to the rich desert of Southwest America, Indigo bridges the gap between the two forces in her life and teaches her adoptive parents as much as, if not more than, she learns from them.

Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who run his orphanage have been driven out by the Red Army, but as the children are left to fend for themselves, order and routine quickly give way to brutality and chaos, and Ilya finds himself drawn into the violence. When the troops return, the orphans are given military training and, with his first-hand knowledge of the local terrain, Ilya becomes guide to a Soviet tank battalion, leading him ever deeper into a macabre world of random cruelty, moral compromise and lasting shame.

The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful characters they encounter — from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage — coping with physical misery, madness, and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing cascade of words that is classic Bernhard.

The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful characters they encounter — from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage — coping with physical misery, madness, and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing cascade of words that is classic Bernhard.

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai's daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa – never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City, and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations from maneuvering in an unfamiliar city to making nice with his tall, blond son-in-law, Lloyd, to taking care of a sickly child…to finding a dead body in the rubble of a former koi pond.The victim was Kazzy Ouchi, a half-Japanese millionaire who also happened to be Mari and Lloyd's boss. Stumbling onto the scene, Mas sees more amiss than the detectives do, but his instinct is to keep his mouth shut. Only when the case threatens his daughter and her family does Mas take action: patiently, stubbornly tugging at the end of a tangled, dangerous mystery. And as he does, he begins to lay bare a tragic secret on the dark side of an American dream…Both a riveting mystery and a powerful story of passionate relationships across a cultural divide, Gasa-Gasa Girl is a tale told with heart and wisdom: an unforgettable portrait of fathers, daughters, and other strangers.[Starred Review] ”What makes this series unique is its flawed and honorable protagonist… A fascinating insight into a complex and admirable man.”-Booklist“The endearing, quietly dignified Mas, supported by a cast of spirited New Yorkers, as well as the distinctive Japanese-flavored prose, make this a memorable read.”-Publishers Weekly“A compelling grasp of the Japanese American subculture… absolutely fascinating.”-Asian American Press

El episodio de los reyes Magos sólo mereció unas líneas por parte de uno de los cuatro Evangelios, pero ha impresionado vivamente la imaginación d ela humanidad desde hace dos mil años. Ésta es una de las pocas novelas que existen sobre este assunto legendario. Uno de los reyes se supone que llega de la India, del reino de Mangalore.

Gate of the Sun is the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. After their country is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut. We enter a vast world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. Khalil holds vigil at the bedside of his patient and spiritual father, a storied leader of the Palestinian resistance who has slipped into a coma. As Khalil attempts to revive Yunes, he begins a story, which branches into many. Stories of the people expelled from their villages in Galilee, of the massacres that followed, of the extraordinary inner strength of those who survived, and of love. Khalil — like Elias Khoury — is a truth collector, trying to make sense of the fragments and various versions of stories that have been told to him. His voice is intimate and direct, his memories are vivid, his humanity radiates from every page. Khalil lets his mind wander through time, from village to village, from one astonishing soul to another, and takes us with him. Gate of the Sun is a Palestinian Odyssey. Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival and loss, love and devastation, memory and dream, Khoury humanizes the complex Palestinian struggle as he brings to life the story of an entire people.

O'HenrijsGausīgie ierāvējiStāsti:  Džefs Pīters personiska magnēta lomā . Astoņkājis sēklī . Izpriecas mūsdienu laukos . Filantromatemātikas katedra . Roka, kas vanda pasauli . Laulība — eksaktā zinātne . Apcirptais vilks . Sirdsapziņa mākslā . Augstākais amats . Cūcīgā ētika . Mērens vējš . Mamons un bultraidis . Ziedonis ā la carte . Zelta apļa māsas . Pēc divdesmit gadiem . Sirdis un krusti . Izpirkšanas nauda par Maku . Higieja Solito rančo . Kupridons ā la carte . Sfinksas ābols . Aizdevums līdz atprasījumam . Burvīgais profils . Gandrīz vai lasāmviela . Dubultblēdis . Melnā Billa paslēptuve . Kļūmīgā kārtula . Džimijs Heiss un Mjūriela . Migla Santonā . Veltīgs upuris . Pavasara vēstnesis . Iztaisnotais aplis . Harlemas traģēdija . īstais vainīgais . Elsija Ņujorkā . Bērni džungļos . Izbaudīts uz savas ādas . Sirdis un rokas . Humorista atzīšanāsO. Henrijs, īstā vārdā Viljams Sidnijs Porters bija amerikāņu rakstnieks. Viljams Sidnijs Porters dzimis Grīnsboro Ziemeļkarolīnā ārsta ģimenē. Kad Viljamam bija trīs gadi, viņa māte nomira no tuberkulozes.O. Henrijs (1862—1910) — viens no izcilākajiem prozaikiem ame­rikāņu literatūrā, īsā stāsta lielmeistars. Izlasē sakopoti līdz šim latviešu valodā neizdoti stāsti un gandrīz pilnībā iekļauts paša autora sastādītais krājums «Gausīgie ierāvēji», kas sasaucas ar šās klases nosaukumu. Stāstu varoņi pārstāv visdažādākos iedzīvotāju slāņus. O. Henrija stāstu spožā literārā tehnika auvienoiumā a: humora pārpilnību un iztēles bagātību, dzīves attēlojuma pla5u'r3 un dziļums saistīs jaunos lasītājus.No angļu valodas tulkojis Alberts DzenītisNoskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisLiesma 1984

Zwiedzając we Florencji wystawę fotografii peruwiańskiej Amazonii, Vargas Llosa przywołuje w pamięci postać przyjaciela z czasów studenckich. Saul Zuratas, peruwiański Żyd, pasjonował się bowiem kiedyś Amazonią, jej mieszkańcami, szczególnie zaś nielicznym, wędrującym plemieniem Macziguengów. Opowieść Llosy jest próbą rekonstrukcji losów Saula Zuratasa i zarazem próbą odnalezienia dowodów poświadczających, że wśród Macziguengów żył gawędziarz podtrzymujący więzi plemienne opowieściami o dziejach mitycznych i przekazywaniem wiadomości o życiu poszczególnych rodzin rozproszonych po Amazonii. Losy Zuratasa i Macziguengów okazują się ze sobą sprzęgnięte. Chyba że historia rekonstruowana przez Vargasa Llose jest… kolejną opowieścią nieuchwytnego gawędziarza.

Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. The government against the people. On initial publication, twenty years on from the strike, David Peace's bravura novel "GB84" was hugely acclaimed. In a bloody and dramatic fictional portrait of the year that was to leave an indelible mark on the nation's consciousness, Peace dares to engage with the Britain's social and political past, bringing it shockingly and brilliantly to life.

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out — with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes — to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan. Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins.. albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious — and dangerous — asset.As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding.Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an “Indian Mafia” in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer’s art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

Entdeckungsreise zu einer Welt, die zum Schweigen verurteilt, aber mitten unter uns istWie erträgt man das Vergehen der Zeit, wenn man zur Untätigkeit gezwungen ist? Wie geht man um mit dem Verlust derer, die man geliebt hat? Wer trägt das Erbe weiter? Richard, emeritierter Professor, kommt durch die zufällige Begegnung mit den Asylsuchenden auf dem Oranienplatz auf die Idee, die Antworten auf seine Fragen dort zu suchen, wo sonst niemand sie sucht: bei jenen jungen Flüchtlingen aus Afrika, die in Berlin gestrandet und seit Jahren zum Warten verurteilt sind. Und plötzlich schaut diese Welt ihn an, den Bewohner des alten Europas, und weiß womöglich besser als er selbst, wer er eigentlich ist.Jenny Erpenbeck erzählt auf ihre unnachahmliche Weise eine Geschichte vom Wegsehen und Hinsehen, von Tod und Krieg, vom ewigen Warten und von all dem, was unter der Oberfläche verborgen liegt.

Главный герой романа, представитель поколения "П" с соответствующими юношескими идеалами, опускается до торговца в киоске, потом осваивает интеллектуальную халтуру на ниве рекламы, а в итоге становится... земным воплощением мужа богини Иштар, только вместо супружеской функции исполняет рекламную. Вся прелесть пелевинского романа в том, что его каждый воспринимает по-своему: это и глубокая эзотерика и блестящее надругательство над рекламой, и политический памфлет и философская фантастика.

Роман «Generation „П“», ставший культовым в молодежной среде, посвящен явлению, проникшему во все поры нашей повседневной жизни, – рекламе. Многие склонны просто отмахиваться от нее, как от назойливой мухи, считая чем-то несерьезным. Но разве в нашу речь уже не вошли рекламные слоганы? Разве «рваная стилистика» рекламных клипов не влияет на наше сознание?Герой романа Вавилен Татарский полагает, что ему известна подлинная цена рекламы – ведь он ее создает. Но ему и в страшном сне не может привидеться истинная сила джинна, выпущенного им из бутылки…

Роман «Generation „П“», ставший культовым в молодежной среде, посвящен явлению, проникшему во все поры нашей повседневной жизни, – рекламе. Многие склонны просто отмахиваться от нее, как от назойливой мухи, считая чем-то несерьезным. Но разве в нашу речь уже не вошли рекламные слоганы? Разве «рваная стилистика» рекламных клипов не влияет на наше сознание?Герой романа Вавилен Татарский полагает, что ему известна подлинная цена рекламы – ведь он ее создает. Но ему и в страшном сне не может привидеться истинная сила джинна, выпущенного им из бутылки…

When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness.Russell and Candace, now lovers, fail to protect Thassa from the growing media circus. Thassa's congenital optimism is soon severely tested. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the country at large.What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and finally magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.

A major new novel about sex and the citizen by the award-winning author of Being Dead.The timid life of actor Felix Dern is uncorrupted by Hollywood, where his success has not yet been shackled with any intrusive fame. But in the theaters and the restaurants of his own city, "Lix" is celebrated and admired for his looks, for his voice, and for his unblemished private life. He has succeeded in courting popularity everywhere, this handsome hero of the left, this charming darling of the right, this ever-twisting weather vane.A perfect life? No, he is blighted. He has been blighted since his teens, for every woman he sleeps with bears his child. So now it is Mouetta's turn. Their baby's due in May. Lix wants to say he feels besieged. Another child? To be so fertile is a curse…In" Genesis," Jim Crace, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year, charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.

Gente de la ciudad fue publicada por la editorial Universitaria en 1961. Tras su lanzamiento, recibió el Premio Municipal de Santiago. En esta compilación Edwards reunió los siguientes relatos: “El cielo de los domingos”, “El fin del verano”, “A la deriva”, “El funcionario”, “Rosaura”, “Apunte”, “Fatiga” y “El último día”.