Peculiar novela de iniciación, Hermana muerte es también el relato de una obsesión destructora, el descubrimiento del mundo por parte de dos personajes centrales: un adolescente y su hermana enfrentados a la memoria fantasmal del padre muerto. En la revelación de la vida estará también la clave del final de un ámbito definido con inteligente frialdad por su joven dominador, por ese narrador protagonista que, implacable, desmonta una a una las piezas de un universo incapaz de luchar contra su propia ruina. En esta su segunda novela, Justo Navarro, conocido también como poeta de muy soberbio ejercicio de precisión constructiva sostenido en un clima de inquietante -y aleccionadora- perversidad.

«Hermanas» («Сестры») — это роман о любви и политике, о больших надеждах и трагических испытаниях.Рауль — дитя революции. Его отец отдал жизнь за Кубу. И теперь, двадцать лет спустя, Рауль хочет стать поэтом. Расцвести его таланту помогают сестры-близнецы Хуана и Миранда. Именно они определят судьбу Рауля на долгие годы.История жизни молодого поэта вплетается в исполненный трагизма рассказ о Кубинской революции. Автор рисует резкий и безжалостный портрет послереволюционной Кубы — приходящей в упадок физически и морально и по-прежнему мечтающей построить утопию.Увлекательный и чувственный роман от автора знаменитого «Декоратора».

Imagine if there was a map that showed you how to get from where you are now to the most brilliant, rich, fulfilling, and dazzling life you could ever dream of having. Imagine that this map showed you every step of the journey to that life; realizing your greatest dream, how to find the way over obstacles, how to overcome challenges, defy the odds, and how you already have every powerful ability and quality you need to be victorious on your journey. You are holding in your hands such a map. This is the map for your life – this is the map to greatness. Twelve of the most successful people living in the world today have followed this map. They share their seemingly impossible journeys, and reveal that each of us was born with everything we need to live our greatest dream, and that by doing so we will fulfill our mission, find everlasting happiness, and literally change the world. This is why you are here on planet Earth.

A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers's Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancee's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization.A tremendous new novel from the best-selling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.

From Amazon.comConsidering some of his past subjects--slackers, dot-commers, Hollywood producers--a Columbine-like high school massacre seems like unusual territory for the usually glib Douglas Coupland. Anyone who has read Generation X or Miss Wyoming knows that dryly hip humor, not tragedy, is the Vancouver author's strong suit. But give Coupland credit for twisting his material in strange, unexpected shapes. Coupland begins his seventh novel by transposing the Columbine incident to North Vancouver circa 1988. Narrated by one of the murdered victims, the first part of Hey Nostradamus! is affecting and emotional enough to almost make you forget you're reading a book by the same writer who so accurately characterized a generation in his first book, yet was unable to delineate a convincing character. As Cheryl Anway tells her story, the facts of the Delbrook Senior Secondary student's life--particularly her secret marriage to classmate Jason--provide a very human dimension to the bloody denouement that will change hundreds of lives forever. Rather than moving on to explore the conditions that led to the killings, though, Coupland shifts focus to nearly a dozen years after the event: first to Jason, still shattered by the death of his teenage bride, then to Jason's new girlfriend Heather, and finally to Reg, Jason's narrow-minded, religious father. Hey Nostradamus! is a very odd book. It's among Coupland's most serious efforts, yet his intent is not entirely clear. Certainly there is no attempt at psychological insight into the killers' motives, and the most developed relationships--those between Jason and Cheryl, and Jason and Reg--seem to have little to do with each other. Nevertheless, it is a Douglas Coupland book, which means imaginatively strange plot developments--as when a psychic, claiming messages from the beyond, tries to extort money from Heather--that compel the reader to see the story to its end. And clever turns of phrase, as usual, are never in short supply, but in Cheryl's section the fate we (and she) know awaits her gives them an added weight: "Math class was x's and y's and I felt trapped inside a repeating dream, staring at these two evil little letters who tormented me with their constant need to balance and be equal with each other," says the deceased narrator. "They should just get married and form a new letter together and put an end to all the nonsense. And then they should have kids." --Shawn Conner, Amazon.ca From Publishers WeeklyCoupland has long been a genre unto himself, and his latest novel fits the familiar template: earnest sentiment tempered by sardonic humor and sharp cultural observation. The book begins with a Columbine-like shooting at a Vancouver high school, viewed from the dual perspectives of seniors Jason Klaasen and Cheryl Anway. Jason and Cheryl have been secretly married for six weeks, and on the morning of the shooting, Cheryl tells Jason she is pregnant. Their situation is complicated by their startlingly deep religious faith (as Cheryl puts it, "I can't help but wonder if the other girls thought I used God as an excuse to hook up with Jason"), and their increasingly acrimonious relationship with a hard-core Christian group called Youth Alive! After Cheryl is gunned down, Jason manages to stop the shooters, killing one of them. He is first hailed as a hero, but media spin soon casts him in a different light. This is a promising beginning, but the novel unravels when Jason reappears as an adult and begins an odd, stilted relationship with Heather, a quirky court reporter. Jason disappears shortly after their relationship begins, and Heather turns to a psychic named Allison to track him down in a subplot that meanders and flags. Coupland's insight into the claustrophobic world of devout faith is impressive-one of his more unexpected characters is Jason's father, a pious, crusty villain who gradually morphs into a sympathetic figure-but when he extends his spiritual explorations to encompass psychic swindles, the novel loses its focus. Coupland has always been better at comic set pieces than consistent storytelling, and his lack of narrative control is particularly evident here. Noninitiates are unlikely to be seduced, but true believers will relish another plunge into Coupland-world.

HHhH – немецкая присказка времен Третьего рейха: Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich. «Мозг Гиммлера зовется Гейдрихом», – шутили эсэсовцы. Райнхард Гейдрих был самым страшным человеком в кабинете Гитлера. Монстр из логова чудовищ. Он обладал неограниченной властью и еще большей безжалостностью. О нем ходили невероятные слухи, один страшнее другого. И каждый слух был правдой. Гейдрих был одним из идеологов Холокоста. Гейдрих разработал план фальшивого нападения поляков на немецких жителей, что стало поводом для начала Второй мировой войны. Именно он правил Чехословакией после ее оккупации, его прозвали Пражским Палачом. Гейдрих был убит 27 мая 1942 года двумя отчаянными парнями, Йозефом Габчиком и Яном Кубишем, ставшими национальными героями Чехии. После покушения Габчик и Кубиш скрылись в православной церкви Кирилла и Мефодия. Церковь окружила целая армия солдат…Книга Лорана Бине, получившая Гонкуровскую премию за дебютный роман, рассказывает об этой истории, одной из самых невероятных во Второй мировой войне. Книга стала международным бестселлером, переведена более чем на тридцать языков.По свидетельству французских критиков, настоящим романом почти документальный текст Лорана Бине делает не переплетение правды с вымыслом, не художественное описание исторических лиц, а «страстное отношение автора к истории как к постоянному источнику рефлексии и самопознания».

HHhH — немецкая присказка времен Третьего рейха: Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich. «Мозг Гиммлера зовется Гейдрихом», — шутили эсэсовцы. Райнхард Гейдрих был самым страшным человеком в кабинете Гитлера. Монстр из логова чудовищ. Он обладал неограниченной властью и еще большей безжалостностью. О нем ходили невероятные слухи, один страшнее другого. И каждый слух был правдой. Гейдрих был одним из идеологов Холокоста. Гейдрих разработал план фальшивого нападения поляков на немецких жителей, что стало поводом для начала Второй мировой войны. Именно он правил Чехословакией после ее оккупации, его прозвали Пражским Палачом. Гейдрих был убит 27 мая 1942 года двумя отчаянными парнями, Йозефом Габчиком и Яном Кубишем, ставшими национальными героями Чехии. После покушения Габчик и Кубиш скрылись в православной церкви Кирилла и Мефодия. Церковь окружила целая армия солдат…Книга Лорана Бине, получившая Гонкуровскую премию за дебютный роман, рассказывает об этой истории, одной из самых невероятных во Второй мировой войне. Книга стала международным бестселлером, переведена более чем на тридцать языков.По свидетельству французских критиков, настоящим романом почти документальный текст Лорана Бине делает не переплетение правды с вымыслом, не художественное описание исторических лиц, а «страстное отношение автора к истории как к постоянному источнику рефлексии и самопознания».

Ник Хорнби – один из самых читаемых и обласканных критикой современных британских авторов – определяет свое творчество как «попытку заполнить пустоту, зияющую между популярным чтивом и литературой для высоколобых».«Hi-Fi» – смешная и печальная, остроумная и порой глубокомысленная, трогательная и местами циничная история любви симпатичного тридцатипятилетнего увальня. Музыка и любовь наполняют его жизнь смыслом, но и ставят перед ним множество проблем, которые он пытается разрешить на страницах романа, названного критиками «...великолепным и виртуозным синглом».

Робу 35 лет, у него свой магазин виниловых пластинок, четкие представления о мире и… его только что бросила девушка ради другого парня. Он чувствует себя несчастным, но в тоже время освобожденным, так как не готов брать лишние жизненные обязательства. Роб проводит время в компании своих сотрудников, составляет списки «топ-5» и видится с бывшими, чтобы понять себя и пересмотреть неудачи в отношениях. Это приводит его к очень интересным и важным личным открытиям.

«Hi-Fi» Ника Хорнби – смешная и печальная, остроумная и порой глубокомысленная, трогательная и местами циничная история о любви.

The critically acclaimed novel from a master of contemporary American fiction — now available as an ebookYglesias’s debut novel of youth, privilege, and rebellionRafael Yglesias completed this novel, his first, at the age of sixteen. The largely autobiographical story follows a New York prep school dropout yearning for freedom and authenticity.On its release the book was hailed as a next-generation Catcher in the Rye. But protagonist Raul Sabas comes of age in a very different New York than Holden Caulfield — a tumultuous and radicalized city following the student takeover of Columbia University and assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hide Fox, and All After is a story of adolescence written by an adolescent — deeply felt and commanding the remarkably perceptive eye that distinguishes Yglesias as a great novelist.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of Rafael Yglesias, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.Review“Comparisons with The Catcher in the Rye are inevitable… [But] Yglesias’s tone… is completely his own… A superior novel.”—Time“An extremely gifted young writer whose treatment of adolescence… is shockingly brilliant.”—John HawkesAbout the AuthorRafael Yglesias (b. 1954) is a master American storyteller whose career began with the publication of his first novel, Hide Fox, and All After, at seventeen. Through four decades Yglesias has produced numerous highly acclaimed novels, including Fearless, which was adapted into the film starring Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez. He lives on New York City’s Upper East Side.

From an acclaimed African writer, a novel about family, freedom, and loyalty.When Bella learns of the murder of her beloved half brother by political extremists in Mogadiscio, she’s in Rome. The two had different fathers but shared a Somali mother, from whom Bella’s inherited her freewheeling ways. An internationally known fashion photographer, dazzling but aloof, she comes and goes as she pleases, juggling three lovers. But with her teenage niece and nephew effectively orphaned — their mother abandoned them years ago — she feels an unfamiliar surge of protective feeling. Putting her life on hold, she journeys to Nairobi, where the two are in boarding school, uncertain whether she can — or must — come to their rescue. When their mother resurfaces, reasserting her maternal rights and bringing with her a gale of chaos and confusion that mirror the deepening political instability in the region, Bella has to decide how far she will go to obey the call of sisterly responsibility.A new departure in theme and setting for “the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years” (The New York Review of Books) Hiding in Plain Sight, is a profound exploration of the tensions between freedom and obligation, the ways gender and sexual preference define us, and the unexpected paths by which the political disrupts the personal.

A Washington Post Top 50 of 2014 Fiction pickA Wall Street Journal Book of the Year, selected by Phil KlayElectric Literature 2014: Year of the DebutA Largehearted Boy Favorite Novel of 2014Slaughterhouse 90210's Most Rapturous Book of 2014Vol. 1 Brooklyn A Year of Favorites: Jason Diamond picksCalled "powerful and unflinching" by Column McCann in The New York Times Book Review, "something of a miracle" by Ron Charles in the Washington Post, and named a must read by The Millions, Time Out, New York Magazine, and Grantland; Scott Cheshire's debut is a "great new American epic" (Philipp Meyer) about a father and son finding their way back to each other."Deeply Imagined" — The New York Times / "Daring and Brilliant" — Ron Charles, Washington Post / "Vivid" — Elle / "One of the finest novels you will read this year." — FlavorwireIt's 1980 at a crowded amphitheater in Queens, New York and a nervous Josiah Laudermilk, age 12, is about to step to the stage while thousands of believers wait to hear him, the boy preaching prodigy, pour forth. Suddenly, as if a switch had been flipped, Josiah's nerves shake away and his words come rushing out, his whole body fills to the brim with the certainty of a strange apocalyptic vision. But is it true prophecy or just a young believer's imagination running wild? Decades later when Josiah (now Josie) is grown and has long since left the church, he returns to Queens to care for his father who, day by day, is losing his grip on reality. Barreling through the old neighborhood, memories of the past-of his childhood friend Issy, of his first love, of the mother he has yet to properly mourn-overwhelm him at every turn. When he arrives at his family's old house, he's completely unprepared for what he finds. How far back must one man journey to heal a broken bond between father and son?In rhapsodic language steeped in the oral tradition of American evangelism, Scott Cheshire brings us under his spell. Remarkable in scale-moving from 1980 Queens, to sunny present-day California, to a tent revival in nineteenth century rural Kentucky-and shot-through with the power and danger of belief and the love that binds generations, High as the Horses' Bridles is a bold, heartbreaking debut from a big new American voice.

In September 1984, a man calling himself Roy Walsh checked into The Grand Hotel in Brighton and planted a bomb in room 629. The device was primed to explode in twenty-four days, six hours and six minutes, when intelligence had confirmed that Margaret Thatcher and her whole cabinet would be staying in the hotel.Taking us inside one of the twentieth century’s most ambitious assassination attempts — 'making history personal', as one character puts it — Lee’s novel moves between the luxurious hospitality of a British tourist town and the troubled city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the height of the armed struggle between the Irish Republican Army and those loyal to the UK government.Jonathan Lee has been described as ‘a major new voice in British fiction' (Guardian) and here, in supple prose that makes room for laughter as well as tears, he offers a darkly intimate portrait of how the ordinary unfolds into tragedy.

High Lonesome is a darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into American life. This collection by the author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explores lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In "Uncle High Lonesome," a young man recalls his Uncle Peter, whose even temper was marred only by his drinking binges, which would unleash moments of rage hinting at his much deeper distress. Fishing is transformed into a life-altering, almost mystical event in "A Creature in the Bay of St. Louis," when a huge fish caught on a line threatens to pull a young boy, and his entire world with him, underwater and out to sea. And in "Snerd and Niggero," a deep friendship between two men is inspired by the loss of a woman they both loved, a woman who was mistress to one and wife to the other. Viewed through memory and time's distance, Hannah's characters are brightly illuminated figures from a lost time, whose occassionally bleak lives are still uncommonly true.

J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel "High Rise" contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an intriguing plot masterfully executed. Ballard, who wrote the tremendously troubling "Crash," really knows how to dig deep into our troubling times in order to expose our tentative grasp of modernity. Some compare this book to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," and there are definite characteristics the two novels share. I would argue, however, that "High Rise" is more eloquent and more relevant than Golding's book. Unfortunately, this Ballard novel is out of print. Try and locate a copy at your local library because the payoff is well worth the effort."High Rise" centers around four major characters: Dr. Robert Laing, an instructor at a local medical school, Richard Wilder, a television documentary producer, Anthony Royal, an architect, and the high rise building all three live in with 2,000 other people. Throughout the story, Ballard switches back and forth between these three people, recording their thoughts and actions as they live their lives in the new high-rise apartment building. Ballard made sure to pick three separate people living on different floors of the forty floor building: Laing lives on the twenty fifth floor, Wilder lives on the second floor, and Royal lives in a penthouse on the fortieth floor (befitting his status as the designer of the building). Where you live in this structure will soon take on an importance beyond life itself.At the beginning of the story, most of the people living in the building get along quite well. There are the usual nitpicky problems one would expect when 2,000 people are jammed together, but overall people move freely from the top to the bottom floors. A person living on the bottom floors can easily go to the observation deck on the top of the building to enjoy the view, or shop at the two banks of stores on the tenth and thirty-fifth floors. Children swim and play in the pools and playgrounds throughout the high rise without any interference. Despite the fact that well to do people live in the building, with celebrities and executives on the top floors, middle-class people on the middle floors, and airline pilots and the like on the bottom ten floors, everyone gets along reasonably well-at first.Then things change. The gossip level increases among the residents, and parties held on different floors start to exclude people from other areas. In quick succession, objects start to land on balconies, dropped by residents on higher levels. Equipment failures, such as electrical outages, lead to mild assaults between residents. Cars parked close to the building are vandalized, and a jeweler living on the fortieth floor does a swan dive out of the window. Every incident leads to further acts of violence and increasing chaos in the lives of those in the building. People begin to take a greater interest in what's going on where they live than in outside activities and jobs. As the violence escalates, elevators and lobbies on each floor turn into armed camps as the residents attempt to block any encroachments on their territory. What starts out as a book about living in a technological marvel quickly morphs into a study of how technology can cause human beings to regress back into primitivism. Moreover, Ballard tries to draw a correlation between the technology of the building and this descent into a Stone Age mentality. He shows in detail how the residents of the apartments sink back into the morass, passing through a classical Marxist structure of bourgeoisie-proletariat, moving on to a clan/tribal system, to a system of stark individuality. In short, Ballard tries to equate our striving towards individuality through technology with how we started out in our evolution as hunter-gatherers, as individuals seeking individual gains. The promise that technology will liberate the individual is not the highest form of evolution, argues Ballard, but is actually a return to the lowest forms of human expression.Within a few pages of the story, I thought this might turn out to be very similar to a Bentley Little book. Little, nominally a horror writer but often a social satirist, often takes a situation like this and shows how people collapse under the pressures of modern life. My belief was not born out, however, not because Ballard doesn't take certain situations over the top but because he imbues his work with a significant philosophical subtext that Little would never write about. Bentley Little is all about focusing on the over the top, outrageous incidents of humanity's decline, whereas Ballard is more interested in serving as a preacher on anti-humanistic technology, thundering out a jeremiad concerning where we might go if we do not take the time to think very carefully about the society we wish to create."High Rise" is a dark, forbidding tale of woe that is sure to get a reaction from anyone who reads it. There seem to be few out there who can deliver such devastating blows to our love of technology as Ballard does in his works. This author is often referred to as a science fiction writer, but "High Rise" works just as well on a horror level. So does "Crash," when I think about it, although the cold, detached prose of that book is not present in "High Rise." Whatever genre Ballard falls into, this book delivers on every level.

Told more or less in reverse chronological order, High Tide is the story of Ieva, her dead lover, her imprisoned husband, and the way their youthful decisions dramatically impacted the rest of their lives. Taking place over three decades, High Tide functions as a sort of psychological mystery, with the full scope of Ieva’s personal situation — and the relationship between the three main characters — only becoming clear at the end of the novel.One of Latvia’s most notable young writers, Ābele is a fresh voice in European fiction — her prose is direct, evocative, and exceptionally beautiful. The combination of strikingly lush descriptive writing with the precision with which she depicts the minds of her characters elevates this novel from a simple story of a love triangle into a fascinating, philosophical, haunting book.

A collection of stories set in Oregon’s Willamette Valley — many of the protagonists having moved west to start their lives anew.

If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you.

Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who wants to become a writer and sets off on a journey in search of a deeper meaning for his life: first on the famous “Death Train” to Bolivia, then on to Peru, later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina.

Paulo’s travels take him farther to the famous Dam Square in Amsterdam filled with young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense, meditating and playing music, while discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness, and the search for an inner truth.

There he meets Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties who has been waiting to find the ideal companion to accompany her on the fabled hippie trail to Nepal. She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. They embark on the journey in the company of fascinating fellow travelers, each of whom has a story to tell, and each of whom will undergo a personal transformation, changing their priorities and values along the way. As they travel together, Paulo and Karla explore their own relationship: a life-defining love story that awakens them on every level and leads to choices and decisions that will set the course for their lives thereafter.

Данная книга — яркое доказательство мысли о более чем серьезном родстве русского и финского национальных характеров, особенно по части юмора и выпивки, каковая часть, собственно, и является главенствующей при определении национального образа жизни.Паасилинна — не новичок в мире литературы, он автор более чем двадцати романов, среди которых "Год зайца", "Предсмертный галоп человечества", "История фронтовой лошади" — так что с нетерпением ждем новых переводов."Лес повешенных лисиц" — образец неподражаемого юмора, черной иронии и абсолютно нетривиальных сюжетных поворотов во внешне детективной канве повествования. Однако жанровых определений тут быть не может.Возникающее впечатление напоминает термоядерную смесь "За спичками", войновичского "Чонкина" и "Особенностей национальной охоты" (только, естественно, с финской стороны), а главный герой Ойва Юнтунен, несмотря на то, что он отпетый негодяй и мошенник, почему-то вызывает симпатию — эдакий Лапландский Остап Бендер, не знающий как сберечь украденный "золотой миллион".

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CASE OF RODERICK MACRAEA brutal triple murder in a remote northwestern crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. There’s no question that Macrae is guilty, but the police and courts must uncover what drove him to murder the local village constable.And who were the other two victims? Ultimately, Macrae’s fate hinges on one key question: is he insane?