От университетского кампуса — к загадочному острову. От античной мифологии — к индейским легендам, от тонких библейских аллюзий — к острой, циничной интеллектуальной сатире.«M/F» — роман, ставший мировой литературной сенсацией.Его исступленно ругали или столь же исступленно им восхищались. О нем спорили и им зачитывались. Однако ни у восторженных поклонников романа, ни у его рьяных ненавистников не возникало сомнений: Энтони Бёрджесс вновь нарушил границы дозволенного в литературе.История юного Майлса Фабера — царя Эдипа XX столетия — становится историей искусства как такового.Но что есть современное искусство?По каким законам оно существует?И прав ли Майлс, с юношеским максимализмом продвигающий теорию «искусства хаоса и разрушения»?

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.

Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma.

Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

Powieść jest ironicznym portretem artysty z czasów młodości, dojrzewającego w peerelowskiej rzeczywistości schyłku lat sześćdziesiątych. Narrator opowiada o swoich latach nauki i o fascynacji starszą od niego, piękną, tajemniczą kobietą, która uczyła go francuskiego i dała mu lekcję wolności. Jest to zarazem opowieść o potrzebie marzenia, a także rozrachunek z epoką peerelu. Tradycyjna narracja, nie pozbawiona wątku sensacyjnego, skrzy się humorem, oczarowuje i wzrusza.

Après les maternités, les paternités difficiles, les révoltes adolescentes, les embarras conjugaux, voici le roman d’un divorce.Publié par hasard au moment où s’amorce une révision de la loi, ce livre peut accessoirement lui fournir des arguments. Mais son thème n’est pas là. La procédure est une chose. L’état de divorcé(e) en est une autre qui — l’union par l’enfant restant indissoluble — dramatise souvent toute une vie. Aline, devenue Madame Ex, Louis remarié à Odile, leurs enfants divisés en Papiens et Mamiens, leurs parents, leurs amis, leurs avocats — intervenant sans cesse dans une guérilla où la rancune, l’intérêt, l’orgueil, le remords, le souvenir se mélangent — en fournissent ici un exemple tour à tour passionné et douloureux.Madame Ex, par le ton, le trait, le mouvement, la précision du détail, est un roman typique d’Hervé Bazin et sans doute l’un des plus émouvants dans l’évocation de ce tragique quotidien où se meuvent comme nous ses personnages.

Era todavía una niña cuando decidió desobedecer a su madre y liberarse de las vendas que iban a convertir sus pies en muñones, haciendo de ella una mujer deseable. Éste fue el primer acto de rebelión de la hija de una concubina, que acabaría siendo la última esposa de Mao Zedong.Todos recuerdan a Madame Mao como la tirana cruel y ambiciosa que gobernó China después de la muerte de su marido, pero pocos saben qué tuvo que hacer para escalar los peldaños del poder y cuáles fueron sus armas de seducción. Actriz experta y siempre en busca del éxito, la mujer que encandiló a Mao y se encerró con él en la cueva de las colinas de Yenan se había propuesto desde muy joven entender la vida como una gran obra de teatro, donde ella estaba destinada a brillar como prima donna hasta el final del espectáculo. Cuando en mayo de 1991 Madame Mao decidió ella misma bajar el telón, quizá no hubo aplauso, pero una sensación extraña de reverencia y miedo recorrió el escenario…Después de tres años de búsqueda y recopilación de datos, Anchee Min ha sido capaz de atar los cabos sueltos de este drama fascinante, y nos propone la biografía novelada de una de las mucheres más temidas y admiradas de la historia del siglo XX.

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived, but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and, eventually, forgotten.

But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria twelve different histories for the unknown woman. Like musical variations repeating a theme, each Victoria meets her end only after Leroux resurrects her, replacing the anonymous circumstances of her death with a vivid re-imagining of her possible lives. And in doing so, Madame Victoria becomes much more than the story of one unknown and unnamed woman: it becomes a celebration of the lives and legacies of unknown women everywhere.

By turns elegiac, playful, poignant, and tragic, Madame Victoria is an unforgettable book about the complexities of individual lives and the familiar ways in which they overlap.

Феликс Зак, страстный любитель и знаток кино категории Б, всю жизнь пытался сочинять киносценарии, однако ничего у него не получалось, и он бросал все на полдороге. И вдруг ему улыбнулась удача: очередным его шедевром — историей о жестоких убийствах в доме престарелых, где доживают свой век второразрядные актеры, — заинтересовался неизвестный продюсер. Однако радовался Феликс рано: все события, описанные в сценарии, стали происходить в реальной жизни. А автором занялась полиция.Роман Ж. М. Эрра «Made in France» — юмористический детектив, он продолжает блистательную традицию этого жанра, прославившего имена Даниноса и Сан-Антонио.

Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends — three men and two women — head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They've been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and to themselves.With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and Made to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño.

A commonplace book, arranging works of criticism looking at Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with fragments of memoir/fiction. Presented first as random notes on watching Hitchcock, the fragments soon take up multiple narratives and threads and, like a classic Hitchcock movie, present competing realities. Fragments from a dizzying list of authors, from Truffaut to Philip K. Dick and Geoff Dyer to Bruno Schultz, are meticulously arranged in a fascinating, multilayered reading experience.

When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. And in their midst travels Madeleine, the dreamer, who is trying to make sense of her own metamorphosis as she leaves home, joins a gypsy circus, and falls into an unexpected triangle of desire and love.

Liberté a 18 ans. Elle refuse ce que la plupart des femmes tolèrent: un amour imparfait, sans folie. Inapte aux compromis, Mademoiselle Liberté ne conçoit pas d'être raisonnable, de se contenter d'une petite part de bonheur. L'infini est sa mesure, l'absolu son oxygène. Animée par un goût prodigieux pour le plaisir, elle bondit vers ses appétits.Horace, le proviseur de son lycée, sait lui aussi vivre la vie: ce furieux ne se repose que dans l'hyperbole. Marié à une épouse professionnelle, il rêve de foncer dans un destin superlatif.Liberté décide de chercher avec la perfection: elle ne se contentera pas d'un brouillon de liaison, elle exigera la passion intégrale, portée à son comble, fignolée jusqu'au délire.Ces deux forcenés tenteront un amour idéal. Ils désirent un chef d'œuvre sinon rien.

Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy.The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched by the beauty of the mad woman's dress, plots to take it from her, with tragic consequences.

Set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, these bizarre and delicate stories capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and today's tiger economy.The mad woman on the bridge wears a historical gown which she refuses to take off. In the height of summer she stands madly on the bridge. Until a young female doctor, bewitched by the beauty of the mad woman's dress, plots to take it from her, with tragic consequences.

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead he finds himself in the company of dilettantes and psychopaths, relentlessly hunted by police and spurned by the people he means to liberate. But this is only one stop in a quest for authenticity that takes in all the fanaticism and folly of the postmodern era. Moving with dreamlike swiftness from guerrilla encampment to prison cell, from the squalor of rural India to the glut and moral desolation of 1980s London, Magic Seeds is a novel of oracular power, dazzling in its economy and unblinking in its observations.

Lydia Millet is one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation (Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times). This stunning novel introduces Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband's death. Suddenly gifted her great uncle's Pasadena mansion, Susan decides to restore his extensive collection of preserved animals, tending to the fur and feathers, the beaks, the bones and shimmering tails.Meanwhile, a menagerie of uniquely damaged humans including a cheating husband and a chorus of eccentric elderly women joins her in residence.Millet's flawlessly beautiful(Salon) prose creates a setting both humorous and wondrous as Susan defends her inheritance from freeloading relatives and explores the mansion's many mysterious spaces. Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence is the story of a woman emerging from the sudden dissolution of her family. Millet's trademark themes evolution and extinction, children and parenthood, loss and wonder produce a rapturous final act to the critically acclaimed cycle of novels that began with How the Dead Dream.

A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy.Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is “one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation” (Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times). Salon praised her for writing that is “always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself.” The Village Voice added, “If Kurt Vonnegut were still alive, he would be extremely jealous.”This stunning new novel presents Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband’s death and the dissolution of her family. Embarking on a new phase in her life after inheriting her uncle’s sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy, Susan decides to restore the neglected, moth-eaten animal mounts, tending to “the fur and feathers, the beaks, the bones and shimmering tails.” Meanwhile an equally derelict human menagerie—including an unfaithful husband and a chorus of eccentric old women—joins her in residence.In a setting both wondrous and absurd, Susan defends her legacy from freeloading relatives and explores the mansion’s unknown spaces. Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence explores evolution and extinction, children and parenthood, loss and revelation. The result is the rapturous final act to the critically acclaimed cycle of novels that began with How the Dead Dream.

A moving and enigmatic novel which deals with the Holocaust and a man's search for his own identity. Magnus pieces together the complex puzzle of his life, which turns out to be closer to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed was his mother.

Written with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition.When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the Pakistani village shopkeeper, he is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Brought together by a shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship on the cusp of blossoming into something more. But although the Major was actually born in Lahore, and Mrs. Ali was born in Cambridge, village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a permanent foreigner. The Major has always taken special pride in the village, but will he be forced to choose between the place he calls home and a future with Mrs. Ali?

In Matt Sumell’s blazing first book, our hero Alby flails wildly against the world around him — he punches his sister (she deserved it), "unprotectos" broads (they deserved it and liked it), gets drunk and picks fights (all deserved), defends defenseless creatures both large and small, and spews insults at children, slow drivers, old ladies, and every single surviving member of his family. In each of these stories Alby distills the anguish, the terror, the humor, and the strange grace — or lack of — he experiences in the aftermath of his mother’s death. Swirling at the center of Alby’s rage is a grief so big, so profound, it might swallow him whole. As he drinks, screws, and jokes his way through his pain and heartache, Alby’s anger, his kindness, and his capacity for good bubble up when he (and we) least expect it.Making Nice is a powerful, full-steam-ahead ride that will keep you laughing even as you try to catch your breath; a new classic about love, loss, and the fine line between grappling through grief and fighting for (and with) the only family you’ve got.

La última novedad de Paulo Coelho es una selección de sus mejores artículos publicados entre 1993 y 1994 en la Folha de Sao Paulo.Maktub, según palabras del propio autor, `no es un libro de consejos, sino un intercambio de experiencias`, una excelente ocasión para reflexionar y para reencontrarse con uno mismo.