Romanas „Negailestinga stebuklų šalis ir Pasaulio galas“ skaitytoją panardina į dviejų izoliuotų ir keistų pasaulių gyvenimą. Viename jų – šiuolaikinis Tokijas: herojai klausosi Bobo Dilano, mėgaujasi italų virtuve ir rūpinasi gyvybiškai svarbių duomenų saugumu kompiuterizuotoje bei informacijos revoliuciją išgyvenančioje visuomenėje. Antrasis pasaulis – mažas, keistai nykus, uždaras Miestas; po jo laukus klajoja vienaragiai, o savastį praradę jo piliečiai gyvena skyrium nuo savo šešėlių. Meistriškai kuriama savita kiekvieno pasaulio atmosfera ir susipinantys herojų likimai skaitytoją įtraukia į linksmą, o kartu ir labai rimtą proto prigimties ir galimybių apmąstymą.

Džons Maksvels Kutzē Negodsvēja suņa klasikaProfesors pārguļ ar studenti. Kas tas ir izvarošana, rasu konflikts, jūtas? Nē, tas ir pilnīgi citādās dzīves sākums. Vai viņš spēj aizstāvēt savu un savas meitas godu jaunajos ap­stākļos. kas radušies Dienvidafrikā pēc balto pārākuma sabrukšanas? Vai cilvēks spēj izvairīties no vēstures gaitas?  2003No angļu valodas tulkojusi Amanda Aizpuriete Māksliniece Elīza VanadziņaNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lvDžons Maksvels Kutzē dzimis 1940 gadā Keiptauna. Dienvidāfnikā. Pirmais rakstnieks, kurš divreiz saņēmis Bukera balvu. 1999. gadā par romānu «Negods». 2003 gada saņēmis Nobela prēmiju literatūrā. M. Kutzē raksta angliski, studējis angļu valodu un matemātiku Keiptaunas universitātē, Teksasas universitātē Ostinā uzrakstījis disertāciju par Semjuela Beketa daiļradi Biļis ang|u literatūras pasniedzējs Dienvidafrikā. Austrālijā un ASVDzons Maksvels Kutzē Nobela prēmijas literatūrā laureāts 2003. gadā. Par romānu «Negods» 1998. gadā saņēmis Bukera balvu.© Izdevniecība AGB‘, izdevums latvielu valodā, 2003 Krišjāņa Barona ielā 31, Rīgā, Izdevniecība AGBDirektors Andris Bloks

Tras el éxito de Piratas, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa continúa esta serie de novelas con Negreros. Celeste Heredia recoge el testigo de su hermano Sebastián y fleta un galeón para luchar contra el tráfico de negros. La historia, que empieza en el Caribe, tiene un desenlace extraordinario e inesperado en el mismísimo corazón de África, con Celeste al frente de un ejército de mujeres y dispuesta a enfrentarse a un hombre cruel que está en el origen de la trata de negros.Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa nació en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, en 1936. Antes de cumplir un año, su familia fue deportada por motivos políticos a África, donde permaneció entre Marruecos y el Sáhara hasta cumplir los dieciséis años. A los veinte años se convirtió en profesor de submarinismo a bordo del buque-escuela Cruz del Sur. Cursó estudios de periodismo y en 1962 comenzó a trabajar como enviado especial de Destino, La Vanguardia y, posteriormente, de Televisión Española. Durante quince años visitó casi un centenar de países y fue testigo de numerosos acontecimientos clave de nuestro tiempo, entre ellos, las guerras y revoluciones de Guinea, Chad, Congo, República Dominicana, Bolivia, Guatemala… Las secuelas de un grave accidente de inmersión le obligaron a abandonar sus actividades como enviado especial. Tras dedicarse una temporada a la dirección cinematográfica, se centró por entero en la creación literaria. Ha publicado más de cuarenta libros.

Au Japon, en 1884, Yuko Akita, âgé de dix-sept ans, annonce la voie dans laquelle il a choisi de s'engager: il sera poète, contre l'avis de son père, un prêtre shintoïste qui estime que la poésie n'est pas un métier mais tout juste un passe-temps. Un poète de la cour Meiji a néanmoins vent des travaux de Yuko, lit ses poèmes, les trouve d'une limpidité admirable mais lui conseille de trouver de nouvelles couleurs et pour se faire de rejoindre un homme qui possède les plus grandes connaissances artistiques, Soséki. Yuko part à la recherche des couleurs de la neige, élément qui le fascine et à partir duquel il compose tous ses haïkus. En traversant les montagnes, il fait une découverte. Il tombe éperdument amoureux du corps d'une jeune fille européenne, à la beauté diaphane, prisonnière des glaces depuis longtemps. Sa rencontre avec Soséki, ancien samouraï, vieux peintre aujourd'hui aveugle, va le guider dans sa quête. Mais le savoir suprême, Yuko ne le trouvera qu'auprès d'une femme, car seul l'amour peut faire naître l'absolu de l'art.Au fil des dialogues entre le maître et l'élève, la fragilité des choses, les images lumineuses du temps qui passe, la concision du langage ancrent ce récit initiatique dans la tradition et l'esthétique des haïkus dont il tire toute sa substance.

„Viskas, ko mes norime, yra tai, ko esame ištreniruoti norėti.“ Aštrus Chucko Palahniuko žvilgsnis grotesko, ironijos ir intelekto skalpeliu perskrodžia kraujuojančius nupoliruotos visuomenės vidurius. Jis – profesionalus kraštutinių sprendimų meistras, todėl jo herojai gauna vienintelę galimybę išgelbėti savo gyvenimus – nedovanotiną klaidą. Smulkmena po smulkmenos ir pikantiškos detalės susidėsto į istoriją, kurioje nelieka laimėjusiųjų, kurioje tik be sentimentų ištaškius senąjį gyvenimą atsiveria galimybė gyventi savąją jo versiją. Ji – populiari manekenė, kurios gyvenimą aukštyn kojom apverčia nelaimingas atsitikimas. Iš dėmesio nestokojančios gražuolės ji virsta negalinčia kalbėti pabaisa, kuriai ne kiekvienas turi drąsos pažvelgti į akis. Sunkiausiu metu jos gyvenime pasirodo Brendi Aleksander, super megakaralienė, laukianti lyties keitimo operacijos. Ji išmokys pabaisą, kad kuriant save iš naujo reikia ištrinti praeitį ir susikurti kai ką geriau. Ir kad išsigelbėjimas slypi ten, kur mažiausiai norėtum jo ieškoti

With Nemesis Roth leaps back again, to Newark in 1944, in the summer, polio season — but this year, the worst outbreak of polio in a lifetime, and long before there was even a glimpse of a vaccine. The fact of the eradication of polio, an affliction unknown in the lifetime of most Americans now, only makes Roth's recreation of the disease all but horror-movie immediate: unstoppable, unpredictable, unknowable, evading diagnosis until it is too late, with cases spreading through a neighborhood by the hour and children dead overnight or consigned to an iron lung for the rest of their lives (and what is an iron lung, any reader might have to ask, only to find out, and then be horrified at how polio could redefine everyday life?).

En una manzana de Nueva York conviven personajes de lo más variopinto: una solterona resignada a no encontrar la pareja ideal, una celestina obsesionada por planear citas a ciegas para su hermano, un ligón empedernido, un divorciado desengañado del amor…Lo que une a Everett, Jody, Simon y Polly es su pasión por los perros. Y son sus adorables mascotas las que terminan por convertirse en tiernos cumplidos que lanzan flechas a sus amos… aunque suelan equivocarse de objetivo.Go Go Grill, el restaurate a la par que ONG del barrio, será la cocina donde se cuezan los enredos en los que se verán envueltos los protagonistas de esta deliciosa comedia coral.

Nerimo dienos yra grožinės literatūros šedevras ir, pasak Daily Telegraph, „geriausias kada nors parašytas romanas apie amerikietiškos svajonės mirtį.“

Eiprilė ir Frenkas Vyleriai – jauna, iš pažiūros klestinti pora su dviem vaikais, gyvenanti prestižiniame Konektikuto priemiestyje. Tačiau savimi pasitikinčių sėkmės kūdikių kaukės slepia nusivylimą, abu nesugeba jausti pasitenkinimo santykiais ir karjeromis. Frenkas įklimpęs gerai apmokamame, bet nuobodžiame tarnautojo darbe, Eiprilė – namų šeimininkė, gedinti nepavykusios aktorės karjeros. Nusprendę išsiskirti iš vidutinybių, kurios tariamai juos supa, pora nutaria persikraustyti į Prancūziją, kur neabejotinai galės išreikšti savo meniškas sielas, nevaržomi juos supančios vartotojiškos visumenės reikalavimų… Tačiau kai santuoka virsta nesibaigiančiu priekabių, pavydo ir kaltinimų ratu, kelionei ir svajonėms apie saviraišką iškyla pavojus.

Pagal Richardo Yateso bestselerį „Nerimo dienos“ 1961 metais režisierius  Sam Mendes pastatė filmą "Revolutionary Road" su Leonardo DiCaprio ir Kate Winslet.

Versta iš anglų kalbos - Revolutionary Road

Vertėjas: Dalia Uržaitė ir Giedrė Tartėnienė

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, and left alone after his English wife and son return to London, Hans van den Broek stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. As the two men share their vastly different experiences of contemporary immigrant life in America, an unforgettable portrait emerges of an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.

„Netikrumas“ – antrasis M. Larseno romanas, išverstas į 18 kalbų ir ekranizuotas JAV. Šis kūrinys, talpus kaip kompiuterio diskelis, tik pasirodęs buvo lyginamas su garsiąja Larseno tėvynainio Peterio Hoego knyga „Panelės Smilos sniego jausmas“. Nors „Netikrumo“ veiksmo vieta ne Grenlandija, o Los Andželas, anot M. Larseno, atšiauri Grenlandija kur kas jaukesnė žmogui nei garsusis Amerikos miestas… Pasak kritikų, „Netikrumas“ – ne tik Orwellas ir Hoegas vienoje knygoje, tai naujo meninio mąstymo, nulemto XXa. pab. technologijų, pavyzdys. Kompiuteriai, kino, porno ir žiniasklaidos industrija – štai kraupus scenovaizdis, kuriame blaškosi Martinas Molbergas, žurnalistas iš Kopenhagos, „Netikrumo“ pagrindinis herojus, trokštantis išlikti tik žmogumi.

Ostdeutsche Provinz, Januar 1990. Enrico Türmer, Theatermann und heimlicher Schriftsteller, kehrt der Kunst den Rücken und heuert bei einer neu gegründeten Zeitung an. Unter der Leitung seines Mephisto, des allgegenwärtigen Clemens von Barrista, entwickelt der Schöngeist einen ungeahnten Aufstiegswillen. Von dieser Lebenswende in Zeiten des Umbruchs erzählen die Briefe Enrico Türmers, geschrieben an seine drei Lieben — an die Schwester Vera, den Jugendfreund Johann und an Nicoletta, die Unerreichbare.Als Chronist der jüngsten deutschen Geschichte gelingt Ingo Schulze das einzigartige Panorama des Weltenwechsels 1989/90 — der Geburtsstunde unserer heutigen Welt.

My perfect life was a lie.Now I'd do anything to uncover the truth.Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I'm gone--that I'm dead. To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad.And my killer is watching her every move.I remember little from my life, just flashes and flickers, so all I can do is follow along as Emma tries to solve the mystery of my disappearance. But the deeper she digs, the more suspects she uncovers. It turns out my friends and I played a lot of games--games that ruined people's lives. Anyone could want revenge . . . anyone could want me--and now Emma--dead.From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.

From the acclaimed author of “The Remains of the Day” and “When We Were Orphans,” a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed—even comforted—by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood—and about their lives now.A tale of deceptive simplicity, “Never Let Me Go” slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance—and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work.

An extraordinary novel about a wife who disguises herself as a man and goes off to fight in the Civil War.She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause.Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel throws a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of stay behind. It is also a mystery story: why did Ash leave and her husband stay? Why can she not return? What will she have to go through to make it back home?In gorgeous prose, Hunt's rebellious young heroine fights her way through history, and back home to her husband, and finally into our hearts.

Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America.In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story. In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.

One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship, Pietri Friari gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can identifying him. When he regains consciousness he has lost his memory and cannot even remember what language he speaks. From a few things found on the man the doctor, who is originally from Finland, believes him to be a sailor and a fellow countryman, who somehow or other has ended up in Trieste. The doctor dedicates himself to teaching the man Finnish, beginning the reconstruction of the identity of Sampo Karjalainen, leading the missing man to return to Finland in search of his identity and his past.New Finnish Grammar won three literary prizes in Italy in 2001: Premio Grinzane Cavour, Premio Ostia Mare and Premio Giuseppe Desi and has received critical acclaim across Europe.

East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Türmer, man of the theater, secret novelist, turns his back on art and signs on to work at a newly started newspaper. Freed from the compulsion to describe the world, he plunges into everyday life. Under the guidance of his Mephisto, the ever-present Clemens von Barrista, the former aesthete suddenly develops worldly ambitions even he didn’t know he had.This upheaval in our hero’s life, mirrored in the vaster upheaval gripping Germany itself after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the birth pangs of a reunified nation, is captured in the letters Enrico writes to the three people he loves most: his sister, Vera; his childhood friend Johann; and Nicoletta, the unattainable woman of his dreams. As he discovers capitalism and reports on his adventures as a businessman, he peels away the layers of his previous existence, in the process creating the thing he has dreamed of for so long — the novel of his own life, in whose facets contemporary history is captured. Thus Enrico comes to embody all the questionable aspects not only of life in the old Germany, but of life in the Germany just taking form.Once again Ingo Schulze proves himself a master storyteller, with an inimitable power to reconjure the complete insanity of this wildest time in postwar German history. As its comic chronicler, he unfurls a panorama of a world in transformation — and the birth of a new era.

Upon the death of their leader, a group of Tuareg, a nomadic Berber community whose traditional homeland is the Sahara Desert, turns to the heir dictated by tribal custom; however, he is a poet reluctant to don the mantle of leadership. Forced by tribal elders to abandon not only his poetry but his love, who is also a poet, he reluctantly serves as leader. Whether by human design or the meddling of the Spirit World, his death inspires his tribe to settle down permanently, abandoning not only nomadism but also the inherited laws of the tribe. The community they found, New Waw, which they name for the mythical paradise of the Tuareg people, is also the setting of Ibrahim al-Koni's companion novel, The Puppet.For al-Koni, this Tuareg tale of the tension between nomadism and settled life represents a choice faced by people everywhere, in many walks of life, as a result of globalism. He sees an inevitable interface between myth and contemporary life.