"Ono" – jedna z bardziej zaskakujących powieści ostatnich lat, książka inna od tych, które Terakowska kierowała dotychczas do młodzieży, inna też od adresowanej do starszych czytelników "Poczwarki", choć, podobnie jak ta ostatnia, przeznaczona jest dla dojrzałych odbiorców. Po raz pierwszy Dorota Terakowska przedstawia świat tak dotkliwie realistyczny, choć nie pozbawiony magii i niezwykłości. Umieszcza w nim na pozór nie wyróżniającą się żadnymi szczególnymi cechami osobowości czy zdolnościami bohaterkę, w której każdy może odnaleźć mniej lub bardziej sobie znajomą "dziewczynę z sąsiedztwa". Dziewiętnastoletnia Ewa, mieszkanka małego polskiego miasteczka, pozbawiona zainteresowań i jakichkolwiek większych ambicji, staje nagle przed bardzo poważnym problemem życiowym. To, co jej się przytrafia, nie jest niestety czymś niespotykanym, zaskakująca jest natomiast jej reakcja na ów problem – postawa niewiele mająca wspólnego z wyborem, jakiego moglibyśmy się po "takiej dziewczynie" spodziewać. Powieść jest zadziwiająca, wielowymiarowa i pełna napięcia, autorka po mistrzowsku wykorzystała w niej wypróbowaną w prozie realistycznej ideę ukazania wewnętrznego rozwoju młodego bohatera na tle jego środowiska. Mamy tu do czynienia z realizacją nie tylko udaną, ale i pod wieloma względami nowatorską. Misterna, przemyślana w każdym szczególe konstrukcja oraz znakomicie nakreślone, wyraziste postaci sprawiają, że powieść czyta się jednym tchem."Ono", oprócz typowego dla Terakowskiej klimatu i symboliki, jest powieścią przejmująco realistyczną. Nie pozwala na obojętność, porusza, sięga do najgłębszych emocji każdego czytelnika. Dotyka problemów bliskich nam wszystkim i zmusza do głębokich refleksji. Po tę książkę powinien sięgnąć każdy, bo dla wszystkich ta literacka rzeczywistość jest światem, w którym żyjemy. "Ono" zmusi do odpowiedzi na pytanie: "jakie jest nasze w tym świecie miejsce?" i w każdym z nas pozostawi ślad na bardzo długo.

Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past.But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey — which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.

"An ambiguous tale that verges on dark comedy. With skill and subtlety, the novel hints that a whole society might labor under an illusion of liberty." — The EconomistWhen her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an aging ranch-hand, although a local girl also proves irresistible.Iosi Havilio bursts onto the Argentine literary scene after Open Door was highly praised by some of the country's most influential critics and writer, including Beatriz Sarlo and Rodolfo Fogwill.

Open Heart is a psychological tour de fource about love and the nature of man's soul. From the opening lines of this first-person narrative, the reader is propelled into the mind of Dr. Benjamin Rubin, an ambitious young internist, who is jockeying for position with the hospital's top surgeons. But it isn't until Benjy learns that his position has been terminated, and that he has been selected to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife to India to retrieve their ailing daughter, that Yehoshua sets his hero on a journey of self-discovery.

Wyobraźmy sobie sytuację, gdy do złudzenia podobny do nas nieznajomy zawłaszcza nasze imię i nazwisko, przypisuje sobie nasz życiorys i jeździ po świecie, podszywając się pod nas.W książce tej, gdzie w mistrzowski sposób fakty splatają się z fikcją, Philip Roth spotyka mężczyznę, który być może jest, a może nie jest Philipem Rothem. A wszystko dlatego, że ktoś o tym nazwisku przemierza państwo Izrael, propagując dziwaczną ideę żydowskiego exodusu a rebours. Roth postanawia powstrzymać tego człowieka – nawet gdyby miało to oznaczać wcielenie się w uzurpatora.Pełna napięcia, zabawna, nasycona emocjami, inteligentnie napisana i tętniąca narracyjną energią Operacja Shylock jest historią szpiegowską, politycznym thrillerem, refleksją nad istotą tożsamości, a jednocześnie rodzajem wyznania.

Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award.

Dla miłośników Gombrowicza ta sensacyjna powieść drukowana przed wojną w prasie codziennej stanowi możliwość prześledzenia wątków mniej znanych w jego twórczości. Jest to pełne wydanie utworu, którego zakończenie – w związku z wybuchem wojny – uważano długo za zagubione lub w ogóle nie napisane.Kryminalna intryga, wątek romansowy, zagęszczona atmosfera tajemniczości i działania sił nadprzyrodzonych podnoszą walor tekstu jako "czytadła" o znamionach jedynej w swoim rodzaju polskiej powieści "gotyckiej".Sensacyjny romans łączący wiele wątków spotykanych w powieściach gotyckich: tajemniczy zamek, w którym straszy, skandal w ksążęcej rodzinie, opętanie, klątwa…

Книга Тимура Бикбулатова «Opus marginum» содержит тексты, дефинируемые как «метафорический нарратив». «Все, что натекстовано в этой сумбурной брошюрке, писалось кусками, рывками, без помарок и обдумывания. На пресс-конференциях в правительстве и научных библиотеках, в алкогольных притонах и наркоклиниках, на художественных вернисажах и в ночных вагонах электричек. Это не сборник и не альбом, это стенограмма стенаний без шумоподавления и корректуры. Чтобы было, чтобы не забыть, не потерять…»

A thrilling, plot-twisting novel from the author of Restless, a national bestseller and winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award.It is May in Chelsea, London. The glittering river is unusually high on an otherwise ordinary afternoon. Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, ambles along the Embankment, admiring the view. He is pleasantly surprised to come across a little Italian bistro down a leafy side street. During his meal he strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterwards. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents through which Adam will lose everything — home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, mobile phone — never to get them back.A heart-in-mouth conspiracy novel about the fragility of social identity, the corruption at the heart of big business and the secrets that lie hidden in the filthy underbelly of the everyday city.

Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.

1921 reiste der später weltberühmte Autor John Dos Passos durch den Orient – schon damals eine hochexplosive Gegend – und hielt seine Eindrücke in einem Tagebuch fest. Diese abenteuerliche Reise führte den damals 25-Jährigen von der Türkei über Georgien, Armenien, den Iran und den Irak bis nach Syrien. Sein packender Bericht liest sich wie eine Mischung aus Abenteuerroman und der hellsichtigen Analyse eines dramatischen Umbruchs, der bis heute fortwirkt. Geschrieben in knapper Präzision, mit ansteckender Neugier und Beobachtungsgabe, ist das Werk, mit dem Dos Passos dabei war, zu einem der wichtigsten Schriftsteller der amerikanischen Moderne zu werden, jetzt erstmals auf Deutsch zu entdecken.

Breakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break — daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed — by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge — cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown.Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator’s occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employee’s first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers’ most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination.Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction.

Originally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a lapsed Catholic given to mysterious visions, is adopted as a doomsday prophet by a group of small-town mystics. "Exposed" by the town newspaper editor, the cult gains international notoriety and its ranks swell. As its members gather on the Mount of Redemption to await the apocalypse, Robert Coover lays bare the madness of religious frenzy and the sometimes greater madness of "normal" citizens. The Origin of the Brunists is vintage Coover — comic, fearless, incisive, and brilliantly executed. "A novel of intensity and conviction… a splendid talent… heir to Dreiser or Lewis." — The New York Times Book Review; "A breathtaking masterpiece on any level you approach it." — Sol Yurick; "[The Origin of the Brunists] delivers the goods. . [and] says what it has to say with rudeness, vigor, poetry and a headlong narrative momentum." — The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

The dazzling new novel, evoking the strange and thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie.A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hiddenJulia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico, heralded on tours across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her rather unusual appearance. Yet few can see past the thick hair that covers her: she is both the fascinating toast of a Governor's ball and the shunned, revolting, unnatural beast, to be hidden from children and pregnant women.But what is her wonderful and terrible link to Rose, collector of lost treasures in an attic room in modern-day south London? In this haunting tale of identity, love and independence, these two lives will connect in unforgettable ways.

A preeminent work of modern Greek literature, this provocative novel poses difficult questions about the nation’s Nazi occupation and early Civil War years.First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos provides a powerful, nuanced interpretation of events during the later years of Nazi occupation and the early stages of the nation’s Civil War. His fictionalized chronicle gives participants, victims, and innocent bystanders equal opportunity to bear witness to such events as the burning of Valtinos’s home village, the detention and execution of combatants and civilians in the monastery of Orthokostá, and the revenge killings that ensued.As a transforming work of literature, this book redefined established methods of fiction; as a work of revisionist history, it changed the way Greece understands its own past. Now, through this masterful translation of Orthokostá, English-language readers have full access to the tremendous vitality of Valtinos’s work and to the divisive Civil War experiences that continue to echo in Greek politics and events today.

A preeminent work of modern Greek literature, this provocative novel poses difficult questions about the nation’s Nazi occupation and early Civil War years.First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos provides a powerful, nuanced interpretation of events during the later years of Nazi occupation and the early stages of the nation’s Civil War. His fictionalized chronicle gives participants, victims, and innocent bystanders equal opportunity to bear witness to such events as the burning of Valtinos’s home village, the detention and execution of combatants and civilians in the monastery of Orthokostá, and the revenge killings that ensued.As a transforming work of literature, this book redefined established methods of fiction; as a work of revisionist history, it changed the way Greece understands its own past. Now, through this masterful translation of Orthokostá, English-language readers have full access to the tremendous vitality of Valtinos’s work and to the divisive Civil War experiences that continue to echo in Greek politics and events today.

As the story opens, the narrator, who calls himself Snowman, is sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, he now searches for supplies in a wasteland. Insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the Pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is Snowman left with nothing but his bizarre memories—alone except for the more-than-perfect, green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster? He explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes—into his own past and back to Crake’s high-tech bubble dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.

The Booker Prize-winning novel-now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures.This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent-a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms-could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.