From the towers of Manhattan to the ruins of Greece, from Nuremberg to Vietnam, Swift takes readers on an intensely moving journey of conflict, loss and the small miracles of love.

У меня есть все, о чем мечтает, каждая девушка. Десять лет назад, я не имела ничего - лишь дружбу и любовь всего лишь одного человечка. Нам было по девять, но это не так важно.

Он был моим щитом, от насмешек в приюте, был моим теплом, моим защитником, моим домом.

Эштон был моим лучшим другом.

До тех пор, пока однажды все не изменилось, и на долгие годы, судьба разлучила нас, а в его сердце поселилась ненависть ко мне.

Я хочу увидеть в его глазах мальчика из прошлого, но теперь я вижу там лишь...

чудовище.

Мы не должны были снова встретиться. Но так случилось, и с этого и началась моя история...

An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of Cloudsplitter and Affliction.Family Life: Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad dramas of domesticity blend with an outrageous slew of murders, mayhem, coups, debauches, world tours, and love in all guises, transcendent or otherwise.Hamilton Stark: This tale of a solitary, boorish, misanthropic New Hampshire pipe fitter — the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother — is at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.The Relation of My Imprisonment: Utilizing a form invented by imprisoned seventeenth-century Puritan divines — an utterly sincere and detailed, if highly artificial, recounting of great suffering — Banks's novel is a remarkably inventive, lovingly good-humored argument, exploration, and map of the caged religious mind.

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution.

In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generation of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be brief and violent…One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old Ignacio Cañas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement arcade, when a charismatic teenager walks in with the most beautiful girl Cañas has ever seen. Zarco and Tere take over his pinball machine and his life.Thirty years on and now a successful criminal defence lawyer, Cañas has tried to put that long, hot summer of drugs, yearning and delinquency behind him. But when Tere appears in his office and asks him to represent El Zarco, who has been in prison all this time, what else can Gafitas do but accept.A powerful novel of love and hate, of loyalty and betrayal, of true integrity and the prison celebrity can become, Outlaws confirms Javier Cercas as one of the most thrilling novelists writing anywhere in the world today.

A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language.A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking — about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people’s motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk’s finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years. Short-listed for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize, nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize.

A young man rushes to the bedside of his ex, knowing the baby she's having is not his own. Travelling colleagues experience an eerie moment of truth when a fire starts in their hotel. A misdirected parcel sets off a complex psychodrama involving two men, a woman and a dog… Andrew Fox's clever, witty, intense and thoroughly entertaining stories capture the passions and befuddlements of the young and rootless, equally dislocated at home and abroad. Set in America and Ireland — and, at times, in jets over the Atlantic — Over Our Heads showcases a brilliant new talent.

These twelve stories are set in Paris, Mavis Gallant’s adopted home, a city whose nuances she brings to life through a wide range of characters: squabbling writers, bewildered parents, scheming art dealers, beleaguered tenants, and feckless drifters. An artist’s widow proves more than a match for Sandor Speck, who hopes to make a name for himself with her late husband’s paintings. Literary rivals Prism and Grippes, the protégés of a rich, misguided American patron, battle across the years. And in the Magdalena stories, a man is caught in the pull of loyalties between his beautiful first wife from a marriage of political conscience, and the woman he truly loves. Elegant, concise, finely textured, these stories never relax the tension between detachment and compassion, understanding and mystery, memory and truth. With remarkable intelligence and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of intricate simplicity and spare complexity.

Nim Goldman is the vice president of GSP&L - the corporation feeding power, light and heat to the kilowatt hungry state of California.He's a man with a big job and all the women he can handle, but he knows the crunch is coming. Soon, very soon, power famine will strike the most advanced society the world has ever known...

It is the summer of 1997. In England, Alec Valentine is returning home to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older brother Larry prepares to come home as well, knowing it will be hard to conceal that his acting career is sliding toward sleaze and his marriage is faltering. In Paris, on the other hand, the Hungarian exile László Lázár, whose play Alec is translating, seems to have it all – a comfortable home, critical acclaim, a loving boyfriend, and a close circle of friends. Yet he cannot shake off the memories of the 1956 uprising and the cry for help he left unanswered. As these unforgettable characters soon learn, the moment has come to assess the turns taken and the opportunities missed. For each of them will soon take part in acts of liberation, even if they are not necessarily what they might have expected.

Evoking an extraordinary range of emotions and insights, Oxygen lives and breathes beyond the final page.

A young married couple, Holly and Gerry, have a joke between them: If anything ever happened to him, he'd have to write her a list or else she'd never be able to cope without him. “The List” grew to encompass advice for any eventuality, a joke all their friends shared. When Gerry's severe headache is diagnosed as brain cancer and Holly tragically loses him in a few short months, she is devastated and unmoored. She hasn't just lost her husband, she's lost her very identity. And then it arrives: a package marked “The List.” Gerry has kept his promise, and inside this package are ten envelopes to be opened over a period of ten months. Each letter offers specific instructions to guide Holly through grief, and ultimately grant her permission to return to life. Of course each letter ends with PS, I Love You.The novel includes a cast of raucously funny and memorable characters, including Holly's best friends and four siblings who range in personality from the pink-haired world traveler Ciara to stick-in-the-mud Richard. Set in Ireland, the book has a wonderful Irish atmosphere reminiscent of Maeve Binchy and Marian Keyes. PS, I LOVE YOU is a warm, witty, heartfelt and romantic story about the blessings of friendship, family and the eternal nature of true love.

Pacientul englez are drept personaje centrale patru oameni cu existenţe pustiite, împinşi de hazard sub acoperişul unei foste mănăstiri italiene, la sfârşitul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial. Hana, o infirmieră amorţită de spectacolul suferinţei şi morţii atâtor soldaţi îngrijiţi; Caravaggio, un hoţ şi spion mutilat, dependent de morfină; Kip, un genist sikh care-şi pune zilnic viaţa în pericol dezamorsând bombe; şi misteriosul pacient cu trupul ars, de nerecunoscut, îngrijit de Hana, pe care lumea îl ia drept englez şi care începe să dezvăluie încet, încet o poveste de dragoste, cu aventuri în deşert şi război, ce ajunge să-i bântuie şi să-i transforme pe ascultătorii săi.

The Man Booker PrizeThe 1993 Booker Prize-winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.

`Tuve dos padres, uno rico y uno pobre. Uno, era muy inteligente y altamente instruido, había obtenido un doctorado y completado cuatro años de trabajo de postgrado en un período inferior a dos años. Luego, asistió a las Universidades de Stanford, Chicago y Northwestern, para realizar sus estudios avanzados totalmente becado. Mi otro padre, nunca completó el octavo grado. Ambos hombres fueron exitosos en sus carreras, y trabajaron arduamente durante toda su vida. Los dos ganaron ingresos substanciales, pero uno de ellos luchó financieramente de por vida. El otro, se convertiría en uno de los hombres más ricos de Hawai. Uno falleció dejando decenas de millones de dólares a su familia, iglesia, e instituciones de caridad. El otro dejó cuentas por pagar. Ambos hombres eran fuertes, carismáticos e influyentes. Y ambos me ofrecieron sus consejos, pero no me aconsejaron las mismas cosas. Los dos creían firmemente en la educación, pero no me recomendaron el mismo camino de estudios.`Así comienza Robert Kiyosaki, la narración de este best seller, en el cual comparte con nosotros las lecciones que aprendió de su `padre rico`, el hombre que se convertiría en su mentor cuando -a la edad de 9años- tuvo la inquietud de aprender el proceso de ganar dinero. Siendo apenas un niño, tuvo la oportunidad de iniciar el aprendizaje de conceptos que lo convertirían más adelante en un hombre inmensamente rico. Estos conceptos son explorados a través de las páginas de este libro y ordenados en lecciones de una especial sencillez y claridad.A través de frecuentes comparaciones entre las diferentes formas de pensar de su padre rico y su padre pobre, Robert analiza los esquemas mentales que suelen mantener a una persona instruida en la pobreza, y que en cambio pueden llevar a una persona sin instrucción a la riqueza.La preocupación de Robert es complementar la deficiente formación escolar en lo referente a las finanzas.Tal como él mismo lo expresa: La principal razón por la cual las personas luchan financieramente, es porque han pasado años en escuelas pero no aprendieron nada acerca del dinero, el resultado es que las personas aprenden a trabajar por el dinero… pero nunca aprenden a tener dinero trabajando para ellos.Lo que los ricos enseñan a sus hijos acerca del dinero ¡¡¡y la clase media no!!!

To those outside it, Pilsen is a vast barrio on the south side of Chicago. To Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, it is a world of violence and decay and beauty, of nuance and pure chance. It is a place where the smell of cooking frijoles is washed away by that of dead fish in the river, where vendettas are a daily routine, and where a fourteen-year-old immigrant might hold the ability bring people back from the dead.Simultaneously tough and tender, these stories mark the debut of a writer poised to represent his city's literature for decades to come.

Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. In Palace of Desire, his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s.

A tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana. In this novel, first published in 1960, can be traced the poetic vision, the themes and the designs of Harris's subsequent work, which included "The Guyana Quartet".

Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons — the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. The family’s trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two world wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries.