Eric Chevillard’s visionary play of word and thought has been compared to the work of Beckett, Michaux, and Pinget, yet the universe he spins is utterly his own. Palafox (Editions de Minuit, 1990), Chevillard’s third novel of eleven, explores the ecosystem of an unclassifiable yet enchanting protean creature, Palafox. A team of experts armed with degrees of higher learning is determined to label, train, baptize, and realize the elusive creature, while Palafox effortlessly and wordlessly defies them all.

Egils LukjanskisPalīgā sauciensPopulārā romānistā Egila Lukjanska jaunākais romāns "Palīgā sauciens" ir jums par agrāk sabiedrībā populārā  žurnalista Haralda Vintera atgriešanos dzīvē pēc pieciem cietumā nepelnīti pavadītiem gadiem.Kā dzīvot tālāk? Izveloties starp meliem un patiesību, atriebību un piedošanu, vientulību un mīlestību, jāatgūst ticība cilvēkiem, jāsaglabā spēja atsaukties kāda cilvēka palīgā saucienam…Apgāds DAUGAVAMākslinieks VILNIS DIDRIHSONS© Egils Lukjanskis, 1999© Vilnis Didrihsons, mākslinieciski izveide, 1999 © Apgāds «Daugava", izdevums, 1999Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

An unforgettable portrait of a man haunted by memories of the woman who got away_blended skillfully with a searing look at the role of art and memory in our times.In a small, foundering town in central New York, Molly Howe grows up to be a seemingly ordinary but deeply charismatic young woman. As a teenager, she has an affair with a much older man — a relationship that thrills her at first, until the two of them are discovered, and she learns how difficult it can be to get away with such a transgression in a small town. Cast out by her parents, she moves in with her emotionally enigmatic brother, Richard, in Berkeley, California. At her lowest moment, she falls in with a young art student named John Wheelwright. Each of them believes — though for very different reasons — that this is the love that can save them. Then Molly, after being called home for a family emergency, disappears.A decade later, John has gone on to a promising career at a "cutting edge" advertising agency in New York. He seems on a familiar road to success — until he wanders into the path of Malcolm Osbourne, an eccentric advertising visionary who decries modern advertising's reliance on smirking irony and calls for a popular art of true belief and sincerity. Toward this end, Mal founds — and invites John to join — a unique artists' colony-cum-ad agency called Palladio, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The risky, much-ridiculed venture brings them undreamt-of fame and influence. It also brings, literally to their door, Molly Howe.In a triumph of literary ingenuity, Jonathan Dee weaves together the stories of this unforgettable pair, raising haunting questions about thesources of art, the pain of lost love, and whether it pays to have a conscience in our cynical age.

Sans moyens financiers, quelle revanche prendre sur une société aussi puissante que la Hackett Chemical quand elle « vire » ses employés sous prétexte de marasme économique ? Aucune.Alan Pope, le premier « viré », le dit avec raison à son ami Sammy Bannister qui est le second. Supposons à présent que la banque chargée de verser l'indemnité de licenciement, la Burger, crédite Alan de plus d'un million de dollars.C'est une erreur évidemment mais aussi la fortune qui va leur permettre de ruiner la firme et ils ont deux semaines pour y parvenir avant que l'erreur soit découverte, décrète Sammy qui expédie Alan au Majestic de Cannes où séjourne Arnold Hackett, l'homme à abattre. Comment ? Que Alan se fie à la chance en jouant les riches à chèques, yacht et Rolls.Peu à l'aise dans ce rôle, il débute mal : le magot reste sur le tapis vert à cause d'une flambeuse aux yeux violets et son banco attire sur lui l'attention du patron de la Burger.Alan s'attend à être démasqué et arrêté. Pas du tout. Une O.P.A. illégale et un achat d'armement qui ne l'est pas moins vont l'entraîner, en compagnie de requins d'affaires et de poupées de luxe, dans une aventure à couper le souffle.

Los cuatro relatos que integran el volumen de Palo y Hueso fueron escritos entre 1960 y 1961 y aparecieron publicados en Buenos Aires por primera vez en 1965, editados por Camarda Junior y constituyen otra muestra más de la percepción de la realidad en la obra del autor.El relato Palo y Hueso fue llevado al cine, allá por 1967, con guión escrito por el propio Saer y dirigido por Alejandro Sarquis.

To prawdziwe notatki dziewczyny, później kobiety, w których zamkniętych zostało piętnaście lat życia na krawędzi, we wciąż na nowo podejmowanej walce z nałogiem. Jej przejmujące, niejednokrotnie bardzo drastyczne świadectwo rodzi prawdę o piekle, jakim jest uzależnienie. Daty dzienne wyznczają tu czas szkoły, pracy i wakacji, ale przede wszystkim czas życia i śmierci.

Declining celebrity Chet Pomeroy, attempts to win back Catherine, the girl whom he married (or perhaps did not marry) in Panama several years before. His quest for Catherine takes him to Key West, Florida, a centre of commercialism and corruption where nightmares stalk his waking hours.

A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality, only to find that the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they thought. The dissolution of the Soviet Union makes returning just a matter of a plane ticket, and the Russian-owned shops in their adopted neighborhood stock even the most obscure comforts of home. Pursuing the American Dream once meant giving up everything, but does the dream still work if the past is always within reach?If the Nasmertov parents can afford only to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the family’s youngest, Frida, can only look back.In striking, arresting prose loaded with fresh and inventive turns of phrase, Yelena Akhtiorskaya has written the first great novel of Brighton Beach: a searing portrait of hope and ambition, and a profound exploration of the power and limits of language itself, its ability to make connections across cultures and generations.

Książka zaczyna się od pierwszego krwi płynienia, ale seksu w niej niezbyt dużo, dużo natomiast namiętności, potężnych i niszczących. Bo wcale nie potrzeba szekspirowskich królów, władczyń ze sztyletem i rękami we krwi, zazdrosnych dusicieli, żeby takie namiętności pokazywać, wystarczy podstawówka w niedużym mieście i kilka dziewczątek. Zresztą wiadomo, że z siłą młodocianych uczuć żadne późniejsze żary nie mogą się równać, że to właśnie jest wiek przysiąg, rozczarowań, rozpaczy i dramatów.Właściwie to nie tyle trzy bohaterki, ile jedna, dwa razy pogrążona w zakochaniu i nie rozumiejąca, co się z nią dzieje. Inaczej można to ująć jako perypetie zamaskowane urokiem i słodyczą. Bo utwór ten jest i powieścią, i średniowiecznym moralitetem, ognie piekielne buchają co chwila z gruntu wstrząsanego podziemnym drżeniem, szybują w powietrzu demony i odprawiają całe przedstawienia w snach. Czesław MiłoszLegendarna PANNA NIKT, debiut powieściowy Tomka Tryzny, scenarzysty i reżysera filmowego, ukazała się w w roku 1994. Wysoko oceniona przez Czesława Miłosza, przeniesiona na ekran przez Andrzeja Wajdę, weszła na listy bestsellerów w Polsce, Holandii, Belgii i Niemczech. Przetłumaczona na 14 języków została wydana w całej zachodniej Europie, Skandynawii, na Wyspach Brytyjskich, w USA, Kanadzie, Nowej Zelandii, Australii, Brazylii.

Published for the first time in English, Panorama is a superb rediscovered novel of the Holocaust by a neglected modern master. One of a handful of death camp survivors to fictionalize his experiences in German, H. G. Adler is an essential author — referenced by W. G. Sebald in his classic novel Austerlitz, and a direct literary descendant of Kafka.When The Journey was discovered in a Harvard bookshop and translated by Peter Filkins, it began a major reassessment of the Prague-born H. G. Adler by literary critics and historians alike. Known for his monumental Theresienstadt 1941–1945, a day-by-day account of his experiences in the Nazi slave-labor community before he was sent to Auschwitz, Adler also wrote six novels. The very depiction of the Holocaust in fiction caused furious debate and delays in their publication. Now Panorama, his first novel, written in 1948, is finally available to convey the kinds of truths that only fiction can.A brilliant epic, Panorama is a portrait of a place and people soon to be destroyed, as seen through the eyes of young Josef Kramer. Told in ten distinct scenes, it begins in pastoral Word War I — era Bohemia, where the boy passively witnesses the “wonders of the world” in a thrilling panorama display; follows him to a German boarding school full of creeping xenophobia and prejudice; and finds him in young adulthood sent to a labor camp and then to one of the infamous extermination camps, before he chooses exile abroad after the war. Josef’s philosophical journey mirrors the author’s own: from a stoic acceptance of events to a realization that “the viewer is also the participant” and that action must be taken in life, if only to make sure the dead are not forgotten.Achieving a stream-of-consciousness power reminiscent of James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, H. G. Adler is a modern artist with unique historical importance. Panorama is lasting evidence of both the torment of his life and the triumph of his gifts.

A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Fiction Book of 2018

“Fast-paced, energetic, searing. There are moments in Steve Kistulentz’s Panorama that will take your breath away.”—Daniel Alarcón, author of Lost City Radio

Richard MacMurray, a cable news talking head, is paid handsomely to pontificate on the issues of the moment. On New Year’s Day he is scheduled to be a guest on a prominent morning talk show. As he awaits the broadcast, the network interrupts with news that a jet airliner has crashed in Dallas and that everyone aboard has perished.

Within an hour, amateur videotape surfaces of the plane’s last moments, transforming the crash into a living image: familiar, constant, and horrifying. Richard learns that his sister, Mary Beth, was aboard the doomed flight, leaving behind her six-year-old son, Gabriel. Richard is the boy’s only living relative. When he is given an opportunity to bring Gabriel home, it may be that the loss of his sister will provide him with the second chapter he never knew he wanted.

In this powerful debut, Steve Kistulentz captures the sprawl of contemporary America—its culture, its values, the workaday existence of its people—with kaleidoscopic sweep and controlled intensity. Yet within the expansive scope of Panorama lies an intimate portrait of human loss rendered with precision, humanity, and humor.

Liczba gwałtów popełnianych przez żołnierzy Sił Lądowych Peru rośnie zatrważająco. By przywrócić armii dobre imię i zapanować nad wstydliwymi występkami, dowództwo powierza Pantaleonowi misję utworzenia specjalnej Służby Wizytantek. Kapitan Pantaleon Pantoja, znany z niezwykłej dyscypliny i oddania wojsku, organizuje perfekcyjnie działającą machinę frywolnego przemysłu. Z pełnym zaangażowaniem dopracowuje szczegóły, które usprawnią pracę gotowych do pełnego poświęcenia kobiet. A wszystko w ścisłej tajemnicy wojskowej."Pantaleon i wizytantki" to jedna z najzabawniejszych i równocześnie najbardziej gorzkich powieści Llosy. Pod przykrywką satyry autor przemycił refleksje kompromitujące nie tylko armię, ale i system sprawowania władzy.Czy tylko w Peru?Mario Vargas Llosa (ur. w 1936 roku w Peru), jeden z najwybitniejszych współczesnych pisarzy, autor wielu powieści, opowiadań, sztuk teatralnych, publicysta i polityk. Jest laureatem wielu prestiżowych nagród literackich i jednym z poważniejszych kandydatów do Nagrody Nobla.Wśród jego najlepszych powieści znajdują się między innymi: "Rozmowa w»Katedrze«", "Ciotka Julia i skryba", "Wojna końca świata", "Miasto i psy", "Kto zabił Palomina Molero?" oraz "Święto kozła", a także najnowszy tytuł – "Szelmostwa niegrzecznej dziewczynki".

Pantaleón Pantoja, un capitán del ejército recientemente ascendido, recibe la misión de establecer un servicio de prostitución para las fuerzas armadas del Perú en el más absoluto secreto militar. Estricto cumplidor del deber que le ha sido asignado, Pantaleón se traslada a Iquitos, en plena selva, para llevar a cabo su cometido, pero se entrega a esta misión con tal obcecación que termina por poner en peligro el engranaje que él mismo ha puesto en movimiento.

“Countries need writers as their voices of conscience; few have them. Israel has Oz.” — Washington PostThe year is 1947: the last days of the British mandate in Palestine. Twelve-year-old Proffy, indoctrinated by his patriotic father and a zealous Bible teacher, dreams of dying heroically in battle, fighting for the creation of a Jewish state. Then he meets and befriends a kindly British soldier who shares with Proffy a love of language and the Bible. Accused of treason for the friendship, Proffy must learn the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Panther in the Basement is a rich tapestry of character and political intrigue set against the birth of modern Israel.“Insightful, inventive, and lyrical.” — New York Times Book Review

After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country's intellectuals to Sartre's thought, he feels especially qualified by his physical resemblance to the philosopher (except for the crossed eyes) and by his marriage to Germaine, who he claims is the great man's cousin. Meanwhile, his wealth and family prestige guarantee him an idle life spent in drinking, debauchery, and frequenting a well-known nightclub. But is his suicide an act of philosophical despair, or a reaction to his friend's affair with Germaine? A biographer chosen by his presumed friends narrates the story of a somewhat bewildered young man who like other members of his generation was searching for a meaning to his life. This parody of the abuses and extravagances of pseudo-philosophers in the Baghdad of the sixties throws into relief the Iraqi intellectual and cultural life of the time and the reversal of fortune of some of Iraq's wealthy and powerful families.

During the air war over Germany, the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress tries to achieve some competence as a unit before their most catastrophic mission yet.They call their plane “Paper Doll,” the joke being its suggestion of flimsiness, inconsequence, and perishability, and none of them, from the veterans to the newcomers, feel the bravery they’d like to project. But now, despite their myriad limitations, they’ve been tasked with living through the tension and boredom of base life, saving one another’s lives, and rejoicing at those missions they’ve survived — until they’re confronted by the shock of a mission directed against the ball-bearing factories in Schweinfurt, a mission that will outfly the capacities of their fighter escorts and take them hundreds of miles through the most heavily defended sectors of the German Air Defense.National Book Award finalist and author of The Book of Aron Jim Shepard brilliantly illustrates both the lunacy and intimacy of these young men’s lives on the ground as well as their growing disillusionment and terror at what lies ahead. Unsentimental and unsparing in its honesty, Paper Doll portrays with stirring clarity the realities of war and the bonds forged in the face of death.

A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love.Ready!So begins “Tosca,” the first in this vivid collection of Stuart Dybek’s love stories. Operatically dramatic and intimately lyrical, grittily urban and impressionistically natural, the varied fictions in Paper Lantern all focus on the turmoil of love as only Dybek can portray it. An execution triggers the recollection of a theatrical romance; then a social worker falls for his own client; and lovers part as giddily, perhaps as hopelessly, as a kid trying to hang on to a boisterous kite. A flaming laboratory evokes a steamy midnight drive across terrain both familiar and strange, and an eerily ringing phone becomes the telltale signature of a dark betrayal. Each story is marked with contagious desire, spontaneous revelation, and, ultimately, resigned courage. As one woman whispers when she sets a notebook filled with her sketches drifting out to sea, “Someone will find you.”Aim!On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it’s cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. The condemned man has refused the customary last cigarette but accepted as a hood the black slip that was carelessly tossed over a corner of the mirror’s frame. The slip still smells faintly of a familiar fragrance.     Some of Dybek’s characters recur in these stories, while others appear only briefly. Throughout, they—and we—are confronted with vaguely familiar scents and images, reminiscent of love but strangely disconcerting, so that we might wonder whether we are looking in a mirror or down the barrel of a gun. “After the ragged discharge,” Dybek writes, “when the smoke has cleared, who will be left standing and who will be shattered into shards?” Paper Lantern brims with the intoxicating elixirs known to every love-struck, lovelorn heart, and it marks the magnificent return of one of America’s most important fiction writers at the height of his powers.

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night — dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge — he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q. . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they're for Q. Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers.

«Par avion» — это роман в письмах, настоящий роман со всеми перипетиями любовного чувства — изысканная игра двух страстных людей. Встреча, срывающая с героев почтовые маски, приводит к непредсказуемым и фатальным последствиям.Иселин Херманн родилась в Копенгагене, закончила Государственное цирковое училище в Париже по классу танцев на канате; работала режиссером и актрисой в различных театрах Дании; закончила Копенгагенский университет по специальности «Скандинавская литература». В течение пятнадцати лет работала литературным редактором одного из лучших датских издательств.Роман «Par avion» переведен на семнадцать языков.