Очевидно, чтобы оживить литературу, ее надо хорошенько, по-настоящему убить. С поэзией это иногда проделывают, с прозой реже. Проза тяжелая, так просто не убьешь. Перед нами совершенно новая проза, причем, в отличие от иных «новаторских» потуг, не только не скучная, — захватывающая. Сюжет, действие, диалоги, персонажи. Как снящееся кино — не оторвешься.Вашему вниманию предлагается книга Алексея Георгиевича Радова «Smoking kills».

Jack Travis is a macho Houston businessman – rich, tough and always in control. So when a beautiful young woman approaches his office carrying a baby that she claims is his, he's shaken more than he would ever let on. Stunned, Jack listens to Ella Varner as she explains that her sister recently gave birth and then abandoned her baby boy – and that enquiries have brought Ella to Jack's door. He virtually has a seizure when she asks him to do a paternity test. But ultimately, will a paternity test set things right? If Jack is the father, will he be the one to care for the baby? Would Ella be prepared to let him go? And if not? Ella can't bear to think of an answer…

Praised on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in the author’s native Uganda, Moses Isegawa’s first novel Abyssinian Chronicles was a “big, transcendently ambitious book” (Boston Globe) that “blasts open the tidy borders of the conventional novel and redraws the literary map to reveal a whole new world” (Elle).In Snakepit, Isegawa returns to the surreal, brutalizing landscapes of his homeland during the time of dictator Idi Amin, when interlocking webs of emotional cruelty kept tyrants gratified and servants cooperative, a land where no one — not husbands or wives, parents or lovers — is ever safe from the implacable desires of men in power. Men like General Bazooka, who rues the day he hired Cambridge-educated Bat Katanga as his “Bureaucrat Two”—a man too good at his job — and places in his midst (and his bed) a seductive operative named Victoria, whose mission and motives are anything but simple. Ambitious and acquisitive, more than a little arrogant, Katanga finds himself steadily boxed in by events spiraling madly out of control, where deception, extortion, and murder are just so many cards to be played.

This is an imperfect love story between an imperfect man and woman that starts in the early eighties and goes nowhere because happy endings are not how real life works. Mistakes and misfortunes keep them apart until by chance they meet again twenty years later. Despite their emotional baggage, scars, and her reluctance and his doubts, they get together, wondering if they deserve a second chance.This book contains content that may not be suitable for young readers 17 and under.

‘Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already happened.’

Snegurochka opens in Kiev in 1992, one year after Ukraine’s declaration of independence. Rachel, a troubled young English mother, joins her journalist husband on his first foreign posting in the city. Terrified of their apartment’s balcony with its view of the Motherland statue she develops obsessive rituals to keep her three-month old baby safe. Her difficulties expose her to a disturbing endgame between Elena Vasilyevna, the old caretaker, and Mykola Sirko, a shady businessman who sends Rachel a gift. Rachel is the interloper, ignorant, isolated, yet also culpable with her secrets and her estrangements. As consequences bear down she seeks out Zoya, her husband’s caustic-tongued fixer, and Stepan, the boy from upstairs who watches them all.

Betrayal is everywhere and home is uncertain, but in the end there are many ways to be a mother.

Salla SimukaSniegbaltītes triloģija-1. Sārta kā asinisViņas lūpas nav sārtas kā asinis, āda nav balta kā sniegs un mati nav melni kā ogle, tomēr Lumiki zina, kā izdzīvot vistumšākajā mežā un izturēt vissmagākos pārbaudījumus…Nebāz degunu svešās darīšanās!Tas ir Lumiki moto, tomēr notikumi paši ievelk meiteni baisu noziegumu virpulī. Seko e-pasta uzlaušana, izsekošana, slepenas telefonsarunas, līdz beidzot šķietami labi pārdomāts plāns noved Lumiki vietējā narkobarona pasaku ballītē.Un viņai ir jātop par Sniegbaltīti sārtu kā asinis, baltu kā sniegs, melnu kā ogle.Salla Simuka (dz. 1981), somu rakstniece, pasaules atpazīstamību ieguvusi ar spriedzes piesātināto trilleri The Snow White Trilogy (Sniegbaltītes triloģija); tā izdošanas tiesības pārdotas jau 46 izdevējiem. Mediji Sallu Simuku nodēvējuši par Jū Nesbē un Stīga Lārsona jaunāku prototipu, viņas darbi novērtēti ar vairākām literārām balvām, tostarp Topelius Prize (2012) un Finland Prize (2013).No somu valodas tulkojusi Anete KonaNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lvVāka dizainu adaptēja Ilze IsakaRedaktore Elīna Vanaga© Tulkojums latviešu valodā, Anete Kona, 2014

Salla SimukaSniegbaltītes triloģija-2. Balta kā sniegsLumiki Andersone ir nolēmusi izbaudīt vasaru Prāgā, tālu prom no ziņkārīgiem skatieniem un ģimenes noslēpumiem. Atpūta tik tiešām ir izdevusies… līdz brīdim, kad viņu uzrunā agrāk neredzēta meitene. Svešinieces acīs vīd bailes, un viņa apgalvo, ka esot Lumiki masa.Tajā pašā laikā mediju koncerna vadītāja Vera Sovākova gatavo nozīmīgāko TV sižetu savā mūžā.Viņa zina, ka cilvēki alkst pēc sensācijām, un tieši to viņa var piedāvāt īstas bailes, patiesas ciešanas un nevainīgus upurus.Jo tieši šodien Baltās ģimenes Tevs ir nolēmis ievest savas kopienas ļaudis jaunā dzīvē. Caur dziedinošu uguni.Pēc baisajiem ziemas notikumiem Lumiki ir nolē­musi izbaudīt vasaru Prāgā, tālu prom no ziņkārīgiem skatieniem un ģimenes noslēpumiem. Neviens viņai netraucē, neviens nezvana, neuzmācas ar jautāju­miem. Atpūta tik tiešām ir izdevusies… līdz brīdim, kad viņu uzrunā agrāk neredzēta meitene. Svešiniece ir tērpusies sniegbaltās lina drānās, viņas acīs vīd bai­les, un viņa apgalvo, ka esot Lumiki māsa.Tajā pašā laikā mediju koncerna vadītāja Vera Sovākova gatavo nozīmīgāko TV sižetu savā mūžā. Viņa zina, ka cilvēki alkst pēc sensācijām, un tieši to viņa var piedāvāt īstas bailes, patiesas ciešanas un nevai­nīgus upurus. Jo tieši šodien Baltās ģimenes Tēvs ir nolēmis ievest savas kopienas ļaudis jaunā dzīvē. Caur dziedinošu uguni.Vai ir iespējams labāks sižets par cilvēcīgu traģē­diju?Salla Simuka (1981) ir jauniešu grāmatu autore un literatūras kritiķe no Tamperes. Viņas triloģija par somu meitenes Lumiki Andersones piedzīvojumiem publicēta jau vairāk nekā 40 valstīs.Salla Simuka (dz. 1981), somu rakstniece, pasaules atpazīstamibu ieguvusi ar spriedzes piesātināto trilleri The Snow White Trilogy (Sniegbaltītes triloģija); tā izdošanas tiesības pārdotas jau 46 izdevējiem. Mediji Sallu Simuku nodēvējuši par Jū Nesbē un Stīga Lārsona jaunāku prototipu, viņas darbi novērtēti ar vairākām literārām balvām, tostarp Topelius Prize (2012) un Finland Prize (2013).No somu valodas tulkojusi Gunta PāvolaSalla Siniukka Valkea kuin lumiVaka dizains © Laura LyytinenVāka dizainam izmantota fotogrāfija © ShutterstockVāka dizainu adaptēja Ilze IsakaSalla Simuka balta kā sniegsRedaktore Elīna Vanaga© Tulkojums latviešu valodā, Gunta Pāvola, 2014

Salla SimukaSniegbaltītes triloģija-3. Melna kā ogleTuvojoties Ziemassvētkiem, Tamperes mākslas vidusskolā top provocējošs iestudējums Sniegbaltītes tēmas interpretācija, kurā galveno lomu, bez šaubām, spēlē Lumiki Andersone. Lai gan uz skatuves valda tumšas kaislības, Lumiki īstā dzīve beidzot ir patīkami mierīga. Prāgā piedzīvotais sāk aizmirsties, uguns­grēkā iegūtās brūces ir sadzijušas, un viņai ir jauns draugs gādīgais un saprotošais skolas biedrs Sampsa.Tomēr pāris nedēļu pirms svētkiem Lumiki mieru satricina dīvaina vēstule. To ir sūtījis slepens pielū­dzējs, kura mīlestība kļuvusi par apsēstību. Viņš dēvē sevi par Ēnu un draud pārvērst pirmizrādi asinspirtī, ja Lumiki nepakļausies viņa prasībām. Mēģinot noskaid­rot, kurš sūtījis biedējošās vēstules, meitene sastopas ar savas pagātnes tumšākajiem noslēpumiem. Vai tie­šām viņai reiz bijusi māsa? Un kas ar viņu noticis?Laika vairs nav daudz, drīz jānotiek pirmizrādei, bet Lumiki vēl aizvien nezina, kā uzveikt bīstamo vajātāju. Turklāt viņai nav ne jausmas, kurš tas varētu būt…Tuvojoties Ziemassvētkiem, Tamperes mākslas skolā top provocējošs iestudējums Sniegbaltītes tēmas interpretācija, kurā galveno lomu spēlē Lumiki Andersone. Uz skatuves valda nervus kutinoša spriedze, turklāt Lumiki saņem dīvainu vēstuli. Tās sūtītājs dēvē sevi par Ēnu un draud pārvērst pirmizrādi asinspirtī, ja Lumiki nepakļausies viņa prasībām.Laika vairs nav daudz, drīz jānotiek pirmizrādei, bet Lumiki vēl aizvien nezina, kā uzveikt bīstamo vajātāju. Turklāt viņai nav ne jausmas, kurš tas varētu būt…Salla Simuka (dz. 1981), somu rakstniece, pasaules atpazlstamību ieguvusi ar spriedzes piesātināto trilleri The Snow White Trilogy (Sniegbaltītes triloģija); tā izdošanas tiesības pārdotas jau 46 izdevējiem. Mediji Sallu Simuku nodēvējuši par Jū Nesbē un Stiga Lārsona jaunāku prototipu, viņas darbi novērtēti ar vairākām literārām balvām, tostarp Topelius Prize (2012) un Finland Prize (2013).No somu valodas tulkojusi Kristīne SončikaNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lvAizraujošā triloģija par somu meitenes Lumiki Andersones piedzīvojumiem publicēta jau vairāk nekā 40 valstīs.Salla Simuka (1981) ir jauniešu grāmatu autore un literatūras kritiķe no Tamperes. 2012. gadā viņa saņēmusi Topelius balvu par romāniem Jāljellā un Toisaalla, bet 2013. gadā Somijas balvu, ko piešķir Somijas Izglītības un kultūras ministrija.Salla SimukkaMusta kuin eebenpuuCopyright © Salla Simukka, 2014Original edition published by Tammi Publishers.Vāka dizainu adaptēja Ilze Isaka© Tulkojums latviešu valodā, Kristīne Sončika, 2014

Atostogaudamas Japonijos šiaurės kalnuose, Šimamura – lengvabūdis iš Tokijo – susipažįsta su provincijos geiša Komako. Tarp vyro ir moters įsiplieskia aistra. Su kiekviena vyro kelione į kalnus ji liepsnoja vis stipriau. Bet Šimamura traukinyje sutinka kitą moterį – jaunutę mergaitę Joko ir negali jos pamiršti, kaip ir juslingosios Komako. Neįstengdamas atsisakyti nei kūniškų Komako žaidimų, nei paslaptingų tyrosios Joko žvilgsnių, vyras įkliūva į jausmų trikampį...

In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short supply in modern Brooklyn — a force that’s forgotten by most of the world but is known to believers as magic.

Kseniya Melnik's Snow in May introduces a cast of characters bound by their relationship to the port town of Magadan in Russia's Far East, a former gateway for prisoners assigned to Stalin’s forced-labor camps. Comprised of a surprising mix of newly minted professionals, ex-prisoners, intellectuals, musicians, and faithful Party workers, the community is vibrant and resilient and life in Magadan thrives even under the cover of near-perpetual snow. By blending history and fable, each of Melnik's stories transports us somewhere completely new: a married Magadan woman considers a proposition from an Italian footballer in '70s Moscow; an ailing young girl visits a witch doctor’s house where nothing is as it seems; a middle-aged dance teacher is entranced by a new student’s raw talent; a former Soviet boss tells his granddaughter the story of a thorny friendship; and a woman in 1958 jumps into a marriage with an army officer far too soon.Weaving in and out of the last half of the twentieth century, Snow in May is an inventive, gorgeously rendered, and touching portrait of lives lived on the periphery where, despite their isolation — and perhaps because of it — the most seemingly insignificant moments can be beautiful, haunting, and effervescent.

Seiscientos hombres, una reina del porno y un récord mundial que hará historia.Cassie Wright, legendaria actriz porno, decide culminar su carrera batiendo el récord mundial de sexo en grupo al estar con seiscientos hombres y filmarlo. Todos desconocen que la actriz tiene la intención de morir durante la grabación y así desanimar a aquellas que quieran batir su marca. Esta novela incendiaria se basa en todo lo que dicen, piensan y hacen los señores 72, 137 y 600, que esperan su turno en una habitación.

It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to the man's past-just the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he's kept his entire life.In Bradford's hometown, Eric discovers an extraordinary history-a glorious domed hotel where movie stars, presidents, athletes, and mobsters once mingled, and hot springs whose miraculous mineral water cured everything from insomnia to malaria. Neglected for years, the resort has been restored to its former grandeur just in time for Eric's stay.Just hours after his arrival, Eric experiences a frighteningly vivid vision. As the days pass, the frequency and intensity of his hallucinations increase and draw Eric deeper into the town's dark history. He discovers that something besides the hotel has been restored-a long-forgotten evil that will stop at nothing to regain its lost glory. Brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, So Cold the River is a tale of irresistible suspense with a racing, unstoppable current.

This Orange Inheritance Edition of So Long, See You Tomorrow is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Vintage Classics asked the winners of the Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation and why. Ann Patchett chose So Long, See You Tomorrow.In rural Illinois, two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers — the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent’s misery — is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime’s regret."The novel comes from a place so deep inside the human soul that I cannot imagine a time its wisdom would not feel fresh and applicable."-Ann Patchett

In this potent examination of family and memory, Jon McGregor charts one man's voyage of self-discovery. Like Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, So Many Ways to Begin is rich in the intimate details that shape a life, the subtle strain that defines human relationships, and the personal history that forms identity. David Carter, the novel's protagonist, takes a keen interest in history as a boy. Encouraged by his doting Aunt Julia, he begins collecting the things that tell his story: a birth certificate, school report cards, annotated cinema and train tickets. After finishing school, he finds the perfect job for his lifetime obsession — curator at a local history museum. His professional and romantic lives take shape as his beloved aunt and mentor's unravels. Lost in a fog of senility, Julia lets slip a secret about David's family. Over the course of the next decades, as David and his wife Eleanor live out their lives — struggling through early marriage, professional disappointments, the birth of their daughter, Eleanor's depression, and an affair that ends badly — David attempts to physically piece together his past, finding meaning and connection where he least expects it.

Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances. In "Days," a woman in her late thirties records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her days-one moment she is eating an apple, the next she is on the floor, howling like a dog. As the details accumulate, we experience with her the full range of emotions: anger, loneliness, regret, pain, and also joy, as the lists become a way to understand, connect to, and rebuild her life.In "Minna Needs Rehearsal Space," a novella told in headlines, an avant-garde musician is dumped via text message. Fleeing the indignity of the breakup and friends who flaunt their achievements in life, career, and family, Minna unfriends people on Facebook, listens to Bach, and reads Ingmar Bergman, then decamps to an island near Sweden, "well suited to mental catharsis." A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors's unique wit and humor.

So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral traditions of the indigenous culture), as a woman who has seen revolution in a now post-colonial country, and as an Algerian living in exile.In this new novel, Djebar brilliantly plays these contradictions against the bloody history of Carthage, a great civilization the Berbers were once compared to, and makes it both a tribute to the loss of Berber culture and a meeting-point of culture and language. As the story of one woman's experience in Algeria, it is a private tale, but one embedded in a vast history.A radically singular voice in the world of literature, Assia Djebar's work ultimately reaches beyond the particulars of Algeria to embrace, in stark yet sensuous language, the universal themes of violence, intimacy, ostracism, victimization, and exile.

A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried. With So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood Patrick Modiano adds a new chapter to a body of work whose supreme psychological insight and subtle, atmospheric writing have earned him worldwide renown — including the Nobel Prize in Literature. This masterly novel, now translated into twenty languages, penetrates the deepest enigmas of identity and compels us to ask whether we ever know who we truly are.

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has traveled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us, people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly or made a mistake at work. Once the transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know, they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job.A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice, but what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control.Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws and the very scary part we all play in it.