My hands trembled as I dialed the number for social services and slipped a piece of paper out of my pocket. I knew I would forget something, so I wrote down what I needed to say in a paragraph. An operator picked up and I smoothed the paper out in front of me. When I finished rattling off what I needed to say, she asked for my name and to explain how I knew what I knew.“I can’t tell you my name. But you have to believe me. Listen to my voice, I’m a child, and I’m terrified. You need to help these kids.”Based on a true story, Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father’s secret, it’s a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she’s been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home.When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved.

Philip Roth od lat diagnozuje Amerykę, wykazując kruchość jej rzekomo fundamentalnej tolerancyjności i demokracji. W swojej wielkiej amerykańskiej trylogii – „Amerykańska sielanka”, „Poślubiłam komunistę”, „Ludzka skaza” – odmalowuje wielokulturowego molocha społecznego, podatnego na autodestruktywne fobie i mody ideologiczne: lewacki anarchizm, prawicowy despotyzm, rasizm.„Spisek przeciwko Ameryce” wpisuje się właśnie w ten najlepszy nurt pisarstwa wielokrotnego kandydata do literackiego Nobla, godnego następcy wielkich mistrzów prozy zza oceanu. W tej powieści Roth poddaje Amerykę eksperymentowi historii alternatywnej: co by było gdyby w roku 1940, u szczytu szalejącej za Altantykiem gorączki II wojny światowej, Stany Zjednoczone zaraziły się faszyzmem, wybierając na prezydenta nie F.D. Roosevelta, lecz Charlesa Lindbergha – legendarnego awiatora, sympatyzującego (o czym świadczą dołączone do książki dokumenty) z ideologią nazistowską? Z dnia na dzień, na oczach żydowskiego dziecka – narratorem jest tu bowiem mały Philip – bezpieczny świat dobrobytu i miłości bliźniego zmienia się w poligon uprzedzeń, nienawiści i szykan, których główną ofiarą padają Żydzi. „Kwestia żydowska” znajduje znane z historii rozwiązania: izolacja, ostracyzm, obozy koncentracyjne.Cóż, że historia dopisała do tej fantazji happy end? Eksperyment Rotha powiódł się znakomicie.

A brilliant new collection from "one of the funniest writers in America"- Jimmy So, Daily Beast.In his collection SPOILED BRATS, Simon Rich takes his absurd, culture-skewering style to new heights, marrying the literary polish of writers like Karen Russell and George Saunders with the humor of Steve Martin to deliver truly dazzling tales.SPOILED BRATS is about the battles we fight with the ones who love us most: our parents. In "Family Business," a young chimpanzee offends his working class father by choosing to become a research animal instead of joining the family grub-hunting business. In "Proud Mom," a young mother is so besotted she doesn't realize her child is actually, truly a monster. And in "Animals," the fate of a terrified classroom hamster hangs in the balance when a notorious kid is picked for hamster care duty.SPOILED BRATS confirms Rich as one of the most "adept, inarguably funny" (San Francisco Chronicle) young writers at work today.

Now that the present has caught up with William Gibson's vision of the future, which made him the most influential science fiction writer of the past quarter century, he has started writing about a time-our time-in which everyday life feels like science fiction. With his previous novel, Pattern Recognition, the challenge of writing about the present-day world drove him to create perhaps his best novel yet, and in Spook Country he remains at the top of his game. It's a stripped-down thriller that reads like the best DeLillo (or the best Gibson), with the lives of a half-dozen evocative characters connected by a tightly converging plot and by the general senses of unease and wonder in our networked, post-9/11 time.

Egils LukjanskisSprieduma izpildītājs.-       Nez kāpēc jau gadsimtiem ilgi noziedzniekus ar nāvi soda rītausmā. Kāpēc tā, es patiešām nezinu.-     Gadsimtiem veca šī tradīcija nevar būt, - es domīgs teicu. - Viduslaikos tas parasti notika gaišā dienas laikā tirgus laukumā. Bet tas nu tā. Kad mani apstiprināja par Latvijas bendi… -es pēkšņi aprāvos. Vai patiešām… Bende?! Smadzenēs kaut kas noraustījās…-     Muļķības! - iekšlietu ministra vietnieks Ēvalds Branks mani asi pārtrauca. - Šo vārdu tu aizmirsti! Tu neesi un nekad arī nebūsi bende! Tu atrodies algotā valsts dienestā! Vieni kantoros krāmējas ar papīriem, citi izdod pavēles, bet tavos pienākumos ietilpst… Tu būsi tiesas sprieduma izpildītājs! Tavs jaunais amats tā arī oficiāli sauksies. Vai skaidrs?-    Jā, Ēvald, - es piekrītoši pamāju.-     Sprieduma izpildītājs…LATA ROMĀNS 11 (41) Abonēšanas indekss 2150© A. Stankevičs, ilustrācijas "Lauku Avīze", 2002KRIMINĀLROMĀNS2002Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisRomānā pieminētie sevišķi cietsirdīgie kriminālnoziegumi,par kuriem Augstākā tiesa turpat vai visiem noziegumos apsūdzētajiem savā laikā piespriedusi nāvessodu, ir notikuši īstenībā un šī darba tapšanai sameklēti Latvijas Valsts arhīva LR Augstākās tiesas krimināllietu fondā.Gandrīz visos gadījumos morālu, ētisku un juridisku iemeslu dēļ noziedznieku un cietušo vārdi ir mainīti.Pārējo notikumu dokumentālā ticamība ir nedaudz apšaubāma.Autors

The U.S. debut of leading U.K. author David Szalay, named one of The Daily Telegraph’s twenty best British novelists under forty.James is a man with a checkered past — sporadic entrepreneur, one-time film producer, almost a dot-com millionaire — now alone in a flat in Bloomsbury, running a shady horse-racing-tips operation. Katherine is a manager at a luxury hotel, a job she’d intended to leave years ago, and is separated from her husband. The novel unfolds in 2006, at the end of the money-for-nothing years, as a chance meeting leads to an awkward tryst and James tries to make sense of a relationship where “no” means “maybe” and a “yes” can never be taken for granted.David Szalay builds a novel of immense resonance as he cycles though perspectives that add layers of depth to the hesitations, missteps, and tensions as James tries to win Katherine. James’s other pursuit is money, and Spring follows his investments and schemes, from a half share in a thoroughbred to a suit-and-tie day job he’s taken to pay the bills. Spring is a sharply tuned novel so nuanced and precise in its psychology that it establishes Szalay as a major talent.

From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way — you have no business here!''Open up, I am the messenger of Death'.As spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town of B, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers strike the National Bank. Old terrors are dredged up from the shipwreck of history. And ultra-explosive state secrets are threatening to flood the entire nation. Mark, an artist, finds the peaceful rhythms of his life turned upside down by ancient love and modern barbarism and by the particular brutality of a country surprised and divided by its new freedom.

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope

‘He’d come to realise that it was a mistake to grind up his father’s remains with such a thing. The mortar was lined with narrow grooves, a little too perfect for ashes to get stuck in.’

Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon as the remaining tenants leave. Since the death of his father, Taro keeps to himself, but is soon drawn into an unusual relationship with the woman upstairs, Nishi, as she passes on the strange tale of the sky-blue house next door.

First discovered by Nishi in the little-known photo-book ‘Spring Garden’, the sky-blue house soon becomes a focus for both Nishi and Taro: of what is lost, of what has been destroyed, and of what hope may yet lie in the future for both of them, if only they can seize it.

In a raucous debut that summons up Britain's fabled Goon Squad comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a "slightly more successful" friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences and better gin. One reason for their journeys: the narrator's home is slowly being taken over by a fungus that no one seems to know what to do about.Before it completely swallows his house, the narrator feels compelled to solve some major philosophical questions (such as "Why?") and the meaning of his urge to write, as well as the source of the fungus… before it is too late. Or, he has to move.

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished…

A collection of storiesFeaturing David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings. In "The Squirrel and the Chipmunk," a pair of star-crossed lovers is separated by prejudiced family members.

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent.In the collection's title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In 'Haunting Olivia,' two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab. In 'Z.Z.'s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers,' a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. .). And 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty' Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Ava' proprietors of Swamplandia! the island's #1 Gator Theme Park and Cafe. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim 'Feed the gators, don't talk to strangers.' Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when you're a kid it's often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.Russell's stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant life 'in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surreal' Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live.

Мир охватила новая неизлечимая болезнь. Она поражает только детей. Больных становится все больше, и хосписы, где пытаются облегчить их муки, начинают закрывать. Врачи, священник, дети и их родители запираются там, как в крепости…

Надежда победить страшный недуг приходит с неожиданной стороны, а вот вечные вопросы – зачем нужны страдания и в человеческих ли силах уменьшить их – остаются с каждым.

«Только показав всё честно, без щадящей ретуши, имеешь право утверждать – из любой бездны всегда есть путь к свету».

Руслан Козлов

«Получилась мощная проза, которую автору жизненно важно было написать. Забыть эту книгу вы точно не сможете. Будете ли жить после нее по-прежнему – не знаю».

Дмитрий Быков

…Вот зеркало. Оно терпеть тебя не может, потому и говорит: уходи, лучше тебе на меня не смотреть. Вот люди. Они терпеть тебя не могут, потому и говорят: уходи, лучше тебе не портить пейзаж. Вот человек. Он знать тебя не знает, потому и не говорит с тобой. А если бы знал, то поступил бы так же, как зеркало. Как люди, в чьих пейзажах тебе не место.Но есть другие зеркала. И другие люди. И другой человек. Они непременно увидели бы главное в тебе. И это главное прекрасно. Это главное — редкий дар. Осталось лишь найти их, и это совсем не так сложно, как кажется на первый взгляд…Издано в авторской редакции.

Šis sensacinga novelė, prisodrinta įvykių sparta ir pro akis prašaunančiomis absurdo dekoracijomis, leidžia pagalvoti, kad skaitai ne knygą, o žiūri „kietai sukaltą“ Holivudo filmą. O finalas tikrai šokiruoja. Kad taip yra, galime įsitikinti ir mes.

'What makes me saddest, is the double silence of her being. Language has packed its bags and jumped over the railing of the capsizing ship, but there is also another silence in her or around her. I can no longer hear the music of her soul.' One day, the author's mother no longer remembers the word for 'book'. This seemingly innocuous moment of distraction is the first sign of the slow disintegration of her mind. As Alzheimer's disease sets in and language increasingly escapes her, her son attempts to gather the fragments of what she has become, writing a moving, loving chronicle of the gradual descent into dementia of someone who 'no longer knows who she is, where she is or what will happen'.

Right in the middle of everywhere, which could be anywhere. WWII has ended and the joyous transitions to peace are being — mostly — embraced. This book portrays characters ranging from Bobby Smith, the son of the well-known radio hostess Neighbour Dorothy, to the phenomena known as the Sunset Club, Dinner on the Ground and the Funeral King.

For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker)

All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions.

Being a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film “Afraid to Die,” this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there any escape from how we are seen by others?

Take a walk on the wild side…

Star Wood Leigh is star struck in life and love. A hasty secret marriage to rock ’n’ roll bad boy Jimi Deed triggers a chain of events that changes both of their lives. Together they soar to the heights of stardom and explore the dark side of celebrity. As their lives become more public, their secrets get even darker.

Provocative and filled with surprises, this, the latest in the continuing tale of Miss Star Wood Leigh, takes her story to a whole new level. Life goes off the scale as she tries to balance private life with celebrity, and the world finds out what it really means to be Star Struck. Take a twisted look at what can happen offscreen as Star navigates the rocky shoals of life and love as the world’s most unintentional superstar.

Bestselling authors Pamela Anderson and Eric Shaw Quinn are back with their latest installment on the life of their fictional alter ego and their twisted take on stardom. The editorial advice of writer/director Gerry Anderson—Pam’s brother—who not only added a lot of joy to the editing process in the writing of this book, also helped shape Star Stuck into a raw and unexpected take on stardom.

В жизни шестнадцатилетнего Лео Борлока не было ничего интересного, пока он не встретил в школьной столовой новенькую. Девчонка оказалась со странностями. Она называет себя Старгерл, носит причудливые наряды, играет на гавайской гитаре, смеется, когда никто не шутит, танцует без музыки и повсюду таскает в сумке ручную крысу. Лео оказался в безвыходной ситуации – эта необычная девчонка перевернет с ног на голову его ничем не примечательную жизнь и создаст кучу проблем. Конечно же, он не собирался с ней дружить. Но разве его кто-то спрашивал? Старгерл выбирает друзей сама.