Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs andscreams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them. In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing.

A New York Times Notable Book An Esquire Best Book of 2011 A New Yorker Favorite Book of 2011 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2011Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century--an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West, this novella by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

1956: Amara, a young Italian journalist, is sent to report on the growing political divide between East and West in post-war central Europe. She also has a more personal mission: to find out what happened to Emanuele, her childhood friend and soulmate from pre-war Florence. Emanuele and his family were Jews transported by the Nazis from wartime Vienna. So she visits the Holocaust museum at Auschwitz, and Budapest, where she is caught up in the tumultuous events of the October rising against the Soviet Union. Along the way she meets many other survivors, each with their own story to tell. But did Emanuele survive the war or, like so many other Viennese Jews, did he die in Auschwitz or a ghetto in Poland?

"An exuberantly dark first novel. . Evoking everyone from Brueghel to Henry Miller to Celine, Fiston plunges us into a world so anarchic it would leave even Ted Cruz begging for more government." — John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air w/ Terry GrossTwo friends, one a budding writer home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub, the Tram 83, in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village.**One of Flavorwire's 33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015****One of Book Riot's 5 Books to Watch for in September**Fiston Mwanza Mujila (b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar. Tram 83 is his award-winning and much raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.

Donalds Tramps un Tonijs Švarcs Tramps. Bizness kā mākslaJa vēlaties gūt panākumus laikā, kad ekonomikā valda sastingums, jums noteikti jāiepazīstas ar pasaulslavenā miljardiera Donalda Trampa pieredzi. Viņš savas uzņēmēja gaitas uzsāka brīdī, kad Ņujorka piedzīvoja smagu krīzi. Atšķirībā no daudziem Tramps saskatīja iespējas tur, kur citi redzēja tikai problēmas. Kad Ņujorkas ietekmīgākie uzņēmēji, sūkstīdamies par ekonomisko situāciju, slēdza uzņēmumus, Tramps jau pelnīja pirmos miljonus.Grāmatā Donalds Tramps atklāj savu veiksmes formulu, kas ļāvusi viņam kļūt par vienu no ietekmīgākajiem nekustamo īpašumu magnātiem. Trampa darījumu pasaule, gluži tāpat kā viņa dzīve, ir aizraujoša un pilna negaidītiem pavērsieniem. Tas ļaus šo grāmatu baudīt kā visaizraujošāko romānu.No angļu valodas tulkojusi Aija Vālodze Mākslinieks Eduards Groševsskanējis indarsss@inbox.lv© Tulkojums latviešu valodā, Apgāds Zvaigzne ABC 2018ISBN 978-9934-0-1346-1

1974: A tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then abruptly announces that she has adopted the guerrilla name "Tania" and chosen to remain with her former captors. Has she been brainwashed? Coerced? Could she be sincere? Why would such a nice girl disavow her loving parents, her adoring fiance, her comfortable home? Why would she suddenly adopt the SLA's cri de coeur, "Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys Upon the Life of the People"? Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades-the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda-into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months."Trance," Christopher Sorrentino's mesmerizing and brilliant second novel, traces this fugitive period, leading the reader on a breathtaking, hilarious, and heartbreaking underground tour across a beleaguered America, in the company of scam artists, visionaries, cultists, and a mismatched gang of middle-class people who typify the guiding conceit of their time, that of self-renovation. Along the way he tells the story of a nation divided against itself-parents and children, men and women, black and white; a story of hidebound tradition and radical change, of truth and propaganda, of cynicism and idealism; a story as transfixing and relevant today as it was then.Insightful, compassionate, scathingly funny, and moving, "Trance" is a virtuoso performance, placing Christopher Sorrentino in the first rank of American novelists.

Jedyny w swoim rodzaju utwór-wyzwanie, utwór-prowokacja, kapitalna rozprawa Gombrowicza z polskością, z podtrzymywanymi przez tradycję stereotypami narodowymi. Genialny humor i cudowny język, zadziwiające wykorzystanie przez pisarza form gawędy szlacheckiej, nie milknące pytania, które w każdym pokoleniu powinniśmy sobie zadawać.„Trans-Atlantyk”, wydany po raz pierwszy na emigracji (1953), dość szybko doczekał się krajowej edycji. Do księgarń powieść wyklętego przez komunistyczne władze Gombrowicza trafiła już cztery lata po paryskiej premierze, na fali Października. Peerelowscy włodarze liczyli może, iż odbiorcy odczytają utwór jako krytykę Polski sanacyjnej, tym cenniejszą, ze napisaną przez autora uznanego już przed wojną, potomka szlacheckiego rodu i emigranta. Paradoksalnie, interpretacja „Trans-Atlantyku” jako satyry na II Rzeczpospolitą i apologię narodowej zdrady zrobiła sporą karierę w konserwatywnych kręgach polskiej emigracji na Zachodzie i ściągnęła na pisarza lawinę obelg.Dziś nikt nie widzi w „Trans-Atlantyku” pamfletu na międzywojnie. Napisana stylizowanym barokowym językiem, parodiująca „Pana Tadeusza” powieść uznawana jest w Polsce za rozrachunek z tradycją narodową; w świecie czyta się ją jako uniwersalny manifest wolności, kierowany przeciwko wszelkim systemom opresji, z jaką spotykają się w społeczeństwie outsiderzy i „odmieńcy”.W powieści system taki tworzą przedstawiciele polskiej emigracji, których u progu II wojny światowej bohater – pisarz z kraju – spotyka w Buenos Aires. Ich karykaturalne spory, układy, spiski, rauty, polowania kojarzą sarmacki obyczaj z patriotycznym terrorem romantyków. Bohater-literat zostaje uwikłany w gierki argentyńskiego milionera, który dybie na wdzięki niewinnego młodzieńca Ignaca, syna majora Wojska Polskiego, wzorowego żołnierza, obywatela i patrioty. Lawiruje między stronami, nie mogąc się zdecydować, czyją ostatecznie wziąć stronę: „Ojczyzny” czy „Synczyzny”. Finał intrygi będzie naprawdę zaskakujący.Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2005 – Kolekcja Gazety Wyborczej

Colum McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined.Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators — Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown — set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber to heal the wounds of the Great War.Dublin, 1845 and ’46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause — despite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave.New York, 1998. Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it has fallen to him, the son of an Irish-American father and a Lebanese mother, to shepherd Northern Ireland’s notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion.These three iconic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history. Beginning with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who crosses paths with Frederick Douglass, the novel follows her daughter and granddaughter, Emily and Lottie, and culminates in the present-day story of Hannah Carson, in whom all the hopes and failures of previous generations live on. From the loughs of Ireland to the flatlands of Missouri and the windswept coast of Newfoundland, their journeys mirror the progress and shape of history. They each learn that even the most unassuming moments of grace have a way of rippling through time, space, and memory.The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.

**From the bestselling author of** Homegoing **comes a searing** **novel of** **love and loss, addiction and redemption, straight from the heart of contemporary America**

As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away.

Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America.

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**'I would say that** Transcendent Kingdom **is a novel for our time (and it is) but it is so much more than that. It is a novel for all times. The splendor and heart and insight and brilliance contained in the pages holds up a light the rest of us can follow'** Ann Patchett

**'Absolutely transcendent. A gorgeously woven narrative . . . not a word or idea out of place. THE RANGE. I am quite angry this is so good** ' Roxane Gay

**'A stirringly gifted writer'** *New York Times*

В будущем богатые люди смогут отделить свой мозг от старящегося тела — и станут жить почти вечно в особом «баночном» измерении. Туда уйдут вожди, мировые олигархи и архитекторы миропорядка. Там будет возможно все.

Но в банку пустят не каждого. На земле останется зеленая посткарбоновая цивилизация, уменьшенная до размеров обслуживающего персонала, и слуги-биороботы.

Кто и как будет бороться за власть в этом архаично-футуристическом мире победившего матриархата? К чему будут стремиться очипованные люди? Какими станут межпоколенческие проблемы, когда для поколений перестанет хватать букв? И, самое главное, какой будет любовь?

В связи с нравственным возрождением нашего общества в книге нет мата, но автору все равно удается сказать правду о самом главном.

В будущем богатые люди смогут отделить свой мозг от старящегося тела – и станут жить почти вечно в особом “баночном” измерении. Туда уйдут вожди, мировые олигархи и архитекторы миропорядка. Там будет возможно все.

Но в банку пустят не каждого. На земле останется зеленая посткарбоновая цивилизация, уменьшенная до размеров обслуживающего персонала, и слуги-биороботы.

Кто и как будет бороться за власть в этом архаично-футуристическом мире победившего матриархата? К чему будут стремиться очипованные люди? Какими станут межпоколенческие проблемы, когда для поколений перестанет хватать букв? И, самое главное, какой будет любовь?

В связи с нравственным возрождением нашего общества в книге нет мата, но автору все равно удается сказать правду о самом главном.

Waiting at the Paris airport, two immigrants from Djibouti reveal parallel stories of war, child soldiers, arms trafficking, drugs, and hunger. Bashir is recently discharged from the army and wounded, finding himself inside the French Embassy. Harbi, whose wife, Alice, has been killed by the police, is there too-arrested earlier as a political suspect. An embassy official mistakes Bashir for Harbi's son, and as Harbi does not deny it, both will be exiled to France, Alice's home country. This brilliantly shrewd and cynical universal chronicle of war and exile, translated into English for the first time, amounts to a lyrical and reflective history of Djibouti and its tortuous politics, crippled economy, and devastated moral landscape.

A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers? On the Concern's books are Temudjin Oh, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and the dark palaces of Venice; and a nameless, faceless torturer known only as the Philosopher. And then there's the renegade Mrs Mulverhill, who recruits rebels to her side; and Patient 8262, hiding out from a dirty past in a forgotten hospital ward. As these vivid, strange and sensuous worlds circle and collide, the implications of turning traitor to the Concern become horribly apparent, and an unstable universe is set on a dizzying course.

There's a message in your inbox. Then, a few moments later, your computer crashes. from the fringes of fame into a million inboxes. Arjun Mehta, computer geek, looks up from his screen to find that he does, after all, have a role to play in the world. Guy Swift, marketing executive with his own agency, a beautiful girlfriend and a handle on modern life, is losing his grip. In this age of instant worldwide communication, anything can happen and anything will Valley. Taking in three continents and following the lives of Guy, Arjun and Leela as they make their way in the real world, Transmission is a brilliant and funny take on life at the click of a mouse.

Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes: Los apetitos de la imaginación.Esta singular obra es un conjunto de textos breves dirigidos a unas interlocutoras anónimas a quienes formula para aliviarlas de las cargas de la existencia. Cerca de setenta recetas componen el tratado que el autor ofrece a ese tú femenino que espera anhelante la fórmula salvadora de la tristeza, de los celos, de los cambios de temperamento, de las desventuras orgánicas del sexo, de las tentaciones de las mujeres casadas, de los antojos, de la soltería, del luto, etc.No todas las recetas tienen el componente gastronómico que inventa este chef del espíritu. Algunas son consejos para salir de aprietos existenciales o sentimentales, pero dados en un tono conciliador que hace parte del remedio, pues el experto destila comprensión, acercamiento, dulzura. He aquí una receta que posee ingredientes naturales: `Si está nerviosa, aún sirve manzanilla, más no debes cortarla con limón ni con dulce. No funciona si lo que te preocupa es más fuerte que tú. Y si es así, conviene estar nerviosa`.En cambio, éste, vuelve el interés hacia sí mismo. Se trata de una autoreceta: `Muchas veces, al borde hallar la receta de la inmortalidad, me distrajo la presencia de la muerte`.

Pirmasis Irvino Welsho romanas, pasirodęs 1993 m., sukūrė autoriui šokiruojančio ir vieno talentingiausių mūsų laikų romanistų reputaciją. Tai mozaika iš kelių, į heroiną įjunkusių ar kitaip į savidestrukciją linkusių darbininkų klasei atstovaujančių jaunų škotų pasakojimų apie save. Pagrindinio knygos antiherojaus Marko Rentono gyvenimas yra futbolo, sekso, narkotikų ir netikrų draugų mišinys. Neviltis ir juodžiausias humoras. Meilė ir purvas, geismas ir neapykanta, pavydas ir pasiaukojimas, išlikimas ir pralaimėjimas. Jokio moralizavimo, tačiau sykiu ir jokių happy end’ų. Romanas ypač išgarsėjo po to, kai 1996 m. jį ekranizavo britų režisierius Denis Boilas (Danny Boyle).

Iš anglų kalbos vertė  Donatas Stačiokas

Мы живем в век карма-колы и химической благодати, но на Земле еще остались места, где сжиганию кармы в Интернете предпочитают пранаяму. На средневековых христианских картах на месте Индии находился рай. Нынешняя Индия тоже напоминает Эдем, только киберпанковский, распадающийся, как пазл, на тысячи фрагментов. Но где бы вы ни оказались, в Гималаях или в Гоа, две вещи остаются неизменными — индийское небо, до которого можно дотянуться рукой, и близость богов, доступных и реальных, как голливудские кинозвезды.

A new novel by bestselling author Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is reflected in his steadfast desire to write a pop song, or a protest song, or both at once.

A novel of philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the here-and-now, Andrés Neuman's Traveller of the Century is a journey into the soul of Europe, penned by one of the most exciting South-American writers of our time.A traveller stops off for the night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to leave the following day, but the city begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting geography.When Hans befriends an old organ grinder, and falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a local merchant, he finds it impossible to leave. Through a series of memorable encounters with starkly different characters, Neuman takes the reader on a hypothetical journey back into post-Napoleonic Europe, subtly evoking its parallels with our modern era.At the heart of the novel lies the love story between Sophie and Hans. They are both translators, and between dictionaries and bed, bed and dictionaries, they gradually build up their own fragile common language. Through their relationship, Neuman explores the idea that all love is an act of translation, and that all translation is an act of love."A beautiful, accomplished novel: as ambitious as it is generous, as moving as it is smart"Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Guardian