The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in the field than with people. And so when her panic-stricken family flees the encroaching Nazi armies, Tzili is left behind to fend for herself. At first seeking refuge with the local peasants, she is eventually forced to escape from them as well, and she takes to the forest, living a solitary existence until she is discovered by another Jewish refugee, a man who is as alone in the world as she is. As she matures into womanhood, they fall in love. And though their time together is tragically brief, their love for each other imbues Tzili with the strength to survive the war and begin a new life, together with other survivors, in Palestine. Aharon Appelfeld imbues Tzili’s story with a harrowing beauty that is emblematic of the fate of an entire people.

When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his relationship with his hero is a hilarious story of ambition, obsession, talent and neurosis, alternately self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing. More memoir than literary criticism, Baker is excruciatingly honest, and U & I reveals at least as much about Baker himself as it does about his idol. Written twenty years before Updike's death in 2009, U & I is a very smart and extremely funny exploration of the debts we owe our heroes.

Einst sind der Vater und die Brüder gemeinsam fischen gegangen, das Rauschen des Wehrs hinter der Gaststätte in der Eifel, in der sie gelebt haben, hat die Kindheit der Brüder mit Ahnungen und Phantasien belebt. Aber der Vater, der beim Angeln immer auf der Suche nach einem riesigen, mythischen Urfisch war, ist schon lange tot. Und der ältere Bruder Hermann ist abgeholt worden, musste in die Klinik, er hat den Verstand verloren, sein Schicksal ist ungewiss.Der jüngere Bruder, der Ich-Erzähler, ist zurückgekehrt an den Ort der Kindheit, um der Familie zu helfen, steht im Fluss, angelt und lässt das Leben des Bruders, sein eigenes, das der Familie Revue passieren. Die Kindheit am Fluss, die erste Liebe, die kauzigen Gäste der elterlichen Gastwirtschaft, die Ausbruchsversuche des Bruders, der Niedergang der Kneipe, der Fluss und die Fische, der Tod der holländischen Gelegenheitsgeliebten des Bruders und die ungeklärte Frage nach dem eigenen leiblichen Vater — erschöpft und doch überwach versucht der Erzähler, aus den Erinnerungen und Gesprächen, Ereignissen und Beobachtungen einen Zusammenhang herzustellen, eine Erklärung zu finden.Norbert Scheuers neuer Roman „Überm Rauschen“ entwickelt mit seiner genauen und poetischen Sprache einen enormen Sog. Trauer und Schönheit einer ganzen Welt entstehen durch diese suggestive Geschichte, deren Protagonisten mit ihrer Suche nach dem großen mythischen Fisch zugleich auf der Suche nach dem Glück sind. Und das Glück ist da, im Rauschen, in der wehmütigen Kraft des Erzählens.

Perry and Baby Girl are best friends, though you wouldn’t know it if you met them. Their friendship is woven from the threads of never-ending dares and power struggles, their loyalty fierce but incredibly fraught. They spend their nights sneaking out of their trailers, stealing cars for joyrides, and doing all they can to appear hard to the outside world.With all their energy focused on deceiving themselves and the people around them, they don’t know that real danger lurks: Jamey, an alleged high school student from a nearby town, has been pining after Perry from behind the computer screen in his mother’s trailer for some time now, following Perry and Baby Girl’s every move — on Facebook, via instant messaging and text,and, unbeknownst to the girls, in person. When Perry and Baby Girl finally agree to meet Jamey face-to-face, they quickly realize he’s far from the shy high school boy they thought he was, and they’ll do whatever is necessary to protect themselves.Lindsay Hunter's stories have been called "mesmerizing. . visceral. . exquisite" (Chicago Tribune), and in Ugly Girls she calls on all her faculties as a wholly original storyteller to deliver the most searing, poignant, powerful debut novel in years.

Egils Lukjanskis Ugunī nosalušiegalvenais varonis mēģina tai naba­dzīgajai meitenei palīdzēt, kad viņa iekļuvusi ļoti grūtā, bīs­tamā situācijā. Taču meitene pateicībā šajā vīrietī iemīlas, kaut gan viņš tiešām tikai gribējis palīdzēt. Un tad rodas atkal jauna traģēdija, jo, izglābjot meiteni no fiziskām briesmām, ievedot labākā pasaulē, viņš nespēj atbildēt uz viņas jūtām. Tas varbūt ir pat sliktāk, jo rada garīgas ciešanas.-   Vispār man tas fragments patika, - Niklāvs atzinās. - Kas notiek tālāk?-   Vēl neesmu izdomājis.-   Kā tu domā romānu nosaukt?-   Pagaidām uzliku - "Ugunī nosalušie."-   "Ugunī nosalušie"? Vai tas vispār ir iespējams?-   Nezinu, - paraustīju plecus. - Patiešām. Taču simboliskā nozīmē… Kad dvēsele ir auksta, bet asinis karstas…-   Paklau! - Niks vērsās pie manis. - Vai tu sava romāna galveno varoni sauksi savā vārdā?!-   Kāpēc gan ne? - viegli pasmaidīju. - Vārdam nav ne vainas!-   Un Sindija? - Niks turpināja. - Tā sieviete būs izdomāta?-   Jā, - es apliecināju. - Taču bieži daudz kas no tā, ko savās grāmatās esmu it kā izdomājis, kaut kad tomēr pārvēršas īstenībā. Dažreiz tas mani pat baida.LATA ROMĀNS 9 (87) Abonēšanas indekss 2150© A. Stankevičs, ilustrācijas AS "Lauku Avīze", 2006Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Радіоведучий Марк Лютий, головний герой роману Василя Зими «Ukrainian dream. Последний заговор» працює в своє задоволення і готується до весілля з донькою олігарха. Та раптом до нього потрапляє вбивчий компромат на відомих політиків і він має обирати: піти на компроміс з власним сумлінням чи узятися за справу, ризикуючи втратити все, навіть власне життя. Долі героїв переплітаються, події, наче в калейдоскопі, змінюють одна одну. Хто переможе, а хто загине — відповіді у романі.

Радіоведучий Марк Лютий, головний герой роману Василя Зими «Ukrainian dream. Последний заговор» працює в своє задоволення і готується до весілля з донькою олігарха. Та раптом до нього потрапляє вбивчий компромат на відомих політиків і він має обирати: піти на компроміс з власним сумлінням чи узятися за справу, ризикуючи втратити все, навіть власне життя. Долі героїв переплітаються, події, наче в калейдоскопі, змінюють одна одну. Хто переможе, а хто загине – відповіді у романі.

Ambientada en una Barcelona de claroscuros y contrastes, Últimas tardes con Teresa narra los amores de Pijoaparte, típico exponente de las clases más bajas marginadas cuya mayor aspiración es alcanzar prestigio social, y Teresa, una bella muchacha rubia, estudiante e hija de la alta burguesía catalana. Los personajes de esta novela a la vez romántica y sarcástica pertenecen ya, por derecho propio, a la galería de retratos que configuran toda una época. Hito de la literatura española contemporánea, esta obra consolidó internacionalmente el nombre de su autor…

Мы все, конечно, умрем, но, пока мы живы, нужно каждый день принимать решения.Некоторые решают судьбы народов, играя людьми, как в детстве в крестики-нолики, другие изводят себя вопросом «кто я?» и, не находя ответа, убивают старушек, третьи не могут выбрать между мясом и рыбой на обед и от этого страдают, как на плахе.Выбор пути – задача нетранспортная, можно подавиться безобидной рыбной косточкой, и тогда проблема выбора блюда станет вопросом жизни и смерти.Ежедневный выбор – вот предмет книги «Ultraмарин».Она не рекомендуется людям, за которых выбор делают другие – президенты, жены, командиры и средства массовой информации.Она для тех, кто сделал свой выбор сам – правильный или…

Валерий Зеленогорский о своём новом сборнике: «Здесь только новые рассказы, написанные в последнее время, – о людях с аномальными закидонами. Я не специально выбирал персонажей с некоторыми отклонениями от нормы. Время ненормальное, а люди в нем живут и, чтобы не сойти с ума, привыкают к новым ролям…»

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromell…Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.

E se o espaço mudasse de posição e o tempo se curvasse e pudéssemos nos conhecer como seremos daqui a vinte anos? E se pudéssemos conversar, face a face, com as pessoas que fomos no passado, com as pessoas que somos em vidas paralelas, em mundos alternativos? O que lhes diríamos, o que lhes perguntaríamos? Em que sentido mudaríamos se soubéssemos aquilo que nos espera além do espaço e do tempo?UM é o romance mais surpreendente de Richard Bach. Tão cheio de aventura quanto Fernão Capelo Gaivota, tão divertido quanto Ilusões, tão inspirador quanto A ponte para o sempre.Neste livro, ele viaja com a mulher, Leslie, a um mundo onde a sobrevivência depende de descobrirem o que outros aspectos deles mesmos aprenderam em caminhos que eles jamais trilharam; onde a imaginação e o medo são instrumentos para salvar e destruir mundos; e onde morrer é um passo no triunfo sobre a morte.Do mesmo modo que o mundo pode não ser o que parece, mostram os Bach, também nós podemos ser mais do que o que parecemos. UM é uma curiosa fantasia que se apóia tanto na ciência quanto na espiritualidade — uma surpreendente porta entreaberta para um caminho diferente na busca de nós mesmos.

O romance de Ken Kesey é inspirado em suas próprias experiências quando participou de pesquisas com drogas psicoativas no centro psiquiátrico do Menlo Park Veterans Hospital (Califórnia). 'Um estranho no ninho' é protagonizado por R. P. McMurphy, um preso que escapa da condenação fingindo-se de louco. McMurphy é então internado em um hospício, sob a tutela da sádica Chefona, a enfermeira Ratched, que comanda os internos com suas rigorosas sessões de terapia e eletrochoque. Aos poucos McMurphy percebe que o hospício pode ser muito pior que a prisão, nesse novo universo cercado de pacientes inseguros, ansiosos e constantemente dopados. Pessoas que buscaram refúgio da sociedade no hospício.

“Ms. Jufresa: Where the f*#! did you learn to tell a story so well?”— Álvaro Enrigue, award-winning author of Sudden DeathIt started with a drowning.Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old who spends her days buried in Agatha Christie novels to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the summer she decides to plant a milpa in her backyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. The ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge — Who was my wife? Why did my Mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown?In prose that is dazzlingly inventive, funny and tender, Laia Jufresa immerses us in the troubled lives of her narrators, deftly unpicking their stories to offer a darkly comic portrait of contemporary Mexico, as whimsical as it is heart-wrenching.

A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community — the so-called Concept House in Willesden — maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and a marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy, but then he encounters Audrey Dearth, a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890 who has been immured in Friern for decades. A socialist, a feminist and a munitions worker at the Woolwich Arsenal, Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War and, like one of the subjects in Oliver Sacks' Awakenings, has been in a coma ever since. Realising that Audrey is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum, Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life — with wholly unforeseen consequences.

— Le document brûlera, mais la vérité restera, répondit Le Clerc. Car la vérité est à la portée de quiconque désire la trouver. Ceci dit, c’est à vous qu’il revient de décider si oui ou non les feuillets doivent être détruits. Vous pouvez contribuer à l’avènement d’une nouvelle religion et être portés au rang des saints, ou vous pouvez … »Ces dernières paroles m’horrifièrent. Je regardai alors Leslie et lus, sur son visage, une répulsion semblable à la mienne.Puis, je vis Leslie prendre le tison des mains de l’ermite et mettre le feu aux quatre coins du manuscrit. Celui-ci s’enflamma immédiatement, puis s’envola en fumée, ne laissant que quelques cendres éparses, çà et là sur le sol.Le vieil homme soupira d’aise. « Quelle soirée bénie, murmura-t-il enfin. Car ce n’est pas tous les jours qu’il nous est donné de protéger le monde contre la venue d’une nouvelle religion ! »

L'étouffoir… Ce n'est pas seulement cette lande qui sent le pin brûlé. Maltaverne et ses deux mille hectares, ses papillons cloués à la résine des arbres… C'est aussi cette force obscure qui saisit les êtres, les incendie…Alain est l'héritier de ce domaine. Il aime Marie, du moins la désire. Mais elle n'a pas de dot et, quand on s'appelle Alain Gajac, on ne se commet pas avec une employée de librairie.Madame Gajac, sa mère, ne rêne que stères de bois et bourgeoisie bien pensante… Ses fantômes, qui les connaît ? Quant à Jeannette, cette innocente, elle est déjà fauchée avant même que d'être en fleur. Alain sait qu'on la lui destine. Il l'a surnommée « le pou »…Malaise, mal d'aimer… À Maltaverne, le drame couve, exacerbé par le ciel brûlant des Landes. Car tous, à commencer par cet adolescent d'autrefois, ont oublié une chose : vivre…