A guidebook introduces foreign visitors to a recognizable but dreamlike America, where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat. A department-store supervisor must discipline employees who don’t smile enough at customers, but finds himself unexpectedly drawn to the saddest of them all. A woman reluctantly agrees to buy her daughter a robot pet, then is horrified when her little girl chooses an enormous mechanical spider for a companion. The characters in these stories find that the world they thought they knew has shifted and changed, become bizarre and disorienting, and, occasionally, miraculous. Told with absurdist humor and sweet sadness, Viral is about being lost in places that are supposed to feel like home.

What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school and flies to New York to pursue her passion for Woolf, whose manuscripts are held in a private collection.When a bedraggled Virginia Woolf herself materialises among the bookshelves and is promptly evicted, Angela, stunned, rushes after her on to the streets of Manhattan. Soon she is chaperoning her troublesome heroine as Virginia tries to understand the internet and scams bookshops with 'rare signed editions'. Then Virginia insists on flying with Angela to Istanbul, where she is surprised by love and steals the show at an international conference on — Virginia Woolf.Meanwhile, Gerda, ignored by her mother for days, has escaped from school and set off in hot pursuit.Virginia Woolf in Manhattan is a witty and profound novel about female rivalry, friendships, mothers and daughters, and the miraculous possibilities of a second chance at life.

Три человека. Три жизни. Три истории.Три истории, рассказанные от первого лица.Молодая красивая девушка с полной потерей памяти, постепенно вспоминающая свою жизнь.Смертельно больной психоаналитик, штурмующий Интернет в поисках пикантных знакомств.24-летний интернет-зависимый блоггер, с маниакальной настойчивостью преследующий девушку, которую любит.Каждый из них проживает свою собственную жизнь, видит и описывает реальность своими глазами. И однажды они встретились…Встретились и узнали ПРАВДУ.Интернет. Что это? Неограниченные возможности поиска информации? Новое слово в человеческом общении? Венец прогресса мира технологий? Превосходный способ найти любовь, работу, новых друзей и единомышленников?А может, это лишь иллюзия?Может, Интернет — это всего лишь ширма, за которой кроется подлинная ОПАСНОСТЬ?Разбирайтесь сами.Читая «Virtuality», роман об интернет-зависимости.

‘A hint of Lynch, a touch of Ferrante, the cruel absurdity of Antonin Artaud, the fierce candour of Anaïs Nin, the stylish languor of a Lana del Ray song… Moskovich writes sentences that lilt and slink, her plots developing as a slow seduction and then clouding like a smoke-filled room.’

Guardian

Zorka. She had eyebrows like her name.

1980s Prague. For Jana, childhood means ration queues and the smell of boiled potatoes on the grey winter air. But just before Jana’s seventh birthday, a new family moves in to their building: a bird-eyed mamka in a fox-fur coat, a stubble-faced papka – and a raven-haired girl named Zorka.

As the first cracks begin to appear in the communist regime, Zorka teaches Jana to look beyond their building, beyond Prague, beyond Czechoslovakia… and then, Zorka just disappears. Jana, now an interpreter in Paris for a Czech medical supply company, hasn’t seen her in a decade.

As Jana and Zorka’s stories slowly circle across the surreal fluctuations of the past and present, the streets of 1980s Prague, the suburbs of 1990s Wisconsin and the lesbian bars of present-day Paris, they lead inexorably to a mysterious door on the Rue de Prague…

Written with the dramatic tension of Euripidean tragedy and the dreamlike quality of a David Lynch film, Virtuoso is an audacious, mesmerising novel of love in the post-communist diaspora.

A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck's grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic Republic, and finally reunification and its aftermath, Visitation offers the life stories of twelve individuals who seek to make their home in this one magical little house. The novel breaks into the everyday life of the house and shimmers through it, while relating the passions and fates of its inhabitants.Elegant and poetic, Visitation forms a literary mosaic of the last century, tearing open wounds and offering moments of reconciliation, with its drama and its exquisite evocation of a landscape no political upheaval can truly change.

Darja DoncovaVisus zaķus... Ironisks detektīvs. Neticamu notikumu lavīna gāžas pār simpātisko franču valodas pasniedzēju Dasu Vasiļjevu. Pietiek aizbraukt atpūsties uz Tunisu, un bezmaz viņas acu piriekšā tiek nogalināts "zobu pastas karalis". Pierādījumu trūkuma " dēļ policija ir gatava lietu slēgt, taču Dašai tomēr gribas tikt par visu skaidrībā. Tas nav viegli. Izrādās, ka magnāta nāvi vēlējušies visi - sieva, meitas, znots... Nezināmi nelabvēļi ik uz soļa cenšas likt Dašai šķēršļus, nogalinot lieciniekus. Tomēr viņa cieši nolemj nepadoties  un šajā samezglotajā lietā salikt visus punktus uz "i".Darjas Doncovas grāmatās viss ir patiesība! Viņas galvenā varone daļēji ir līdzīga viņai pašai: kaķi, suņi, bērni, šķirtie vīri...Viņas hobijs ir adīšana un pīrāgu cepšana, bet cita starpā arī noziegumu sacerēšana.Smails, 2003[no krievu val. tulk. Dagnija Dreika ; red. J.Kākulis].

Les Éditions de Minuit, publisher of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, among others, rarely publishes a debut novel. Jean Echenoz, current star of the revered French literary house and enthusiastic fan of Julia Deck, confesses that he didn’t send his first novel to Minuit because they are "too demanding…the essence of literary quality, too good a publisher for me." This is why, thirty years later, a first novel published by Minuit has gripped French readers and taken the literary world by storm.Viviane Élisabeth Fauville is both an engrossing murder mystery and a gripping exploration of madness, a narrative that tests the shifting boundaries of language and the self. For inspiration, Julia Deck read the work of another star of Éditions de Minuit, Samuel Beckett, because, as she says, "he positions himself within chaos, and gives it coherence." This breakthrough novel, nominated for the Prix Femina, the Prix France Inter and the Prix du Premier Roman, follows suit through its arrestingly inventive style. It is sure to become a contemporary classic, and its author "now belongs to the most exclusive and prestigious family of French literature" (Le Nouvel Observateur).

¡Vivir!, publicada por primera vez en 1992 y editada recientemente en nuestro país por Seix Barral, es un relato crudo y firme de la vida en China en la etapa de la Revolución Cultural a través de la voz de Fugui, un campesino que pierde su fortuna en sus visitas a los burdeles y su afición al juego, y que aunque intenta rehacer su vida padece los cambios políticos de su país y muchos avatares y desgracias, pero resiste a pesar de todo y termina sus días ya anciano labrando la tierra acompañado de su buey y con la única intención de seguir viviendo. Resistencia y perseverancia ante el sufrimiento. Las hambrunas, los cambios constantes impuestos por la Revolución Cultural, las enfermedades, la miseria, la mala suerte y la incongruencia se cebarán con Fugui y tres de sus generaciones pero el protagonista de ¡Vivir! le contará al lector también sus pequeñas alegrías y tesoros. Un libro para sufrir, para llorar y para disfrutar de la prosa del autor.

Vivir para contarla es, probablemente, el libro más esperado de la década, compendio y recreación de un tiempo crucial en la vida de Gabriel García Márquez. En este apasionante relato, el premio Nobel colombiano ofrece la memoria de sus años de infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundaría el imaginario que, con el tiempo, daría lugar a algunos de los relatos y novelas fundamentales de la literatura en lengua española del siglo XX.Estamos ante la novela de una vida, a través de cuyas páginas García Márquez va descubriendo ecos de personajes e historias que han poblado obras como Cien años de soledad, El amor en los tiempos del cólera, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba o Crónica de una muerte anunciada, y que convierten Vivir para contarla en una guía de lectura para toda su obra, en acompañante imprescindible para iluminar pasajes inolvidables que, tras la lectura de estas memorias, adquieren una nueva perspectiva.«A los que un día le dirán: "Esto fuiste", "esto hiciste" o "esto imaginaste", Gabo se les adelanta y dice simplemente: soy, seré, imaginé. Esto recuerdo. Gracias por la memoria.»CARLOS FUENTES

Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on "the vampire craze," Vlad is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death. For-as in Dracula-Vlad has need of both a lawyer and a real-estate agent in order to establish his new kingdom, and Yves Navarro and his wife Asunci n fit the bill nicely. Having recently lost a son, might they not welcome the chance to see their remaining child live forever? More importantly, are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned?

"Vlinders in een Duikerpak" vertelt het ontroerende verhaal over de Fransman Jean-Dominique Bauby die aan het locked-in-syndroom lijdt. Na een beroerte raakt hij in coma. Wanneer hij na twee maanden wakker wordt kan hij alleen zijn linkeroog nog bewegen, terwijl zijn denkvermogen ongeschonden is gebleven.

Scherezade no teme a la muerte. No cree que el poder del mundo, representado por el Califa, consiga el exterminio de su imaginación.Hace mil años Scherezade atravesó mil y una noches contando historias al Califa para salvar su vida y la de las mujeres de su reino.Voces del desierto recrea los días de Scherezade y nos revela los sentimientos de una mujer entregada al arte de enhebrar historias cuyo hilo no puede perderse sin perder la vida.En esta novela, Nélida Piñon reinventa la fascinación de Las mil y una noches y nos hace vivir las voces del desierto, de donde vienen y hacia donde van los sueños.

Peras Pettersonas (g. 1952) – šiandien skaitomiausias pasaulyje Norvegijos rašytojas; jis ilgą laiką dirbo bibliotekininku, vertėju ir tik vėliau ėmė rašyti knygas. “Vogti arklius” – šeštasis jo romanas, tapęs tikra literatūros sensacija. Už šį romaną autoriui buvo skirta International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award premija, New York Times redaktoriai ir žurnalistai įtraukė jį į geriausių 2007 metais pasirodžiusių knygų penketuką. Knyga beveik provokuojamai lėta ir intymi; tarsi basomis kojomis eitum per svetimą pasaulį – berniukiškai aiškų ir senatviškai ramų. Tai – tarsi Norvegijos kvintesencija, tas gyvenimas šiaurėje, susidedantis iš sniego, skausmo, ramybės, vienatvės, siūbuojančių eglių ir pėdų sniege.

Trunas atsisveikina su miestu; pasitraukia į miško namelį, kur pro langus matyti ežeras. Pasitraukia į tipišką norvegišką vienumą. Būdamas šešiasdešimt septynerių, trokšta ramios ir išmintingos vienatvės – be muzikos, televizijos, su radijo žiniomis ir kale Lyra jis nori ramiai nugyventi jam skirtą laiką. Tačiau kaimynystėje taip pat gyvena vienišas vyriškis su šunimi. Tai – berniukas iš seniai praėjusios 1948-ųjų vasaros, po kurios viskas pakrypo kitaip. Mintimis Trunas nuolat persikelia į aną vasarą: paskutiniąją, kurią praleido su tėvu. Auksinę, šiltą, pilną iš tėvo perimtos gyvenimo išminties, nutviekstą kaimynų šeimoje įvykusios tragedijos, tėvo meilės draugo motinai ir pašėlusio lėkimo per mišką ant vogto arklio. Aną tolimą vasarą, kuriai praėjus tėvas nebesugrįžo į šeimą. Tačiau… mes juk patys nusprendžiame, kada mums skauda, sako herojus. Todėl viskas ne tragiška, o ramu ir vyriška. Šiame skandinaviškai tyliame, išmintingame, rūsčiame romane vėl atrandame išsiilgtą šiaurietišką ramybę.

«Voice of Our Shadow is the most frightening novel I've read since Bram Stoker's Dracula. I thought it was a love story, and it was. Then I thought it was a ghost story, and it was, sort of. Then I thought it was a story of madness, and it might be, maybe. It is a cunning, magical, wonderful novel — funny, sexy, sad, and tender.»— PAT CONROY author of The Great Santini and The Water Is WideOutwardly, Joseph Lennox is an ordinary young man, raised in a New York suburb and striving to make his way as a writer. Yet for him Vienna is not just one of the lures of Europe but a refuge in time and place, a refuge from a tragedy in his boyhood in which he played a far more complicit role than anyone realized. Joe's overbearing older brother, Ross, taunted him as they played near a railroad and touched the third rail, dying instantly. But he lives on in Joe's lonely guilt and dreams.Now, in Vienna, Joe finds friendship with the strangely mantic Paul and India Tate, and their destinies soon become erotically — and ominously — intertwined. Once again Joe is haunted by the specter of betrayal and death. In the end he must face the horrifying realization of how fragile is the barrier that separates the demons of our own conjuring from the inescapable reality of the unseen.Jonathan Carroll's first novel, The Land of Laughs, was dubbed by The Washington Post an «intricate, challenging, ultimately chilling tale.» Voice of Our Shadow, in its imaginative power and delineation of terrifying pursuit, will be seen as an even greater achievement.

A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the man she loves, she finds herself at a crossroads, pitting her desire against her sanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm.

Taking place in a kind of "internal space," populated by living ideas, Voices utilizes broken typography within the context of an equally broken narrative to examine an existence in which identity and self have become, themselves, imaginary, but have allowed human thought and feeling to reshape the very nature of perceptual reality. Language is given a new, unfamiliar shape: complete freedom to explore the framework of an intricate semiotic landscape.

Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times.From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the Fifth Dynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave to find that only his dog has remained loyal, to the twentieth century, where a mummy from the Eighteenth Dynasty awakens in fury to reproach a modern Egyptian nobleman for his arrogance, these five stories conduct timeless truths over the course of thousands of years. Summoning the power and mystery of a legendary civilization, they examplify the artistry that has made Mahfouz among the most revered writers in world literature.

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories-provocative, funny, disturbing, magical-that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit.Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals inVoices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unsettling what-ifs or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: from Samuel, who in the masterly "A Voice in the Night" hears the voice of God calling him in the night; to a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha; to Rapunzel and her Prince awakened only to everyday disappointment. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly humor,Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest modern storytellers.

A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself.In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy-brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole-Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political.Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world.Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer.

Arthur, un joven arquitecto californiano, vuelve a Los Ángeles después de pasar una larga temporada en París. Sin embargo, durante todo este tiempo no ha conseguido olvidar a Lauren, el gran amor de su vida que le robó el corazón cuando, a raíz de un accidente, cayó en estado de coma. Gracias a la insistencia y la valentía de Arthur, Lauren siguió viviendo, a pesar de la opinión del doctor y de la madre de desenchufar los aparatos que la mantenían con vida. Éstos, avergonzados, le hicieron jurar que jamás confesaría la verdad a la joven, que no recuerda nada de aquellos meses. Arthur cumple su palabra, desaparece de su vida e intenta olvidarla. Cuando vuelve a Los Ángeles el destino hará que se reencuentren.Volver a verte. Ojala fuera cierto…2Si la vida ofreciera a Arthur y Lauren otra oportunidad, ¿sabrían, en esta ocasión, superar todos los obstáculos? Una hermosa novela que demuestra que segundas partes sí pueden ser buenas.