Книги в жанре «Современная проза» (5204 книги)

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61. GorД…czka Читать →

Автор: ZykГ Cizia ” Le safari, commencГ© dans la joie et le plaisir, se transforma en une gigantesque partie de cache-cache, passionnante, irritante, puis insupportable. Insidieusement, la rГ©solution de tuer M'Bumba l'Г©lГ©phant s'installa. C'Г©tait lui ou nous. Alors s'amorГ§a une lente descente vers l'horreur et l'irrГ©el: la nature explosait d'une beautГ© violente, la nuit se faisait cataclysme, des milliers…

62. Sahara Читать →

Автор: ZykГ Cizia PodrГіЕј kilku kombinatorГіw przez SaharД™: ciemne interesy, korupcja, afrykaЕ„ska rzeczywistoЕ›Д‡ i… piД™kne kobiety. Nie pozbawione erotyzmu.

63. All The Pretty Horses Читать →

Автор: Mccarthy Cormac In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy begins his Border Trilogy with a coming of age tale that is a departure from the bizarre richness and mysterious violence of his early novels, yet in many ways preserves the mystery and the richness in a more understated form. Like Blood Meridian, this novel follows a young…

64. No Country For Old Men Читать →

Автор: Mccarthy Cormac Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin,…

65. The Road Читать →

Автор: Mccarthy Cormac A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray.…

66. Prep Читать →

Автор: Sittenfeld Curtis Curtis Sittenfeld's poignant and occassionally angst-ridden debut novel Prep is the story of Lee Fiora, a South Bend, Indiana, teenager who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ault school, an East Coast institution where “money was everywhere on campus, but it was usually invisible.” As we follow Lee through boarding school, we witness firsthand the…

67. El Valle del Issa Читать →

Автор: Milosz Czeslaw В«El valle del Issa ha estado siempre habitado por una ingente cantidad de demonios.В» AsГ­ empieza una de las descripciones que hace el narrador del entorno en que vive TomГЎs, el niГ±o lituano que protagoniza esta historia. Al igual que Milosz, TomГЎs habita un mundo donde todavГ­a no han llegado los ritos religiosos tradicionales, y…

68. Les Enfants Читать →

Автор: Franck Dan Quand deux cГ©libataires se rencontrent, se dГ©couvrent et s'aiment, ils dГ©cident souvent de vivre ensemble. Facile Г  dire, et mГЄme Г  faire… Sauf lorsqu'ils sont chacun lestГ©s d'une histoire ancienne dont les enfants constituent le prolongement. Rassembler tout ce petit monde dans une maison commune relГЁve alors de la comГ©die, de la tragГ©die, de la…

69. The Piano Tuner Читать →

Автор: Mason Daniel In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods—poetry, medicine,…

70. You Shall Know Our Velocity Читать →

Автор: Eggers Dave “Headlong, heartsick and footsore…Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace…Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” – The New York Times Book Review …

71. The Cloud Atlas Читать →

Автор: Mitchell David Cloud atlas is a cleverly written book consisting of six seperate, but connecting stories set across six different periods in time. Each story has been chopped in two and symmetrically placed in the book so you don’t discover the conclusion to the first tale until the very end of the book. This layout effectively creates a…

72. What You Do Not Know You Want Читать →

Автор: Mitchell David MY THREE A.M. NIGHTMARE DISPERSED like a disappointed audience as I tried to find the Coke machine. A woman passed, in her fifties maybe, cuddling, saying, “All I want out of life is a good night's sleep.” Too woozy to reply, I just smiled back. The second person I met at that sweltering hour was…

73. Fourth Angry Mouse Читать →

Автор: Schickler David Jeremy Jax wanted to be funny, like his grandfather. Jeremy’s grandfather was Robby Jax, the famous comedian. In his seventies-which also happened to be the 1970s-Robby Jax was still performing at Cherrywood’s Lounge, on 42nd Street, and Jeremy attended the shows with his parents. Jeremy was ten, and when he sat on the couches in…

74. El inglГ©s macarrГіnico de Ludmila Читать →

Автор: Pierre DBC El inglГ©s macarrГіnico de Ludmila es una novela sarcГЎstica, tan mordaz e irreverente como fascinante, repleta de escenas delirantes e ingeniosas que revelan una mirada insГіlita sobre la realidad. Gran BretaГ±a, en un futuro cercano: el sistema de sanidad pГєblico es privatizado, como todo, y la Albion House Institution, un refugio para gente con deformidades de…

75. Vernon God Little Читать →

Автор: Pierre DBC The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each…

76. Confessions Of A Falling Woman And Other Stories Читать →

Автор: Dean Debra A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention… A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a desperate actor… Streetwise New York City neighbors let down their guard for a naГЇve puppeteer and must suffer the consequences… In this stunning collection of short stories…

77. The Madonnas Of Leningrad Читать →

Автор: Dean Debra This is a brilliant and moving debut novel about one woman’s struggle to preserve an artistic heritage from the horrors and destruction of World War II. In this extraordinary first novel by Debra Dean, the siege of Leningrad by German troops in World War Two is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind and…

78. Когда сидишь за рулем, нельзя закрывать глаза Читать →

Автор: Demosfen™ Киносценарий…

79. El Lago Sin Nombre Читать →

Автор: Liang Diane Wei Cuando los tanques entran en la plaza de Tiananmen, la vida de Diane Wei Liang cambia para siempre. Estudiante de la Universidad de PekГ­n, ella y su amigo Dong Yi participan en una demostraciГіn pacГ­fica que provoca la respuesta sangrienta y dura del gobierno chino. La condena polГ­tica en todo el mundo no cambia el…

80. El Ojo De Jade Читать →

Автор: Liang Diane Wei La moderna y emprendedora Mei acaba de abrir una agencia privada de detectives en pleno corazГіn de PekГ­n. Esta mujer joven es un sГ­mbolo evidente del gran cambio cultural y ecГіnomico que estГЎ viviendo China. Al volante de su Mitsubishi rojo, y con un hombre como secretario, Mei estГЎ preparada para su nuevo trabajo. Cuando…