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Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar — inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective — across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: 'An astonishing feat' — «The Times». A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and, an…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: »Eating Animals» is a riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before. Interweaving a variety of monologues and balancing humour and suspense with informed rationalism, «Eating Animals» is as much a novelistic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: On the brink of fatherhood and facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf Foer's casual attitude towards food takes on a new urgency. Here, he explores the many fictions used to justify eating habits and how such tales justify a brutal ignorance. Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the…