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Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: »Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero — sullen, gawky Hugh Person — to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later — following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: »The Real Life of Sebastian Knight» is a perversely magical literary detective story — subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax — about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer than a dozen knew of the two love affairs that so profoundly influenced his career, the second one in such a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Legendary designer Roehm conducts a private tour of her dazzling homes with hundreds of never-before-seen photographs that showcase her favorite color combination: blue and white.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crimea), and their…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Collecting the premiere issues of seven different Vertigo series, this low-priced graphic novel makes it easier than ever to see why Vertigo has become synonymous for quality comics that challenge the norm. «Vertigo: First Cut» features stories by some of comics' most popular writers and artists including Brian Wood (DMZ), Bill Willingham (FABLES), Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS) and many others.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, «The Queue», is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation”. Thousands of citizens are in line for... nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn’t matter–if anything is on sale, you better line up to buy it. Sorokin’s tour de force of ventriloquism and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Emmi Rothner möchte per E-Mail ihr Abo der Zeitschrift „Like“ kündigen, doch durch einen Tippfehler landen ihre Nachrichten bei Leo Leike. Als Emmi wieder und wieder E-Mails an die falsche Adresse schickt, klärt Leo sie über den Fehler auf. Es beginnt ein außergewöhnlicher Briefwechsel, wie man ihn nur mit einem Unbekannten führen kann. Auf einem schmalen Grat…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Den Richtigen back ich mir. Sie ist jung, sie ist reich, schön – und Witwe. Auch wenn ihr Mann sie kurz vor seinem Tod wegen einer anderen verlassen hat, trauert sie ausgiebig mit ihren Freundinnen um ihn, bei Champagner und Mandarinensaft. Zu dumm, dass sie plötzlich die verrückte Idee hatte, den Mörder ihres Mannes ausfindig zu machen. Denn statt auf der teuersten…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This is a P.G. Wodehouse novel. If you come into a lot of money, life becomes easier, right? No, wrong — at least not for Sally Nicholas, whose generosity of spirit immediately runs into all the slings and arrows outrageous fortune can send. Her handsome fiance turns out not to be all he seems — and then there is the show he's written, which Sally puts on in the theatre. No, life is not…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. With each rehearsal more sparks fly and the chances of the play being ready to perform recede. Black Snow is the ultimate back-stage…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: An eminent, aging Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in an immoral war on terror, a war that involves the use of torture? Then in the laundry room of his…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to the significant musical developments of his era. His guitar playing has seen him hailed as 'God'. Now for the first time, Eric tells the story of his personal and professional journeys in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...' The narrator of Robert Harris' gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter — cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister, especially as it means…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire — neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A Jeeves and Wooster collection. A classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman — in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (including the bestselling…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place. Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his bundles of papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis, Blur and Kula Shaker. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world. Fully updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series, this acclaimed book…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This is a Blandings novel. This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. Night Watch Agent Anton Gorodetsky's holiday is abruptly shortened when an urgent call from Gesar — his boss and Night…