A beautiful and haunting tale of love, betrayal, knowledge, and power, Life's a Dream (La vida es sueA±o, 1636) is the best known and most widely admired play of Catholic Europe's greatest dramatist, Pedro CalderA?n de la Barca CalderA?n's long life (1600-1681) witnessed both the pinnacle and collapse of Spanish political power as well as the одсьг great flowering of Spanish classical literature Despite its longtime place atop the Hispanic canon, CalderA?n's masterpiece remains relatively unknown by general readers outside the Spanish-speaking world Michael Kidd's new prose translation aims to correct this deficiency by rendering the play into a transparent, modern American idiom that preserves the beauty and complexity of CalderA?n's Baroque Spanish The result is a highly readable and adaptable text that is enhanced by a generous selection of supporting materials, including a thorough critical introduction and glossary.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 176 стр ISBN 0870817779.

A collection of the world's most beloved fables Jean de la Fontaine popularized some of our most loved proverbial tales, including The Hare and the Tortoise and The Hen Who Laid Golden Eggs, transforming the world's great fables into charming works of astonishing originality, wit, and verve James Michie's earthy translations capture одсьй the friendly brio, nimble comedy, and jaunty wisdom of the original * Black-and-white line drawings by J J Grandville introduce each fable.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 304 стр ISBN 0140455248.

One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to одсьч where the rocks dropped sharply to the sea From out of the wind, which was blowing with great force, Rilke seemed to hear a voice: Wer, wenn ich schriee, hA¶rte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen? (If I cried out, who would hear me up there, among the angelic orders?) He wrote these words, the opening of the first Duino Elegy, in his notebook, then went inside to continue what was to be his major work and one of the literary masterpieces of the century.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 192 стр ISBN 0393328848.

A 10th-century Chinese mandarin travels to the 20th Century in his time machine, and writes letters home reporting on the strange land of `Zha-ma-ni', in which he is surrounded by giants with big noses, and frightened by the iron carriages called `mo-tao-ka' We gradually realize that he is in present-day Munich, and the hapless voyager's encounters одсьщ with modern life and love make delightful reading the hapless voyager's encounters with modern life and love, make delightful reading -- Andrew Crumey in Scotland on Sunday witty, lively and idiosyncratic -- Meren Meinhardt in The Times Literary Supplement Dedalus is to be thanked for introducing us to Herbert Rosendorfer -- The Historical Novel Review.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 274 стр ISBN 1903517397.

Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim’s mother he will find the perpetrator After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer—with all the patience of a master fisherman But cruel turns of plot conspire одсэа to make him pay dearly for his pledge Here Friedrich DA?rrenmatt conveys his brilliant ear for dialogue and a devastating sense of timing and suspense Joel Agee’s skilled translation effectively captures the various voices in the original, as well as its chilling conclusion One of DA?rrenmatt’s most diabolically imagined and constructed novels, The Pledge was adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 176 стр ISBN 0226174379.

GA?A¶tz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, “not a big one,” but one that “requires efficiency ” Their task is to transport prisoners from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck, in which they are asphyxiated The nameless narrator of GA?A¶tz and Meyer, a Jewish schoolA­teacher, одсэо discovers Wilhelm GA?A¶tz and Erwin Meyer while researching the deaths of his relatives Overwhelmed by the horror of his discoveries as they become entangled with his own feverish imaginings, he organizes a class trip The school bus becomes GA?A¶tz and Meyer’s truck, and the teacher and his students merge with Belgrade’s lost souls in a sacred act of remembering.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 180 стр ISBN 0156031108.

After sending her rA©sumA© to the CIA on a whim, New Yorker Selena Keller is contacted by an Agency recruiter, who asks her how she would feel about convincing another human being to commit treason Despite her checkered past, Selena passes the background investigation and a battery of bizarre aptitude tests Living under cover as a government budget одсэр analyst, she begins her education in espionage at the Farm, the CIA’s covert facility All CIA officers must survive a demanding training program, and it is there that Selena becomes romantically involved with Stan, a brilliant but darkly paranoid fellow student with presidential ambitions What happens next is a fascinating inside portrait of the Agency—how spies are recruited, how they are trained, who they meet, where they go, and most important what happens when they fall in love, and begin spying on one another.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 272 стр ISBN 0812967097.

Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal одсэщ Abd al-Nasser, who endure a strange system of earthly probation in the hope of gaining entry to the fabled Seventh Heaven; a teenager drawn into the secret, enchanted life he finds within his neighborhood’s forbidden wood; an honest perfume seller accosted on a night out by angry skeletons; and Satan himself, who confesses that there is still, despite the flood of evil in our times, an honorable man in the land As ingenious at capturing the surreal as he is at documenting the very real social landscape of modern Cairo, Mahfouz guides these restless spirits as they migrate from the shadowy realms of other worlds to the haunted precincts of our own.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 192 стр ISBN 0307277143.

Un misterioso sobre llega al escritorio de Nick Cominsky entre una pila de solicitudes para tarjetas de crA©dito y envA­os por correo relacionados al trabajo Aunque su semana de trabajo de setenta horas ya ha consumido parte perder la oportunidad de ver quA© tipo de trampa le han preparado sus colegas Nick, que por lo general es seguro de sA­ mismo одсюи y cA­nico, pronto se halla en una situaciA?n inquietante, arrastrado hacia una fascinante conversaciA?n con un hombre desconcertante que discute la existencia del cielo y el infierno Y este hombre, que dice ser JesA?s de Nazaret, tambiA©n parece tener una asombrosa cantidad de informaciA?n sobre la vida privada de Nick A medida que avanza la noche, la conversaciA?n giraalrededor de la vida, Dios, el dolor, la fe y la duda y parece que tener una Cena con un perfecto desconocido pudiera cambiar para siempre la vida de Nick.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 112 стр ISBN 0307274845.

Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novel A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope "Gripping, damning, and transfixing " ---Entertainment Weekly " possesses a time-bending gravity [A] small classic of graceful language and earned emotion " ---San Francisco одсюн Chronicle " a beautifully written novel of war and the wrenching grief and unanswerable questions it leaves in its wake A Century of November is full of precise, startling imagery and elegant, richly poetic description---Wetherell seems genuinely incapable of writing a lazy sentence---and this last section of the novel is as surreal, hypnotic and harrowing as any literature in recent memory The whole thing, in fact, is a jewel, an unforgettable historical novel that Wetherell has carefully (and artfully) seeded with loads of contemporary resonance " ---Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) "A poignant, probing story Wetherell's prose and character writing are unflinching [and his] take on a parent's anguish is deeply moving " ---Publishers Weekly "A timely reminder of the devastation of mortal combat " ---Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 176 стр ISBN 0472031228.

This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying in the smog and bustle of downtown Cairo: одсюр a fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed "scientist of women"; a sultry, voluptuous siren; a devout young student, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism; a newspaper editor helplessly in love with a policeman; a corrupt and corpulent politician, twisting the Koran to justify his desires These disparate lives careen toward an explosive conclusion in Alaa Al Aswany's remarkable international bestseller Teeming with frank sexuality and heartfelt compassion, this book is an important window on to the experience of loss and love in the Arab world.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 272 стр ISBN 0060878134.

A classic of Holocaust literature from "one of the great masters of the short novel "The New Yorker In the Vilna Ghetto during World War II, Nazi Commandant Schoger demands that all children be sent to the death camp When Abraham Lipman pleads with him to spare their lives, Schoger reconsiders, and tells Lipman there will be a chess match одсюф between himself and Lipman's only surviving son, Isaac, a chess prodigy If Isaac wins, the children will live, but Isaac will die If Isaac loses, the children will die, but Isaac will live Only a draw will save the ghetto from this terrible predicament The chess game begins: a nightmarish contest played over the course of several evenings, witnessed by an audience impotent to act, staking the lives of their children on a stalemate This is a moving story of a father and a son who shame their cruel perpetrator with their dignity, spirit, and extraordinary courage Stalemate speaks to the power of humor even under the direst circumstances As a parable that gives voice to the unspeakable, Stalemate is an antidote to despair.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 176 стр ISBN 1590511565.

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an одсюч absolute sense of smell As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity Translated from the German by John E Woods.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 272 стр ISBN 0307277763.

A new translation by Anthony Esolen Illustrations by Gustave DorA© Includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotesA A Arguably the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieri's all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife A A In this groundbreaking new translation of Dante's одсюя most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatory, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in continuation of his difficult ascent to purity.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 544 стр ISBN 0812971256.

Having enchanted readers on two continents with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie now produces a rapturous and uproarious collision of East and West, a novel about the dream of love and the love of dreams Fresh from 11 years in Paris studying Freud, bookish Mr Muo returns to China to spread the gospel of psychoanalysis His secret одсяж purpose is to free his college sweetheart from prison To do so he has to get on the good side of the bloodthirsty Judge Di, and to accomplish that he must provide the judge with a virgin maiden This may prove difficult in a China that has embraced western sexual mores along with capitalism–especially since Muo, while indisputably a romantic, is no ladies’ man Tender, laugh-out-loud funny, and unexpectedly wise, Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch introduces a hero as endearingly inept as Inspector Clouseau and as valiant as Don Quixote.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 304 стр ISBN 1400077141.

In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Charles Baudelaire's writing for the lay reader and specialist In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on his verse and prose, analyzing the extraordinary power and effectiveness of his language and style, his exploration of intoxicants одсяй like wine and opium, and his art and literary criticism The volume also discusses the difficulties, successes and failures of translating his poetry and his continuing power to move his readers It features a guide to further reading and a chronology as well.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 258 стр ISBN 0521537827.

By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born IrA?ne NA©mirovsky began working on what would become Suite FranA§aise—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine одсяр Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France—where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis—she’d begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read NA©mirovsky’s literary masterpiece The first part, “A Storm in June,” opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival—some trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their lives—but soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know In the second part, “Dolce,” we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers—from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants—cope as best they can Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity Suite FranA§aise is a singularly piercing evocation—at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironic—of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 416 стр ISBN 1400044731.

Return to the distant, glittering world of the Spanish Renaissance with forty great poems in a remarkable new translation "Nothing is harder…than to render a classic in contemporary idiom yet retain its sense of time and space… Edith Grossman delivers "Carlos Fuentes, New York Times Book Review The Spanish Renaissancea period одсящ of glory that endured from the late fifteenth century through the seventeenth centurycomes to life in its greatest poems, rendered with passionate fervor and a stylistic brilliance Edith Grossman includes in this beautiful, collection-worthy volume facing-page Spanish, a historical introduction, and biographies of the poets: Jorge Manrique (not translated since Longfellow); Garcilaso de la Vega, a soldier and courtier who wrote love poetry; Fray Luis de Leon, a converso Jew; San Juan de la Cruz, whose poems are the finest exemplars of Christian mysticism; Luis de GA?ngora, the great sensualist; Lope de Vega, the great rival to Cervantes; Francisco de Quevado, the ultimate Baroque poet; and Sor Juana, the nun whose haunting poetry embodied the voice of Mexico 10 illustrations.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 224 стр ISBN 0393060381.

Award-winning, bestselling author Jane Urquhart's eagerly anticipated new novel is a magnificent accomplishment and her strongest to date A Map of Glass weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, the other in the nineteenth century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario A novel about loss and the transitory одтаб nature of place, A Map of Glass contains all the elements for which Jane Urquhart's novels are celebrated Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents' house by a doctor attracted to and challenged by her withdrawn ways Their subsequent marriage has nourished her, but ultimately her husband's care has formed a kind of prison When she meets Andrew, a historical geographer, her world changes A year after Andrew's death, Sylvia makes a connection with Jerome, a young conceptual artist/photographer who, while executing one of his outdoor projects, discovers Andrew's body After Sylvia escapes to the city, she shares with Jerome the story of Andrew's forebears, a story that goes back to the nineteenth century amidst the flourishing timber and shipbuilding industries of Lake Ontario This story is the breathtaking centre of A Map of Glass, an intricate novel enriched by moments of vivid history come to life and haunting imagery It stands as her richest, most accomplished novel to date.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 371 стр ISBN 1596921706.

A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story одтае of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers’ nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 896 стр ISBN 1590172019.

Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 одтай to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time Автор James Knowlson.  Издательство: Grove Press, 2004 г Мягкая обложка, 832 стр ISBN 0802141250 Язык: Английский.

Two men and two womenA?A€A”successful Milanese professionals and lifelong friendsA?A€A”set off on an urbane mission from Milan with their estate agent, determined to discover Umbrian properties to buy and renovate into luxurious country homes But as darkness descends and the roads become narrower, the travelers' concentration одтан wanes, and they find themselves lost, their car in a ditch, and their cell phones without coverage, in the Umbrian rain From these simple but ominous beginnings, De Carlo's novel grows into a broad, ambitious, and unsettling exploration of modern urban values When they fall into the hands of an aggressive agri-naturist community, perspectives shift between the five protagonists as a tense series of events forces the characters to reevaluate every principle, belief, and thought they have ever held to be true A jaunt into the Italian countryside becomes a harrowing journey into the soul.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 328 стр ISBN 0847828816.

Cecilia Valdes is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba Written in 1882 by Cirilo Villaverde in exile in New York City, but set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel recounts a story of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism The heroine of the novel, the beautiful light-skinned mulatta named Cecilia, одтаъ is being pursued by Leonardo, the son of a Spanish slave trader Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl When Leonardo, who is getting bored with his mistress, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime Rich in social and historical detail, Cecilia Valdes opens a window into the intricate problems of race relations in the Caribbean, the interactions between sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of colonialism.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 544 стр ISBN 0195143957.

Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly wants to make Lilah his wife Yet Lilah does not feel одтба she can marry without the blessing of her brother, Ezra She and Ezra are close, and Lilah knows her brother well—he does not want his sister to have a husband outside their faith Ezra is a scholar of the laws of Moses, and Lilah believes it is her brother’s destiny to lead the Jewish people back to the Promised Land While Antinoes pressures her to accept his proposal, Lilah realizes that before she can consider her own happiness, it is her duty to help her brother accomplish the seemingly impossible task that is before him Putting herself in grave danger, and with the help of Antinoes, Lilah wins Ezra an audience with Artaxerxes II, the King of Kings, who grants permission to lead the exiles on their journey back to the Promised Land After a hazardous trip across the desert, Lilah, Ezra, and the thousands who join them arrive in Jerusalem But the hardship of rebuilding the Temple takes its toll, and the religious enthusiasm of some turns to extremism Ezra, listening to the zealots, orders all non-Jewish wives and their children banished from Jerusalem Lilah, whose love for Antinoes has never wavered, is horrified by this command She knows she must now choose between her brother and her conscience, which tells her that the time has come to defy him Lilah is a timeless story of one woman’s stand against intolerance; it will linger in the reader’s mind long after the last page has been turned Yahweh, is it not your will that our bodies should grow beyond childhood? That we should become men and women, each with our own breath, our own strength, the joy of our own senses? Is it not your will that a man’s caress should delight a woman? Is it not your law that a sister should find other eyes to love than those of her brother, another voice to hear and admire other than that of her brother? Is it not your teaching that a woman should choose a husband according to her heart, as Sarah did, and Rachel and Zipporah, the wives of Abraham, Jacob, and Moses? Whichever I am faithful to, the other’s pain will be just as strong Why must I cause pain when my brother and my lover have an equal place in my heart? —from Lilah Also available as a Random House AudioBook and an eBook Look for the excerpt from Sarah, the book that started it all, at the back of this book To download a Reading Group Guide for this book, or to find out more about historical fiction titles from the Crown Publishing Group, visit MaidensCrown com.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 272 стр ISBN 1400052815.

This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar XVII Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan’s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important contribution to social and political issues одтбд Collecting important analyses by many of the major Lacanian theorists and practitioners, this anthology is at once an introduction, critique, and extension of Lacan’s influential ideas The contributors examine Lacan’s theory of the four discourses, his critique of the Oedipus complex and the superego, the role of primal affects in political life, and his prophetic grasp of twenty-first-century developments They take up these issues in detail, illuminating the Lacanian concepts with in-depth discussions of shame and guilt, literature and intimacy, femininity, perversion, authority and revolt, and the discourse of marketing and political rhetoric Topics of more specific psychoanalytic interest include the role of objet a, philosophy and psychoanalysis, the status of knowledge, and the relation between psychoanalytic practices and the modern university Contributors Geoff Boucher, Marie-HA©lA?ne Brousse, Justin Clemens, Mladen Dolar, Oliver Feltham, Russell Grigg, Pierre-Gilles GuA©guen, Dominique Hecq, Dominiek Hoens, A‰ric Laurent, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Jacques-Alain Miller, Ellie Ragland, Matthew Sharpe, Paul Verhaeghe, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupancic.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 336 стр ISBN 0822337193.

Princeton, Viernes Santo de 1999 A punto de graduarse, dos estudiantes de la prestigiosa universidad, se encuentran a un paso de resolver los misterios de la "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", un libro escrito por un noble renacentista que ha tenido fascinados e intrigados a los acadA©micos desde el momento de su publicaciA?n en 1499 Para одтбо uno de ellos, Tom Sullivan, su investigaciA?n constituye un vA­nculo con su pasado -su padre ya habA­a investigado el libro antes de morir- y un obstA?culo en su relaciA?n sentimental El otro, Paul Harris, lo ha convertido en su obsesiA?n, su razA?n para vivir Cuando parece que la investigaciA?n se encalla de nuevo, aparece un diario que se creA­a perdido y que contiene una prueba definitiva Horas mA?s tarde, otro estudiante implicado en las pesquisas aparece asesinado y Paul y Tom se enfrentan con el hecho de que no son los A?nicos que andan detrA?s de tan inquietante misterio Princeton, Good Friday of 1999 two students about to get their degrees are very close to resolve the mysteries of "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", a book written by a Renaissance nobleman which has fascinated and intrigued academics since its publication in 1499.  2004 г Твердый переплет, 394 стр ISBN 8496284158.

Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident His parents and grandparents use all their native wisdom to ease him out of his subsequent bitter depression, but without success Meanwhile, in a distant city, a troubled young kid named Aiden одтбщ plans a holdup that goes wrong and lands himself in jail When he emerges, a sympathetic police officer arranges a job at a ranch, where his mother Claire will accompany him in an attempt to restore their relationship It is the Wolfchild ranch Supported by the ferocious strength and native spirituality of the Wolfchild women, Joe Willie and Aiden fight through painful transformations, and their physical and mental rehabilitations are mirrored in the age-worn chrome of an ancient pickup truck they restore together As the two men first clash and then come together in a friendship that helps each overcome the challenge of reentering a world that’s forever changed, Claire’s eyes are opened to a life she has never hoped for and opens her heart to a love she still can’t convince herself she deserves Written with lyric intensity and a great respect for native teachings, Dream Wheels announces the presence of a major new literary talent, sure to take his rightful place alongside writers like Cormac McCarthy and Jim Harrison as a gifted chronicler of the modern West.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 416 стр ISBN 0312359268.

In this collection of fictional writings, the Golem of Jewish folklore is both hero and villain The Golem, a creature made of clay and brought to life by Rabbi Leyb of Prague in the sixteenth century, has provided an enticing subject for fiction writers since the legend began In some works, Rabbi Leyb gives birth to the Golem to help the Jews with the одтбы overbearing burden of their work In others, the Golem is the protector of the Jews, keeping watch during the nights before Passover to make sure that a Gentile does not plant evidence for a blood libel in a Jewish home But the powerful Golem can also lose control and have to be destroyed Joachim Neugroschel has brought together some of the best work featuring the Golem, including H Leivick's masterful blank verse play; Yudl Rosenberg's "pamphlet" full of Golem tales; and stories by S Bastomski, Dovid Frishman, and Y L Peretz, which he translates fluidly from the Yiddish.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 352 стр ISBN 0393050882.

From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel, a religious teacher who was once a political prisoner; Yoav, a terminally одсьи ill Israeli commando; George, an archivist who is hiding a Holocaust secret that could bring down a certain politician; and Bruce, a would-be priest turned philanderer Their host—an enigmatic and disquieting man who calls himself simply the Judge—begins to interrogate them, forcing them to face the truth and meaning of their lives Soon he announces that one of them—the least worthy—will die The Judges is a powerful novel that reflects the philosophical, religious, and moral questions that are at the heart of Elie Wiesel’s work From the Hardcover edition.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 224 стр ISBN 0805211217.

One of Gabriel GarcA­a MA?rquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature Gabriel одсьм GarcA­a MA?rquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 280 стр ISBN 0060882867.

“W G Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence–humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy In [Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency, learning and self-revelation [Readers will] be rewarded одсьш with unexpected illuminations ” –The Washington Post Book World This final collection of essays by W G Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his work–the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts Some of these pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present, examining, among other things, the island’s formative effect on its most famous citizen, Napoleon In others, Sebald examines how the works of GA?nter Grass and Heinrich BA¶ll reveal “the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional lives” of postwar Germans; how Kafka echoes Sebald’s own interest in spirit presences among mortal beings; and how literature can be an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world Dazzling in its erudition, accessible in its deep emotion, Campo Santo confirms Sebald’s status as one of the great modern writers who divined and expressed the invisible connections that determine our lives.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 224 стр ISBN 0812972325.

In the musty attic of an upstate New York house, a woman finds a clasped box, hidden away for over a century Inside, wrapped in cambric and tied with a green ribbon, is an old manuscript written by a girl dreaming of a better life, fighting for survival, and coming of age in a time of chaos and danger This wondrously told tale is a stirring adventure set in одсьъ nineteenth-century England, a novel of rich history and vibrant imagination Amid the lush fields and gardens of an English estate, in a kitchen where every meal is a sumptuous feast, a young servant called Paddy anxiously hides her true identity Using coal soot and grease, she conceals her flaming head of red hair and covers her body, desperate to keep the job she needs to survive But the girl, whose real name is Mina, cannot conceal from herself the pain of her past or the beauty of an Ireland she remembers with love and grief—until she meets a man who convinces her to trust him, a man hiding sorrows of his own To the mysterious Mr Serle—the estate’s skilled and quiet chef—Mina dares to confess her true identity and reveal a shattered past: her flight from the blighted fields of her homeland to the teeming streets of Liverpool her memories of the family she lost and dreams for the future And as Mina and Mr Serle begin to know each other, an extraordinary journey begins—a journey of faith and identity, adventure and awakening, that will alter the course of both their lives The sights and sounds of nineteenth-century England come vividly to life in Jonatha Ceely’s magnificent novel, a tale that explores the intricate relationship forged by two people in hiding Moving and unforgettable, Mina is historical fiction at its finest—a novel that makes you think, feel, and marvel…until the last satisfying page is turned From the Hardcover edition.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 336 стр ISBN 0385336888.

Never has Inspector Montalbano's signature mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food been more compelling than in The Snack Thief When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano, with his одсэм keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son is caught stealing other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks But when Karima disappears, the young snack thief's life-as well as his own-is endangered when Montalbano exposes a viper's nest of government and international intrigue.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 304 стр ISBN 0142004731.

Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian history–ancient Egypt’s defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated northern Egypt for two hundred years With a visit from a court official and a provocative insult, the southern одсэп pharaoh’s long simmering resentment boils over, leading him to commit himself and his heirs to an epic struggle for the throne Filled with the grand clash of armies, staggering defeats, daring escapes, and glorious victories, and written at a time when Egypt was again under the sway of foreign powers, Thebes at War is a resounding call to remember Egypt’s long and noble history.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 256 стр ISBN 1400076692.

Towards the end of his life Leppin wrote: Prague remains my deepest experience Its conflict, its mystery, its rat-catchers beauty have ever provided my poetic efforts with new inspiration and meaning Others Paradise represents one of the most intense expressions of this experience Beginning with the highly imagistic The Doors of Life, the eight одсэф stories contained in this volume detail the contours of the lives and visions of a collection of Prague inhabitants, from a prostitute bound to the decay of the old Jewish quarter, to a man caught in the memory of a lost love, and a shoemaker whose knowledge of the world has been constricted to the view from the window of his cellar workroom Amidst their differing circumstances what these characters share is an intense desire for lasting human contact and the fated disappointment of all such aspirations Binding their personal histories, woven into their most intimate details, is Prague itself, the city whose nature, mythical and yet all-too-real, gives shape and force to their desires while simultaneously determining their frustrations.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 140 стр ISBN 8086264076.

Monsieur Monde is a successful middle-aged businessman in Paris One morning he walks out on his life, leaving his wife asleep in bed, leaving everything Not long after, he surfaces on the Riviera, keeping company with drunks, whores and pimps, with thieves and their marks A whole new world, where he feels surprisingly at home—at least for a while одсюж Georges Simenon knew how obsession, buried for years, can come to life, and about the wreckage it leaves behind He had a remarkable understanding of how bizarrely unaccountable people can be And he had an almost uncanny ability to capture the look and feel of a given place and time Monsieur Monde Vanishes is a subtle and profoundly disturbing triumph by the most popular of the twentieth century's great writers.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 144 стр ISBN 1590170962.

Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder, одсюй and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 176 стр ISBN 0807083712.

Ireland, 1880, and Tessa Mulqueen lies dying Beneath the gloom of her household, though, is a spark that threatens to destroy the composure of this prosperous, provincial family Unmarried daughter Agnes anxiously awaits the arrival of her sister Rose-Marie and brother-in-law Vincent Agnes adores her sister but secretly, passionately loves одсюп Vincent and she knows their marriage is foundering Ahead lies a terrible battle between her uncompromising religious faith and the intensity of her love A grave and beautiful story.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 288 стр ISBN 1844083179.

The Granta Book of India brings together evocative, personal and informative writings on modern India, drawn from the pages of the world's leading literary magazine Here are eighteen contemporary voices sketching one of the world's most dynamic places in fiction, reportage and memoir Contributors include Suketu Mehta, on Mumbai, a city "with an одсюу identity crisis;" Chitrita Banerji, on "What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat"; Pankaj Mishra, on the making of jihadis in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and Rory Stewart, among the dervishes of Pakistan Ramachandra Guha and Amit Chaudhuri remember cowboys and Indians and the dignity of American labor; Urvashi Butalia traces a family member through the political geography of India's Partition Hanif Kureishi describes fundamentalist forces in Pakistani politics And Nirad Chaudhuri writes on his 100th birthday The collection includes a poem by Salman Rushdie about the fatwa, and fiction by R K Narayan, Amit Chaudhuri, and Nell Freudenberger.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 287 стр ISBN 1862077843.

"It is my wish that the voice of the storyteller never die in Africa "Nelson Mandela, from the foreword The vibrant tradition of African folktalesan oral heritage that predates Ovid and Aesopis long and varied, but to date it has been largely overlooked in the West Aware of this gap, Nelson Mandela selected thirty-two stories, одсюх many of them translated from their original tongues, to show the seminal role of African folklore in world literature We meet tricksters from Zulu folklore; we hear the voices of the scheming hyena and learn from a Khoi fable how animals acquired their tails and horns These fables present a veritable bible of stories "universal in their portrayal of humanity, beasts and the mystical " Winner of the NAACP Image Award.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 240 стр ISBN 0393326241.

An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships With a Foreword by Colm TA?ibA­n When successful businessman Alvan Hervey begins his daily journey back from the city, he has no idea what awaits him at home—for there, on his одсюъ bedroom table, is a letter from his wife, confessing her ultimate betrayal: she has left him for another man But no sooner has this awful truth begun to sink in, than Hervey finds himself face to face with his wife as she returns to make one last desperate attempt to save their marriage With their world in tatters around them, husband and wife are forced to confront the truth Acclaimed by F R Leavis as one of “the very great novelists in the language,” Joseph Conrad (1857A­1924) is best known for his chilling work Heart of Darkness.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 112 стр ISBN 1843910780.

"In 1969 we were seventeen We listened to the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Grateful Dead, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Bob Dylan We read Rimbaud, played guitars, smoked pot, fell in love, reveled against the establishment, protested the ware in Vietnam, barricaded our high school, and produced the одсяд first rock festival in our home town - a small city in a remote southwestern corner of Japan " By turns hilarious, cynical, frivolous, and poignant, Sixty-Nine is infused from start to finish with Murakami's relentless energy and optimism; it simply refuses to get tedious, preachy, or "literary" for a single moment.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 192 стр ISBN 4770030134.

A lament in light A breath-taking memorial Poetry and photography that compose the landscapes of remembrance Once I saw your breath suspended in the air then I understood how fire could be white when I exhaled my breath followed yours into the sky that holds us both Rich, profound, engaging, and written with an emotional depth rarely seen in much одсяи of contemporary poetry There's a meditative virtuosity throughout this work, original and perceptive, alive with intelligence and compassion Don Domanski.  2005 г Мягкая обложка, 90 стр ISBN 0888644507.

Reviews "What better way to invite a reader to explore the lavish surfaces and lonely depths of contemporary Japan than with a book so well-designed it whispers covet me from across the room? Inconclusive in the best possible way, by turns pointed and generous, Kuhaku paints a shifting portrait of a shifting place " Ellis Avery, Kyoto одсяк Journal "Kuhaku is much more than accounts of modern Japanese living; we are also treated to the emotional landscape of the Japanese people " - Todd Shimoda, author of two novels: The Fourth Treasure, and 365 Views of Mt Fuji "[A]ll contained in a handsome and beautifully designed clothbound volume The traps that snare commentators on this peculiar nation are either expertly avoided or ignored completely, and in the sundry tales of families, affairs, pets, beverages, garbage and loves Japan emerges in fits and starts, stripped of its abstractions - defiant, utterly unique, and surprisingly tender " - Joseph Badtke-Berkow, Papersky Magazine Description Travel past the temples and tourist sites and into the mind of modern Japan with this anthology of essays This first offering from Chin Music Press is the literary equivalent of a knockdown pitch Sixteen stories and essays by different writers destroy the many stereotypes about Japan Say farewell to Madame Butterfly and the samurai ethic, and say hello to a complex nation that makes both a frustrating and fascinating home This collection includes stories on everything from taking out the garbage to cheating on your spouse It also has an irreverent and informative glossary of real-world Japanese terms, four-color artwork and a Zen whiskey priest who would make Graham Greene proud When we set out to find stories for Kuhaku & Other Accounts from Japan, we knew what we wanted: candid tales of life in Japan that weren't trying to slice and dice the country and the culture into digestable nuggets We weren't looking for Ph D dissertations, just smartly told tales from the street Having lived in Japan for a long time, we realized these stories were everywhere We tracked the writers down, asked permission to publish their tales, or more often, prodded them to put that story they had told us down on paper Just about everybody responded favorably The stories in Kuhaku come from everywhere: tall tales told over beers in a pub, stories of corporate drudgery related during the lunch hour, doodlings on napkins at the local Starbucks and professional pieces produced on deadline for far-away readers.  2004 г Твердый переплет, 224 стр ISBN 0974199508.

Francia, siglo XIV El joven Raymond Maillot es un escribano pendenciero amante del vino, las mujeres y las canciones, pero cuando se pone al servicio del padre Amiel, un dominico encargado de investigar un crimen especialmente sA?rdido, su vida empieza a cambiar El monje le contrata para que investigue el misterioso asesinato del ayudante del одсяш cardenal Di Vicio, el cual fue hallado muerto y con el pene amputado La misiA?n del escribano consiste en determinar la identidad del agresor -si es que hay alguno- o bien descubrir si se trata de actos de brujerA­a A partir de ese momento, Raymond se siente dividido entre su apego a los placeres y su deseo de encontrar refugio en la Iglesia Catherine Jinks, autora de El inquisidor (tambiA©n publicado por esta editorial) nos ofrece una nueva intriga medieval plagada de desmembramientos, libertinaje y visitas demonA­acas.  2005 г Твердый переплет, 576 стр ISBN 8496284689.

Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolific poet in Renaissance Florence The author of nearly 400 sonnets remarkable for their subtlety, intricate narrative structure, and learned allusions, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed одсяъ an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history In this anthology, Victoria Kirkham gathers Battiferra's most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, which provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 493 стр ISBN 0226039234.

A worldwide phenomenon and the most famous French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus—a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished Having made a fortune producing comedies that skewer mankind’s consumerism, religious fundamentalism, sexual profligacy, одтав and other affronts, Daniel is forty before he falls prey to the human condition himself: his beloved’s body sags with age, their marriage dissolves, and true happiness seems a luxury reserved for their dog, Fox After the colossal failure of his second great love affair, he joins a cult of health fanatics determined to produce a misery-free eternal life—manifested here in the voices of Daniel’s subsequent clones, who enjoy the umpteenth Fox’s companionship but shun the bands of fugitive “humans” on the horizon Their commentary on Daniel’s fate, and on the race as a whole, illuminates the basic tenets of our existence—laughter, tears, love, remorse—and their nostalgia for such emotions, all of which have long since disappeared Laugh-out-loud funny, philosophically compelling, and flatly heartbreaking, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, and a celebration of everything we have and are at risk of losing.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 352 стр ISBN 0307263495.

Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, одтаз The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway Here are such favorites as “Royal Beatings” in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; “Friend of My Youth” in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and “The Love of a Good Woman,” in which, when an old crime resurfaces, a woman has to choose whether to believe in the man she intends to marry Munro’s incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn’t know change her life forever, Munro’s unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 600 стр ISBN 0307264866.

Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is a collection of nonfiction works by women writers These works focus on the Midwest: living with the five interconnected freshwater seas that we know as the Great Lakes Contributing to this collection are renowned poets, essayists, and fiction writers, all of whom write about their own creative streams одтал of consciousness, the fresh waters of the Great Lakes, and the region's many rivers: Loraine Anderson, Judith Arcana, Rachel Azima, Mary Blocksma, Gayle Boss, Sharon Dilworth, Beth Ann Fennelly, Linda Nemec Foster, Gail Griffin, Rasma Haidri, Aleta Karstad, Laura Kasischke, Janet Kauffman, Jacqueline Kolosov, Susan Laidlaw, Lisa Lenzo, Linda Loomis, Anna Mills, Stephanie Mills, Judith Minty, Anne-Marie Oomen, Rachael Perry, Susan Power, Donna Seaman, Heather Sellers, Gail Louise Siegel, Sue William Silverman, Claudia Skutar, Annick Smith, Leslie Stainton, Kathleen Stocking, Judith Strasser, Alison Swan, Elizabeth A Trembley, Jane Urquhart, Diane Wakoski, and Leigh Allison Wilson.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 250 стр ISBN 0870137891.

The most-talked-about international bestseller of the year! Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo da Vinci's genius and his masterpiece -- which you will never look at in the same way again Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper Pope Alexander VI is одтат determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling -- and blasphemous -- message that he is driven to decode The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table, and the apostles, shockingly, are portraits of well-known heretics -- and none of them are depicted with halos And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo's greatest puzzle are right before your eyes.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 336 стр ISBN 0743287649.

From the author of The Speckled People, one of the most lyrical and powerful memoirs of recent times, comes an exploration of another crucial moment in his early life: the summer he spent working at a harbor close to his home in Dublin, at a time of tremendous unrest As a boy, Hugo Hamilton felt a strong desire "to have no past behind me," to одтая be rid of the confused identity he had inherited from his German mother and Irish father, and to cut the tether that connected him to their collective memory But listening to stories of his mother's shame at the hands of Allied soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War, along with his German cousin's mysterious disappearance somewhere on the west coast of Ireland, he felt the strengthening of history's determined grip A job at the harbor, rather than offering him respite, entangled him in a bitter feud between two fishermen—one Catholic, one Protestant Against the background of the spiraling troubles in the North, Hugo listened to the missing persons bulletins going out on the radio for his cousin and watched as the unfolding harbor duel moved toward a tragic end The Harbor Boys, deeply moving and well observed, brilliantly charts a young man as he battles inheritance and struggles to place himself in a world of his own making.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 272 стр ISBN 0060784679.

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions одтбг of her celebrity The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 222 стр ISBN 0521548519.

From a hill above town, the Mount Kildare Orphanage for Boys looks down on the small city of St John’s, Newfoundland The year is 1960 The orphanage is always cold, there’s never enough to eat, and the Catholic Brothers are harsh in their discipline Here, a group of boys manage to look out for each other and live by their own set of rules By day they are одтби obedient students, but when the sun goes down, the Dare Klub rules the night: raiding the bakery; stealing sacramental wine; talking endlessly about girls, sex, and the merits of Floyd Patterson and Willie Mays The club is the boys’ law and their family, helping them to cope with the waves of loneliness and sadness that they all experience Banding together, they devise to train for the annual St John’s marathon, but they mustn’t be found out Late at night the boys sneak out for running sessions, devising elaborate methods to keep the Brothers in the dark.  2006 г Твердый переплет, 368 стр ISBN 159030411X.

In A Modest Defence of Publick Stews (1724) its reputed author Dr Bernard Mandeville argues that the best solution to the problems of prostitution (with its related evils of venereal disease, infanticide and other crimes) is not to stamp it out-an impossibility-but to legalize it and regulate it under strict government supervision This proposal одтбш seems serious enough, but Mandeville's satire, with bawdy humor and passages of deliberately faulty reasoning, calls into question the seriousness of this somewhat utopian project In this first annotated edition, the editor reveals that this complex work often relies upon ancient Classical and Renaissance authors (Plato, Ovid, Martial, Shakespeare, Ariosto, Milton, Butler and especially Montaigne) and that it merits reconsideration as a work richer in literary values and vitality than most readers had previously imagined It also remains very pertinent to our ongoing debates on prostitution and sexuality in this era of HIV and AIDS.  2006 г Мягкая обложка, 224 стр ISBN 1403971676.

Based in an imaginary Baltics and focusing on the opposing figures of a dictator and an intellectual, Krleza's satire explores the existential struggle in the context of human social and political behavior The novel has in itself all the political, cultural, and other commentary Krleza could not express otherwise for fear of persecution, so reads одтбъ as Krleza's own running exposition on an era seen as irretrievably corrupt and sliding into fascism.  2004 г Мягкая обложка, 376 стр ISBN 0810118629.

Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland It is 1971, and Nigeria is under military rule-- though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an одтбэ eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan's brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door, Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two Nigerian girls, one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it Written in the voice of Enitan, against the backdrop of political turmoil in Nigeria, Everything Good Will Come is Enitan's story; one of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman living in a culture that still insists on feminine submission "Atta's achievement in this novel is impressive in many ways Thematically, her work is wide-ranging and yet powerfully focused, the different areas of concern drawn together so that they inform each other "--Chris Dunton, The Sunday Independent "Reading Everything Good Will Come, you can feel the dust and the sun This award-winning novel is an iridescent introduction to a fascinating nation "--Tom Templeton, The Observer Magazine "Again and again Atta's writing tugs at the heart, at the conscience At the same time, reflecting the resilience of the Lagosians whose lives she explores "--Sunday Independent, South Africa "This is a courageous story about friendship and self-discovery, it is a rallying cry to women to speak out in a world that tries to muzzle them "--Helen Habila, author of Waiting for an Angel.  2004 г Твердый переплет, 336 стр ISBN 1566565707.