Это захватывающая история о том, что может случиться с нами в ближайшем будущем. Наступила Эра Толерантности. Рождество заменили безликие Зимние праздники, провозглашён культ личной свободы. Христианство, не одобряющее свободу греха, признано главным врагом нового режима. Христиан безжалостно истребляют. Убита и семья двенадцатилетней Евфросиньи. Девочка спаслась благодаря чуду – икона святителя Николая сохранила её от гибели. Евфросиния – обыкн ...
Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, a Toronto Book Award and an Amazon.ca First Novel Award. March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to celebrate the Toronto Centenary. In the crowd, pickpocket Mona Kantor and her partner, Chesler, are «in the tip,» finding easy pickings among the jostling masses. Eli Morenz, city man for the Daily Star, is covering the festivities and uncovering the pickpocket racket working the scene. A surre ...
• GARY BARKER is an author, researcher, and human rights activist. He is founder and director of Promundo, an international organization that works with men and boys in more than 25 countries to achieve gender equality and end violence against women. His work is thrown into relief by the #MeToo movement. • Barker lives in Washington, DC and is very well connected in the USA and overseas. He’s 100% available to promote the title. ...
A classic long-seller that sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, Salt on my Skin is now re-issued with a new introduction by renowned writer and feminist Fay Weldon ‘A leading French feminist and writer, Groult drew wide attention with this sexually daring novel’—The NY Times Salt on My Skin is a classic long-seller and has been translated into 32 languages Set in France in the 1960s, this highly-charged novel follows the passionate re ...
Humor, pain and copious amounts of love run throughout this critically acclaimed novel by Tom Lanoye that sold almost 135,000 copies in Holland and Belgium alone. Both brave and honest, Speechless is a poignant homage to Lanoye’s late mother, Josee. Flamboyant, proud and dominant, Josee is unrecognizable after suffering a stroke, which strips her of the ability to speak and express herself with the expansiveness for which she was known. With st ...
‘Verbeke has written a bold, busy, textured novel. Read it once and you may well read it twice.’—The Irish Times With a sharp and observational eye, Annelies Verbeke takes a funny, imaginative and perceptive look at the realities and absurdities of human interactions, relationships and everyday life. Verbeke matches poetic prose with a cast of intriguing characters and unexpected plot twists. Our protagonist is Alphonse, a Senegalese immigran ...
AFP of 30,000 The relationship between Coco and her mother Elisabeth is troubled. Running into each other by chance, Elisabeth casually tells Coco that she is terminally ill. When Coco moves in with her mother in order to take care of her, their difficult relationship spirals out of control. Author Esther Gerritsen is one of the most established, widely read, and highly praised authors in the Netherlands For fans of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name is ...
Award-winning author Lynne Hugo returns with a life-affirming, poignant novel in the spirit of A Man Called Ove—a story brimming with both wit and warmth about how a family gets on . . . and goes on.   CarolSue and her sister, Louisa, are best friends, but haven’t had much in common since CarolSue married Charlie, moved to Atlanta, and swapped shoes covered with Indiana farm dust for pedicures and afternoon bridge. L ...
There are too many stories about Indigenous women who go missing or are murdered, and it doesn’t seem as though official sources such as government, police or the courts respond in a way that works toward finding justice or even solutions. At least that is the way Wren StrongEagle sees it. Wren is devastated when her twin sister, Raven, mysteriously disappears after the two spend an evening visiting at a local pub. When Wren files a m ...