Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel-her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven-follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on th ...
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE IRISH TIMES and IRISH INDEPENDENT Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards Shortlisted for Novel of the Year, Dalkey Literary Awards Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family's heyday and turns to bo ...
Hierdie aangrypende roman oor ’n ongeletterde Nama-vrou van die Richtersveld speel af in die 1950’s. Katryn Jonis word van moord aangekla, maar sy kom agter die pro deo advokaat glo nie in haar onskuld nie en besluit dan om haar eie verdediging in die hof te behartig. Die vindingryke en berekende wyse waarop die reguit en passievolle Katryn die waarheid uit die staat se getuies in die hof trek, boei die leser deurgaans. Daar is baie vrae: Wie he ...
’n Gewone uitgawe vir boekwinkels. Hierdie is ’n heruitgawe van ’n boek wat in 1987 verskyn het en die jaar daarna as die naaswenner in die ATKV-prosaprys aangewys is. Jan van Tonder, skrywer van die gewilde roman Roepman verken ook in Is Sagie die wereld van onskuld. ’n Verhaal wat in die Klein-Karoo afspeel – op die oog af eenvoudig, maar diep-menslik, ’n verhaal wat elke leser se hart sal raak. Die jong man Sagie boer saam met sy pa op ’n pla ...
An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart: his older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned; ...
Продолжение приключений гномов в Холмогории. Сказка с намеками о взрослой жизни – так бы обозначил развивающуюся историю. На этот раз наших героев будут выручать собственные ноги, а помимо этого, вы узнаете кое-что новое о лесе, который окружает их уютные дома в холмах.
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Ироничные коммунально-бытовые хроники, приправленные изрядной порцией юмора, с привкусом мистики и ненавязчивого сюрреализма. Для лёгкого, но не бездумного чтения.
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