|
|
|
|
| |
Canongate
|
|
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2006 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20082009-04-29
|
|
In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope — wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy — is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumours, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and — curiously — twelve of her maids. In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: 'What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?' In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the storytelling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality — and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.
|
| |
|
The Heart Broke in
Автор: Meek James Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2005 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092008-04-22
|
|
Bec Shepherd is a malaria researcher struggling to lead a good life. Ritchie, her reprobate brother, is a rock star turned TV producer. When Bec refuses an offer of marriage from a powerful newspaper editor and Ritchie's indiscretions catch up with him, brother and sister are forced to choose between loyalty and betrayal.
|
| |
|
Ocean Sea
Автор: Baricco Alessandro Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
|
|
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress — and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear.Adams may furnish the key to the girl's salvation, but only the fulfilment of his obsessive secret purpose — to answer murder with murder — can conclude the journey that has brought him from the ends of the earth. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco's novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.
|
| |
|
I'm Not Scared
Автор: Ammaniti Niccolo Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2011 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20132014-02-19
|
|
The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses enclosed by wheat fields. While the adults shelter indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Whilst exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dare not tell anyone about it. To come to terms with what he has found, Michele has to draw strength from his own sense of humanity... It is Ammaniti's ability to inhabit the mind and perspective of his young hero that makes I'm Not Scared such an affecting and extraordinary novel. The book is a masterpiece of coming of age; a compelling portrait of losing one's innocence and a powerful reflection on the complexities and compromises inherent in growing up.
|
| |
|
Simon's Cat Vs: the World!
Автор: Tofield Simon Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20162015-07-24
|
|
In the four years since Simon's Cat first leapt in to our lives he has stared in more than 15 films, appeared in three best-selling books and has entertained and delighted millions of fans across the world. Along the way he has swotted flies, pulled down Christmas trees, and generally terrorized his long-suffering owner, Simon. And for the most part, he has had things his way. Until now. This year the nation's favourite cat faces up to his toughest challenge yet. With a new kitten in the house, a new girlfriend for Simon and endless new visitors to the garden, it is time to reassert his position — once and for all — as the undisputed Top Cat. One hundred original cartoons (each one in full colour), one hundred hilarious encounters: this is Simon's Cat vs. The World!
|
| |
|
WikiLeaks Versus the World
Автор: Assange J. Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2011 Страниц: 339 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20142015-03-24
|
|
In December 2010, Julian Assange signed a contract with Canongate Books to write a book — part memoir, part manifesto — for publication the following year. At the time, Julian said: 'I hope this book will become one of the unifying documents of our generation. In this highly personal work, I explain our global struggle to force a new relationship between the people and their governments.' In the end, the work was to prove too personal. Despite sitting for more than fifty hours of taped interviews and spending many late nights at Ellingham Hall (where he was living under house arrest) discussing his life and the work of WikiLeaks with the writer he had enlisted to help him, Julian became increasingly troubled by the thought of publishing an autobiography. After reading the first draft of the book at the end of March, Julian declared: 'All memoir is prostitution.' In June 2011, with thirty-eight publishing houses around the world committed to releasing the book, Julian told us he wanted to cancel his contract. We disagree with Julian's assessment of the book. We believe it explains both the man and his work, underlining his commitment to the truth. Julian always claimed the book was well written — we agree, and this also encouraged us to make the book available to readers. And the contract? By the time Julian wanted to cancel the deal he had already used the advance money to settle his legal bills. So the contract still stands. We have decided to honour it — and to publish. This book is the unauthorised first draft. It is passionate, provocative and opinionated — like its author. It fulfils the promise of the original proposal and we are proud to publish it.
|
| |
|
The Helmet of Horror
Автор: Pelevin V. Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2007 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20102008-12-23
|
|
They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms which open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered a dialogue which they cannot escape — a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror. Its wearer is the dominant force they call Asterisk, a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown. Victor Pelevin has created a mesmerising world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide. The Helmet of Horror is structured according to the internet exchanges of the twenty first century, radically reinventing the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur for an age where information is abundant but knowledge ultimately unattainable.
|
| |
|
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Автор: Pink D.H. Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
|
|
Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people — at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation, and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.
|
| |
|
Simon's Cat 2
Автор: Tofield S. Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2011 Страниц: 180 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20162012-06-23
|
|
Simon Tofield returns with a charming follow-up which sees the adorable but incorrigible cat embark on a series of adventures beyond the garden fence. Sharply observed and beautifully drawn, this new book promises to be an even bigger hit than the first.
|
| |
|
Beatrice and Virgil
Автор: Martel Yann Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20132012-12-07
|
|
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey — named Beatrice and Virgil — and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.
|
| |
|
The Complete Short Stories
Автор: Spark Muriel Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2011 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20132014-04-29
|
|
From the cruel irony of A member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her unique talent. The Complete Short Stories is a collection to be loved and cherished, from one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century.
|
| |
|
Hollywood
Автор: Bukowski Charles Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2007 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20102008-12-23
|
|
Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter. Based on Bukowski's experiences when working on the film Barfly, the absurdity and egotism of the film industry are laid bare in this deadpan, touching and funny glimpse into the endless negotiations and back-stabbings of La-la land. Hollywood is an irreverent Roman a clef that serves up the beating heart of Hollywood with razor-sharp humour.
|
| |
|
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Автор: Booth Stanley Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2012 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20152015-04-15
|
|
'Sounding like one instrument, a wild whirling bagpipe, the Stones chugged to a halt. But the crowd didn't stop, we could see Hells Angels spinning like madmen, swinging at people. By stage right a tall white boy with a black cloud of electric hair was dancing, shaking, infuriating the Angels by having too good a time.' The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is not just the greatest book about the greatest rock 'n' roll band, it is one of the most important books about the 1960s capturing its zeitgeist — that uneasy mix of excess, violence and idealism — in a way no other book does. Stanley Booth was with the Rolling Stones on their 1969 U.S. tour, which culminated in the notorious free concert at Altamont. But this book is much more than a brilliant piece of journalism. It gives a history of the Rolling Stones from their early rhythm 'n' blues days in west London clubs to the end of the 1960s; and it interweaves with mastery the two tragic stories of the decline and death of Brian Jones and the terrifying Altamont concert itself, where the Hells Angels, supposedly providing security, ran amok and murdered a member of the audience. Although it took nearly fifteen years to write, the book that emerged has been rightly acclaimed as 'the one authentic masterpiece of rock 'n' writing'.
|
| |
|
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Автор: Burkeman Oliver Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-09-10
|
|
Is our search for happiness futile? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? In this fascinating new book, Oliver Burkeman argues that 'positive thinking' and relentless optimism aren't the solution to the happiness dilemma, but part of the problem. And that there is, in fact, an alternative path to contentment and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid — uncertainty, insecurity, pessimism and failure. Thought-provoking, counter-intuitive and ultimately uplifting, The Antidote is a celebration of the power of negative thinking.
|
| |
|
Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex and Science
Автор: Roach Mary Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
|
|
The study of sexual physiology — what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better — has been taking place behind closed doors for many hundreds of years. In this fascinating and funny book Mary Roach steps inside laboratories, brothels, pig farms, sex toy R&D lab — even in to Alfred Kinsey's attic — to tell us everything we wanted to know about sex, and a lot we'd never even thought to ask.
|
| |
|
Lawless
Автор: Bondurant Matt Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2012 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20152013-06-28
|
|
White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, or rotgut? Whatever you called it, Franklin County was awash in moonshine in the 1920s. During Prohibition, the Bondurant Boys were moonshiners and notorious roughnecks who ran liquor though Franklin County, Virginia. The Wettest County in the World is their story, a white-knuckle fable of bootlegging, revenge and remorse. Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. Forrest, the eldest brother, is fierce, mythically indestructible, and the consummate businessman; Howard, the middle brother, is an ox of a man besieged by the horrors he witnessed in the Great War; and Jack, the youngest, has a taste for luxury and a dream to get out of Franklin. Driven and haunted, these men forge a business, fall in love, and struggle to stay afloat as they watch the world they know crumble around them. In vivid, muscular prose, Matt Bondurant brings these men, their dark deeds, their long silences and their deep desires to life.
|
| |
|
Life of Pi
Автор: Martel Yann Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2012 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20152014-05-18
|
|
This title is now a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee. One boy, one boat, one tiger... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.
|
| |
|
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Автор: Dyer Geoff Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20152015-10-20
|
|
In this spellbinding new book, the man described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain' takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Like the film Stalker itself, it confronts the most mysterious and enduring questions of life and how to live.
|
| |
|
The Garden of Evening Mists
Автор: Eng Tan Twan Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2005 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20082007-10-17
|
|
Tan Twan Eng writes with breath-catching poise and grace. (Independent). In the lush highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese during the brutal Occupation of their country. Yun Ling's quest leads her to The Garden of Evening Mists, and to Aritomo, a man of extraordinary skill and reputation, once the gardener of the Emperor of Japan. When she accepts his offer to become his apprentice, she begins a journey into her past, inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country's history.
|
| |
|
Comandante: Inside Hugo Chavez's Venezuela
Автор: Carroll R. Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 302 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20152015-05-12
|
|
Hugo Chávez was a true phenomenon. On his death in March 2013 tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets and honoured a seven-day period of national mourning. Chávez has been compared to Napoleon, Nasser, Perón and Castro but the truth is there has never been a leader like him. He was democratically elected, reigned like a monarch from a mobile television throne, and provoked adoration and revulsion in equal measure. How did a charismatic autocrat seduce not just a nation but a significant part of world opinion? And how did he continue to stay in power despite the crumbling of Venezuela? When he first came to power in 1999, Chávez became a symbol of hope and freedom for his people. Yet, in his fourteen years as president, Chávez seized control of the lucrative Venezuelan oil industry, allowed basic government functions to wither, jailed political opponents and courted Castro and Ahmadinejad, all while occupying much of Venezuela's airwaves with his long-running television show, Aló Presidente!. In Comandante, acclaimed journalist Rory Carroll breaches the walls of Miraflores Palace to tell the inside story of Chávez's life and his political court in Caracas. Blending the lyricism and strangeness of magical realism with the brutal, ugly truth of authoritarianism — a powerful combination reminiscent of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor — Rory Carroll has written the definitive account of Hugo Chávez's presidency, and the legacy he has left behind.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
