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Shallow Grave: Screenplay
Автор: John Hodge Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2000 Страниц: 119 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092005-08-23
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One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts.
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My Life as a Fake
Автор: Peter Carey Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2004 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20092008-03-22
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Sarah Wode-Douglas is an aristocratic Englishwoman making her living in literary London, until she impulsively journeys across the world to Kuala Lumpur. Here, she encounters the strange and forgotten poet Christopher Chubb, whose secrets Sarah is compelled to discover.
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The Museum of Innocence
Автор: Orhan Pamuk Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2010 Страниц: 733 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20112014-03-12
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The Museum of Innocence — set in Istanbul between 1975 and today — tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis esperienced by Istanbul's upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being.
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Ivan's War: Inside The Red Army, 1939-45
Автор: Catherine Merridale Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2006 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20112008-10-17
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»Ivan's War» is the first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front, displacing the dictators and their generals who have dominated books on the subject for the past sixty years. Ivan, the archetypal Russian infantryman, emerges at last as a human figure in Catherine Merridale's magnificent and hugely acclaimed new work.
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Identity
Автор: Milan Kundera Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 1998 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20092001-09-02
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A novel by the author of «The Unbearable Lightness of Being». A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality.
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Clerks: Screenplay
Автор: Kevin Smith Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2000 Страниц: 163 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092002-05-16
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The debut movie by writer-director Kevin Smith, one of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts. Smith is also writer/director of «Mallrats», «Chasing Amy» and «Dogma».
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Annie Dunne
Автор: Sebastian Barry Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2003 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092005-05-18
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Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. All about them the old green roads are being tarred, cars are being purchased, a way of life is about to disappear. When Annie's nephew and his wife are set to go to London to find work, their two small children, a little boy and his older sister, are brought down to spend the summer with their grand-aunt. A summer of adventure, pain, delight and ultimately epiphany unfolds in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, loss and reconciliation
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Death in the Andes
Автор: Vargas Llosa Mario Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2012 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20152015-09-10
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Set in an isolated, run down community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's riveting novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange similarities to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. Part-detective novel and part-political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society; not only of the current political violence and social upheaval, but also of the country's past, and its connection to Indian culture and to pre-Hispanic mysticism. As in his other novels, Vargas Llosa breathes into this work a magical assemblage of narrators, time frames and subplots. We meet Sandinista guerrillas, disenfranchised Indians, jaded army officers, eccentric townspeople and cult worshippers, among many unforgettable characters. The result is a work of broad sweep, powerful narrative drive, and keen insight into one of Latin America's most fascinating and complex countries.
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The Dust Diaries
Автор: Sheers Owen Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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A few years ago, Owen Sheers stumbled upon a dusty book in his father's study by the extraordinary Arthur Cripps, part-time lyric poet and full-time unorthodox missionary who served in Rhodesia for fifty years from 1902. Sheers' discovery prompts a quest into colonial Africa at the turn of the century, by way of war, a doomed love affair and friction with the ruling authorities. His personal journey into the contemporary heart of darkness that is Mugabe's Zimbabwe finds more than Cripps' legacy — Sheers finds a land characterised by terror and fear, and blighted by the land reform policies that Cripps himself anticipated.
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Volk's Game
Автор: Ghelfi Brent Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Two men are massacred in an expensive Moscow bar. But the bullets miss their target: Alexei Volkovoy — Volk for short. He's a deadly, battle-hardened veteran of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, and he serves two masters: Maxim, a psychotic mafia kingpin; and a military man known only as the General. By his side is Valya, an exotic beauty and the most dangerous weapon in Volk's arsenal. Together they are commissioned to steal a long-lost masterpiece from St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum. Volk must choose which powerful man he will betray in order to escape with the painting and with his life. Volk's Game announces Alexei Volkovoy as the boldest, most unforgettable hero of a new generation.
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The Midnight Fox
Автор: Byars Betsy Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2002 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092007-08-11
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Tom is horrified when his parents tell him he is to stay on Aunt Millie's farm while they are away on a trip. When he arrives, he finds the farm every bit as strange and uncomfortable as he feared — that is, until the appearance of the black fox.
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His Illegal Self
Автор: Carey Peter Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, Che, the precocious son of 60s radicals, just wants to see his parents. But first he must become an outlaw himself, fleeing to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland, where he is forced to slowly, bravely, confront his life. His Illegal Self is an achingly beautiful and emotional story of the love between a young woman and a little boy, and a wonderful journey of self-discovery.
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Inglourious Basterds
Автор: Tarantino Quentin Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2009 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112011-05-06
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Inglourious Basterds is set during World War II and stars Brad Pitt, Mike Myers and Diane Kruger. A band of Jewish-American soldiers known as 'The Basterds' spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis, while in Paris a young Jewish French woman who runs a movie theatre is involved in a plot to kill Hitler during the premiere of a movie. Inglorious Basterds has the violence, humour, cracking dialogue, and band-of-brothers comaraderie of Reservoir Dogs, as well as the profound courage and sense of honour of the greatest World War II movies. Once again, Quentin Tarantino has created an unforgettable movie experience.
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Ten Storey Love Song
Автор: Milward Richard Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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Bobby, holed up in a Middlesbrough tower block, works on his paintings under the influence of pills-on-toast, acid-on-crackers and Francis Bacon. When Bent Lewis, a famous art dealer and mover-shaker from that London appears, Bobby and friends are sent on a sweaty adventure of self-discovery, hedonism and violence involving a 2.5cm-head curved claw hammer. Spanning one dynamite paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song is a ferocious slab of concrete prose peppered with beauty and delivered with glorious abandon.
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Автор: Vargas Llosa Mario Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 1992 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20091994-10-27
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Explores the tragicomic relationship between two artists and their material. While each feeds off the other, the narratives of Mario are nourished by the life around him, those of Camacho by the fantasies engendered by his disintegrating mind. The author's other works include The Storyteller.
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The War of the End of the World
Автор: Vargas Llosa Mario Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2004 Страниц: 568 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20092006-10-07
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The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in which prostitutes, beggars and bandits establish Canudos, a new republic, a libertarian paradise.
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Gillespie and I
Автор: Harris Jane Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2011 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20132016-08-11
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As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved. Back in 1888, the young, art-loving, Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes — leading to a notorious criminal trial — the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disorientate into mystery and deception. Featuring a memorable cast of characters, infused with atmosphere and period detail, and shot through with wicked humour, Gillespie and I is a tour de force from one of the emerging names of British fiction.
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Thanksgiving
Автор: Dibdin Michael Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2008 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092011-04-15
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Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has suddenly died. Grieving and haunted, he becomes obsessed with her youth and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Their encounter is the beginning of a journey that takes him across the world, to the edge of madness, and into the corners of the human heart. It is a journey in which he is never at peace and never far from the woman he still loves.
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The Book of Proper Names
Автор: Nothomb Amelie Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20142015-05-22
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From France's 'literary lioness' (Elle), The Book of Proper Names is the story of the hapless orphan girl, Plectrude. Raised by her aunt, and unaware of the dark secret behind her past, she is a troubled but dreamy child who is both blessed and cursed by her intoxicating eyes. Discovered to have enormous gifts as a dancer, she is accepted at Paris's most prestigious ballet school where she devotes herself to artistic perfection, until her body can take no more. In a brilliantly succinct story of haunted adolescence and lost mothers, Nothomb propels the narrative forward until Plectrude is forced to take command of her own fate.
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Devices and Desires
Автор: James P.D. Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2005 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20082008-02-26
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When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the neighbourhood and Dalgliesh is drawn into the lives of the headlanders when it quickly becomes apparent that the Whistler isn't the only murderer at work under the sinister shadow of the power station.
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