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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Автор: Kundera Milan Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 1996 Страниц: 318 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20091997-06-23
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Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation — and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.
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The Iron Man
Автор: Hughes Ted Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2005 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20092008-09-17
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Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.
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The Unconsoled
Автор: Ishiguro Kazuo Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20152015-05-06
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Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical — and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be — he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's extraordinary study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification — and the highest praise.
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Yes Prime Minister
Автор: Lynn Jonathan Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2010 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20122012-07-23
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Yes, Minister, and the equally successful sequel Yes, Prime Minister captured a niche in the political consciousness of the nation. First broadcast thirty years ago, the original writers of these classic series have reunited to create a bang up to date Yes, Prime Minister for the stage. Spin, blackberries, sexed-up dossiers, sleaze, global warming and a country on the brink of financial meltdown form the backdrop to mayhem at Chequers as the Foreign Minister of Kumranistan makes a seriously compromising offer of salvation. Prime Minister Jim Hacker remains in power with his coterie of close advisors including Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, but for how long? They govern a whole new world. Yes, Prime Minister premiered in the Festival Theatre, Chichester, in May 2010.
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Bicycle Diaries
Автор: Byrne D. Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 296 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20152016-02-09
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Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and starting taking them with him on music tour overseas, and experienced a sense of liberation as he pedalled around many of the world's principal cities. The point of view from his bike seat has given Byrne a panoramic window on urban life over the last thirty years as he has cycled round cities such as London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Manila, New York, and San Francisco. From music and the visual arts, to globalisation, politics, the nature of creative work, fashion and art, this book gives the reader an incredible insight into what Byrne is seeing and thinking as he pedals around these cities. Filled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding — of the rewards of seeing the world at bike level.
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Men and Cartoons
Автор: Lethem J. Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20152016-04-07
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The author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn now beguiles his readers nine times over into the ironic, heartbroken, eerie and absurd territory he has made forever his own. The nine stories in this collection present characters struggling with loneliness, failed relationships and the consequences of strange powers. Men and Cartoons is a place where superheroes take tenured positions at colleges, where innermost secrets are blurted out in baroque dinner-party games, where a magical spray product reveals that which two tormented lovers have concealed from one another, where sheep bred for suicide defy the imperatives of their creators, and where the smallest moments of life, from fitting a pair of glasses to choosing a record to play during a tryst, become unexpectedly revelatory, uncanny and hilarious. In these nine tales Lethem brings his quarry into the light: men, not boys, caught in the act of never completely growing up.
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Loving Sabotage
Автор: Nothomb A. Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20182016-04-12
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So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world on her 'horse' (bicycle) with the dictatorial clarity and loneliness of a warrior-philosopher. 'From puberty onwards', she announces at one point, 'life is just an epilogue'. There, on the asphalt-playground-battlefield, she discovers her first love: six-year-old Elena, her very own coldly indifferent 'Helen of Troy'. But she also learns life's hardest rule: that if she wants to be loved, she must be cruel in return. Poignant, provocative — and often hilarious — Loving Sabotage chronicles one girl's precocious understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life.
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The Character of Rain
Автор: Nothomb A. Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20162014-06-23
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The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of mankind. Narrated by a child — from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday — this novel reveals how this fall from grace can be a very difficult thing indeed from which to recover. 'Nothomb potently distils from the state of infancy the intensity of beginnings, the precariousness, the trailed clouds of glory — that grow indistinct as childhood approaches.' New York Times. 'Amélie Nothomb, like an urchin about to pick your pocket, has frighteningly clear eyes and a disarming voice with a wicked snap.' Luc Sante
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Автор: Vargas Llosa M. Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162014-12-13
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Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his «Aunt Julia», the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter's rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist's affair.
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Timbuktu
Автор: Auster Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2010 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20122011-12-20
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Meet Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant, troubled and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn, and Mr Bones, his canine sidekick. Together they embark on one last great adventure together, heading to Baltimore in search of Willy's beloved mentor Bea Swanson — who used to know him as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees. But is she still alive?
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The Last Pre-Raphaelite
Автор: MacCarthy Fiona Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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From the prize winning author of William Morris comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century. The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries — Edward Burne-Jones' work is all around us. The most admired British artist of his generation, he was a leading figure with Oscar Wilde in the aesthetic movement of the 1880s, inventing what became a widespread 'Burne-Jones look'. The bridge between Victorian and modern art, he influenced not just his immediate circle but artists such as Klimt and Picasso. In this gripping book Fiona MacCarthy explores and re-evaluates his art and life — his battle against vicious public hostility, the romantic susceptibility to female beauty that would inspire his art and ruin his marriage, his ill health and depressive sensibility, the devastating rift with his great friend and collaborator William Morris as their views on art and politics diverged. With new research and fresh historical perspective, The Last Pre-Raphaelite tells the extraordinary, dramatic story of Burne-Jones as an artist, a key figure in Victorian society and a peculiarly captivating man.
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Touching from a Distance
Автор: Curtis Ian Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2005 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20092008-04-19
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Revered by his peers and idolised by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerising on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980. Touching from a Distance documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Curtis was seduced by the glory of an early grave. Regarded as the essential icon of the post-punk era, Touching from a Distance includes a full set of Curtis' lyrics, discography and gig list.
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The Expats
Автор: Pavone Chris Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2012 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152017-08-31
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Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris or skiing in the Alps. Kate is also guarding a secret — one so momentous it could destroy her neat little expat life — and she suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be; plus her husband is acting suspiciously. As she travels around Europe, she finds herself looking over her shoulder, terrified her past is catching up with her. As Kate begins to dig, to uncover the secrets of those around her, she finds herself buried in layers of deceit so thick they threaten her family, her marriage and her life. A thrilling debut-to-remember, Chris Pavone's The Expats will keep you guessing until the very end.
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Safe House
Автор: Ewan Chris Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20182016-09-17
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When Rob Hale wakes up in hospital after a motorcycle crash he is told that Lena, the woman he claims was travelling with him, doesn't exist. The woman he describes bears a striking resemblance to his recently deceased sister, Laura, but has he really only imagined her? Rob sets out to find the answers to who Lena is and where she has gone. He is aided by Rebecca Lewis, a London-based PI, who has come to the Isle of Man at the behest of his parents to investigate his sister's suicide. But who is Rebecca really and how did she know his sister? Together Rob and Rebecca follow the clues to discover who took Lena. In doing so they discover that even on an island where most people know each other, everyone hides a secret, and that sometimes your best option isn't to hide but to stay and fight.
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The Black Tower
Автор: James P.D. Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the patients at Toynton Grange. Evidently the home is not quite the caring community it purports to be. Dalgliesh is determined to discover the truth of his friend's death, but further fatalities follow and his own life is in danger as he unmasks the evil at the heart of Toynton Grange. More expertise from P. D. James. The writing is excellent, the pitch of final terror beautifully sustained — Evening Standard. She writes like an angel. Every character is clearly drawn. Her atmosphere is unerringly, chillingly convincing. And she manages all this without for a moment slowing down the drive and tension of an exciting mystery — Marcel Berlins, The Times.
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Автор: Forsyth Mark Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20162018-08-03
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BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, READ BY HUGH DENNIS The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.
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1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
Автор: Lloyd John Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20162015-05-28
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QI is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we're also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. We also write books and newspaper columns; run a thriving website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed; and produce an iPhone App and a sister Radio 4 programme. At the core of what we do is the astonishing fact — painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity. In Einstein's words: 'Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.' Did you know that: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains; Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced 'Chin chin' and means penis; the water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body; Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs; Saddam's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker; Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog. 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.
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The Bell Jar
Автор: Plath Sylvia Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2013 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20152015-10-20
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The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.
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The Black Book
Автор: Pamuk Orhan Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2006 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092008-05-16
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Tells the story of Galip, an Istanbul lawyer whose wife has vanished. Playing the part of private investigator, he soon finds himself descending deeper and deeper into an extraordinary mystery.
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Burned
Автор: Enger Thomas Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2012 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152017-08-31
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A Brutalised Victim In The Wilds — A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She's been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off. A Lone Voice — Two years earlier internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son, Jonas, in a domestic fire. As he returns to work, physically and emotionally scarred, Henning struggles to escape this past and to be taken seriously again as a reporter — by his colleagues, his ex-wife and the police. A Mystery Ignited — Told to cover the story of the woman in the tent, he finds an increasingly dangerous trail and, despite an early arrest, he is convinced that the story is more complex than the police think...
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