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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Автор: Haruki Murakami Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20092001-10-13
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Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
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The Witching Hour
Автор: Anne Rice Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092006-10-20
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On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches — a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. A hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult across four centuries, The Witching Hour could only have been written by the spellbinding bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles.
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A Writer At War
Автор: Vasily Grossman Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20082011-08-21
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Vasily Grossman's masterpiece Life and Fate is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. A Writer at War is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front and the lives and deaths of infantrymen, tank drivers, pilots, snipers and civilians alike. Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded in 1941, Grossman became a special correspondent for Red Star, the Red Army newspaper. Remarkably, he spent three of the following four years at the front observing with a writer's eye the most pitiless fighting ever known. Grossman witnessed almost all the major events on the Eastern Front: the appalling defeats and desperate retreats of 1941, the defence of Moscow and fighting in the Ukraine. In August 1942 he was posted to Stalingrad where he remained during four months of brutal street-fighting. He was present at the battle of Kursk, the largest tank engagement in history, and, as the Red Army advanced, he reached Berdichev where his worst fears for his mother and other relations were confirmed. A Jew himself, he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities as their extent dawned. His supremely powerful report 'The Hell of Treblinka' was used in evidence at the Nuremberg tribunal. A Writer at War offers the one outstanding eye-witness account of the war on the Eastern Front and perhaps the best descriptions ever of what Grossman called 'the ruthless truth of war'.
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Eugene Onegin And Other Poems
Автор: Alexander Pushkin Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092001-07-24
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Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists — such as Homer and Shakespeare — to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon of the highest order. The historical power of this work — a novel in verse — is made all the more extraordinary by the simplicity of its subject. Eugene Onegin is a story of disappointed love. Tatyana falls for the handsome Eugene to whom she daringly makes advances. He cooly rejects her, then flirts with her sister, Olga. When challenged by Olga's fiance, Lensky kills him in a duel, seemingly indifferrent to the grief he causes. (Ironically, Puskhin himself was to be killed in similar circumstances in 1937, some seven years after he completed the work). Onegin leaves the district. When he returns four years later, Tatyana has married another man and it is her turn to reject his advances. But it turns out that Onegin's hauteur is affected: he has always loved her passionately. She loves him too and both reflect painfully on what might have been.
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The Master And Margarita
Автор: Mikhail Bulgakov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1992 Страниц: 446 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20091995-09-17
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The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a recreation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove «The Master and Margarita».
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Oblomov
Автор: Ivan Goncharov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1992 Страниц: 586 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20091993-06-21
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Goncharov's gentle satire on the failings of 19th-century Russian gentry and bureaucracy turns into something deeper and richer than satire, as he probes the character of a protagonist whose constitutional lethargy becomes a symbol for the malaise of the human spirit in an alienating world.
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Pnin
Автор: Vladimir Nabokov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092005-06-15
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One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct.
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Anna Akhamatova: Poems
Автор: Anna Akhamatova Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 350 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20082011-08-14
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From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary life. But this friend of Pasternak and Mandelstam was a poet in a country where poetry was literally a matter of life and death, as she found when Mandelstam and her own husband, Gumilyev, were executed, and her son imprisoned for many years in the Gulag. Akhmatova's first collection, «Evening», appeared in 1912. «Rosary» (1914) made her a household name. After the Revolution she went in and out of favour with the authorities, who sometimes allowed her to publish, sometimes banned her work. She is now most celebrated in the West for «Poem Without A Hero and Requiem», a sequence mourning the victims of Stalin's Terror which was only published (and then outside Russia) in 1963.
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Speak, Memory
Автор: Vladimir Nabokov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 283 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092004-08-14
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An autobiographical volume covering Nabokov's first 40 years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War II, telling of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, his passion for butterflies and his lost homeland.
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A Sportsman's Notebook
Автор: Ivan Turgenev Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1992 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20091994-10-20
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These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.
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The Steppe And Other Stories
Автор: Anton Chekhov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1991 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20091992-12-16
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Primarily known as a dramatist, Chekhov also wrote short stories. This selection of his work includes «The Swedish Match», «Easter Eve», «Mire», «On the Road», «Verotchka», «Volodya», «The Kiss», «Sleepy» and «The Steppe».
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Memoirs of Geisha (film tie-in)
Автор: Arthur Golden Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 44 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20082010-08-31
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A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha — dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
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Der Deutschland-Clan: Das skrupellose Netzwerk aus Politikern, Top-Managern und Justiz
Автор: Juergen Roth Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20112009-10-11
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Deutschland heute: ein Netzwerk hochrangiger Politiker, führender Konzernchefs und toleranter Justizbehörden, die den Rechtsstaat aushöhlen, die Gemeinsinn durch Egoismus und Gesetze durch die Macht des Kapitals ersetzen. Wer wen erpresst, wer die Drahtzieher sind und warum die Justiz nicht ermittelt – dieses Buch enthüllt Gaunerkartelle, Korruptionsaffären und Verstrickungen von Ministern, Topmanagern und Staatsanwälten.
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Erdbeermond
Автор: Marian Keyes Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112010-10-23
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Zwei Babys, eine merkwürdige Hochzeit und ein kleines Wunder auf dem turbulenten Weg zum Glück Wenn das Leben aus den Fugen gerät, hilft nur noch die chaotische Familie Walsh. In ihrem neuen Roman erzählt sie die urkomische und zugleich anrührende Geschichte von Anna Walsh, deren Familie den Lesern aus „Wassermelone“, „Rachel im Wunderland“ und „Auszeit für Engel“ bereits bestens bekannt ist. Anna hat einen schweren Schlag erlitten. Wird sie im Chaos von New York neues Glück finden? Anna, die vierte der Walsh-Töchter, lässt sich nach einem schlimmen Autounfall im Kreise ihrer liebenswert-verrückten Familie aufpäppeln. Erst als ihre Wunden so weit verheilt sind, kann sie sich langsam dem ganzen Ausmaß des Unglücks stellen: Ihr Mann Aidan ist bei dem Unfall umgekommen. Vorsichtig tastet sie sich in ihr früheres Leben in New York zurück – in einem anrührenden und zugleich doch urkomischen Parforceritt durch die Verrücktheiten des Alltags: Denn wie soll man in einer Séance Kontakt zum Verstorbenen aufnehmen, wenn nebenan die Laienbauchtanzgruppe und der Altdamengesangsverein proben? Wie soll man sich mit seiner besten Freundin austauschen, wenn diese sich gerade in einen Super-Macho verliebt? Wie mit der Schwester, wenn diese als Privatdetektivin ausgerechnet für Mr. Big arbeitet – den Dubliner Gangsterboss, der zutiefst darunter leidet, dass jeder ihn auf „Sex and the City“ anspricht? Und doch gelingt es Anna schließlich, nicht nur das Leben wiederzuentdecken, sondern sogar die Liebe ...
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Ich mache mir Sorgen, Mama
Автор: Wladimir Kaminer Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20082010-03-28
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Wer Wladimir Kaminers Geschichten kennt, kennt auch seine Familie: seine Frau Olga, seine beiden Kinder und natürlich seine Eltern. Egal ob Erziehungsfragen, sexuelle Aufklärungsarbeit, deutscher Behördendschungel, sportliche Extravaganzen, Mysterien des Religionsunterrichts, Urlaubskatastrophen oder die Invasion der Playmobilfiguren – das Leben mit seiner Familie stellt Wladimir Kaminer unablässig vor neue Herausforderungen und beschert ihm immer wieder äußerst kuriose Erfahrungen. Und wer könnte hinreißender von ihnen erzählen als er selbst?
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Küche totalitär
Автор: Wladimir Kaminer Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092011-03-29
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Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein – für Russen schon gar nicht. Das wahre Symbol für Luxus und feine Lebensart ist in Russland die Ananas. Dieses Beispiel zeigt: Kulinarisch ist die ehemalige Sowjetunion hierzulande unbekanntes Terrain. Dank Wladimir Kaminer ist damit nun Schluss. Er führt durch Töpfe und Teller der alten Sowjetrepubliken, bringt dem Laien nebenbei Länder und Leute näher und natürlich die aufregendste Cuisine der Welt! Unterstützt wird er dabei von seiner Frau Olga, die besten Rezepte aus ihrer Sammlung beisteuert … Unvergessliche Begegnungen mit der sowjetischen Küche und ausgefallene Rezepte – ein Hochgenuss!
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Acting Up
Автор: Melissa Nathan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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From the bestselling author of «The Learning Curve». It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size… Sharp, witty Jasmin Field has her own column in a national magazine and has just landed the coveted role of Elizabeth Bennett in a one-off fundraising adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Better yet, the play’s director, Hollywood heartthrob and Oscar-winner, Harry Noble, is every bit as obnoxious as she could have hoped. Which means a lot of material for her column. And a lot of fun in rehearsals. And then disaster strikes. Jazz’s best friend abandons her for a man not worthy to buy her chocolate, her family starts to crumble before her eyes and her award-winning column hits the skids. Worse still, Harry Noble keeps staring at her. As the lights dim, the audience hush, and Jazz awaits her cue, she realizes two very important things, one: she can’t remember her lines, and two: Harry Noble looks amazing in breeches…
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American Pastoral
Автор: Philip Roth Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092010-08-03
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Seymour 'Swede' Levov — a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory — comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall — of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder.
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The Anatomy Lesson
Автор: Philip Roth Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20082008-02-13
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At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction — pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers extends to an addiction to vodka and marijuana. The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.
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The Appeal
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-02-19
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In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mould him into a potential Supreme Court justice.Their Supreme Court justice. «The Appeal» is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave readers unable to think about the electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again.
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