A novel set in Dublin in the mid-1980s — a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College, it tells of their fascination with the formidably talented but troubled writer Glynn, and the darkly exhilarating journey this leads them on.

From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories.

All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart — one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom.

Elegiac, blazing with insights about the physical and emotional geographies that circumscribe our lives, All Our Names is a marvel of vision and tonal command. Writing within the grand tradition of Naipul, Greene, and Achebe, Mengestu gives us a political novel that is also a transfixing portrait of love and grace, of self-determination and the names we are given and the names we earn.

Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily preoccupations. In the evenings, and on weekends, he works on bringing up to date his clipping file of the famous, the rising stars, the notorious. But when one day he comes across the birth certificate of an anonymous young woman, he decides that this cannot have been mere chance, he has to discover more about her. After all, to know a name is not to know the person.

Under the increasingly mystified eye of the Registrar, a godlike figure whose name is spoken only in whispers, the now obsessed Senhor José sets off, in every moment he can steal from work, to follow the thread that leads him to the woman's school, to her godmother, to her father and mother-but as he gets closer to a meeting with the unknown woman, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would have wished....

The loneliness of people's lives, the effects of chance and moments of recognition, the discovery of love, however tentative...once again José Saramago has written a timeless story.

Traces the earliest days of the first Man-Kzin War, during which humans foil the huge feline warriors' attempt to turn them into slaves by enslaving them instead, until one of the cats turns out to be gifted with mental telepathy.

Рассказ вошёл в сборники:

A Medicine For Melancholy (Лекарство от меланхолии)

S Is For Space (К значит Космос)

The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100 рассказов)

Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов)

The thoughtful and unique new novel from the phenomenally popular author.

Journalist Kitty Logan's career has been destroyed by scandal, and she now faces losing the woman who guided and taught her everything she knew. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her – what is the one story she always wanted to write?

The answer lies in a file buried in Constance's office: a list of one hundred names. There is no synopsis, no explanation, nothing else to explain what the story is or who these people are. The list is simply a mystery.

But before Kitty can talk to her friend, it is too late.

With everything to prove, Kitty is assigned the most important task of her life – to write the story her mentor never had the opportunity to. Kitty has to not only track down and meet the people on Constance's list, but find out what connects them. And, in the process of hearing ordinary people's stories, she uncovers Constance's – and starts to understand her own.

On the terminal beach, the clones faced each other down, knowing full well that there could be only one survive

Night on an island. A well-behaved demon will come from the woods and ask you your name. Answer, and you are left nameless. But can anybody live without a name, even through one single night?

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

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"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."-Chicago Sun-Times

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"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."-Village Voice Literary Supplement

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"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."-New York Times

 border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg orders their arrest, evidence of a murder is found in their luggage. As he begins to unravel the history of their hellish journey, it becomes increasingly intertwined with the search for his own origins that he has embarked upon. Now he becomes the group’s inquisitor … and, finally, something like their saviour.

Beg’s likeability as a character and his dry-eyed musings considering the nature of religion keep the reader pinned to the page from the start. At the same time, the apocalyptic atmosphere of the group’s exodus across the steppes becomes increasingly vivid and laden with meaning as the novel proceeds, in seeming synchronicity with the development of Beg’s character.

With a rare blend of humour and wisdom, Tommy Wieringa links man’s dark nature with the question of who we are and whether redemption is possible.

"The story is a marvelous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery. Vinge posits that in a direct neurocybernetic interface, the information would be analogized by the brain into symbols it is comfortable with. The "place" in which the Coven "meets," for example, is or seems to be a castle, guarded by a program which manifests itself as a firebreathing dragon, sitting in a magma moat, wearing an asbestos T-shirt. Fail to satisfy it, and it will "kill" you, dumping you back into the real world - a fate most Wizards seem to regard as very little better than death. "Vinge set himself about fifteen challenges in this story, any one of which might have wrecked a lesser writer, and pulled them all off with appalling ease. No point in listing them all - but the most important one to my mind is this: he succeeded in making me feel , for over an hour, what it is like to be more than human. That is one of SF's major challenges, and it is bloody hard to do.

"Do not miss this ingenious and truly original story - it is one of those that, when you're done, you wish the author were present so you could applaud."

Analog Magazine

…Я жду выноса тела Жозе Матиаса – Жозе Матиаса де Албукерке, племянника виконта де Гармилде… – такой изысканный молодой человек, белокурый, как пшеничный колос, с закрученными вверх усами странствующего рыцаря и слабо очерченным безвольным ртом. Истинный дворянин, с утонченным и строгим вкусом. И пытливым умом, одержимым важнейшими идеями века и таким острым, что постиг мою «Защиту гегельянской философии». Этот образ Жозе Матиаса относится к 1865 году, так как последний раз я столкнулся с ним морозным январским вечером в одном из подъездов па улице Сан-Бенто; он был одет в медового цвета изорванный на локтях сюртук, дрожал от холода, и от него отвратительно пахло водкой…

Жозе Моуринью – один из самых харизматичных и противоречивых профессионалов в современном футболе, с именем которого связаны не только многочисленные победы, но и многочисленные скандалы. Автор книги – главный футбольный обозреватель «Ньюс оф зе уорлд» и главный спортивный корреспондент «Сан» – друг Моуринью и его биограф. Он представляет читателю Жозе настоящего – такого, каким его знают лишь немногие близкие друзья и родные. Р. Бизли также позволяет заглянуть за кулисы самых знаменитых клубов, знакомит с подробностями непростых отношений Моуринью с Романом Абрамовичем, Рафаэлем Бенитесом и тренером «Арсенала» Арсеном Венгером и объясняет, почему легендарный футбольный тренер всегда ставит семью и друзей выше футбола…