Современная зарубежная литература
Различные книги в жанре Современная зарубежная литератураAll My Friends
A moody and beautiful reflection on relationships, and how our idea of the world too often fails to match reality, All My Friends delivers five stories that probe the boundaries between individuals to mediate on how well we really know anybody, including ourselves. Written in hypnotic prose with characters both fully fleshed and unfathomable, All My Friends opens with the fraught love story of a man who has fallen for his housekeeper, his student of many years ago. Losing his grip as he feels his own family turning against him, he plots romance between the housekeeper and an old friend, whom he thinks is perfect for her. Later NDiaye gives us the harsh tale of a young boy longing to escape his life of poverty by becoming a sex slave—just like the beautiful young man that lived next door. And when a woman takes her mentally challenged son on a bus ride to the city, they both know that she’ll return, but he won’t. Chilling, provocative, and touching, this is an unflinching look at the personal horrors we fight every day to suppress—but in All My Friends they’re allowed to roam free.
Hi, This Is Conchita
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize–winner and Granta “Best Young Spanish- Language Novelist” Santiago Roncagliolo returns with his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman with a raucous phone sex novella and three dark, entrancing stories. Told entirely in dialog, «Hi, This Is Conchita» is a virtuosic comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point—and the women who drive them crazy. Peru’s heir to the incisive social literature of Mario Vargas Llosa weaves a complex tale of an office worker hiring a hitman to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish messages on his beloved’s answering machine, and a phone sex worker whose client is literally crazy about her. The three stories that follow reveal Roncagliolo’s masterful range. “Despoiler” is the claustrophobic tale of a Carnival in Barcelona that brings one middle-aged woman face-to-face to her childhood demons. “Butterflies Fastened with Pins” is the perversely comic account of a man whose friends keep killing themselves. And “The Passenger Beside You” is a surreal story narrated by a woman with a gaping bullet wound right through her heart.
A Good Day to Die
A Good Day to Die is a thought-provoking look into gang violence in Gary. The Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples square off in a winner takes all, do or die, non-stop brawl. James Hendricks leaks a true story from his cell. His depiction of gang life is rife with knowledge. The story comes alive through Jon and Don, twins and products of Gary, charting their rise to fame in the drug game. From stick-up kids to car thieves, they put in work and get their rep. Rivals threaten to curtail their lives. Bullets have no names and the boys’ actions bear repercussions. Everyone close to them is at risk and quickly learn, you live by the gun… Fascinating and high octane, A Good Day to Die will leave you breathlessly hanging on for dear life through all the twist and turns.
Woman's Cry
Ivy League meets the streets in this vivid work of hip-hop fiction. As a senior at prestigious Columbia University and the girlfriend of a drug dealer, India Maldonado is living two seemingly opposite lives. As India tries to gain control over her relationship and navigate cultural and class boundaries, she is drawn down a dangerous path. India quickly learns that every action brings an unexpectedly brutal reaction and realizes that the perilous nature of her decisions could cost her her soul. A smattering of easily-understood Spanish terms and slang add a distinctly Latina flavor.
Street Chic
A new case comes across the desk of detective Sheryl Street from the Dade County larceny squad in Miami. Pursuing the investigation, she discovers that it threatens to unfold dig up details of her life she thought were long buried in New York. As Hher duties as detective pit her against the family that had emotionally destabilized her, when the murder of a friend brings her back to New York. Street finds she can no longer run away from a world she wanted nothing to do with., aAs she's forced into a resolve situation she cannot walk away from, and her loyalty is tested when a deadly choice has to be made. Is it good over evil? Will loyalty to family win her over?
Hard White
The streets are pitch black, but a different shade of darkness has engulfed the north Bronx neighborhood known as Edenwald. Sleepless nights, suspicion, and violence are plaguing the hood, all a result of rampant use of cocaine, known as «hard white» among residents. Two Edenwald residents, Melquan and Precious, have big dreams but must sever their ties to street life in order to realize them. A story of triumph and tribulations, beating the odds, and nail-biting drama, this novel deftly unravels the story of two lives hang precariously over the crucible of hard white.
Booty Call *69
Taking urban erotica to dizzying heights and culminating in an earth-shattering climax, Erick Gray spins a sexually charged, coming of age tale. The drama in Booty Call *69 revolves around a promiscuous young woman, Shana, who is so seductive she easily captures any man she glances at. After breaking up with the equally self-indulgent boy-toy, Jakim who is too busy hunting for additional sexual pleasures, Shana finds she’s rapidly falling for his best friend, Tyrone and ignores Jakim’s attempts at reconciliation. A man will do anything when he loves a woman and will try his best to hold on to what he thinks he needs. But does that mean he has to keep going down the road of mistrust? If you love someone set them free and if the love’s meant to be then… In a hot remix of his Booty Call debut, Erick Gray shows how unconditional love can be and how grimy trusted friends can get in Booty Call *69.
Crave All Lose All
Vincent lost his job and moved in with his mother. His friend Tyriq is a big time drug dealer and willing to sponsor him into a drug cartel. Vincent is reluctant, but his baby mama is nagging and bills are piling up. Hustling is the way. But his long-time friend (and an experienced hustler) Spoon is against Vincent getting down. Vincent ignores Spoon's advice and joins Tyriq. Vincent quickly starts stacking major figures. The never-ending gwap, expensive cars, jewelry and fast women prove addictive. What he craves could be his downfall. The higher he climbs, the more envy he encounters. Vincent is caught in a costly, ugly and vicious war. Younger soldiers are ready to kill in order to rise. Does Vincent have what it takes to succeed at this most ruthless, dirty game?
Ghetto Girls 3
The critically acclaimed Ghetto Girls series continues with Soo Hood. Lil’ Long sings like a canary and weasels his way out of lockdown. Dirty cops Hall and Kawolski push him around the way a snitch deserves. Lil’ Long uses it as motivation to exact revenge on the streets and rub off enemies at every turn. He stops at nothing to confront our favorite trio with guns blazing. Bodies drop left and right as Coco, Deedee and Josephine run for their lives. Even Eric’s bodyguards can’t protect them. Speaking of Eric, murder and his connection to Maruichi force a barrier between him and Sophia, so she looks for love elsewhere, but it’s clear that she suffers more apart from him than she ever would with him. Soo enticingly delicious and sexy, Ghetto Girls 3 is the best Hip Hop literature ever. Soo Hood grabs you by the throat and stays in your face from the beginning. Tensions mount and there is no letting up till the mutha%#$&*@$ drama is over. Anthony Whyte’s latest edition to the hottest Hip Hop saga is thrilling, actionpacked and unpredictable. Above all, it’s really Soo Hood.