Современная зарубежная литература
Различные книги в жанре Современная зарубежная литератураDemeter’s Dream
Change must happen, and it must happen now if America and the rest of the world are to be saved from self-destruction through insidious corruption, greed, and ever-increasing evil. <br /><br />In this part mystery, part political/mythological/religious satire, Demeter’s dream is simple: to save the world by replacing the current outdated and abused systems of democracy and capitalism with tulipocracy, a new Christian-based philosophy with the redistribution of wealth at its core – Tulip being an acronym for trust, unity, love, integrity, and peace. <br /><br />The dream sounds simple enough. Unfortunately, dark forces in both the mortal and immortal worlds are stacked against her. <br /><br />Dr. Paul Z. Dias is about to cross the street on his way to the White House where he is to address the US Cabinet. It will be the most important speech of his life. All he has to do is convince his learned and influential audience that Demeter’s dream is the right course for the future of America and the rest of the world… <br /><br />…but Paul’s own world is about to be turned upside down…
SOUTH B'S FINEST
Nairobi in the 1990s. Three families. Their lives interweave as the find themselves living across from each other in an idyllic middle-class neighbourhood, Malaba Estate, South B. As the decade charges on, their lives begin to show similarities in the secrets they keep and the mistakes they make. Funny. Thought-provoking. Surprising. Endearing. This is a coming of age story about friendship in all of its varied shades and intrigues. It is the kind of story that you try to savour only to gallop through the pages — enchanted by characters, gripped by the authorʼs enticing style. Makena Maganjo is definitely a worthy addition to the corpus of African writers, and South Bʼs Finest is a fine work of art! DR. JOYCE NYAIRO
The Brothers Bishop
Tommy and Nathan Bishop are as different as two brothers can be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is the golden boy who takes men into his bed with a seductive smile and turns them out just as quickly. No one can resist him–and no one can control him, either. That salient point certainly isn't lost on his brother. Nathan is all about control. At thirty-one, he is as dark and complicated as Tommy is light and easy, and he is bitter beyond his years. While Tommy left for the excitement of New York City, Nathan has stayed behind, teaching high school English in their provincial hometown, surrounded by the reminders of their ruined family history and the legacy of anger that runs through him like a scar. Now, Tommy has come home to the family cottage by the sea for the summer, bringing his unstable, sexual powder keg of an entourage–and the distant echoes of his family's tumultuous past–with him. Tommy and his lover Philip are teetering on the brink of disaster, while their married friends, Camille and Kyle, perfect their steps in a dance of denial, each partner pulling Nathan deeper into the fray. And when one of Nathan's troubled students, Simon, begins visiting the house, the slow fuse is lit on a highly combustible mix. During a heady two-week party filled with drunken revelations, bitter jealousies, caustic jabs, and tender reconciliations, Tommy and Nathan will confront the legacy of their twisted family history–their angry, abusive father and the tragic death of their mother–and finally, the one secret that has shaped their entire lives. It is a summer that will challenge everything Nathan remembers and unravel Tommy's carefully constructed facade, drawing them both unwittingly into a drama with echoes of the past. . .one with unforeseen and very dangerous consequences. «There are undercurrents of tragedy and emotional scarring at work that take the story to disturbing places. . .Yates puts his novel together like a one-two punch and makes it readable. . .you can't put it down.» – Edge Magazine
Permission
The long-awaited first novel by Saskia Vogel, well known both as a translator from Swedish and a smart commentator on pornography and gender politics. Saskia was the publicist for Granta for some time and has excellent connections with countless booksellers and media. Spanish and Swedish rights have already been sold. Those publishers have likened her to Chris Kraus, Sheila Heti, Tao Lin, Mark Z. Danielewski. It’s being published simultaneously in the U.K. by Dialogue Books, Sharmaine Lovegrove’s imprint at Little, Brown.
Splitsville
It's 1971. Hal Sachs runs a used bookstore. Business isn't so great, and the store is in a part of Toronto that's about to be paved over with a behemoth expressway. And then Hal meets Lily Klein, an activist schoolteacher who'll do just about anything to stop the highway. It's love at first sight. Until it isn't. And then Hal vanishes.<br> <br> A half-century later, Hal's nephew, Aitch, waits for his baby to be born as he tries to piece together facts and fictions about Hal's disappearance.<br> <br> <i>Splitsville</i> is a diamond-cut love letter to a city whose defining moment was to say 'no way' to a highway, and a look at the obsessions that carry down through a family.
Little Beast
It’s 1944, and a little village in rural Quebec sits quietly beside an aging mountain and an angry river. The air tastes of kelp, and the wind keeps knocking over the cross. Beside that river an eleven-year-old girl lives with her parents. Her mother is very sad, and her father has vanished because he can’t bear to look at his own daughter. You see, this little girl has suddenly sprouted a full beard. And so her mother has shut the curtains and locked the girl inside to keep her safe from the townspeople, the Boots, who think there’s something wrong with a bearded little girl. And when they come for her, she escapes into the wintry night…
Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall
A kind of cross between The Haunting of Hill House, Stoner and Alice in Wonderland.Mayr's novel The Widows was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region. Monoceros won the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, the 2012 Relit Award for Best Novel, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The Island of Books
Fortier is an acclaimed Quebecois writer. Her previous novels have been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Governor General's Literary Award. This marks her first work with a new translator and English-language publisher.Recent interest in French-Canadian translation: a 2015 New Yorker feature mentioned Coach House's translation program and And the Birds Rained Down being selected for CBC Canada Reads: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/too-different-and-too-familiar-the-challenge-of-french-canadian-literature)Selected by Quebec booksellers as a store pick in November 2015.Translator Rhonda Mullins received the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for her translation of Twenty-One Cardinals by Jocelyne Saucier. Her previous translation of Saucier's work, And the Birds Rained Down, was a 2015 CBC Canada Reads Selection.
Pastoral
Alexis is a hugely acclaimed Canadian writer, having won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and Trillium Book Award, as well as having been shortlisted for the Giller Prize and Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeAlexis was born in Trinidad, and identifies as a Caribbean-Canadian writer
Guyana
Ana and her son, Philippe, are grieving the loss of Philippe's father when Ana's hairstylist Kimi dies in an apparent suicide. Driven by a force she doesn't understand, Ana starts digging into Kimi's past in Guyana in 1978, which leads to nested tales of north and south, past and present, and to the Jonestown Massacre. A stunning translation of a masterpiece by one of Quebec's most important novelists. Elise Turcotte is a novelist and award-winning poet who has twice received the Prix Emile-Nelligan. Rhonda Mullins was a finalist for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation and translated Jocelyne Saucier's And the Birds Rained Down .