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The Remains of the Day
Автор: Kazuo Ishiguro Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 1999 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20092000-06-23
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An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.
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An Artist of the Floating World
Автор: Ishiguro Kazuo Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2001 Страниц: 206 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092002-06-05
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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; More... his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past — to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism — a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
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White Castle
Автор: Pamuk Orhan Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2001 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092003-07-24
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Winner of the 1990 Independent Award for foreign fiction, this book tells the story of a young Italian scholar who is captured by pirates. Put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, he is bought by a Turkish servant, eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West.
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Omon Ra
Автор: Pelevin Victor Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2002 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20092004-07-04
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Trained as a cosmonaut for the Soviet space programme, the hero of this novel, whose name combines the Russian word for special police force and the Ancient Egyptian sun god, finds that his mission to the moon develops unexpectedly, and builds to a bizarre conclusion.
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New Life
Автор: Pamuk Orhan Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2008 Страниц: 290 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102011-02-26
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A parable about love, literature and fanaticism. A young university student becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous natures of love and self. Abandoning his studies and his family, he goes with the beautiful Janan on a search for the meaning of the book`s darker secrets.
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Blue Lantern
Автор: Pelevin Viktor Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2001 Страниц: 178 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20092004-09-27
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A collection of short stories by Russias new writers.
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Pulp Fiction
Автор: Tarantino Quentin Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 1999 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092004-08-13
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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Palme d`Or at Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction exploded onto the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. This triplet of interwoven crime stories displays Tarantino`s visceral approach to character and plot.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Автор: Kundera Milan Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 1999 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20092000-06-05
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«A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'. From the author of «Testaments Betrayed».»
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Babylon
Автор: Pelevin Viktor Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2001 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092002-06-25
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Translated from the Russian, this razor-sharp satire on consumer culture, Russian style, follows the irresistible rise of a Moscow advertising copywriter, who specialises in adjusting Western adverts to the Eastern mentality and selling Pepsi, Seven-up, Gucci, Mercedes and Reebok to the rising middle class.
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When We Were Orphans
Автор: Ishiguro Kazuo Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2000 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20092003-04-29
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England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realises the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery — that only by his doing so will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
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My Name Is Red
Автор: Pamuk Orhan Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2002 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092007-08-23
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«In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day — in the European manner. At a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Even the illustrious circle of artists are not allowed to know for whom they are working. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their Master has to seek outside help. Did the dead painter fall victim to professional rivalry, romantic jealousy or religious terror? With the Sultan demanding an answer within three days, perhaps the clue lies somewhere in the half-finished pictures... Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's leading contemporary novelist and in «My Name is Red», he has fashioned an unforgettable tale of suspense, and an artful meditation on love and deception.»
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Snow
Автор: Pamuk Orhan Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2004 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20082009-08-24
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Ka returns to Istanbul and takes a commission to report on the municipal elections in Kars near the Russian border. There he discovers a dangerous atmosphere, with tensions running high between the political Islamists and the enlightened, pro-Western Turkish military.
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Автор: Burton Tim Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2004 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20092009-08-21
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Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton`s lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children — hopeful, yet hapless beings.
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Shroom
Автор: Letcher Andy Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2007 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20102012-08-31
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Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? This book tells the story of how hallucinogenic mushrooms, once shunned in the West as the most pernicious of poisons, came to be the illicit drug of choice.
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Strange Telescopes
Автор: Kalder Daniel Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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«When Daniel Kalder, acclaimed author of «Lost Cosmonaut», descended into the sewers of Moscow in pursuit of the mythical lost city of tramps, he didn`t realise that he was embarking on a bizarre, year-long odyssey that would lead him thousands of miles across Russia to the Arctic Circle via the heart of Asia.»
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The Cryptographer
Автор: Tobias Hill Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2004 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20092007-04-24
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'People like to think that money and love are opposites. Anna Moore, tax inspector A2 Grade, has come to be less sure...' Anna is assigned to investigate John Law, code maker, code breaker and the world's first quadrillionaire. What follows is a lesson in generosity and greed, and a powerful discovery of love.
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Football Lexicon
Автор: John Leigh Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2006 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092009-04-17
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«Why is a left foot either trusty or educated, but a right foot is neither? Why is a bad back pass almost invariably suicidal? Why can you score from a corner with a free header, but never with a free shot? Why are hooligans always a tiny minority even when there seem to be hundreds of them throwing seats across Kenilworth Road? Discover how stock phrases — «schoolboy howler», «sweeper system» — are only part of the story in the artfully twisted language of football. Let Leigh and Woodhouse take you on a journey, from the «top-flight» vocabulary of commentators to the more «speculative efforts» of footballers, from the «Champions League circus» to a «Wednesday night in Rochdale». And prepare to be very entertained.»
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A Gentle Axe
Автор: R.N. Morris Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2007 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-12-13
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«An atmospheric mystery set in St Petersburg in the winter of 1867 sees detective Porfiry Petrovich taking his first murder case since Dostoevsky's «Crime and Punishment». When two frozen bodies are found in a park, he begins to suspect that the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe, as his investigations lead him to a shocking discovery which reveals the city's darkest secrets. «A Gentle Axe» is utterly absorbing and tense from its dramatic opening through to its shocking climax.»
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Travels in the Scriptorium
Автор: Paul Aгster Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-06-11
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An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written labels, and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past — and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise? After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, his new novel sees Auster return to the metaphysical territory familiar from his enormously influential The New York Trilogy. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, Travels in the Scriptorium is a mind-altering exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time. 'Travels in the Scriptorium returns to . . . the nihilistic gaiety of Beckett (in particular Krapp) or the sub-dermal violence of Pinter.' New Statesman
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The Bloody White Baron
Автор: James Palmer Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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Twentieth-century history has thrown up a few sinister characters stranger and more cruel than Baron Ungern-Sternberg, but not many, and only he conquered a country with a cavalry army — the last person in history to do so — in the in the age of the aeroplane and the tank. This violent, anti-Semitic fanatic took over Mongolia in 1919 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese and native Mongolians. He dreamed of creating a huge horse army with which he would retake Moscow and install a new despotic Tsar. Some saw him as a promised reincarnation of Genghis Khan who would restore the greatness of the Mongolian Empire. This is an epic story, which moves from the Baltic through the vastness of Russia to Siberia and the Mongolian steppe. Ungern was born into the German aristocracy, descendants of the Teutonic Knights, which ruled the Baltic region under the Tsars. Ejected from his regiment for violence and instability, he found himself when he was posted to the Russian Far East before the First World War. He had already found his way to the cocktail of mystical beliefs and esoteric knowledge that was common among people of his class. Now he found Mongolian Buddhism, a very different creed from the doctrine of peace and love we associate with followers of the Buddha. Its hells and vengefulness chimed with his already extreme hatred of Jews, liberals and Bolsheviks. The aftermath of the war, in which he fought with reckless bravery, saw Ungern in the Far East leading a wild bunch of counter-revolutionaries. James Palmer describes his spiral into ever darker obsessions, and evermore cruel treatment of enemies. This was Mr Kurtz on horseback, covered in amulets and animal skins, leading a straggling horde of desperate men. In the end, Trotsky, then in charge of the Red Army, sent a formidable force against them. James Palmer does full justice to this barely believable story of a man who foreshadowed the Nazis in his combination of mysticism and genocidal violence, and he explains Ungern’s strange religious beliefs and the culture of Mongolia, of which this adventurer became, for a brief period, the absolute ruler.
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