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The Wasted Vigil
Автор: Nadeem Aslam Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2009 Страниц: 436 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20122010-06-25
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A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus' wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born. In the days that follow, further people arrive at the house: two Americans who have spent much of their adult lives in the area; a young Afghan teacher; and a radicalized young man intent on his own path. And Nadeem Aslam paints a moving, beautiful and powerful portrait of a land and a people torn apart through love and war.
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Arthur and the Forbidden City
Автор: Luc Besson Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2005 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092007-05-15
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Arthur has vanished, or so his family thinks. If they only knew that he is in the back garden, where he has been shrunk into the world of the Minimoys. It is a world of danger and excitement, where Arthur, helped by the fiery Princess Selenia and her mischievous brother Betameche, has a difficult quest: he must rescue his grandfather, find lost treasure and save the kingdom of the Minimoys. But the answer to his quest lies deep within the garden at Necropolis, a forbidden city ruled by the evil wizard Maltazard. And to reach it, Arthur must cross a vast world of fierce battles and terrible monsters. And once you he has found the forbidden city... will he ever return?
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The Brooklyn Follies
Автор: Paul Auster Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2006 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20092007-12-10
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Nathan and Tom are an uncle and nephew double-act — one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career. Matters change when Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives...
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Istanbul
Автор: Orhan Pamuk Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2006 Страниц: 348 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20102008-07-11
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Guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul — the city of the author's birth and the home of his imagination. This is an account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his home since his birth.
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Lord of the Flies
Автор: William Golding Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 1999 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092001-07-18
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Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.
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The QI Pocket Book of Animals
Автор: QI Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, the pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodpeckers that have ears on the end of their tongues. From the team that brought ignorance to millions, a Christmas bestseller — full of illuminating illustrations, maps and diagrams — shrunk down to a pocket-friendly, easily-searchable, portability-considerate size.
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True Tales of American Life
Автор: Auster Paul Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2002 Страниц: 394 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092007-08-11
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Chosen by Paul Auster out of 4000 stories submitted to his American radio programme, these 180 stories provide an illuminating portrait of America in the 20th century. The selection requirement of the stories was that they should be true and not previously published.
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The Blackpool Highflyer
Автор: Andrew Martin Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2005 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20082007-10-17
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When railwayman Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holiday makers to Blackpool in the summer of 1905, he thinks he's struck lucky. But his dreams are soon destroyed — when his train meets a huge millstone on the line. A thriller of sabotage, this book brings a twist to tales of Edwardian England, steam railways and amateur sleuthing.
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Critique of Criminal Reason
Автор: Michael Gregorio Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2007 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20112009-10-11
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It's the year 1793, and Hanno Stiffeniis is a magistrate in Prussia. He has been called to investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror, under the watchful gaze of his mentor, Kant. Four people have died, and there is no sign of an end to the killing spree. When the killer tries to murder him, the magistrate finds himself confronted by the demons of his own past. Therein lies the sinister source of those murders, and the true reason he has been enticed back to Konigsberg... Hugely atmospheric, entertaining and intelligent, Critique of Criminal Reason is the first in a series of compelling crime novels set in Prussia featuring Hanno Steffeniis.
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Days of Atonement
Автор: Michael Gregorio Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122009-06-21
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Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Then the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried — killed while out on field manoeuvres. In less than a week, the entire Gottewald family has been wiped off the face of the earth. A tragic coincidence? Or are the invading French army using the massacre to expand their power? Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate the deaths, seeking to discover how the crime was committed and the motive behind the massacre. But only Hanno's wife, Helena, knows what truly happened in that cottage in the woods...
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The Necropolis Railway
Автор: Andrew Martin Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2005 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20092008-04-19
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When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. Perplexingly, the men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him. And his predecessor has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Can Jim work out what is going on before he too is travelling on a one-way coffin ticket aboard the Necropolis Railway? A gripping detective story, fabulously rich in atmosphere and period detail, The Necropolis Railway steams toward an unexpected conclusion.
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Back to Bologna
Автор: Michael Dibdin Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2006 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20102010-03-19
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When the corpse of the shady industrialist, who owns the local football team, is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be an undemanding assignment.
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Be Near Me
Автор: Andrew O'Hagan Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2007 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092010-02-29
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When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep... Be Near Me is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change and the way we live now.
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The Black Monastery
Автор: Stav Sherez Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery. Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, and a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island`s history that it has tried hard to forget. There is a lot at stake — the island`s lucrative tourist trade and the open secret of the drugs trade that goes hand in hand with the hordes of mainly young British holidaymakers.
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Bliss
Автор: Peter Carey Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2001 Страниц: 354 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20092003-05-18
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This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and note down the true nature of the Underworld.
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Blood Rain
Автор: Michael Dibdin Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2004 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092007-02-26
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The discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous case. Set against the backdrop of the 3000-year-old city of Catalina, in the shadow of Mount Etna, Blood Rain finds Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven.
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End Games
Автор: Michael Dibdin Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2008 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20132010-05-06
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Aurelio Zen is posted to Calabria, where in the heart of a tight-knit traditional community there has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world — a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre and deadly obsession.
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The Love of Stones
Автор: Tobias Hill Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2001 Страниц: 468 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092005-03-19
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Precious stones pass through the hands of many people, hands that leave no apparent trace. But traces are there all the same — impressions, like the atoms of hydrogen drawn to the surface of a diamond. This story charts three lives linked by one such jewel.
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The Observations
Автор: Jane Harris Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2006 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20082011-08-21
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«This work is set in Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley — the wide-eyed Irish heroine of «The Observations» — takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests and her insistence that Bessy keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts. And it seems that Arabella has a few secrets of her own — including her near-obsessive affection for Nora, a former maid who died in mysterious circumstances. Then a childish prank has drastic consequences which throw into jeopardy all that Bessy has come to hold dear. Caught up in a tangle of madness, ghosts, sex and lies, she is determined to remain devoted to Arabella. But who is really responsible for what happened to her predecessor Nora? As her past threatens to catch up with her and complicate matters even further, Bessy begins to realise that she has not quite landed on her feet. «The Observations» is a brilliantly original, funny and endlessly intriguing story of one woman's journey from a difficult past into an even more disturbing present.»
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The Red Dancer
Автор: Richard Skinner Жанр: Faber and Faber Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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Mixing fiction and nonfiction, Skinner breathes new imaginative life into the story of a twentieth century icon. Bewitched by the beauty of a troupe of native dancers and the strange music of the gamelan, Margaretha changes her name to Mata Hari and goes to Paris, where she is drawn into a web of espionage resulting in her death by firing squad.
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