Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A brilliant and scathing book at Ireland by top comedy writer Colm Tobin. In Ireland, navel-gazing has become a national sport. If our TV panel shows aren't repeatedly raking over scandals from the past, they are horrifying us with portents of doom, stoking up fear about all the horrors and misfortunes that are surely only around the corner. In The Really, Really, Really Rough Guide to Ireland,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 250) Аннотация: It's 1989 and, whenever he isn't hanging out in the local bars, Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Through years of judicious sidestepping and heroic indolence, this barman has successfully avoided the demands of parents, landlords, neighbours and women. But suddenly one unforeseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: CCC Kontum, a US Special Forces unit, runs top-secret cross border reconnaissance missions. The President denies their involvement, and the public are unaware of their existence. Any method is permissable, in a secret war of relentless ferocity, where achieving your mission and surviving are not the same thing. Bobby Lake dropped out of Harvard to fight in Vietnam, because he wanted to be a hero.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. Then he captures the art student Miranda and keeps her in the cellar of the large house where he patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste to break down in the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 294) Аннотация: The centenary edition with a new introduction by Paul Theroux: three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life — afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In eighteenth-century Italy the Castrati recreated heaven on earth. Their exquisite voices soared above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with riches and sexual favours, but their success also hid a terrible sadness. Tonio, of noble birth, is the victim of a vengeful brother. Disinherited and forced to join the ranks of the Castrati, he plans…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time» is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going…