The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. For a new generation of innovative post-Soviet Russian writers he figures as a daring explorer of word and world, the master of what has been called “alternative realism.” Depicting a devastated world that is both terrifying and sublime, Platonov is, without doubt, a universal writer who is as solitary and haunting as Kafka. This volume gathers eight works...

ISBN: 978-1-59017-254-4
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9780099455134
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, `Soul Mountain` is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease that had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer - he had won a `reprieve from death` and had been thrown back into the world of the living.Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat...

ISBN: 9780007119233
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2023

A Discworld novel. Its hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, everyone thinks youre the Tooth Fairy, and you have to face the new and addictive music that has reached the Discworld.

ISBN: 978-0-06-105489-1
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9780140297829
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2006

"The Soul of Leadership" decodes the mysterious qualities that have propelled history`s greatest leaders to the top of the ranks and shrouded them in legend - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Buddha - and provides a hands-on approach to understanding and mastering these qualities. The 10 Fundamental Principles, that Deepak Chopra believes all leaders should follow, include: a leader is the symbolic soul of the group; inner qualities determine the outcome of any situation; for every need, the right response can be found; great leaders can respond to all situations from the higher levels of spirit; and, a leader focused only on external goals (money, victory, power) will fail. Using well-known examples of great leaders and a...

ISBN: 978-1-84604-270-6
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she`s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social

ISBN: 978-0-316-05663-2
Издательство: Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: август 2011

Gobbly Goat is ready for lunch! But what can he find that`s yummy to munch? Join Gobbly in the farmyard on his quest to find a tasty morsel to eat. Little fingers will just love pushing the big sound button to hear Gobbly`s noisy bleating on every page.

ISBN: 9780857635679
Издательство: Nosy Crow
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Join cheeky Monty Monkey as he causes chaos in the jungle! With a hilarious rhyming text, stunning illustrations, and a big sound button that children will love pressing again and again to hear Monty`s monkey noise on every page, this is a delightful new series of a much-loved format.

ISBN: 9781788002288
Издательство: Nosy Crow
Дата выхода: январь 2020

ISBN: 0-449-14819-X
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004