Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the seemingly undistinguished items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes the bittersweet story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crepe socks bring back memories of his partly successful attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer.
ISBN: 978-1-84749-178-7
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky`s gripping and heartbreaking novel. Nemirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Nazi regime but she left behind her this exceptional masterpiece. In "Suite Francaise" she conjures up a vivid cast of wonderful characters who find themselves thrown together in ways they never expected. Amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.
ISBN: 978-0-09-948878-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Ecrit dans le feu de l`Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l`exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Irène Némirovsky traque les innombrables petites lâchetés et les fragiles élans de solidarité d`une population en déroute. Cocottes larguées par leur amant, grands bourgeois dégoûtés par la populace, blessés abandonnés dans des fermes engorgent les routes de France bombardées au Peu à peu l`ennemi prend possession d`un pays inerte et apeuré. Comme tant d`autres, le village de Bussy est alors contraint d`accueillir...
In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the
ISBN: 978-0-09-950786-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Книга является пособием по разговорному французскому языку. Она включает сюжеты и диалоги, объединенные по тематическому принципу, упражнения и задания к ним, помогающие освоить новый лексический материал. Необычный взгляд на традиционный перечень тем нетолько позволяет автору - носителю языка ввести новую современную лексику, но и заставляет взглянуть на обычный школьный материал свежим взглядом....
ISBN: 5-7931-0209-4
Издательство:
Корона-принт
Дата выхода: январь 1999
A sequel to her beloved bestselling book, "Paula", Isabel Allende`s new memoir is the inspirational story of a remarkable woman-mother, step-mother, grandmother, wife and lover, fiercely loyal friend, and dedicated writer-and of the unusual extended family Allende creates after the tragic loss of her daughter Paula.
When dynamic, power-dressing Christie blows in like a warm wind to take over their department, five very different women find themselves thrown together at work. But none of them could have predicted the fierce bond of friendship that her leadership would Anna, 39, is reeling from the loss of her fiance, who ran off with a much younger woman. Her pride in tatters, these days Anna finds it difficult to leave the house. So when a handsome, mysterious stranger takes an interest in her, she`s not sure whether she can learn to trust again? Then there`s Grace, in her fifties, trapped in a loveless marriage with a man she married because, unable to have children of her own, she fell in love with his motherless brood. Grace worries that Dawn is...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-283-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared. Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from Galahad Threepwood (who is writing memoirs so scandalous they will rock the aristocracy to its foundations) to the Efficient Baxter, chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Clarence`s arch-rival, and his passion for prize-winning pigs? With the castle full of deceptions and impostors, will Galahad`s memoirs ever see the light of day? And will the Empress be returned?.. Формат издания: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951382-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Who knows what might happen in a summer of love? Sian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind and has thrown herself into a new life in the country. With her young son, her picture-postcard garden and her small thriving business, she`s happy and very busy. She is not - repeat not - looking for love. And then, one glorious summer evening, Gus Beresford arrives. One-time explorer, full-time heart-breaker, Gus is ridiculously exciting, wonderfully glamorous - and, Sian tells herself, completely wrong for a romantically cautious single woman like her. But she and Gus have met before. And, despite Sian`s best intentions, it isn`t long before she`s falling for him all over
ISBN: 978-0-09-953915-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: май 2012
Knitting and life are both about beginnings and endings. That`s why it makes sense for Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle`s Blossom Street, to offer a class called Knit to Quit. It`s for people who want to quit something - or someone - and start over.
It`s the summer of 1960. The sixth-grade boys of Elm Haven, Illinois, are forging the powerful, magical bonds that a lifetime of growth and loss will never erase. Amid the sun-drenched cornfields and the sly flirtations of the town`s young girls, that loyalty will be pitilessly tested. From the silent depths of the Old Central School, a hulking fortress tinged with the mahogany scent of coffins, an invisible evil drifts outward--plunging Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen, and Kevin into a war without boundary or mercy, where an eternal enemy owns the night.
ISBN: 0-446-36266-2
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford Hall one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich (if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he`s overjoyed - particularly as he`s being rooked by the publisher of his sporting memoirs. His daughter Jane comes up trumps in the company of the playwright Joe - but not before engagements are broken and fortunes lost and made. Формат издания: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951416-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Grady beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen. But her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more. And excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. When Grady`s parents leave her alone for the first time in their New York penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies. As a heat wave envelops the city, Grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less about the consequences. Soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions choices that will forever affect her...
ISBN: 978-0-14-118858-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
`I hate sneaks Worse than Anything. If you dare tell tales again, I`ll make you Very SORRY`. Carlotta has a secret past! What will happen when sneaky Prudence tells the rest of the class?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-1979-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. Set in the small town of North Dormer, New England, the novel "Summer" follows eighteen-year-old librarian Charity Royall during her sexual awakening against the background of the cruel treatment by the father of her child, Lucius Harney, who doesn`t want to marry her. Written in Wharton`s firm style, the prose of this novella turns reading into sheer pleasure.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07839-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Meet teenage Carrie Bradshaw as she hits the bright lights, big city of New York for the very first time! Find out how Carrie transforms from country girl to super-cool fashionista in the second explosive CARRIE DIARIES novel from the globally bestselling author of SEX AND THE CITY. Summer is a magical time in New York City and Carrie is in love with all of it - the crazy characters in her neighbourhood, the vintage-clothing boutiques, the wild parties and the glamorous man who has swept her off her feet. Best of all, she`s finally in a real writing class, taking her first steps toward fulfilling her dream. This sequel to THE CARRIE DIARIES brings surprising revelations as Carrie learns to navigate her way around the Big Apple, going...
Deanna believed she had everything she`d ever wanted. Diamonds, a beautiful home, a handsome, successful husband who adored her. But Marc-Edouard led a jet-set life as an international lawyer and for three months - summer - Deanna would be alone. Until Ben found her. And together they found happiness on sun-drenched beaches. But they knew their dream had to end. They also knew that they couldn`t live without each other. But Deanna and Ben hadn`t foreseen the devastating changes that would happen to them by the time they summer`s end.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4241-7
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
