Random House

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan`s most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2004

Текст романа на английском языке. This is a rare and utterly engaging story. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war year s of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window onto a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2007

`What`s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work`s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.` Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another such. But the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the big job, like saving the

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

The Men in Black monitor and regulate all aliens living on Earth - from Elvis to Tiger Woods - but only one of them wants to destroy the planet. Our only hope is for the heroes to locate one particular alien princess. The trouble is, no one knows where she lives - not even the princess herself!

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2019

This collection features 14 short stories exploring themes typical of Hemingway. Each one deals with tough masculinity unsoftened by woman`s influence.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

‘I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me’. Thus begins ‘Strung Out’, Woody Allen’s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen’s first new collection in over 25 years, features eighteen witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces – eight of which have never been in print before. Surreal, absurd, rich in verbal play, bitingly satirical and just plan daft in the mode we have grown to love from his finest films, this flight-of-fancy collection includes tales of a body double who, mistaken for the film’s star, is kidnapped by outlaws; a pretentious novelist forced to work on the novelisation of a Three Stooges film; a nanny...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2010

A trio of stories portraying the vivid spectrum of life in Edwardian London - from the backstreets to the suburbs and high society - seen through the eyes of one character, the delightfully witty and independent spinster, Miss Ley.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2018

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 1992

Paris, spring 1968. Christopher is fully occupied reveling in first lust. Just a short Metro ride away from les evenements, as Toni never ceases to remind him. The adolescent Christopher and his soul mate Toni has sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for life to begin - meaning Sex and Freedom - to travel and choose their own clothes. Then Chris, at thirty, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. Luckily Toni is around to challenge such backsliding.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2010

Rafe Kane has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he`s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school`s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class - 5,000 points! Running in the hallway - 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm - 50,000 points! But when Rafe`s game starts to catch up with him, he`ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he`s finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he`s been avoiding.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India`s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other `midnight`s children` all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem`s story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

When members of a secret American interrogation squad that was running a black site in Poland in 2007 and 2008 and had since been disbanded are murdered, John Wells is asked to investigate. But his enquiries lead him to discover that while the squad came up with some very valuable intel, its tactics were questionable at

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India`s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other `midnight`s children` all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem`s story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Violet has always been in the shadow of her mesmerising, controlling brother Will - by turns delightful and terrifying. Now that Will has learned a shocking secret about his own past, things seem to be getting worse. Violet retreats further into her fantasy world built around the fairy characters created by her favourite author, Casper Dream. The arrival of Jasmine, a new girl at school who immediately befriends Violet, seems like it might change Violet`s life for the better and allow her to break free of Will`s spell. But is Jasmine a true friend? A magical and atmospheric novel, with fascinating insight into the world of a writer.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2012

When members of a secret American interrogation squad that was running a black site in Poland in 2007 and 2008 and had since been disbanded are murdered, John Wells is asked to investigate. But his enquiries lead him to discover that while the squad came up with some very valuable intel, its tactics were questionable at

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitz - and the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape with a mind that remains obstinately out of focus.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

It is New Year`s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide in Steel`s latest №1 bestseller.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2007

To look at one was to see the other. For family, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. For the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, their bond was mysterious and marvelous - a secret realm only they inhabited. They were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife`s death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia had taken over the role of mother, managing not only their lush estate, but her rebellious twin`s flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria embraced the women`s suffrage movement and wanted to change the world. Then, in their twenty-first year, Victoria`s life was about to become a public scandal. Handpicked by the twins` father to save her reputation, Charles,...

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011