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"Geroĭ romana, gollivudskiĭ akter Dzhek Berns, ros, kak i avtor, ne znai︠a︡ svoego biologicheskogo ott︠s︡a. Matʹ okruzhila ego obraz molchaniem i mistifikat︠s︡ii︠a︡mi. Poiski ott︠s︡a, kotorymi nachinaetsi︠a︡ i zavershaetsi︠a︡ ėta ėpopei︠a︡, opredeli︠a︡i︠u︡t vsi︠u︡ zhiznʹ Dzheka. Krasavet︠s︡, li︠u︡bimet︠s︡ zhenshchin, talantlivyĭ artist, vse svoi roli on igraet dli︠a︡ odnogo-edinstvennogo...
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"V Pėgforde na sorok pi︠a︡tom godu zhizni skoropostizhno skonchalsi︠a︡ chlen mestnogo soveta Barri Feĭrbrazer. Ėto sobytie poverglo gorozhan v shok. V provint︠s︡ialʹnom angliĭskom gorodke s moshchenoĭ rynochnoĭ ploshchadʹi︠u︡ i drevnim monastyrem, kazalosʹ by, t︠s︡arit idillii︠a︡, no tak li ėto na samom dele? Chto skryvaetsi︠a︡ za krasivymi angliĭskimi fasadami?Na samom dele tikhiĭ gorodok uzhe davno nakhoditsi︠a︡...
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Inostranka/Azbuka-Attikus
Pub. Date
2016.
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Russian
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"In a plot modeled after the syllabus of a college literature course, teen narrator Blue Van Meer and her father Gareth end ten years of wandering by settling in Stockton, N.C. There, Blue befriends, sort of, a group of eccentric geniuses (referred to by their classmates as the Bluebloods) and their ringleader, film studies teacher Hannah Schneider. As Blue becomes enmeshed with Hannah and the Bluebloods, the novel becomes a murder mystery when a...
9) Shum vremeni
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
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[2016]
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Russian
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"A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), he reflects on...
11) Bruklin
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In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of...
13) Popugaĭ Flobera
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Russian
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
2017.
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Russian
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In a small town near Istanbul, a young student spies a mysterious red-haired woman who tells old tales and legends to a small audience every night. Feeling the intoxication of love, he carries her in his thoughts for thirty years until they meet again, face-to-face.
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Inostranka/Azbuka-Attikus
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2018.
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Russian
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"It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers"--
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
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2018.
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Russian
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Princeton. New Jersey. -- Albert Einstein Speaking is the story of an incredible friendship, and of a remarkable life. The son of an electrician in nineteenth-century Germany, Albert Einstein went on to become one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists and the most famous face in the world. This riotous, charming and moving novel spans almost a century of European history and shines a light on the real man behind the myth.
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"/Azbuka-Attikus
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2018.
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Russian
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"The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline-its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable...
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
2018.
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Russian
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My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is...
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