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Ett spår av rök
By Rebecca Cantrell, Cecilia Palmcrantz. 2014
En prisbelönt roman om en kriminalreporter som letar efter sin brors mördare på Berlins nattklubbar och bakgator. Berlin 1931. Året…
då Tyskland förlorades till nazisterna. Stormtrupper och kommunister slåss på gatorna. Förmögna judar och intellektuella planerar sin flykt från staden. Desperata, sexuellt och socialt utstötta människor trängs på Berlins berömda nattklubbar för att få dansa en sista dans. Hannah Vogel lever ensam och jobbar som kriminalreporter. Under ett rutinuppdrag får hon syn på ett fotografi av sin döde brors kropp i Dödshallen på Alexanderplatz polisstation. Men eftersom hon har lånat ut sina identitetshandlingar till judiska vänner på flykt från Tyskland, kan hon inte identifiera honom och kräva en utredning. Istället tar hon själv upp jakten på mördaren.Att Skala Apelsiner
By James Lawless, Jenny Wemlert Tacchino. 2015
Att skala apelsiner är historien om hur Derek Foley då han bläddrar igenom sin avlidne fars dagböcker och sin mors…
korrespondens med en IRA-man, upptäcker att Patrick Foley, en diplomat i Francos Spanien, inte var hans riktige far. Dereks sjukliga mor vill inte diskutera det förflutna, vilket tvingar iväg hennes son på en resa som tar honom in i den irländska diplomatins tidiga historia, till Spanien och senare även till Nordirland. När han slutligen upptäcker vem hans riktige far är får det tragiska konsekvenser. Att skala apelsiner är en roman där två spirande nationers historier, Irlands och Spaniens, strålar samman. Det är en roman som är full av personliga och politiska intriger och som är präglad av ideologi. Det är också en vacker och lyriskt skriven kärlekshistoria om en barndomskärlek mellan den opolitiske Derek och den passionerade nationalisten Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin.На волнах надежды
By Adelaida Arias Аделаида Ариас Arias, José Ramón Torres. 2015
"Из этой страны надо уезжать!" Анхель представить не мог, что окажется в таком положении: полуголодный, измотанный, неуверенный, что проживет еще…
один день. Но будущее близких бесценно. Повесть "На волнах надежды" пропитана ромом и кубинскими сигарами, сексом и наркотиками, домино и болеро, тем, чем жила Куба между тремя волнами эмиграции кубинцев в Соединенные Штаты Америки. Это просто книга о Кубе, которая не принимает сторону правых или левых, а просто рассказывает о людях, стесненных обстоятельствами. Это дань нынешним мигрантам, их надеждам и их жертвам.When The Stars Fade: Volume 1
By Adam Korenman. 2015
In distant future, humanity is recovering from a bloody civil war. Pilots CAMERON DAVIS and GEORGE LOCKLEAR, reservists with Sector…
Patrol, prepare for a long weekend off. That vacation is permanently cancelled when two alien armadas--the BOXTI and NANGOLANI--arrive near Earth. Though humanity wins the battle, the war quickly turns one-sided. One of Earth’s colonies is rendered uninhabitable. George dies saving his friend, and Cameron is sucked through a wormhole and disappears. Far away on the moon Kronos, JOSH RANTZ competes in a huge Army competition. Despite most of his unit falling to the enemy, Josh and his squad continue to win larger and larger victories. They are oblivious to the goings on of the universe, isolated on purpose by the war-game’s designer, Doctor MARKOV. When the exercise ends, Josh notices a meteor striking down nearby. He finds an injured Cameron, somehow transported across the stars to the military base. Moments later, the BOXTI arrive and invade. Outnumbered and outgunned, Josh and the soldiers on Kronos rally and push back the BOXTI horde. Summoned by their masters, the BOXTI leave the stunned humans behind.ПЛАЧ ОСТРОВА ПАСХИ
By Jose Vicente Alfaro, Svetlana Lomakina de Leiva. 2015
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XIXПлюшевые медвежата в Стране Монстров
By Simeon Leyzerzon, Justin Sloan. 2016
Плюшевые медвежата спасают детей. Эта и другие книги Джастина Слоуна из его серии приключенческих книг для малышей доступны на его…
страничке в интернете: www.JustinSloanAuthor.com Чтобы спасти своего хозяина, однажды похищенного во мраке ночи, плюшевый мишка вынужден отправиться на его поиски в Страну Монстров. Оказывается, беда случилась не только с ним одним - угроза нависла над всеми детьми. Добро пожаловать в мир, где плюшевые медвежата по ночам оживают, вставая на защиту своих хозяев-детей от монстров мрака, подстрекаемых гоблинами и орками. Эта первая книга трилогии привлечёт маленьких любителей приключений, которым по душе фантастика в стиле мультфильмов Пиксара и Уолта Диснея, а те, кто повзрослее, несомненно распознают в ней параллели с балладами об Орфее и с дантовским адом. Пристегните ремни и приятного Вам путешествия!In Memory of Memory
By Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale. 2021
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Winner of the 2018 Bolshaya Kniga Award Winner of the 2019 NOS Literature…
PrizeAn exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history.With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities, offering an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.Praise for In Memory of Memory:"A luminous, rigorous, and mesmerizing interrogation of the relationship between personal history, family history, and capital-H History. I couldn't put it down; it felt sort of like watching a hypnotic YouTube unboxing-video of the gift-and-burden that is the twentieth century. In Memory of Memory has that trick of feeling both completely original and already classic, and I confidently expect this translation to bring Maria Stepanova a rabid American fan base on the order of the one she already enjoys in Russia." —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot, finalist for the Pulizter Prize for Fiction"There is simply no book in contemporary Russian literature like In Memory of Memory. A microcosm all its own, it is an inimitable journey through a family history which, as the reader quickly realizes, becomes a much larger quest than yet another captivating family narrative. Why? Because it asks us if history can be examined at all, yes, but does so with incredible lyricism and fearlessness. Because Stepanova teaches us to find beauty where no one else sees it. Because Stepanova teaches us to show tenderness towards the tiny, awkward, missed details of our beautiful private lives. Because she shows us that in the end our hidden strangeness is what makes us human. This, I think, is what makes her a truly major European writer. I am especially grateful to Sasha Dugdale for her precise and flawless translation which makes this book such a joy to read in English. This is a voice to live with." —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic"Dazzling erudition and deep empathy come together in Maria Stepanova's profound engagement with the power and potential of memory, the mother of all muses. An exploration of the vast field between reminiscence and remembrance, In Memory of Memory is a poetic appraisal of the ways the stories of others are the fabric of our history." —Esther Kinsky, author of Grove"A book to plunge into. 'Everyone else's ancestors had taken part in history' writes Stepanova; building itself via accumulation, these chapters become an important testimony to the cultural and political lives of the people held beneath the surface of the tides of history" —Andrew McMillan, author of Playtime