Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр Современная зарубежная проза

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American (Newfoundland) family.

Berlin, 1920-1933 - gloomy years of German history. Russian emigres keep getting killed by a murky big man, may be he is hunting Anna who claims she is daughter of Nikolas II, miraculously surviving t...

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the...

The author was 14 when he set himself on fire,,, He survived. This is the story of his physical and mental recovery written by himself.

Dawn of the XX century, first air race across the US - one true Hollywood love story in exotic surroundings.

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than...

Comissario Brunetti gets involved in a case of an 11-year old Gypsy girl drowned in Venice under suspicious circumstances...

On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former te...

he first volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. This series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing toget...

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a ...

A Kurt Vonnegut for the '90s, an earthbound Douglas Adams. James Boylan's debut novel is wildly inventive, original, and deeply, outrageously funny. When lovesick Edith Schmertz takes an ill-fated lea...

They look different. Does it make them really different from us? A private investigator who is different himself looks for an answer - finding his only love in the process and defying death...

Enchanting

книга для чтения на американском английском языке, уровень Intermediate (1700 слов, Level 4), жанр - триллер. В комплекте с Audio CD.

14 stories by Canadian authors, first published mostly in 1983-1984.