en-US Mon, 12 May 2025 12:13:00 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 230300611 My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.

A man sits by his father's bedside and watches him die.

Watches as his past begins to crack, leaving him buried in all its afternoons. The quietly collapsing afternoons of childhood.

Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world.

From the winner of the International Booker Prize, comes a novel about a father and a son, about the last month of a man's life, and the stories that make up a life.]]> 224 Georgi Gospodinov 1399631020 Iryna 0 to-read 4.00 2024
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]]> 212808263 Close to Cronenberg and deeply indebted to Kafka, this gaucho-punk novel offers an explosive interpretation of an ultra-capitalistic society at the grips with climate collapse.

The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words “winter��, "cold��, or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We find ourselves in Victorica, a province of La Pampa, Argentina, some time after 2197 �� the year in which the last of the Antarctic icecaps melted and an unprecedented climate catastrophe ensued, radically transforming the landscape of the region into a Caribbean Pampas. It is here that the Dengue Child grows up, a mutant mix of child and mosquito, the result of crazy experimenting driven by ultra-capitalistic corporations racing against each other to own viruses and their cures, destroying even their very own children’s existence to cash in on the stock exchange.

Another of the surprising effects of the thaw is the appearance of powerful telepathic pebbles from the bowels of the earth that seem to encapsulate the world's original wisdom, and which are the subject of lucrative smuggling. Meanwhile, the wealthy of the region chose to cruise around on ships where they can experience ice-skating and hand carve ice from valuable remains of glaciers. In their ultra-air conditioned homes, their kids play Indians vs Christians, a brutal video game set in the historical 19th century.  

The future according to Michel Nieva looks frenetic and shocking. He counts among the rising voices of Argentina, packing punches in a deeply intelligent, informed, and humorful prose which takes root in Latin American storytelling and sci-fi tradition.]]> 224 Michel Nieva 1662602650 Iryna 0 to-read 3.59 2023
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]]> 213395487 A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm.

From Lydia Millet—“the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves�� (Chicago Tribune)—comes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples, and loners in their collisions, confessions, and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses, and medieval role-playing festivals.

The various ��-ists�� who people these linked stories—from futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologists—include a professor who’s morbidly fixated on an old friend’s Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incel’s fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbors after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner dad obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his backyard.]]> 256 Lydia Millet 1324074418 Iryna 0 to-read 3.83
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]]> 222248637
Одинадцятирічний Овен Міні, хлопчик, який ніколи не виросте вище п’ят�� футів і має дуже дивний голос, бере участь у бейсбольному матчі і чи не вперше в житті робить сильний і точний удар, що в результаті виявляється фатальним. М’я��, вилетівши на трибуну, вбиває матір його найкращого друга Джонні Віл­райта �� головного оповідача в романі. Овен не вірить у нещасні випадки, проте вірить, що він �� інструмент Бога. І те, що відбувається з ним після того фатального удару, водночас дивне, незвичне і часом моторошне. Іноді головний герой здається комічною жертвою самонавіювання, що увірувала у власну обраність, але, зрештою, він і справді виявляється трагічним виконавцем божественного задуму. Овен Міні �� найрозпачливіший і найпатетичніший герой, якого колись створював письменник.

Ця книжка �� не лише привід для роздумів про долю і призначення. Вона змусить вас сміятися і плакати голосніше та довше, ніж будь-який інший роман, який ви у змозі пригадати.]]> 672 John Irving 6175223012 Iryna 0 to-read 4.77 1989
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]]> 56337680
Literarisch mit großem Sog überrascht László Krasznahorkai mit einem Roman voll beängstigender deutscher Gegenwart, mit melancholischem Humor und abgründigem Sarkasmus.

»Lange ist mir ein Protagonist nicht mehr so ans Herz gewachsen wie Florian Herscht. Gemeinerweise kann man in diesem Buch nie aufhören zu lesen. Ich sage es nicht mal neidisch, sondern als Beschenkter: László Krasznahorkai hat den heutigen deutschen Roman geschrieben.«
Ingo Schulze

»Dieses Buch ist wie der Teilchenbeschleuniger, vor dem sich Herscht so fürchtet... Ein unfassbarer Teufelstango!«
Clemens Meyer]]> 424 László Krasznahorkai 9631438953 Iryna 0 to-read, brodernism 4.17 2021
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]]> 232106312 232 Дмитро Крапивенко 6178216068 Iryna 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 61155336
Based on Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel’s investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.

The novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide.

Combining fiction with autobiography and history�� the scientists Nicolae Tesla and George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript—Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.]]> 672 Mircea Cărtărescu 164605203X Iryna 0 to-read, brodernism 4.22 2015
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]]> 8714063 The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore’s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.]]> 481 David Foster Wallace 1101153539 Iryna 0 to-read, brodernism 3.71 1987
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]]> 28488649
The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.

A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism.

The novel's characters are simply unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender centre of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found.

Compact, powerful, haunting, and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, 'is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type.' And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, 'lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.']]> 321 László Krasznahorkai 1781256241 Iryna 0 to-read, brodernism 4.03 1989
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]]> 61223268 The Tunnel meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language.]]> 0 William H. Gass 1628974907 Iryna 0 to-read, brodernism 5.00 1995
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]]> 395058 Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both”��The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Gaddis anticipates by almost half a century the crisis of reality that we currently face, where the real and the virtual are combining in alarming ways, and the sources of legitimacy and power are often obscure to us.]]> 976 William Gaddis 0140187081 Iryna 0 4.17 1955
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> 127282542
In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the stories of her grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself.

Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs of the 1949 Communist victory. After eight years of government harassment, she fled to Hong Kong with her daughter. Upon arrival, Sun Yi wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival, used the proceeds to put Rose in an elite boarding school―and promptly had a breakdown that left her committed to a mental institution. Rose eventually came to the United States on a scholarship and brought Sun Yi to live with her.

Tessa watched her mother care for Sun Yi, both of them struggling under the weight of Sun Yi's unexamined trauma and mental illness. Vowing to escape her mother’s smothering fear, Tessa left home and traveled to the farthest-flung corners of the globe (Antarctica). But at the age of thirty, it starts to feel less like freedom and more like running away, and she returns to face the history that shaped her.

Gorgeously rendered, Feeding Ghosts is Hulls' homecoming, a vivid journey into the beating heart of one family, set against the dark backdrop of Chinese history. By turns fascinating and heartbreaking, inventive and poignant, it exposes the fear and trauma that haunt generations, and the love that holds them together.]]> 400 Tessa Hulls 0374601658 Iryna 0 4.45 2024
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]]> 38319385 536 Ola Hnatiuk 6176794757 Iryna 0 to-read 4.50 2017
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]]> 195644142
A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out.

In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist.

Then in the haze of Berlin’s legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. But as Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe’s controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany—and Nila’s family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be?

A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.]]> 368 Aria Aber Iryna 0 3.70 2025
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]]> 118436 Requiem in Portuguese; it had to be translated into Italian for publication in his native Italy.

Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. But, it turns out, not twelve noon, twelve midnight, so he has a long time to while away. As the day unfolds, he has many encounters—a young junky, a taxi driver who is not familiar with the streets, several waiters, a gypsy, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel, an accordionist, in all almost two dozen people both real and illusionary. Finally he meets The Guest, the ghost of the long dead great poet Fernando Pessoa. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, and even a bit of a cookbook, Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality.]]> 112 Antonio Tabucchi 0811215172 Iryna 0 to-read 3.92 1991
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]]> 232822610 304 Olga Tokarczuk 6175697103 Iryna 0 to-read 0.0 2020
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]]> 223695663


«Букурія» �� смішне незрозуміле слово, яке мало позначати хорошу емоцію. І саме так екіпаж свого «корабля» вирішив назвати Богдан Журавель, який одного дня із цивільного хірурга перетворився на начмеда батальйону.

Богдан майстерно поєднує чорний відчай із чорним гумором: у його тексті строковик випадково запиває ліки хлоркою замість води, довкола триває війна на виживання, а сам автор регулярно веде бесіди зі співрозмовником, якого ніхто ніколи не бачив, �� іноді про щось філософсько-бентежне, а іноді вони просто травлять анекдоти.

Це відверта історія людини, що зробила важкий вибір і не завжди розуміє, як з ним жити. Жити у світі, де тебе і твоє майбутнє хоче знищити ворог. Ворог, який не має жалю чи честі. І що робити у світі, де ти вирішив боротися попри те, що тобі так страшно.


Богдан Журавель �� хірург. Пішов служити 1 березня 2022 року, пройшов шлях від бойового медика до бригадного лікаря. У романі «Букурія» описав події осені 2023-го, коли обіймав посаду начмеда батальйону.]]> 264 Богдан Журавель 6178517408 Iryna 0 to-read 4.70
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]]> 232959180 280 Joshua Cohen 6175697235 Iryna 0 to-read, pulitzer-prize 4.33 2021
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]]> 231254933 A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.

'God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper', writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.

The most intimate of Smith's memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as Horses and Easter, 'Dancing Barefoot' and 'Because the Night'.

She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.

As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again - the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.
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]]> 18112650 208 Christoph Ransmayr Iryna 0 to-read 3.94 1988
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Щирість і любов пронизують ці поезії, сила та світло сповнюють їх вірою у тривкість, енергію, глибину людини та Нації.]]> 64 Олекса Бик 6177622550 Iryna 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 220195776 “Nothing short of brilliant.�� ��The Wall Street Journal

“A surpassingly gifted storyteller.�� ��The New York Times

From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today�� (Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), a visionary tale inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to be forced to return to his homeland and create propaganda films for the German Reich.

An artist’s life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him.

When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels—the minister of propaganda in Berlin—sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels’s thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.

Kehlmann’s latest oeuvre explores the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power, beauty and barbarism, cog and conspirator.]]> 352 Daniel Kehlmann 1668087812 Iryna 0 to-read 4.67 2023
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]]> 56348590 Як Лоліта, Джон Голт і Гаррі Поттер змінили світ? Як сталося, що дорослі люди бавляться в гоббітів і чому всі шанують «Улісса», але майже ніхто не може його прочитати? Як Маркес вигадав латиноамериканський серіал, а Гемінґвей став мачо ��1 XX століття? Куди взагалі котиться людство і що ви зробили зі своїм життям? На якісь питання в цьому подкасті є відповідь �� а якісь ви маєте вирішити самі. Завдяки літературі.

В першому сезоні говоримо про таке:
Айн Ренд. Що зробив «Атлант»
За що ми любимо Гемінґвея
Володимир Набоков. Як розуміти і як читати «Лоліту»
Габріель Гарсіа Маркес. Латиноамериканський роман як серіал
Як «Гаррі Поттер» став головною книгою нового тисячоліття
«Володар перснів». Книга, що запізнилась
«Улісс». Роман про все]]> Євгеній Стасіневич Iryna 0 to-read 4.56
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]]> 74821952 * NOW A NETFLIX FILM * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *

A spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law.

On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa—daughter of Sámi reindeer herders—sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these “stolen�� animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the Sámi’s livelihood, they also hold spiritual significance; attacking a reindeer is an attack on the culture itself.

Ten years later, hatred and threats against the Sámi keep escalating, and more reindeer are tortured and killed in Elsa’s community. Finally, she’s had enough and decides to push back on the apathetic police force. The hunter comes after her this time, leading to a catastrophic final confrontation.

Based on real events, Ann-Helén Laestadius’s award-winning novel Stolen is part coming-of-age story, part love song to a disappearing natural world, and part electrifying countdown to a dramatic resolution—a searing depiction of a forgotten part of Sweden.]]> 399 Ann-Helén Laestadius 1668007185 Iryna 0 to-read 4.15 2021
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Fifteen years after killing her husband’s lover, Inés is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they’ve started a business �� FFF, or Females, Fumigation, and Flies �� dedicated to pest control and private investigation, by women, for women. But Señora Bonar, one of their clients, wants Inés to do more than kill bugs—she wants her expertise, and her criminal past, to help get her kill her husband’s lover, too. Crimes against women versus crimes by women; culpability, fallibility, and our responsibilities to each other—this is Piñeiro at her wry, earthy best, alive to all the ways we shape ourselves to be understandable, to be understood, by family and love and other hostile forces.]]> 322 Claudia Piñeiro 1913867870 Iryna 0 to-read 3.88 2023
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Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. The perfect Christmas gift for the political visionaries in your life.

In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords �� replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power.

But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more clearly than ever the revolution we need to escape our digital prison.

‘An epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift . . . this isn't just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power�� Observer

‘An urgent demand to seize the means of computation�� CORY DOCTOROW

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR]]> 224 Yanis Varoufakis Iryna 0 to-read 4.03 2023
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]]> 219628892 From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.

Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of the strangeness of society, x-raying our contemporary world to bizarre and troubling effect. Her depictions of a happily unmarried retail worker in Convenience Store Woman and a young woman convinced she is an alien in Earthlings have endeared her to millions of readers worldwide. Vanishing World takes Murata’s universe to a bold new level, imagining an alternative Japan where attitudes to sex and procreation are wildly different to our own.

As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents “copulated�� in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange “system�� by her mother, but her infatuations with both anime characters and real people have a sexual force that is undeniable. As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage—sex between married couples is now considered as taboo as incest—Amane and her husband Saku decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Men are beginning to become pregnant using artificial wombs that sit outside of their bodies like balloons, and children are nameless, called only “Kodomo-chan.�� Is this the new world that will purify Amane of her strangeness once and for all?]]> 240 Sayaka Murata 0802164676 Iryna 0 to-read 3.39 2015
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]]> 23197316
In Donegal in the spring of 1945, a farmhand runs into a burning barn and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle are destroyed in the blaze. Following the disaster, the bull-headed and proudly self-sufficient Barnabas is forced to reach out to the community for assistance.

But resentment simmers over the farmhand's death, and Barnabas and his family begin to believe their efforts at recovery are being sabotaged. Barnabas is determined to hold firm. Yet his teenage son struggles under the weight of a terrible secret, and his wife is suffocated by the uncertainty surrounding their future. As Barnabas fights ever harder for what is rightfully his, his loved ones are drawn ever closer to a fate that should never have been theirs. In The Black Snow , Paul Lynch takes the pastoral novel and -- with the calmest of hands -- tears it apart. With beautiful, haunting prose, Lynch illuminates what it means to live through crisis, and puts to the test our deepest certainties about humankind.]]> 272 Paul Lynch 0316376418 Iryna 0 to-read 3.81 2014
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]]> 17333295
A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from "a writer to watch out for" (Colum McCann).

It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country of the fledgling United States.

Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. With lyrical prose balancing the stark realities of the hunter and the hunted, Red Sky in Morning is a visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.]]> 288 Paul Lynch 0316230251 Iryna 0 to-read 3.65 2013
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]]> 49073851 "Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger"

Sometimes a distance from the noise of the world opens our hearts, our senses, our dreams. An intensity of feelings erupts from the life of a village of four hundred souls in the Icelandic countryside, where the infinite light of summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. It becomes a microcosm of the eternal conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the imagination.

The director who immerses himself in Latin and astronomy to the point of abandoning everything for the secrets of the universe, the greedy postman who reads every letter and then publicizes the villagers' private affairs, the lawyer who believes that the world is based on calculus, but then discovers that he cannot count the fish in the sea or his own tears.

With the enchantment of poetry, and full of humour and tenderness for human weaknesses, Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all, and at the same time immerses us fully in the river of life.]]> 320 Jón Kalman Stefánsson 0857059777 Iryna 0 to-read, nordic-baltic 3.96 2005
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]]> 61424788 London 1671

The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a man’s brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is ordered to investigate.

It’s possible the victim could be one of two local men who have vanished �� the first, a feckless French tutor connected to the almshouse’s owner; the second, a possibly treacherous employee of the Council of Foreign Plantations.

The pressure on Marwood mounts as Charles II’s most influential courtiers, Lord Arlington and the Duke of Buckingham, show an interest in his activities �� and Marwood soon begins to suspect the murder trail may lead right to the heart of government.

Meanwhile, a young, impoverished Frenchwoman has caught the eye of the king, a quiet affair that will have monumental consequences…]]> 450 Andrew Taylor 0008494118 Iryna 0 to-read 4.19 2023
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]]> 219368077 240 J.M. Coetzee 6175221966 Iryna 0 to-read 4.02 1980
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]]> 9443405
The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.]]> 548 David Foster Wallace 0316074233 Iryna 0 to-read 3.97 2011
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]]> 227073248 Jest błoto, są drony i betonowy strop piwnicy, jeśli masz dość szczęścia, i bunkier, który nazywasz blindażem, a zwykle jest marną jamą w ziemi. O co więc walczysz? Czy wierzysz jeszcze w sens tej walki?
Na pierwszej linii frontu �� na „nullu�� �� w odciętym rzeką kawałku świata, którego nie można oddać, choć się go nie ocali, Koń i jego towarzysze wypatrują światła, wiedząc, że to, które nadejdzie, będzie raczej rozpalającą niebo eksplozją. Na nullu braterstwo i odwaga nabierają nowego znaczenia, racjonalność ustępuje intuicji, przesądom i wierze. Są ochotnicy i są mobiki, którzy nie chcą walczyć, jest miłość krótka jak życie na froncie i bywa też internet ze Starlinka.
Koń to rozumie, chociaż żołnierzem jest od niedawna. Wszystko, w co dotąd wierzył i co kochał, umarło, zostawił więc za sobą zgliszcza dawnego życia w Polsce i wyjechał walczyć i szukać odkupienia �� a może śmierci? Obumarły w środku poznaje Zuję, pierwszą, która nosi to imię. Zuja wyzwala w nim to, co uważał za dawno martwe. Przeszłość, o której Koń nie mówi i nie chce myśleć, ciągle powraca.
Jest też pies, którego nie uzdrowił mag z Tadżykistanu.]]> 280 Szczepan Twardoch 8368226333 Iryna 0 to-read 4.06
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]]> 228394781 Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies? A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes.]]> 160 Vincent Delecroix 1913109372 Iryna 0 to-read, booker-prize 4.05
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]]> 23316698
Women Artists brings together twenty-nine essential essays from throughout Nochlin’s career, making this the definitive anthology of her writing about women in art. Included are her major thematic texts “Women Artists After the French Revolution�� and “Starting from Scratch: The Beginnings of Feminist Art History,�� as well as the landmark essay and its rejoinder “‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?�� Thirty Years After.�� These appear alongside monographic entries focusing on a selection of major women artists including Mary Cassatt, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Kiki Smith, Miwa Yanagi, and Sophie Calle.

Women Artists also presents two new essays written specifically for this book and an interview with Nochlin investigating the position of women artists today.]]> 472 Linda Nochlin 0500239290 Iryna 0 to-read 4.40 2015
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]]> 35901581 Жорстокість і прагматизм Ілая відбиваються в долях представників прийдешніх поколінь Мак-Каллоу. Кохання, честь, діти �� усе віддається на поталу амбіціям, коли ця родина стає однією з найвпливовіших у Техасі. Але, як і всі могутні династії, ця сім’�� колись та й мусить зіткнутися з наслідками свого вибору.]]> 576 Philipp Meyer 6176908884 Iryna 0 4.50 2013
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]]> 36283509 320 Paul Beatty 6177535062 Iryna 0 to-read, booker-prize 3.30 2015
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]]> 57748948 Данная книга - результат сотрудничества Сергей Сергеевич и Мартин Брест, ветеранов АТО, известных многим из вас по книгам “Грязь�� и “Пехота��.
________________________
18+
��... Жарким донбасским летом случай или судьба свели пехотинца и разведчика в прифронтовом городке. В результате знакомства у них появились общая тайна и информация о месте, где может быть спрятан "клад"... но, это не точно.
Смогут ли герои эту тайну сохранить и не поддаться искушению выдвинуться на поиски в "серую зону" без приказа? Способны ли едва знакомые военные из разных подразделений действовать как команда ради цели, и какие приключения ждут их в местах, где опаснее, чем в джунглях Африки?
Вы увидите те же события глазами разных героев и почувствуете на вкус их переживания. Поучаствуете в ночных перестрелках и адреналиновых скачках по стрёмным дачам. Станете свидетелями тайны, неожиданной любви и настоящей̆ дружбы…”]]> 344 Сергей Сергеевич Saigon Iryna 0 to-read 4.85
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]]> 231255332
Графічна адаптація роману Кормака Маккарті «Дорога» �� приголомшливе оповідне досягнення; візуально сувора, темна і дуже людяна. Абсолютна досконалість, �� Білл Сенкевич, художник Зали слави Айзнера

Один із найстрашніших і найкрасивіших коміксів, які ви читатимете цього року, �� Games Radar

…бездоганн�� передає тон оригіналу. Це гідний компаньйон моторошної класики Маккарті, �� Publishers Weekly

Деталі малюнку приголомшливі, і Ману передає кожну текстуру, зморшку, розрив і вивітрення тканини і шкіри. Пісок, бруд і кров відчутні майже фізично, і мені хотілося кашляти від попелу��. справді витвір мистецтва. Рекомендоване доповнення до колекції кожного, хто полюбляє споглядальні постапокаліптичні історії. —Macabre Daily

«Дорога» �� magnum opus автора, багаторічний бестселер, один із найоціненіших творів сучасної американської літератури, Кормак Маккарті отримав за роман Пулітцерівську премію та нагороду Джеймса Тейта. Однойменна екранізація Джона Гілкоута стала класикою свого жанру]]> 160 Manu Larcenet 6178149220 Iryna 0 to-read 5.00 2024
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]]> 61389210 A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Station Eleven.

The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold. It's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. After the town is evacuated, the whole region is cordoned off, the new no-go zone wryly nicknamed "the Park."

Three intertwined stories flow from the disaster of River Meadows. Alex Hewitt and his sister, Amery, were among the first to be shipped out of the contaminated town. Now an accomplished game designer, Alex has moved on, but his sister has not, making increasingly dangerous break-ins to save animals trapped in the toxic wasteland. When at last she fails to return from a trip inside the fence, Alex flies to River Meadows to search for her, enlisting her friend, Michio Amano, a mathematician who needs to transcend the known laws of physics if he and Alex are to succeed.

Claire Foley ran away from River Meadows as a teenager and now traffics in endangered wildlife. As Alex and Michio search for Amery, Claire arrives in an island nation under threat of environmental catastrophe to retrieve her greatest prize yet, only to find herself facing a life-altering choice.

And, finally, in a future as distant as myth, a flock of birds sets out on a dangerous journey to prevent the extinction of their ancient enemy, humanity. The account they hand down is an Epic of Gilgamesh for our times, illuminating the wisdom of nature and our flawed stewardship of the planet.

As sweeping in scope as a world of its own, The Book of Rain is a novel of epic reach, beautifully multi-layered, haunting and profound.]]> 424 Thomas Wharton 1039002439 Iryna 0 to-read 3.25 2023
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]]> 223669859 112 Ilya Kaminsky 6178262914 Iryna 0 to-read 4.83 2019
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]]> 37558445
Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crime for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.

But if Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.

A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.]]> 474 Trent Dalton 1460753895 Iryna 0 to-read 4.31 2018
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]]> 231006164 120 Євгенія Подобна 617842521X Iryna 0 to-read 4.93
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]]> 219848315 Oprah’s Book Club Pick �� Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

“Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those living on the fringes of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive.�� —Oprah Winfrey

“Magnificent . . . In writing this book, Vuong may have joined the ranks of an elite few great novelists.�� —Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times

The hardest thing in the world is to live only once��

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.

Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Vuong’s writing �� formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness �� are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.]]> 416 Ocean Vuong 059383187X Iryna 0 to-read 4.36 2025
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]]> 145390127 Roberto Bolaño Iryna 0 to-read 4.50 2001
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]]> 223093131 272 Орися Грудка 6178445075 Iryna 0 to-read 4.29
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]]> 201102398 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593544372

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex

Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she; her painter husband, Lenny; and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her “mulatto War and Peace,�� she’ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp.

But things don’t work out quite as hoped. In search of a plan B, like countless writers before her, Jane turns her desperate gaze to Hollywood. After she meets with a hot young producer to create “diverse content�� for a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a “real writer.�� She can create what he envisions as the greatest biracial comedy to ever hit the small screen. Things finally seem to be going right for Jane—until they go terribly wrong.]]> 277 Danzy Senna Iryna 0 to-read 3.53 2024
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]]> 195468033 116 Munir Hachemi 1804270881 Iryna 0 to-read 3.80
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]]> 221094641 Ausgezeichnet mit dem Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2025!
Ein Haus am Wattenmeer. Eine Mutter und ihre Tochter. Und der Versuch einer Annäherung zwischen den Generationen. Für Leser*innen von Judith Hermanns »Daheim«, Anne Rabe »Die Möglichkeit von Glück«, Daniela Krien »Die Liebe im Ernstfall«und Elizabeth Strout »Am Meer«.

Eine Halbinsel im nordfriesischen Wattenmeer. Hier, an der Nordsee, lebt Annett, Ende vierzig, seit vielen Jahren, hier hat sie nach dem frühen Tod ihres Mannes ihre Tochter Linn allein großgezogen. Linn, Mitte zwanzig, ist nach dem Abitur voller Energie in die Welt gezogen, hat sich in schwedischen und rumänischen Wäldern als Umweltvolontärin engagiert, arbeitet für ein Aufforstungsprojekt. Für Annett ist ihre Tochter die Verkörperung von Hoffnung, Sinn und Zukunft. Doch auf einer Tagung, während eines Vortrags kippt Linn um, Kreislaufzusammenbruch, Erschöpfung. Annett holt sie für eine Woche zu sich nach Hause, ans Meer, nahe Husum. Aus einer werden zwei, dann drei Wochen, dann Monate. Zerrieben zwischen Leistungsdruck und Sinnsuche, scheint Linn mit Mitte Zwanzig an einem Nullpunkt. Annett fühlt sich hilflos angesichts der Antriebslosigkeit ihrer Tochter. Mit der Zeit brechen Konflikte auf, zwischen Mutter und Tochter, aber auch zwischen zwei Generationen. Die eine muss die Lebenswirklichkeit der anderen neu verstehen lernen.Mit großem Gespür für das Zwischenmenschliche lotet Kristine Bilkau die drängenden Fragen unserer Zeit aus - die Frage nach der Verantwortung der Älteren für den Zustand der Welt sowie der Wunsch der Jüngeren, das eigene Leben mit Sinn zu füllen.]]> 225 Kristine Bilkau 3641300207 Iryna 0 to-read 4.09 2025
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]]> 223962951 The Wax Child tells in vivid prose the story of Christenze Kruckow, a noblewoman long pursued by a scandal of sorcery. People whisper that in her wake one finds illness, death, and unsettling behaviour by pigs and cats. Some even say she once fashioned out of wax a child, an instrument of the most sinister magic. Christenze will flee the rumours to Aalborg, that great city of seawater and mist. But even there suspicion and fear rule, and once a rumour of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove hard to shake…]]> 144 Olga Ravn 0811238830 Iryna 0 to-read 1.00 2023
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]]> 65153393 A l'automne 2016, Irène se voit confier une mission inédite : restituer les milliers d’objets dont le centre a hérité à la libération des camps. Un Pierrot de tissu terni, un médaillon, un mouchoir brodé�� Chaque objet, même modeste, renferme ses secrets. Il faut retrouver la trace de son propriétaire déporté, afin de remettre à ses descendants le souvenir de leur parent. Au fil de ses enquêtes, Irène se heurte aux mystères du Centre et à son propre passé. Cherchant les disparus, elle rencontre ses contemporains qui la bouleversent et la guident, de Varsovie à Paris et Berlin, en passant par Thessalonique ou l’Argentine. Au bout du chemin, comment les vivants recevront-ils ces objets hantés ?
Le bureau d’éclaircissement des destins, c’est le fil qui unit ces trajectoires individuelles à la mémoire collective de l’Europe. Une fresque brillamment composée, d’une grande intensité émotionnelle, où Gaëlle Nohant donne toute la puissance de son talent. 
]]> 416 Gaëlle Nohant 2246828872 Iryna 0 to-read 4.24
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]]> 230249837
«Нерухомість» �� це зріз людських доль перед пандемією, перед війною �� історичні зсуви, як тектонічні зсуви, і наші життя, наче маленькі човники, що дрейфують у цьому океані білого шуму. Історія невпевненості і тривожності �� про пам’ят��, що зникає вже зараз за непомірним обсягом нової і нової інформації, болю, трагедій і руйнувань. І водночас історія про закоханість, що проривається, наче рослина через асфальт.]]> 240 Анна Грувер 6178401973 Iryna 0 to-read 4.75
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]]> 223455 487 Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1564783790 Iryna 0 to-read 3.96 2008
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]]> 2093649 197 Hélène Bessette 2070206866 Iryna 0 to-read 3.55 1955
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]]> 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett Iryna 0 to-read 4.46 2024
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]]> 24484308 Герман Брох �� один з найвизначніших німецькомовних письменників ХХ сторіччя, який, втім, здобув належне визнання вже після смерті. Окрім мистецтва, він все своє життя цікавився математикою, філософією, психологією що не могло не позначитися на його творчості, яка пронизана напруженим пошуком нових літературних форм, де письменник поєднує художнє осмислення дійсності з науковим поглядом на осягнення буття. Постійні літературні пошуки Германа Броха також зумовлені його власним розумінням глобального призначення літератури, як певного полісинтетичного інструменту пізнання дійсності, що має складатися з елементів культури, релігії, філософії і науки вцілому. Відтак центральне місце у творах Броха посідає проблема пізнання і відповідно пошуки відповідного новітнього митецького інструментарію для досягнення цієї мети. Герман Брох, який завжди прагнув до всеохопного, комплексного зображення дійсності, включаючи всі часові, просторові і культурологічні шари, у своїх творах оригінально переплавляє в одне ціле науку і містику, філософію і релігію, художній вимисел та історичні факти. Вершиною цих пошуків став роман «Смерть Вергілія», який по праву посідає місце одного з найважливіших творів ХХ сторіччя.]]> 480 Hermann Broch 9662355529 Iryna 0 to-read 4.11 1945
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]]> 174158489 160 Michel Pastoureau 2021516881 Iryna 0 to-read 4.32 2023
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]]> 59417952 160 Michel Pastoureau 2021477932 Iryna 0 to-read 4.44 2021
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]]> 25349126 The Aloe, which Katherine Mansfield wrote to crystallise the memories of her childhood. It was reworked to become her acclaimed Prelude.]]> 196 Katherine Mansfield 1907429603 Iryna 0 to-read 3.00 1930
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]]> 17257467 Трагічна історія знаменитого професора-синолога Петера Кіна, його безглузде одруження на власній економці Терезі, яка обертає йому життя на пекло, показує, як відчуженість і взаємне нерозуміння людей призводять до катастрофи.
Філософська основа, глибокий психологізм, абсурдність людських характерів і разюча нездатність головних персонажів збагнути одне одного, що нагадує "вавилонське змішання мов", дали підставу назвати англійське видання твору "Аутодафе", американське й французьке - "Вавилонска вежа" (в німецькому ориґіналі роман має назву "Die Blendung" - "Засліплення").]]> 512 Elias Canetti 9667305856 Iryna 0 to-read 3.67 1935
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]]> 229086617 Тексти збірки супроводжують художні знаки Марії Василенко. Їх діалог інколи переходить у спір, чи навіть скандал. Тому ці знаки можуть бути неточними, хибними, неповними або пустими.]]> 88 Дмитро Заєць Iryna 0 to-read 4.50 2025
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]]> 56137492
«Радіо Ніч» �� найгостросюжетніший, а водночас найліричніший твір Юрія Андруховича. Простір, у якому авантюрний роман зустрічається з фентезі, а Девід Бові �� з мандрівними музикантами Середньовіччя.]]> 456 Yuri Andrukhovych 6177807127 Iryna 0 to-read 3.75 2020
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]]> 56433347 [Fragment książki „Jak umieramy”]

Co dzieje się z twoim ciałem, kiedy umierasz? Co czujesz �� smutek, ból? A potem, kiedy twoje serce przestanie bić? Jak wygląda śmierć? Co nastąpi potem, zanim zostaniesz pochowany? Co pozostaje po człowieku? Jak znika ze świata w sensie fizycznym i duchowym �� w pamięci potomnych? Jakich potrzeba warunków, ile czasu, aby wszyscy o nim zapomnieli? Aby zniknął bez śladu. Na te pytania odpowiada, i to bardzo szczegółowo, „Jak umieramy�� Rolanda Schulza.

„Kilka dni przed śmiercią, kiedy nikt jeszcze nie zna godziny twojego zgonu, serce przestaje pompować ci krew do koniuszków palców dłoni. Potrzebna jest bowiem gdzie indziej: w głowie i w centrum ciała, tam, gdzie znajdują się płuca, serce, wątroba. Krew przestaje dopływać również do palców nóg. Stopy robią się zimne a oddech płytki. Zmysły przestają działać. Twoje ciało zaczyna żegnać się z życiem�� �� tak brzmią pierwsze zdania niezwykłego przewodnika po ostatniej podróży każdego z nas. Roland Schulz szczegółowo opisuje to, co przeżywamy podczas naszych ostatnich dni i godzin.

Tę podróż ciała śledzimy wraz z nim od sekcji zwłok aż do pogrzebu, aby na końcu zadać pytanie �� co umieranie i śmierć oznaczają dla tych, którzy pozostają wśród żywych: jak przebiega nasza żałoba i jak udaje nam się żyć dalej?]]> 304 Roland Schulz 8328707497 Iryna 0 to-read 3.46 2018
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]]> 208090593
Écoutez la méditerranée, écoutez-la bien. Regardez-la, regardez-la bien.
Ne percevez-vous pas, répercuté de vague en vague, le murmure ténu de milliers de vies glissant sur ces eaux bleues et limpides. Un murmure si fragile que souvent il s’éteint, avalé par les flots.
À bord de l�� « Ocean Viking », le navire de sauvetage de SOS Méditerranée, on vit au quotidien avec ce murmure, ces mots portés par le vent, ces vies qui risquent tout pour la traversée. On le guette, on l’attend, on l’espère même.
Car entendre le murmure, c’est pouvoir tendre la main. Sauver. Un impératif d’humanité. Quitte à se voir reprocher de « sauver trop de vies ».
Pour recueillir ce murmure, Hippolyte a embarqué sur l�� « Ocean Viking ».]]> 219 Hippolyte Iryna 0 to-read 4.73 2024
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]]> 59442386
Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: Yitian’s father has disappeared from the family’s rural village in China. He walked out of their courtyard two mornings ago, with only a plastic bag tied around his wrist, and no one has seen him since.

When Yitian returns to the village and attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate the country’s impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and his mother’s evasiveness only deepens the mystery. So he seeks out a childhood friend who may be in a position to help: Tian Hanwen, the only other person who shared Yitian’s desire to pursue a life of knowledge. As a teenager, Hanwen was “sent down�� from Shanghai to Yitian’s village as part of China’s rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university in the city together and poured everything into studying for the newly-reinstated college entrance exam. But when events spiraled into tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian made it to Beijing then to America, Hanwen was left behind, resigned to life as a mid-level bureaucrat’s wealthy housewife.

Reuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on the search for Yitian’s father, all the while reckoning with the past and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and grand cities, A Map for the Missing is an epic, deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, the cost of pursuing one’s dreams, and the meaning of home.]]> 400 Belinda Huijuan Tang 059330067X Iryna 0 to-read 4.16 2022
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]]> 63248223 From Icelandic author Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir comes a heart-wrenching thriller about a woman’s desperate quest to save the people she loves from a natural disaster.

After an eight-hundred-year slumber, the volcanoes in Iceland’s most populated region are showing signs of life. Earthquakes dominate the headlines. Echoes of the devastating eruptions in the past stir unease in the people.

Volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir has spent her entire life studying the volcanic powers under the earth’s crust, but even she cannot fathom the catastrophe at hand.

As a series of eruptions threaten most of Iceland’s population, she’s caught off her rational guard by the most terrible natural disaster of all—love. The world as she knows it is about to fall apart, and so is her heart.

Caught between the safety of a nation and her feelings for her children, her lover, and her past, Anna embarks on a dangerous journey to save the lives of the people she loves—and her soul.]]> 300 Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir 1662500165 Iryna 0 to-read 3.74 2020
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]]> 128889449 A wealthy Icelandic family gathers for a reunion in a remote hotel on the isolated lava fields, but when someone goes missing, dark secrets are exposed and everyone is a suspect �� the chilling, gripping prequel to the addictive, award-winning Forbidden Iceland series��

The wealthy, powerful Snæberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set amongst the dark lava flows of Iceland's remote Snæfellsnes peninsula.

Petra Snæberg, a successful interior designer, is anxious about the event, and her troubled teenage daughter, Lea, whose social-media presence has attracted the wrong kind of followers. Ageing carpenter Tryggvi is an outsider, only tolerated because he's the boyfriend of Petra's aunt, but he's struggling to avoid alcohol because he knows what happens when he drinks �� Humble hotel employee, Irma, is excited to meet this rich and famous family and observe them at close quarters �� perhaps too close��

As the weather deteriorates and the alcohol flows, one of the guests disappears, and it becomes clear that there is a prowler lurking in the dark.

But is the real danger inside �� within the family itself?

Masterfully cranking up the suspense, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir draws us into an isolated, frozen setting, where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted, as the dark secrets and painful pasts of the Snæberg family are uncovered �� and the shocking truth revealed.]]> 404 Eva Björg Ægisdóttir 1914585739 Iryna 0 to-read 3.91 2022
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]]> 61332368 Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a mysterious Akranes house fire, and a Dutch au pair’s perfect placement turns deadly �� The breathtaking third instalment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series.

***WINNER of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger***

‘Fans of Nordic Noir will love this�� Ann Cleeves

‘Elma is a fantastic heroine�� Sunday Times

‘Chilling and addictive, with a twist you won't see coming. I loved it!' Shari Lapena

‘Complex, gripping and moving�� The Times

_________________________

The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What’s more, the dead man’s final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.

A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes a job as an au pair in Iceland, desperate to make a new life for herself after the death of her father. But the seemingly perfect family who employs her turns out to have problems of its own and she soon discovers she is running out of people to turn to.

As the police begin to home in on the truth, Elma, already struggling to come to terms with a life-changing event, finds herself in mortal danger as it becomes clear that someone has secrets they’ll do anything to hide…]]> 369 Eva Björg Ægisdóttir Iryna 0 to-read 4.01 2020
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]]> 89162702
Роман «Людина, що спить» (1967) розповідає історію студента, який раптом замкнувся в собі, відрікшись не лише від навчання, а й від самого життя. Його поснула свідомість поміщає його немов поза часом, а дні заповнюються механічними діями, які залишаються неусвідомленими. Усі навколишні речі втрачають сенс. Порожнечу, яку головний герой намагається створити навколо себе, Перек майстерно передає через вигадливі описи станів на межі сну. Постійне повторення днів і ночей, заповнених одноманітними заняттями й ситуаціями, створює особливий сповільнений ритм, наділений примарною, меланхолійною поезією.]]> 224 Georges Perec 6177438385 Iryna 0 to-read 4.00 1965
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]]> 24308175 286 Herta Müller Iryna 0 to-read 4.00 2009
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]]> 58943544
«Шлюб» �� драма особистості, ув’язнено�� в закостенілих формах, ламаючи які, автор намагається десакралізувати так звані традиційні цінності.

Солдат Першої світової Генрик засинає на передовій і повертається уві сні додому, проте замість дома корчма, де бешкетують пияки, батьки стали корчмарями, а наречена служницею «до всього».

«Оперета» �� історія ХХ століття у формі гротескного модного дефіле на тлі краху старого світу, коли розпадаються всі суспільні форми й норми, включно з мовою.

Аристократи Шарм і Фірулет змагаються за прихильність Альбертинки й обвішують її розкішним гардеробом, проте дівчина, яку збудив випадковий дотик юного злодюжки, обирає наготу й свободу.]]> 296 Witold Gombrowicz 6177654460 Iryna 0 to-read 3.27
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]]> 219299650 other, about her son’s gloomy demeanor and her daughter’s obliviousness to everything, and, most of all, she worries about Stella, a confused teenager who has just met a sudden and disastrous end.

A domestic horror story that builds to an apocalyptic ending, Killing Stella distills many of the themes of Marlen Haushofer’s acclaimed novel The Wall into a claustrophobic, gothic, shattering novella.]]> 80 Marlen Haushofer 0811238652 Iryna 0 to-read 4.24 1958
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]]> 21898957 276 John Fowles Iryna 0 to-read 4.00 1974
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]]> 29372187
In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.]]> 992 Albert Cohen Iryna 0 to-read 4.00 1968
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]]> 58259338 261 Evan Dara 0980226643 Iryna 0 to-read 4.10
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]]> 1407803
A hymn to self-delusion and procrastination ZENO'S CONSCIENCE has provoked enormous affection in its readers both in Italian and English since its first publication in the 1920s.]]> 437 Italo Svevo 014018774X Iryna 0 to-read 3.55 1923
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]]> 200165112 105 Ljiljana D. Ćuk Iryna 0 to-read 4.81
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]]> 55834180
»Also, ich musste wieder auf ein paar Tage nach Zürich. Es war ganz schrecklich. Aus Nervosität darüber hatte ich mich das gesamte verlängerte Wochenende über so unwohl gefühlt, dass ich unter starker Verstopfung litt. Dazu muss ich sagen, dass ich vor einem Vierteljahrhundert eine Geschichte geschrieben hatte, die ich aus irgendeinem Grund, der mir nun nicht mehr einfällt, ›Faserland�� genannt hatte. Es endet in Zürich, sozusagen auf dem Zürichsee, relativ traumatisch.« Christian Krachts lange erwarteter neuer Roman beginnt mit einer Erinnerung: vor 25 Jahren irrte in »Faserland« ein namenloser Ich-Erzähler (war es Christian Kracht?) durch ein von allen Geistern verlassenes Deutschland, von Sylt bis über die Schweizer Grenze nach Zürich. In »Eurotrash« geht derselbe Erzähler erneut auf eine Reise �� diesmal nicht nur ins Innere des eigenen Ichs, sondern in die Abgründe der eigenen Familie, deren Geschichte sich auf tragische, komische und bisweilen spektakuläre Weise immer wieder mit der Geschichte dieses Landes kreuzt. »Eurotrash« ist ein berührendes Meisterwerk von existentieller Wucht und sarkastischem Humor.]]> 209 Christian Kracht 3462050834 Iryna 0 to-read 3.65 2021
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]]> 212298459 'A beautiful, important and timely rendering of Jewish life in Ukraine through the travails of the 20th century. Both historical and page-turning' Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends and Super Sad True Love Story

'An expansive novel reminiscent of the literary breadth, humanity, and historical depth found in Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate' Christophe Boltanski, winner of the 2015 Prix Femina for The Safe House

Seventeen-year-old Debora Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; 1930 is a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Debora finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot. They fall in love, and begin to mix with Ukraine's new cultural elite.

But Debora's prospects - and Ukraine's - soon dim. State-induced famine rolls through the over-harvested countryside, and any deviation from Moscow-dictated ideology is punished by disappearance. When Samuel is sentenced to ten years' hard labour, Deborah is left on her own with a baby. And this is only the beginning. As advancing Nazi armies move through Ukraine during World War II, its yellow fields of wheat run red with blood. Forced to renounce the man she loves, her identity and even her name, Debora also learns to endure, manipulate and resist.

No Country for Love follows the hard choices Debora makes as Ukraine, caught between two totalitarian ideologies, turns into the deadliest place in the world - while she tries to protect those she loves most.

A sweeping, stunningly ambitious novel about a young Ukrainian girl arriving in Kharkiv in 1930, determined to contribute to the future of her country, and her struggle to survive the devastation and trauma that ravage Ukraine.]]> 363 Yaroslav Trofimov Iryna 0 to-read 4.57 2024
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For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything.

As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments.]]> 400 Rebecca Wait 152942044X Iryna 0 to-read 3.98 2022
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]]> 60471573 Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

Love Letter is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other. Ghoul is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado, and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his "reality." In Mother's Day, two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And in Elliott Spencer, our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed--his memory "scraped"--a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters.

Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.]]> 256 George Saunders 0525509593 Iryna 0 to-read 3.99 2022
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]]> 40338442
In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book offers a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and of our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.]]> 157 Han Kang 0525573062 Iryna 0 to-read 3.86 2016
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]]> 222299543 Джафна, Шри-Ланка, 1981 рік.
Шістнадцятирічна Саші більше за все на світі мріє стати лікаркою. Протягом наступного десятиліття жорстока громадянська війна руйнує будинок дівчини, але точно не її мрію. Зневіра дуже сильно пронизує Саші, коли на початку боїв у державі, де домінують сингали, вбивають старшого брата Саші, а молодші брати приєднуються до тамільських тигрів, які після років дискримінації та насильства з боку держави борються за окрему батьківщину для тамільської меншини Шри-Ланки. Саші приймає запрошення працювати медикинею у польовому госпіталі, допомагаючи пораненим тамільським тиграм.
Після того, як «Тигри» вбивають одного з її вчителів, Саші починає сумніватися в її позиції. Оскільки тамільські тигри борються з іншими сепаратистськими групами та стають дедалі більш радикальними, лояльність Саші піддається випробуванню, і вона розмірковує над тим, якою має бути її роль у війні. Коли її запрошують приєднатися до секретного проєкту, що документує порушення прав людини, вона стає на небезпечний шлях, який змінить її назавжди.
Це повчальна карколомна історія про те, як боротьба за свободу аутсайдерів може стати корумпованою, і як добру справу можна спотворити та повернути проти тих самих людей, від імені яких вона спочатку претендувала. Водночас це портрет моральної подорожі дівчини, яка попри війну не зрадила собі та своїм цінностям.
Авторка книги, колишня віце-президентка Асоціації журналістів Південної Азії та директорка Американського інституту досліджень Шри-Ланки, не тільки детально описала історичні події, але й висвітлила внутрішній конфлікт і політичну складність.]]> 348 V.V. Ganeshananthan 6178439016 Iryna 0 to-read 4.75 2023
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]]> 227808918 400 Szczepan Twardoch 6175222814 Iryna 0 to-read 4.77 2022
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]]> 26090297 Які моральні джерела, що з них черпає людина свою гідність, здатність виступити проти соціальної несправедливості, як знайти своє високе призначення в житті �� ці і ще багато інших питань ставить перед нами глибоко філософський, високохудожній твір.]]> 330 Meša Selimović Iryna 0 to-read 4.67 1970
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]]> 10844343 128 Virginia Woolf 0141957050 Iryna 0 to-read 4.14 1941
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]]> 227404765 Герої книжки постають живими людьми зі своїми радощами та печалями, творчими злетами та падіннями, кумедними епізодами та життєвими драмами. Таємна співпраця з НКВД, вимушене фальшування автобіографій, труднощі професійної реалізації, плагіат як трамплін для кар’єри, знищення конкурентів за допомогою «адмінресурсу», гонорари й заборонені книжки, квартирне питання та взаємини з рідними �� усе це реалії літературного повсякдення в країні здійсненої антиутопії.
Розвідки спираються на маловідомі факти, виявлені в численних архівах чи записані з усних спогадів. Автори будують розповідь як захопливий детектив, розглядають різні версії, намагаючись разом із читачем проникнути в закулісні таємниці радянського літпроцесу.
Для тих, кого цікавить історія, хай і неприкрашена, гірка, але правдива, а також усіх, хто любить українське письменство й прагне пізнати його глибше.]]> 576 Сергій Цалик Iryna 0 to-read 4.00 2010
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]]> 17165885
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer’s son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever alters his life.

Winner of the 2012 Prix Méditerranée Étranger and hailed as a masterpiece, In the Night of Time is a sweeping, grand novel and an indelible portrait of a shattered society, written by one of Spain’s most important contemporary novelists.]]> 641 Antonio Muñoz Molina 0547547846 Iryna 0 to-read 4.01 2009
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]]> 63275291 58 Benjamín Labatut 6556923621 Iryna 0 to-read 4.14 2021
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]]> 27068575
The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it's hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years ... the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends ... Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who's obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might've been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident ... Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing ... and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there's Charice Bond - a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer's office - as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station.

Everybody's Fool is filled with humor, heart, hard times and people you can't help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so stridently human.]]> 477 Richard Russo 0307270645 Iryna 0 to-read 4.06 2016
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]]> 60542900 150 Catherine Malabou 1509549935 Iryna 0 to-read 3.97 2020
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]]> 62952125 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool.

Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald "Sully" Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully's son, is still grappling with his father's tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him.

Meanwhile, the towns' newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond, after the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice's ex-lover. When a decomposing body turns up in the abandoned hotel situated between the two towns, Charice and Raymer are drawn together again and forced to address their complicated attraction to one another. Across town, Ruth, Sully's married ex-lover, and her daughter Janey struggle to understand Janey's daughter, Tina, and her growing obsession with Peter's other son, Will. Amidst the turmoil, the town's residents speculate on the identity of the unidentified body, and wonder who among their number could have disappeared unnoticed.

Infused with all the wry humor and shrewd observations that Russo is known for, Somebody's Fool is another classic from a modern master.]]> 464 Richard Russo 0593317890 Iryna 0 to-read 4.16 2023
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]]> 125930473
Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.

Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another’s distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez’s new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.]]> 256 Sigrid Nunez 0593715519 Iryna 0 to-read 3.59 2023
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]]> 214329001 The future of storytelling is here.

Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next.

In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes.

What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.]]> 448 Nnedi Okorafor 0063391155 Iryna 0 to-read 4.03 2025
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]]> 1495835
The first part of the book, Irene, is about a young woman who works at an army camp and is drawn to Bill, a sadistic soldier. In the second part, We Can't Sleep, anxiety-infused experiences of Dagerman's alter ego, Scriber, and fellow conscripts are laid bare. In the last chapter, Scriber spells out his vision for how to conquer fear with an absurd disastrous ending.

This is Dagerman's first novel, published when he was 22 years old. It took reviewers by surprise: "So powerfully and convincing a debut, that it is unsurpassed by any other Swedish author in this century", exclaimed Olof Lagercrantz, the editor of the daily Dagens Nyheter.]]> 243 Stig; Thompson Dagerman 0704302411 Iryna 0 to-read 3.92 1945
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]]> 28339604
Picked for American Book Review's 100 Best First Lines from Novels]]> 290 Raymond Federman 0817380477 Iryna 0 to-read 5.00 1971
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]]> 19062793 525 Josef Bierbichler 3518760300 Iryna 0 to-read 4.00 2011
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]]> 212923993 A mother and son, estranged but yearning for reunion, reckon at last with the secret that has kept them apart for decades in this highly anticipated novel by "one of the country's most talented writers" (Wall Street Journal��)

At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of his clients only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him.

Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is wounded by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago banished from her mind the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter’s case plunges him further into the memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life forever, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.

With unsurpassed emotional depth, Mothers and Sons reveals all that is lost by looking away from the past and what might be restored by facing it. In his spellbinding new novel, Adam Haslett demonstrates yet again his mastery of “a rich assortment of literary gifts�� (New York Times).]]> 336 Adam Haslett 0316574716 Iryna 0 to-read 3.79 2025
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]]> 203956643 A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors�� (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women.

Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.

Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”]]> 257 Mariana Enríquez 0593733258 Iryna 0 to-read 3.79 2024
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