Céline au milieu de l'Allemagne en flammes. Avec ses compagnons d'infortune, — sa femme Lili, l'acteur Le Vigan, et le chat Bébert —, le voici à Baden-Baden dans un étrange palace où le caviar, la bouillabaisse et le champagne comptent plus que les bombardements, puis dans Berlin en ruines, et enfin à Zornhof dans une immense propriété régie par un fou. C'est une gigantesque tragédie-bouffe, aux dimensions d'un pays qui s'effondre, vécue par celui qui se nomme lui-même « le clochard vieillard dans la merde »

В этой книге вы найдете 14 интервью мужчин из Северных стран — Швеции, Норвегии, Финляндии, Дании с Фарерскими островами, Исландии, а также из России. Они делятся своим родительским опытом: как стать для ребенка по-настоящему близким человеком, как соблюдать баланс между семьей и работой, как помогать партнеру и распределять домашние обязанности, как воспитывать детей от предыдущих отношений и разрешать конфликты между братьями и сестрами. Это честный разговор о трудностях и радостях родительства, о том, что значит быть отцом. Для широкого круга читателей

Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of “people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic”—female-to-male transsexuals, heterosexual crossdressers, and the intersexed. We meet Lyle Monelle and his mother, Jessie, who recognized early on that her little girl was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help Lyle make the transition. On a Carnival cruise with a group of crossdressers and their spouses, we meet Peggy Rudd and her husband, “Melanie,” who devote themselves to the cause of “ordinary heterosexual men with an additional feminine dimension.” And we meet Hale Hawbecker, “a regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy” with a wife, kids, and a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender. Casting light into the dusty corners of our assumptions about sex, gender and identity, Bloom reveals new facets to the ideas of happiness, personality and character, even as she brilliantly illuminates the very concept of "normal.”

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Norman Mailer was one of the giants of American letters and one of the most celebrated public figures of his time. He was a novelist, journalist, biographer, and filmmaker; a provocateur and passionate observer of his times; and a husband, father, and serial philanderer. Perhaps nothing characterized Mailer more than his unbounded ambition. He wanted not merely to be the greatest writer of his generation, but a writer great enough to be compared to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. As Michael Lennon describes, he even had presidential ambitions, although he settled for running for mayor of New York City. He championed personal freedom and civil liberties, calling himself a “left conservative,” and yet he was Enemy #1 of the Women’s Movement. He was as pugnacious in real life as in print, engaging in famous feuds and fights. Although he considered himself first and foremost a novelist, his greatest literary contribution may have been in journalism, where he used his novelistic gifts in tandem with self-revelation to explore the American psyche. In that regard, the subtitle of his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning Armies of the Night is telling: “History as a Novel, the Novel as History.” He would return to certain subjects obsessively: John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, sex, technology, and the intricate relationship of fame and identity. Michael Lennon’s definitive biography captures Mailer in all his sharp complexities and shows us how he self-consciously invented and reinvented himself throughout his lifetime. Michael Lennon knew Mailer for thirty-five years, and in writing this biography, he has had the cooperation of Mailer’s late widow, Norris Church, his ex-wives, and all of his children, as well as his sister, Barbara. He also had access to Mailer’s vast, unpublished correspondence and papers, and he interviewed dozens of people who knew Mailer. Norman Mailer: A Double Life gives us the man in full, a remarkable and unique figure in the context of his times

Martina Mono "Normandija - Nemuna" Romāns «Normandija-Nemuna» ir beletrizēts stāstījums par vēsturiskiem notikumiem. Tajā viss ir tīra patiesība un itin viss izdomāts. Lai samērīgi sintezētu epopeju, kas risinājusies gandrīz trīs gadus, šā romāna autorei, tāpat kā filmas autoriem, vajadzēja mainīt notikumu laiku un pāris desmit galvenajos personāžos apvienot tās raksturīgās īpatnības, kādas piemita gandrīz divsimt kritušajiem, bez vēsts pazudušajiem vai vēl dzīvajiem franču un krievu lidotājiem. Šā iemesla dēļ visi filmas, kā arī romāna varoņu vārdi ir izdomāti. https://disk.yandex.ru/i/uE8P5PvTg8G8nw LVI Rīga 1963 No franču valodas tulkojis О. Brikšķis Mākslinieks E. Skujiņš

Introducing an instant classic--master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths. Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly reincarnating Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin's son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, the son of giants, a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. From Gaiman's deft and witty prose emerges the gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their

The discovery of stroon, a drug that confers near immortality on humans, has made Old North Australia rich, so rich that, when Rod McBan has to flee the planet because someone wants him dead, he buys the Earth. Cordwainer Smith is pen name of an American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913–1966). Portions of this novel have been previously published under the following titles: The Planet Buyer (aka The Boy Who Bought Old Earth), 1964; The Underpeople, 1968 (posthumous edition). The Planet Buyer was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1965

From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the epic story of two families — the Hazards and the Mains. Separated by vastly different ways of life, joined by the unbreakable bonds of true friendship, and torn asunder by a country at the threshold of a bloody conflict that would change their lives forever

First, a mysterious letter from the late Lady Anne Darcy is discovered—propelling Elizabeth on a quest to learn more about Darcy's deceased mother and an unsettled matter she left behind. Then a summons to Northanger Abbey involves the young couple in an intrigue that threatens not just the Darcy family name, but Darcy's freedom as well. And just when it seems their situation could not grow worse, Darcy's overbearing aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, takes up residence at Pemberley. Add to all this rumors of treasure and hints of deceptions old and new, and it becomes apparent that Pemberley is filled not with peace, but with secrets and spirits of the past—and that their exposure could profoundly affect the generation of Darcys to come

Time: The Near-Future Place: The Frozen Arctic Tundra Russia vs. America in a space-age manhunt with the highest of stakes: Mankind’s future Across the brutal no-man’s land of the Arctic Tundra moves a solitary figure. Drugged past the point of exhaustion, totally unprepared for survival in subzero temperatures, he must endure a frozen hell no human has endured before. This man is a uniquely trained, invaluable American agent, and he carries with him information which will determine the course of history. He must survive — although the most sophisticated devices of Russian technology are working to insure his destruction — although the natural weapons of the Arctic menace him with every step he takes. He must survive — for on his survival hangs the future of mankind

FBI Special Agent Ana Grey debuts in this electrifying thriller marked by psychological acuity and unfaltering suspense. After Ana Grey pulls off “the most amazing arrest of the year,” the squad supervisor — who doesn't like irreverent, tough-minded young women — gives her a reprimand instead of the promotion she deserves. As a test, she is assigned a high-profile case involving a beloved Hollywood movie star and an illegal supply of prescription drugs. It doesn't take Ana and her partner, Mike Donnato, long to realize "this is not a case” but “a political situation waiting to explode”—and they're holding the bomb. As the boundary between her private and professional lives begins to blur, Ana's own world collides with her investigation, and she is forced to confront the searing truth about the nature of power and identity, and the mystery of her past

It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers, prostitutes, and housewives. If they can’t pay, he treats them anyway. But in his own life, Delaney is emotionally numb, haunted by the slaughters of the Great War. His only daughter has left for Mexico, and his wife Molly vanished months before, leaving him to wonder if she is alive or dead. Then, on a snowy New Year’s Day, the doctor returns home to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep, left by his mother in Delaney’s care. Coping with this unexpected arrival, Delaney hires Rose, a tough, decent Sicilian woman with a secret in her past. Slowly, as Rose and the boy begin to care for the good doctor, the numbness in Delaney begins to melt. Recreating 1930s New York with the vibrancy and rich detail that are his trademarks, Pete Hamill weaves a story of hon…

JAWS meets DAS BOOT! In the dead of night the U-616 – a Type VIIB U-Boat patrolling the British mainland in the early years of World War II – rescues a solitary survivor from a sunken ship. His story is so outlandish as to be unbelievable: a colossal shark – far too large even to be a Great White – hunting them for days before savaging straight through their hull and sinking them down into the ocean. Captain August Krauser is sceptical of the man’s story, but as the U-616 continues its patrol he is forced to admit that the danger lurking in the water is very real. Something impossibly large and ancient follows the submarine, bringing the two greatest hunters the North Sea has ever seen into an explosive confrontation. Copyright 2017 by Brad Harmer-Barnes

Internationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermid has riveted millions of readers worldwide with her acutely suspenseful, psychologically complex, seamlessly plotted thrillers. In Northanger Abbey, she delivers her own, witty, updated take on Austen’s classic novel about a young woman whose visit to the stately home of a well-to-do acquaintance stirs her most macabre imaginings, with an extra frisson of suspense that only McDermid could provide. Cat Morland is ready to grow up. A homeschooled minister’s daughter in the quaint, sheltered Piddle Valley in Dorset, she loses herself in novels and is sure there is a glamorous adventure awaiting her beyond the valley’s narrow horizon. So imagine her delight when the Allens, neighbors and friends of her parents, invite her to attend the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh as their guest. With a sunny personality, tickets every night and a few key wardrobe additions courtesy of Susie Allen, Cat quickly begins to take Edinburgh by storm and is taken into the bosom of the Thorpe family, particularly by eldest daughter Bella. And then there’s the handsome Henry Tilney, an up-and-coming lawyer whose family home is the beautiful and forbidding Northanger Abbey. Cat is entranced by Henry and his charming sister Eleanor, but she can’t help wondering if everything about them is as perfect as it seems. Or has she just been reading too many novels? A delectable, note-perfect modern update of the Jane Austen classic, Northanger Abbey tells a timeless story of innocence amid cynicism, the exquisite angst of young love, and the value of friendship

Предлагаем вниманию читателей роман замечательной английской писательницы Джейн Остин «Нортенгерское аббатство». Роман вышел в свет уже после смерти писательницы, в 1817 году. Неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала снабжен постраничным комментарием и словарем. Книга адресована студентам языковых вузов и всем любителям английской литературы

Qian Xiaohong is born into a sleepy Hunan village, where the new China rush towards development is a mere distant rumour. A buxom, naïve sixteen-year-old, she yearns to leave behind hometown scandal, and joins the mass migration to the bustling boomtown of Shenzhen. There, she must navigate dangerous encounters with ruthless bosses, jealous wives, sympathetic hookers and corrupt policemen as she tries to find her place in the ever-evolving society. Hardship and tragedy are in no short supply as her journey takes her through a grinding succession of dead end jobs. To help her through this confusing maze, Xiaohong finds solace in the close ties she makes with the other migrant girls — the community of her fellow 'northern girls' — who quickly learn to rely on each other for humour and the enjoyment of life's simple pleasures. A beautiful coming-of-age novel, Northern Girls explores the inner lives of a generation of young, rural Chinese women who embark on life-changing journeys in search of something better

The raging fury of war was ending. But their perilous passion had just begun… Hauntingly beautiful Perry McLain was desperate to escape the powerful Union Army captain who pursued her, seeking vengeance for her rebellion. Yet, her vow to save the handsome Hunter Kirkland plunged her deep into enemy territory… and into the tortuous flames of desire. To Hunter, weak with fever, she was nothing but an alluring dream visiting him in the darkness… a sultry vision he could embrace only in the heat of his own imagination. Yet the memory of her warm caresses, the urgent ecstasy of her closeness refused to fade in the morning light. He did not realize that underneath the dirt-caked, boyish clothes of his daytime companion was the body of the woman whose nighttime passion he craved…

The Aldabreshin Archipelago has been ravaged by war, its fragile alliances sundered by new enemies, enemies wielding forbidden elemental magic and spreading terror throughout the scattered southern realm. Warlord Daish Kheda has vowed to reclaim his people's land but in the process loses his own kingdom, is exiled from his family and is forced to journey north to seek answers. The wizard Dev has pledged to assist Daish, hungry to discover the secrets of this powerful dark magic. This causes turmoil among Dev's northern countrymen, leading to a political battle where strength in magic is key to the highest rank of all

Quiller is back-still working without gun, cover or contacts-behind the Iron Curtain, hiding in a city where there is no place to hide. Trusting in a woman who can't be trusted. Rescuing a man he would rather kill. Trying to save a world that is already heading over the brink. Quiller is "the greatest survival expert among contemporary secret agents." (The New York Times) Adam Hall is "skillful as ever at stretching suspense to the screaming point." (Publishers Weekly)

The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of medieval Europe. From their chill northern fastness, Norse warriors, explorers and merchants raided, traded, and settled across wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic from the late eighth to the mid-eleventh century. Northmen narrates their story, focusing on places where key events were played out, from the sack of Lindisfarne in 793 to the murder of the saga-writer Snorri Sturluson in Iceland in 1241. Such episodes are fascinating in themselves, but also shed crucial light on the nature of Viking activity – its causes, effects, and the reasons for its decline. In 800, the Scandinavians were barbarians in longships bent on plunder and rapine; by 1200, their homelands were an integral part of Latin Christendom. John Haywood tells, in authoritative but compellingly readable fashion, the extraordinary story of the Viking Age

A generation after a global nuclear catastrophe, Minnesota is a steamy tropical environment of lush plants and horrifically mutated insects. Emerging torn and battered after a triple jump through the gateways, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors discover an abandoned cyronics complex — a doomed fantasy begun a century before in a world far away from Deathlands. Dr. Mildred Wyeth is successfully revived from subzero suspended animation and joins the team of warrior survivalists. In the jungles of Minnesota, the group discovers yet another freakish legacy of a world gone hideously wrong: Vikings. In the Deathlands, the past and the future are clashing with frightening force

With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal killers, detective Cork O’Connor must solve the murder of a young girl in the latest installment of William Kent Krueger’s unforgettable New York Times bestselling series. During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm. Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover an old trapper’s cabin where they find the body of a teenage girl. She wasn’t killed by the storm, however; she’d been bound and tortured before she died. Whimpering sounds coming from outside the cabin lead them to a tangle of branches toppled by the vicious winds. Underneath the debris, they find a baby boy, hungry and dehydrated, but still very much alive. Powerful forces intent on securing the child pursue them to the isolated Northwest Angle, where it’s impossible to tell who among the residents is in league with the devil. Cork understands that to save his family he must solve the puzzle of this mysterious child whom death follows like a shadow

В охоте за немецким чудо-оружием приняли участие и новейшие ночные истребители-перехватчики 9-й воздушной армии — двухмоторные Нортроп P-61 «Black Widow». К сожалению, самолет «Блэк Уидоу» не получил даже толики славы «Мустанга» или «Летающих Крепостей» и мало известен широкой публике

Norvēģu pasakas Vai tu zini pasaku par puisēnu, kas devas pasaulē, lai paraudzītos, vai nevarēs kādu piemuļķot? Vai jūs zi­nāt, kā Pelnrušķis (un nevis Pelnrušķīte!) sacentās ēšanā ar trolli? Kas ir troļļi, kādi viņi ir, kur viņi dzīvo un ko dara? To visu un daudz ko ci­tu uzzināsiet, izlasot šis jau­kās norvēģu pasakas. Lielākoties tās ir brīnumu pasakas ar spilgti izteiktām nacionālām iezīmēm. Pasaku varoņi steidzas pāri kalniem un lejām, cauri purviem un mežiem, lai cīnītos un uzvarētu viltīgu karali, ļaunu pamāti, raganas, velnus, pūķus un milžus, bet visbiežāk troļļus — pašus tipiskākos norvēģu pasaku nevaroņus. Ganuzēns, trešais tēva dēls, parasti apmuļķo un uzveic troļļus. Visiem mazajiem un lielajiem pasaku mīļotājiem. Godīgi nopelnītā nauda ; Kā Pelnruškis sacentās ēšanā ar trolli ; Par puisi, kas gāja pie Ziemeļvēja atprasīt savus miltus ; Uzticīgais un Neuzticīgais ; Nepateicība ir pasaules alga ; Austrumos no saules un rietumos no mēness ; Kuru sievietes mīl, tam labi klājas ; Bagātais tirgonis Pērs ; Zosu ganīte Ose ; Milzis, kas staigāja apkārt bez sirds ; Trīs krustmāminas  ; Zemnieks Vējabārda  ; Plušķe ; Ceļabiedrs ; Peiks ; Mācītājs un zvaniķis ; Velns un fogts ; Kunga līgava ; Pasaulē ir tādas sievas ; Muļķa vīri un gudrās sievas Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv Rlga «Zinātne» 1995 Norwegian Folk-Tales «Zinātne» Publishing House Riga 1995 In Latvian Compiled and translated by Elija Kliene Pāvila Šēnhofa vāks Induļa Zvagūža ilustrācijas Norvēģu pasakas / Sast. un tulk. Elija Kliene. — R.: No 523 Zinātne, 1995. — 168 ipp., il. (0 Elija Kliene, sastādījums un tulkojums, 1972

Sheldon Horowitz — 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable — is staying with his granddaughter’s family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger’s child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son’s death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly. To Norway’s cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He’d heard the boy’s eastern European mother being murdered, and he’s determined to protect the child from the killer and his Balkan gang. With an endearing combination of dexterity and daring, Sheldon manages to elude the police in what is hostile, foreign territory for him. But what he doesn’t know is that the police and the gang both know where he’s heading. Norwegian by Night is the last adventure of a man coming to terms with the tragedy of his own life as he tries to save another’s. It combines laconic, deadpan humour, moral seriousness, visceral grief, and narrative tension in a remarkable way. An extraordinary debut, featuring a memorable hero

This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time.  It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before.  Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable.  As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A poignant story of one college student's romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love