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Даже самая простая мелодия может быть обманчивой Альфред Бузи – звезда небольшого городка, известный своими песнями и музыкой. Мистер Ал, как его зовут близкие, скорбит о покойной жене в одиночестве на своей большой вилле на берегу моря. Однажды ночью на Бузи кто-то нападает – не голодное животное, а дикий ребенок. Этот случай возрождает старые слухи: возможно, в лесах вокруг города живет древняя...

A celebration of the modern city . . . in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the sun-ripened oranges and smell the coffee at the market traders? stalls? Sunday Times

Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa, who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, afaint figure in the distance, fasting for forty days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles ...

Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist. Under an endless and unforgiving sky, four travellers enter the Judean desert in search of redemption. Instead, amidst the barren rocks, they are met by a dangerous man, Musa, and fall under his dark influence. But there is a fervent, solitary figure also sharing their landscape, denying the temptations of his neighbours, an...

On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. But the sky is marred by two conspicuous columns of smoke, replacing pleasurable anticipation with alarm and suspicion. One smoke column is the result of an overnight fire that has damaged the master's outbuildings. The...

Одежда ныряльщика лежит пуста Кто такая эта женщина без имени - главная героиня? Пустышка, прилетевшая понежиться под солнцем? Загнанная жертва? Преступница, скрывающаяся от закона? "Одежда ныряльщика лежит пуста" – странный роман о подмене личности, одновременно параноидальный триллер и пронзительная женская проза. Книга, как и ее героиня, примеряет одну личину за другой, меняет один костюм на...

Даже самая простая мелодия может быть обманчивой Альфред Бузи – звезда небольшого городка, известный своими песнями и музыкой. Мистер Ал, как его зовут близкие, скорбит о покойной жене в одиночестве на своей большой вилле на берегу моря. Однажды ночью на Бузи кто-то нападает – не голодное животное, а дикий ребенок. Этот случай возрождает старые слухи: возможно, в лесах вокруг города живет древняя...

A celebration of the modern city . . . in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the sun-ripened oranges and smell the coffee at the market traders? stalls? Sunday Times

Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa, who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, afaint figure in the distance, fasting for forty days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles ...

Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist. Under an endless and unforgiving sky, four travellers enter the Judean desert in search of redemption. Instead, amidst the barren rocks, they are met by a dangerous man, Musa, and fall under his dark influence. But there is a fervent, solitary figure also sharing their landscape, denying the temptations of his neighbours, an...