Дебора Леви

An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatle...

'Kissing you is like new paint and old pain. It is like coffee and car alarms and a dim stairway and a stain and it's like smoke.' ('Placing a Call') How does love change us? And how do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. In Vienna, an icy woman seduces a broken man; in...

In this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere in England. Girl spends much of her time trying to find their mother, going to strangers' doors and addressing whatever Prozac woman who answers as "Mom." Billy spends his time fantasizing a futur...

Following the acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. The Cost of Living reveals a writer in radical flux, considering what it means to live with value and meaning and pleasure. This perfectly crafted snapshot of a woman in the process of transformation is as distinctive, wide-ranging and original as Levy's acclaimed novels, an e...

Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake cla...

The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy. To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman. The Cost of Living explores the subtle erasure...

The image is instant. It whirs out of the camera and they all watch it develop in silence. "Here." He gives the photograph to the perfect flawless woman without looking at it, by way of apology. When everyone gathers around Luciana to admire it, Gustav clicks again. The unloved look brave. The unloved look heavier than the loved. Their eyes are sadder but their thoughts are clearer. They are...

Молодая героиня София, сменившая профессию антрополога на работу официантки, приезжает с больной матерью Розой в испанский городок. Между хрупкой и неуверенной в собственном будущем Софией и властной Розой намечается конфликт: Роза относится к дочери как к служанке и недовольна ее пассивностью и холодностью. Личная драма дочери постепенно перерастает в нечто большее: Испания превращается в мифичес...

Когда две семейные пары приезжают на виллу недалеко от Ниццы, их ждет сюрприз – выходящая из бассейна обнаженная женщина. Ее зовут Китти Френч, она называет себя ботаником и странно себя ведет. Эта женщина-загадка внесет раздор в хрупкое устройство семьи. Кто она на самом деле? Что она делает на вилле? И почему ей разрешают остаться? "Заплыв домой" – роман с секретами. И главное, что волнует автор...

Заплыв домой Когда две семейные пары приезжают на виллу недалеко от Ниццы, их ждет сюрприз – выходящая из бассейна обнаженная женщина. Ее зовут Китти Френч, она называет себя ботаником и странно себя ведет. Эта женщина-загадка внесет раздор в хрупкое устройство семьи. Кто она на самом деле? Что она делает на вилле? И почему ей разрешают остаться? "Заплыв домой" – роман с секретами. И главное, что ...