We present to reading nine intelligent bestsellers, which are a must-read for all lovers of smashing their brains over an interesting book!
1. JM Coetzee - "Waiting for the Barbarians"
A small town on the outskirts of an unnamed Empire is excited by the news of an imminent attack by tribes of barbarians from the border deserts. A colonel who has arrived from the heart of the Empire, ready to exterminate everyone, just to knock out the necessary testimony from a person. A city judge who does not want to panic and, as a result, turned from an accuser into an accused. A captive girl who, for a judge, becomes an object of sensual and religious worship. A parable novel, a metaphoric novel reminiscent of the crazy fantasies of Kafka, Beckett and Buzzati. A real treat for readers of intelligent bestsellers.
2. Markus Zuzak - "The Book Thief"
January 1939. Germany. A country that held its breath. Death has never had so much work to do. And there will be even more.
Mother takes nine-year-old Liesel Meminger and her younger brother to foster parents near Munich, because their father is no longer there - he was carried away by the breath of the strange and strange word "communist", and in the eyes of the mother the girl sees fear of the same fate. On the way, death visits the boy and for the first time notices Liesel.
So the girl finds herself on Himmelstrasse - Heavenly Street. Whoever came up with the name had a healthy sense of humor. Not that there was a living hell. No. But it's not heaven either.
3. Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
The two friends stood back to back on a cold February day outside the crematorium chapel. Two former lovers of the same woman named Molly Lane. Her death became an event in the high society of Amsterdam. But besides that, her terrible last days make two friends think about it - the successful editor of the popular daily newspaper Vernon Holliday and the famous composer working on the Millennium Symphony, Clive Linley.
It makes you think about the possibility of the similarity of your own fate and come to an unexpected decision ...
4. John Crowley - "Egypt"
Why are gypsies believed to be able to predict the future? Why is there a pyramid and a glowing eye on the dollar bill? Why does Michelangelo's statue of Moses have horns on its head? Because the modern age was preceded by Egypt; not Egypt, but Egypt. Because first of all it was not the same as it is today, but other laws ruled, and soon everything will change again, and the forgotten gods will again reign in souls and in heaven. Because the New York academic intrigue and zigzags of cocaine dealership take the humble historian Pierce Moffett into the American wilderness, while Giordano Bruno embarks on a lifelong journey, and John Dee and Edward Kelly see angels in a magic crystal. All this - in the novel "Egypt" by the incomparable John Crowley; the first novel of the tetralogy, which is called "Egypt".
5. Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
Enter the bright world of a twelve-year-old boy and live with him one summer filled with joyful and sad, mysterious and disturbing events; summer, when amazing discoveries are made every day, the main of which is that you are alive, you breathe, you feel! "Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury is a classic that entered the golden fund of world literature.
6. Ian Banks - "The Wasp Factory"
The famous novel by an outstanding Scotsman, the most scandalous debut in English prose of recent decades. Meet sixteen-year-old Frank. He killed three. He is not at all what he seems. He is not at all who he considers himself to be. Welcome to the island guarded by the Pillars of Sacrifice. To the house where the deadly Wasp Factory awaits in the attic.
7. Bret Easton Ellis - "Rules of Sex"
At the prestigious Camden College, they have fun until they drop and drink for five. Here, the newcomer will not be allowed to relax for a minute by extravagant parties and extreme gags that seem to have no end. Falling in love and cheating on each other, quarreling and taking their own lives, the local bohemia is in a hurry to thoroughly study all forbidden passions and vices, remembering the basic law: only those who will learn the difficult rules of reckless sex will not be in vain here ...
8. David Mitchell - "Ghost of Literature"
These pages intertwine the life paths of a young sectarian who, at the behest of His Providence, staged a sarin attack in the Tokyo subway, and an aspiring saxophonist who works part-time in a collection vinyl store, a London bank manager who launders money from the Russian mafia in Hong Kong, and a veteran of British intelligence who decided to publish his memories, his "literary negro" (also the leader of a punk group) and an ethereal ghost hovering over the Mongolian steppes, a woman physicist from an Irish island hunted by the Pentagon, the kidnappers of the Hermitage paintings, a New York DJ and many, many others ....
9. Doris Lessing - "The Fifth Child"
Harriet and David from the very beginning succeed in fulfilling the wonderful dream of all newlyweds: they have a large and comfortable home, a stable income, four happy and adorable children and a bunch of loving relatives. Holidays in their home are abundant celebrations of life and family happiness. And then they have a fifth child, nothing supernatural ... But is he a man?
1. JM Coetzee - "Waiting for the Barbarians"
A small town on the outskirts of an unnamed Empire is excited by the news of an imminent attack by tribes of barbarians from the border deserts. A colonel who has arrived from the heart of the Empire, ready to exterminate everyone, just to knock out the necessary testimony from a person. A city judge who does not want to panic and, as a result, turned from an accuser into an accused. A captive girl who, for a judge, becomes an object of sensual and religious worship. A parable novel, a metaphoric novel reminiscent of the crazy fantasies of Kafka, Beckett and Buzzati. A real treat for readers of intelligent bestsellers.
2. Markus Zuzak - "The Book Thief"
January 1939. Germany. A country that held its breath. Death has never had so much work to do. And there will be even more.
Mother takes nine-year-old Liesel Meminger and her younger brother to foster parents near Munich, because their father is no longer there - he was carried away by the breath of the strange and strange word "communist", and in the eyes of the mother the girl sees fear of the same fate. On the way, death visits the boy and for the first time notices Liesel.
So the girl finds herself on Himmelstrasse - Heavenly Street. Whoever came up with the name had a healthy sense of humor. Not that there was a living hell. No. But it's not heaven either.
3. Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
The two friends stood back to back on a cold February day outside the crematorium chapel. Two former lovers of the same woman named Molly Lane. Her death became an event in the high society of Amsterdam. But besides that, her terrible last days make two friends think about it - the successful editor of the popular daily newspaper Vernon Holliday and the famous composer working on the Millennium Symphony, Clive Linley.
It makes you think about the possibility of the similarity of your own fate and come to an unexpected decision ...
4. John Crowley - "Egypt"
Why are gypsies believed to be able to predict the future? Why is there a pyramid and a glowing eye on the dollar bill? Why does Michelangelo's statue of Moses have horns on its head? Because the modern age was preceded by Egypt; not Egypt, but Egypt. Because first of all it was not the same as it is today, but other laws ruled, and soon everything will change again, and the forgotten gods will again reign in souls and in heaven. Because the New York academic intrigue and zigzags of cocaine dealership take the humble historian Pierce Moffett into the American wilderness, while Giordano Bruno embarks on a lifelong journey, and John Dee and Edward Kelly see angels in a magic crystal. All this - in the novel "Egypt" by the incomparable John Crowley; the first novel of the tetralogy, which is called "Egypt".
5. Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
Enter the bright world of a twelve-year-old boy and live with him one summer filled with joyful and sad, mysterious and disturbing events; summer, when amazing discoveries are made every day, the main of which is that you are alive, you breathe, you feel! "Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury is a classic that entered the golden fund of world literature.
6. Ian Banks - "The Wasp Factory"
The famous novel by an outstanding Scotsman, the most scandalous debut in English prose of recent decades. Meet sixteen-year-old Frank. He killed three. He is not at all what he seems. He is not at all who he considers himself to be. Welcome to the island guarded by the Pillars of Sacrifice. To the house where the deadly Wasp Factory awaits in the attic.
7. Bret Easton Ellis - "Rules of Sex"
At the prestigious Camden College, they have fun until they drop and drink for five. Here, the newcomer will not be allowed to relax for a minute by extravagant parties and extreme gags that seem to have no end. Falling in love and cheating on each other, quarreling and taking their own lives, the local bohemia is in a hurry to thoroughly study all forbidden passions and vices, remembering the basic law: only those who will learn the difficult rules of reckless sex will not be in vain here ...
8. David Mitchell - "Ghost of Literature"
These pages intertwine the life paths of a young sectarian who, at the behest of His Providence, staged a sarin attack in the Tokyo subway, and an aspiring saxophonist who works part-time in a collection vinyl store, a London bank manager who launders money from the Russian mafia in Hong Kong, and a veteran of British intelligence who decided to publish his memories, his "literary negro" (also the leader of a punk group) and an ethereal ghost hovering over the Mongolian steppes, a woman physicist from an Irish island hunted by the Pentagon, the kidnappers of the Hermitage paintings, a New York DJ and many, many others ....
9. Doris Lessing - "The Fifth Child"
Harriet and David from the very beginning succeed in fulfilling the wonderful dream of all newlyweds: they have a large and comfortable home, a stable income, four happy and adorable children and a bunch of loving relatives. Holidays in their home are abundant celebrations of life and family happiness. And then they have a fifth child, nothing supernatural ... But is he a man?
