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Liksom Rosa: Compartment No 6

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A sad young woman boards a train in Moscow. Bound for Mongolia, she's trying to leave a broken relationship as far behind her as she can. Wanting to be alone, she chooses an empty compartment — No 6. Her solitude is soon shattered by the arrival of a fellow passenger: Vadim Nikolayevich Ivanov, a grizzled, opinionated and foul-mouthed ex-soldier, 'a cauliflower-eared man in a black workingman's…

Ayrton Pete: No Man's Land: Writings from a World at War

Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: This is an international First World War fiction, from the trenches to the home front. The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror…

Edugyan E.: Half-Blood Blues

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. A German citizen. And he is black.Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought when…

Hitchman Beatrice: Petite Mort

Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: Now a Woman's Hour drama scheduled for 28th October, running every week day for 2 weeks. Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death... A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1913 at the Pathe studio, before it was seen even by its director. A lowly seamstress, who makes the costumes she should be wearing, but believes her talent — and the secret she keeps too — will soon…

Jonquet Thierry: Tarantula: The Skin I Live in

Скачать книгу (размер 626 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 124) Аннотация: This title introduces a film by Almodovar, based on Jonquet's novel, due on 18th November 2011, starring Antonio Banderas. Richard Lafargue is an eminent plastic surgeon haunted by dirty secrets. He has an operating theatre in the basement of his chateau and keeps his partner Eve imprisoned in her bedroom, a room he has equipped with an intercom and 300-watt speakers through which he bellows…