Tras la reciente muerte de su esposa después de una larga enfermedad, el historiador de arte Max Morden se retira a escribir al pueblo costero en el que de niño veraneó junto a sus padres. Pretende huir así del profundo dolor por...
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On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his...
The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish author John Banville. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38 year old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbor. Freddie is an aimless...
A historian, trying to finish a long-overdue book on Isaac Newton, rent a cottage not far by train from Dublin for the summer. All he need, he thinks, is a few weeks of concentrated work. Why, he must unravel, did Newton break down in 1693? What...
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel-at once trenchant, witty, and shattering-about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to...
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Дублин 50-х годов.
Город, тихие улочки которого порой напоминают лабиринт жестоких и мрачных секретов.
Здесь ограбления и убийства...
Классик современной ирландской литературы Джон Бэнвилл (р. 1945) хорошо знаком русскому читателю романами «Афина», «Улики»,...
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1957 год, Ирландия. Детектива-инспектора Страффорда вызывают из Дублина для расследования убийства в Баллиглас-хаусе – уединенном...
It is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can to assure the British public of their solidarity. But what of the two young princesses - Elizabeth and Margaret? How can they be kept safe without...