The Booker Prize-winning novel-now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures.
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For...
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Перед вами – ВТОРОЙ «букеровский» (2001) роман Кэри. Изящная и ироничная стилизация под «подлинные мемуары» легендарного австралийского...
«Не знаю, потянет ли моя повесть на трагедию, хотя всякого дерьма приключилось немало. В любом случае, это история любви, хотя любовь...
An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love—all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.
London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the...
Книга, в которую погружаешься, как в водоворот, а потом – только захлебываешься в авторском остроумии, великолепном языке и...
Амфетамины ценой в миллион...
The first collection of short stories published by Peter Carey, whose other books include "Bliss", "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda", which was awarded the 1988 Booker Prize. The stories, set in an ominous near-future that has a feel of...
… Эта история началась на задворках цивилизации вскоре после войны как безобидная шутка. Посредственный поэт Кристофер Чабб решил...
Granny Catchprice runs her family business (and her family) with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Her daughter Cathy would rather be singing Country & Western than selling cars, while Benny Catchprice, sixteen and...
"Illywhacker is such an astonishing novel, of such major proportions, that before saying anything else one must record gratitude for its existence." – Geoffrey Dutton, Bulletin
"The finest and funniest picaresque novel yet written in Australia"...