An international bestseller since 1992, this is a humorous look at what makes up one of the world’s most colorful characters: the Carioca-those charming inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, written by a U.S. native who has made Rio her home for more...
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A Burlesque...
A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates...
Сатира, Социально-философская фантастика
Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back, 2009-2041
Conservative Insurgency is a rallying cry and a battle plan for constitutional conservatives that takes the form of an oral history looking back from the year 2041 at constitutional conservatives’ successful struggle against progressive dominance....
America’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart. Now, as the former blue states begin to collapse under the dead weight of their politically correct tyranny, a lethal operative haunted by his violent...
Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Юмористическая проза
Library Cat: The Observations of a Thinking Cat
For the last year, Library Cat – the resident cat of Edinburgh University Library – has been watching. As a Human, you may not feel that watching is a particularly extraordinary thing for a cat to do. But Library Cat is different. Because not...
Praised by The New York Times Book Review as “an Abkhazian Mark Twain,” Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union — and also one of the funniest.The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young newspaperman who...
This memoir from the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking gives readers an intimate, gossip-filled look at what it’s like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty.
Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty,...
Европейская старинная литература , Юмористическая проза
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son...
When the Americans make an offer to buy Icelandic land to build an atomic war base, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country, and it is here that Laxness finds the catalyst for his story.
Told by a country girl from the north, the...