Profile Books, 2010. — 212 p. — ASIN B005OA3HYC Ox-Tales is a set of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. Earth features stories by Rose Tremain, Jonathan Coe, Marti Leimbach, Kate Atkinson, Ian Rankin, Marina Lewycka, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Buckley and Nicholas Shakespeare, and a poem by Vikram Seth. The idea behind Ox-Tales is to raise...
Vintage, 2011. — 208 p. — ASIN B004NBZG0Q Salvatore, a young watchmaker from Italy, moves to London when the king of his hometown decrees that a period of twenty-six years is to be erased from history, never to be mentioned in public again. Since this constitutes the whole of period of his life Salvatore feels he has no choice but to flee. He is a man who holds deeply to the...
Vintage, 1999. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0099284073 (ISBN13: 9780099284079) Fat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has left him paralysed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indian...
Vintage Books, 2000. — 454 p. Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Rose Tremain's dazzling, prize-winning tale is a pungently atmospheric, richly provocative, and masterfully orchestrated romance of point and Counterpoint: loyalty and deception...tenderness and violence...community and alienation...peace and conflict..."Music & Silence." Peter Claire is an English lutenist...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. — 432 p. — ASIN B00AWUA6AM Restoration is a dazzling romp through 17th-century England. The main character Robert Merivel not only embodies the contradictions of his era, but ours as well. He is trapped between the longing for wealth and power and the realization that the pursuit of these trappings can leave one's life rather empty.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0393079570 (ISBN13: 9780393079579) The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift for turning sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the...
Chatto Windus, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1784742279 (ISBN13: 9781784742270) Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. The girl known then as ‘Rosie’ and her sister Jo spent their days longing for their grandparents' farm, buried deep in the Hampshire countryside, a green paradise...
Vintage Books, 2002. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0099422034 (ISBN13: 9780099422037) At the age of six, Mary Ward, the child of a poor farming family in Suffolk, has a revelation: she isn't Mary, she's a boy. So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender, while around her others also strive to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world.
Vintage, 1999. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0099284375 (ISBN13: 9780099284376) Today is Jack Sadler's birthday. Or is it? He's not sure, he doesn't really care. It might be his last day or the beginning of a new chapter in his life. He must find the key to his old room. He knows the truth about his past lies there and somehow he must get in and confront it.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. — 256 p. — ASIN B00L4HAXB4 Rose Tremain awakens the senses in this magnificent and diverse collection of short stories. Trapped in a London apartment, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A young woman who is about to marry...
Vintage, 1999. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0099284278 (ISBN13: 9780099284277) At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his later afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day: it is the...
Vintage, 2004. — 369 p. — ISBN: 0099425157 (ISBN13: 9780099425151) Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity, but the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in a creek bed, he hides...
Современное произведение Тремейн Роуз (p. 1946). 10 страниц в документе PDF, на английском языке. Это рассказ, посвященный описанию битвы (1415 г.), а также попытке сделать предложение руки и сердца. Повествование ведется от лица простого историка, "маленького человечка".
Vintage, 1999. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0099284170 (ISBN13: 9780099284178) When Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard, she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she had told the young journalist the richly colourful story of her life as novelist, political activist and, above all, lover, from childhood in Suffolk, Paris between the wars, to oblivion in...
Vintage, 2006. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0099268566 (ISBN13: 9780099268567) Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic...
Vintage, 2011. — 160 p. — ISBN: 140701904X (ISBN13: 9781407019048) Renowned opera singer Antonio Mollini begins construction on what he hopes will be the most beautiful garden in Italy, unaware that its development will have tragic consequence for both him, and his series of lovers. Elsewhere, a farmer's son has high hopes for his inheritance, a young girl dreams of following...
Chatto Windus, 2016. — 241 p. — ISBN: 1784740039 (ISBN13: 9781784740030) Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and...
Little Brown and Company, 2008. — 411 p. — ISBN: 0316002615 (ISBN13: 9780316002615) In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing...
Vintage, 2011. — 290 p. — ASIN B004M8S49K After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling new idea: the creation of the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all....
Vintage, 1998. — 359 p. — ISBN: 0749396997 (ISBN13: 9780749396992) This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending in Paris with his mother, Alice. Alice is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian émigré, Lewis is there to make his first acquaintance with one of the greatest cities in...
Chatto & Windus, 2010. — 253 p. — ISBN: 0701177942 (ISBN13: 9780701177942) In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun, alone in her modern...
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