Awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's most highly regarded work of fiction, though not his best known. That distinction belongs to The Satanic Verses, the 1988 novel that prompted Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, who considered the book blasphemous, to declare Rushdie an enemy of Islam and put a $1.5 million bounty on his head. But in Midnight's Children, Rushdie had already produced a novel that not only risks offending some readers, but also fiercely challenges our understanding of history, nationhood, and narrative.
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Fury is the story of a dollmaker whose dolls run wild, of living women turned into dolls and then broken, and of a revolt on the planet's far side led by an army of living dolls. Fury is a novel of an old, deep love gone wrong, of a second, twisted passion rooted in wrongness, and of a third, passionate love that just might turn out right. Fury is a novel of furious energy, a study of the workings of fury at the heart of human lives: the personal fury that poisons human relations, the psychotic fury that fuels murderers, the social fury born of our raised and disappointed hopes, the creative fury that sets free our greatest gifts, the political fury that starts revolutions and burns whole cities down. Fury is a novel of today, an utterly contemporary portrait of life at the beginning of the third millennium, life in New York during an apparently endless time of prosperity that is paradoxically also a time of barrenness in many people's lives, and also in the world-empire that America rules, although it barely knows where it is.
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When Abraham Lincoln met the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe after the start of the American Civil War, he reportedly said to her: 'So you're the little lady whose book started this big war'. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, is credited as fuelling the cause to abolish slavery in the northern half of the United States in direct response to its continuation in the South.
AUDIOBOOK: The Catcher in the Rye (Над пропастью во ржи: на английском языке)
The Catcher in the Rye is a
novel by
J.D. Salinger. First published in the
US in
1951, the novel remains controversial to this day for its liberal
profanity and portrayal of
sexuality and teenage
angst; it was the thirteenth most frequently
challenged book of the 1990s according to the
American Library Association.
The novel has become one of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, and a common part of
high school curricula in many English-speaking countries, such as the
United States,
Canada, the
United Kingdom, and
Australia. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 60 million.
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
The Zahir, Paulo Coelho's new novel, is a perfect follow-on to The Alchemist. Paulo picks up the theme of the pilgrimage to Santiago but tells a very different, gripping story of love, loss and passionate obsession.
От издателя: Вполне вероятно, что вскоре критики назовут "Заир" лучшим из романов знаменитого бразильского писателя. Впрочем, такое случалось почти с каждой новой книгой Пауло Коэльо. И нашумевший "Алхимик", и жизнеутверждающая "Вероника решает умереть", и скандальные "Одиннадцать минут" - про все эти произведения в свое время было заявлено, что это-то и есть та самая вещь, благодаря которой имя автора останется в веках.
Но "Заир" - это не просто очередной бестселлер. Это книга личного откровения, что-то вроде исповеди, представленной в виде сюжетного повествования. Главный герой - популярный писатель, когда-то выходец отсталой страны, где "даже нет собственной литературной традиции", хиппи и наркоман, а ныне респектабельный житель Франции, богатый и известный - настолько напоминает самого Коэльо, что читателю трудно будет отвлечься от мысли, что рассказ идет о вымышленном персонаже, а не о самом авторе.
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