Книги жанра Faber and Faber
Название: New York Trilogy
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 1999
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Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.
Название: Pulp Fiction
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 1999
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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Palme d`Or at Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction exploded onto the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. This triplet of interwoven crime stories displays Tarantino`s visceral approach to character and plot.
Название: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 1999
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A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'. From the author of «Testaments Betrayed».
Название: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2000
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One of a three-part series of Lawrence Durrell`s writings. In this volume he explores the island of Cyprus, evoking the sun-drenched landscapes, dazzling light and vivid blue skies of the Aegean.
Название: Reservoir Dog
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2000
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One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber`s extensive list of film scripts.
Название: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2001
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This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.
Название: Babylon
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2001
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Translated from the Russian, this razor-sharp satire on consumer culture, Russian style, follows the irresistible rise of a Moscow advertising copywriter, who specialises in adjusting Western adverts to the Eastern mentality and selling Pepsi, Seven-up, Gucci, Mercedes and Reebok to the rising middle class.
Название: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2001
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First published in 1939, T.S. Eliot`s collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become a favourite of children`s literature.
Название: My Name Is Red
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2002
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In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day — in the European manner. At a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Even the illustrious circle of artists are not allowed to know for whom they are working. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their Master has to seek outside help. Did the dead painter fall victim to professional rivalry, romantic jealousy or religious terror? With the Sultan demanding an answer within three days, perhaps the clue lies somewhere in the half-finished pictures... Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's leading contemporary novelist and in «My Name is Red», he has fashioned an unforgettable tale of suspense, and an artful meditation on love and deception.
Название: Snow
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2004
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Ka returns to Istanbul and takes a commission to report on the municipal elections in Kars near the Russian border. There he discovers a dangerous atmosphere, with tensions running high between the political Islamists and the enlightened, pro-Western Turkish military.
Название: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2004
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Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton`s lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children — hopeful, yet hapless beings.
Название: History of Arab Peoples
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2005
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Tells the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. For this edition, Malise Ruthven continues the history to include such recent events as the crisis in Iraq, the civil war in Algeria and the aftermath of September 11th.
Название: Shroom
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2007
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Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? This book tells the story of how hallucinogenic mushrooms, once shunned in the West as the most pernicious of poisons, came to be the illicit drug of choice.
Название: Lost Cosmonaut
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2007
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Documents Daniel Kalder`s travels in the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia`s ethnic republics.
Название: Waiting for Godot
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2006
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»Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it`s awful.» This line was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of Waiting For Godot at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. Anybody acquinted with Beckett`s masterly black comedy would not question the recognition of this twentieth-century literature classic.
Название: The Janissary Tree
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2007
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Yashim is no ordinary detective. Yashim is a eunuch. A concubine is strangled in the Sultans palace harem, and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the citys crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, «The Janissary Tree» is a bloody, witty and fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast.
Название: Strange Telescopes
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2011
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When Daniel Kalder, acclaimed author of «Lost Cosmonaut», descended into the sewers of Moscow in pursuit of the mythical lost city of tramps, he didn`t realise that he was embarking on a bizarre, year-long odyssey that would lead him thousands of miles across Russia to the Arctic Circle via the heart of Asia.
Название: QI: Book of Animal Ignorance
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2007
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Presents an off-road safari through a hundred interesting members of the animal kingdom, with illustrations and diagrams. This title covers: the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom.
Название: QI: Annual 2008
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2007
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Imagine an edition of «The Guinness Book of Records» selected by a panel of stand-up comedians. This work is packed with original contributions from Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Bill Bailey and other regular guests on the show, with games to play at home, puzzles, cartoon strips, mini-encyclopaedias, how-to diagrams and masses of QI facts.
Название: QI: Pocket Book of General Ignorance
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Год: 2008
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Presented in handy pocket-size, this title catalogues the various misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in «common knowledge» that can make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school.
