Book Intellectual set. The underground world. Fool. Discordia. Tyll. A Novel (set of 4 books)
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The last great American novel of the twentieth century, a world bestseller and a recognised masterpiece by the living classic Don DeLillo. A kind of summary of the era and the author's version of the history of the United States in the 1950s and 1990s.
On the pages of this truly comprehensive epic, you will meet the black Cotter family, waste management manager Nick Shay, artist Clara Sachs, Catholic Sister Edgar, graffiti artist Ismael Munoz («Moonlighting»), stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and more. Edgar Hoover and many others. Each of them has their own problems and dreams. Their stories, intricately intertwined around the journey of a baseball, create a special world that functions according to its own laws.
A brilliant novel about garbage, nuclear weapons, sports, art and politics.
«The Fool» — is one of the best novels by Christopher Moore, an American satirist who has earned worldwide fame as a bestselling author, each of which certainly contains magic, ghosts, tangled sexual relationships and destruction. And if you transfer all this to the fictional thirteenth century, you get a mishmash that is almost impossible to put down.
That's what it is, this story of the dramatic last year of Shakespeare's King Lear's life, told by the royal jester named Kapshuk - and just as a true born jester should be.
The Spring of Nations. The Austrian Empire pulsates and explodes with uprisings. Everyone is trying to define their own place in a great empire, which for many is actually alien.
Ignacy Kaminsky served his time in a Viennese prison and returned home to Stanislav. He has a certain authority among local revolutionaries and is actively involved in the debate between Poles and Ruthenians about whether to unite against the empire or to fight for their own.
Daniel Kelman is one of the most famous contemporary authors writing in German. And his novel Till is a skilfully composed mixture of Western European folklore, fiction and real historical events of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which swept through almost all European countries.
Till Uhlenspiegel, the hero of medieval legends, trickster, provocateur and mocker, the embodiment of the rebellious spirit, was transferred by the writer to the seventeenth century, to the lands of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, disfigured by endless ruin. The hero, who lost his father and mother but swore never to die, encounters travelling actors and kings who lost their crowns, executioners and scholars, poets and inquisitors, and his devoted companion is the baker's daughter Nele.
The writer's skill mysteriously connects and links all these fates, and the reader is presented with the true fabric of that cruel time. In 2020, Daniel Kaelman's novel Til was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.