What to read 10 books that do not let go to the last page
These books are so fascinating that you do notyou can tear yourself away from them. Turning the page after page, you will spend endless hours of these works, forgetting to eat. But believe me it's worth it!
Carlos Safon - "The Shadow of the Wind"
The novel begins in 1945 inBarcelona, where the hero, being a ten-year-old boy, gets acquainted with some mysterious book that completely changes his life. For twenty years, the hero is trying to unravel the secrets associated with this book, meeting strange strangers in his path, dazzlingly beautiful women, studying the abandoned possessions of the damned family and trying to understand the unexplained circumstances associated with the lives of people overwhelmed by burning love and no less burning hatred. The entangled plot, as if twisted in a spiral, leads the reader into the unknown secrets of consciousness, striking the imagination with its polysemy.
John Fowles - "The Magus"
On the lost Greek island mysterious "magician"puts cruel psychological experiments on people, exposing them to torture with passion and non-existence. The realistic tradition is combined in a book with elements of mysticism and detective. The erotic scenes of the novel are perhaps the best that was written about carnal love in the second half of the 20th century.
Christopher Priest - "Glamor"
From the famous author of the "Overturned World","Space machines" and "Prestige" (the adaptation of Christopher Nolan with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie!) - a psychological thriller "Glamor", a puzzling epic of self-realization. Cameraman Richard Gray is recovering from injuries sustained during the bombing of the police station near the hospital. He suffers from amnesia: he remembers nothing about the terrorist attack, nor about the weeks that preceded it. Therefore, the arrival in the hospital of Susan Culi, who claims that they had a novel, is a complete surprise to him; but under the influence of therapeutic hypnosis sessions, he seems to begin to remember how they met - in the summer, on the French Riviera. But why does Susan swear she's never been to France? What kind of strange power over her is her ex-boyfriend, whom Richard can not see? And how to understand her words that she - and even Richard himself - has glamor?
Markus Zuzak - "I am a messenger"
The life of Ed Kennedy, as they say, was not asked. A mediocre taxi driver, a weak card player and a completely useless heartthrob, he would probably have spent his time without any use in the provincial town, if by chance he had not committed a heroic deed by foiling the bank robbery. It was then that he had to become a messenger. Who chose him for this role and for what purpose? Ask what is simpler. However, the habit to go with the flow was useful to Ed and here: he submissively walks from house to house and brings benefit to anyone, and to whom harm - this is how the nameless and faceless force who chose him to be his tool decides. Every mission accomplished leaves an indelible mark on his fate, but does she bring the mystery closer?
Julian Barnes - "England, England"
What is this real England? A country of completely meaningless, but wildly romantic legends about Robin Hood? A country that long ago outlived its and purely monolithic character? Country of two advantages - undeniable, the passage of time not subject to - the Beatles and a good beer? It is not known how many angels can fit on the tip of a needle - but it is for certain that the whole of England can fit on the Isle of Wight. For it is on this island that everything in the theme park that embodies in the eyes of the whole world a kind old England, England.
Jonathan Carroll - "Country of laughter"
Jonathan Carroll is an American living in Vienna. He is called a worthy successor of the traditions of both the famous namesake and G.G.Markes, and not without the large admixture of Richard Bach. "Country of laughter" - Carroll's debut novel, still considered by many to be almost the pinnacle of his work. This is a book about love as a method of artistic creativity, about labyrinths of obsession and about applied zoolinguistics (talking dogs).
Lars Sobi Christensen - "Half-brother"
"Half-brother" - a huge, powerful, multidimensionalnovel, a real saga, in the pages of which many characters (even minor ones) live their lives from beginning to end. The book is constructed as a mosaic panel, each fragment of which (scene, event, dialogue) is absolutely original. Despite its impressive volume (768 pages), the novel is surprisingly dynamic, there are no repetitions, every event smoothly (or abruptly) flows into another. According to the reviewer of the newspaper "Independet" "Polubrat", perhaps the best book of the beginning of the XXI century.
Dina Rubina - "Parsley Syndrome"
Dina Rubina did the impossible - connected threedifferent genres: a fascinating and at the same time almost Gothic novel about puppets and puppeteers, pulling together the poles of history and art; Family detective and psychological drama, traced from bright childhood and youth memories to mature gray hair. Passion is also "tearing" the heroes. Man and doll, puppeteer and rebellious doll, man as a doll - in the hands of fate, in the hands of the Creator, subject to family heredity? - this deep and multidimensional metaphor is turned by the author in a variety of facets, not condescending to straightforward analogies. Mastery of the same literary "painting" Ruby, landscape and portrait, as always - at altitude: like eating slices fragrant tasty air and suffocating with pleasure.
Ben Elton - "Two Brothers"
A new novel by Ben Elton, piercing and gentle,about what people are ready to sacrifice for the sake of survival - their own and their loved ones. A novel about who they really are, what they are capable of, who they will not want to become for anything in the world. About what to do with everyday hatred, with persistent memory, with unabated pain - and how from this all at times sprout loneliness, fear and cruelty, and at times - kindness, and wisdom, and happiness. In this story there are laughter and tears, horror and amazement, tenderness and anger, loyalty and betrayal.
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