Скачать книгу (размер 552Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Senhor JosГ© is a low-grade clerk in the city s Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, …
Скачать книгу (размер 686Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of white blindness. The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the …
Скачать книгу (размер 764Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: In this “ingenious” novel (New York Times) by “one of Europe’s most original and remarkable writers” (Los Angeles Times), a proofreader’s deliberate slip opens the door to romance-and confounds the facts of Portugal’s past.
Скачать книгу (размер 431Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: In 1551, King JoГЈo III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this …
Скачать книгу (размер 703Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband MarГ§al in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices to which Cipriano delivers his pots and …
Скачать книгу (размер 703Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. What s going on? Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around …