Storm, Starling B

Автор: Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz and Starling, Heloisa Maria
Название: The Penguin History of Brazil
ISBN: 184614793X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846147937
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 18480.00 T
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Описание: Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published AbroadSince Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Brazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country from its origins to the 21st century - itself larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped.

The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to create both political institutions and social frameworks that would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all its citizens. Brazil's failure to achieve these except in the very short term has been tragic, but even now it remains one of the world's great experiments - creative, harsh, unique and as compelling a story for its inhabitants as for outsiders.

Автор: Starling B
Название: Messiah
ISBN: 0451409000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451409003
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4290.00 T
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Автор: Boris Starling
Название: Vodka
ISBN: 000711947X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007119479
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A taut and shocking story of vengeance, bloodshed and love, set over 100 days of bitter Russian winter! from the bestselling author of Messiah.

Автор: Boris Starling
Название: Storm
ISBN: 0006512054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006512059
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 6150.00 T
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Описание: Elemental rage, bloody Greek myth, man's greed and capacity for cruelty, the insane imaginings of a killer, all intermingle in this stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Messiah to create a novel of stunning ferocity. A storm-tossed crossing on the North Sea; a catastrophic ferry accident; hundreds dead. Detective Chief Inspector Kate Beauchamp is onf the survivors but her ferocious fight to stay alive brings with it a high cost: a burden of guilt that she should live while some of her friends died; a terror of water; a frozen inner core that never seems to melt. When the body of a young female journalist is found in Aberdeen soon after the disaster, Kate insists on conducting the investigation -- partly to exorcize her own demons, partly because she feels a strange affinity with the victim. The killing is peculiarly brutal and the murderer has left a unique calling card: attached to the woman's neck is a poisonous snake. Into this emotional cauldron steps the last man on earth Kate wants to see -- her estranged father, Frank, in Aberdeen to conduct the marine inquiry into the sinking. Was the disaster the result of a bomb, as claimed by the ferry-line's chairman, or is he trying to hide something? In a sweltering heatwave, Kate and Frank conduct their highly pressured investigations. But for both of them, danger is approaching fast -- a vortex of violence which will sweep them up and endanger their very lives.