"My little children", "Department", "What do the bestsellers": 10 exciting new books May

Fiction

"My children," Guzel Yakhina

The new novel from the author of the bestseller "Zulaikha opens his eyes." Its action takes place in the 20-30-ies of XX century. Jacob Bach, the Volga Germans, is a teacher in the colony Gnadental. Every day, men like the previous one: in the morning he rings the bell, the class prepares for the arrival of students, and then teach them writing, reading, language and numeracy.

Life flows steadily and predictably exactly as long as one is not Bach receives a strange letter from no less strange request, which strongly affect the whole of his fate. A wealthy farmer-Grimm offers Bach to become a tutor for his daughter Clara. All anything, that's just to give lessons the teacher will have to invisibility: Clara securely hidden from his screen.

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"On Beauty," Zadie Smith

The classical university professors, a novel about the life of Harold Belsen and Monty Kipps, warring. They are completely different - one liberal, the other - a conservative one - an Englishman, and the other - comes from the Caribbean. Bit unites them only that they both critics and specialized in Rembrandt. Although even here the views of men differ, one worships the artist, and the second is trying to dispel the myth of his genius.

In the eternal confrontation between professors will be involved and their families, who throughout the novel will constantly arguing with each other about politics, work, ideology, art, and more tolerance other. this small-town conflict entail tragic and comic at the same time the consequences.

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"There was a Britt-Marie", Fredrik Backman

Britt-Marie - the lady very strict rules. She gets up at six in the morning and goes to six in the evening, because that, in her opinion, all decent people do. It does not make a mess or in life or in an apartment. But once debugged to trifles world order Britt-Marie gives a crack: after 40 years of marriage, her model change husband.

Unexpectedly for itself Britt-Marie collect all the things and moved to the Borg - a small town, where almost all residents had left. Having decided to radically change the life of Britt-Marie becomes coach of the local football team, befriends a rat and makes it more unusual things.

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"Department", Alexey Salnikov

Igor opened a cunning scheme to that profit the bosses, and for that he was dismissed from the bodies. Suffered for justice a man gets a job in a new horrible place - The Department, which is located in an abandoned industrial area on the boiler.

It seems to work is simple - you need just something to talk to people. There is only one feature: after the conversation they will certainly have to kill, and then carefully record the event on paper. Such cases and will deal with Igor, who eventually hopes to realize to whom exactly it works and to whom do we need a mysterious Department.

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Non-fikshen

"From Giotto to Titian. Titans of the Renaissance ", Paola Volkova

Illustrated lecture critic Paola Volkova on significant periods in human history - the Renaissance, the successor to the Middle Ages. Each period of this era was famous for the greatest creators and true titans: Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo and others. Just him and the subject of this book.

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"The Apocalypse of the Middle Ages. Hieronymus Bosch, Ivan the Terrible, End of the World ", Valeria Kosyakova

A fascinating study of the medieval image of the end of the world and the Last Judgment, after reading that it is clear that such an apocalypse, where all the people did the idea of ​​it, so attractive than the image in the context of culture and what impact it has had on architecture, art and even policy.

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"What do the bestsellers" Galina Yuzefovich

A collection of essays and guide multifarious world of contemporary literature by famous critic Galina Yuzefovich. The book explains what good books are different from the poor, to whom and for what gives literary prizes, the secret of the success of the saga Harry Potter and that many so much like Bilbo Baggins, and Erast Fandorin. At the end of each chapter is a thematic collection of books, which the author recommends to the reading.

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"When the cathedrals were white. Journey to the edge of the half-hearted people, "Le Corbusier

The famous French architect Le Corbusier shared his impressions from the first visit to New York. Skyscrapers Manhattan, brisk yellow taxi, confusing subway, frantic pace of the city - all this caused burning interest Corbusier and prompted for valuable reflections and ideas, which are then picked up by other Architects.

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"Modernism and Contemporary Art", Amy Dempsey

If you want to understand contemporary art and to begin to understand it, this book can help. In it in a convenient format collected stories about the 68 most important directions in the art of modernism and postmodernism. Each direction dedicated a separate chapter with a brief description, and are the most typical of its representatives and their most famous works.

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"From atoms to the tree. Introduction to modern biology, "Sergei Hawks

This textbook biology for adults who want more detail to understand this science and to refresh existing knowledge. How life began on Earth, what is in the cage, as living beings handle information and energy than similar, and the differences between living organisms - this will be discussed in the book.

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