What to read 10 important books written by women

1. "Goldfinch" Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt - one of the most influential writers of our time, which is like readers and critics did not hesitate to compare with Dickens. In light of its published three novels, writing each took 10 years. When holding Donna Tartt book, you know, so carefully and at the same time naturally evolving story.

The last novel "Goldfinch" was the most popular book of the author. This is the story of growing up a boy, Theo, whose childhood was over in one day because of the terrorist attacks in the art gallery.

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2. "Second-hand Time" Alexiyevich

Alexiyevich works in the genre of artistic and documentary prose. Talking with witnesses of important events, it allows the reader to look at what is happening through the eyes of a participant, not a bystander.

Many books are devoted Aleksievich wartime: "War nezhenskoe face", "The Last Witnesses", "Zinc boys." The book "second-hand Time" involves recent events - the restructuring and 1990s. Aleksievich trying to fix the outgoing era and to understand what happened to the people who lived in this difficult time.

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3. "Enjoy," Anthony A. S. Byatt

In the center of the novel English writer Anthony A. S. Byatt - two lines: the history of Victorian poets Randolph Henry Holly and Christabel La Motte and modern scientists-literary Mitchell Roland and Maud Bailey, who are closely connected. "Enjoy" - a detective and mystery and romantic history, and literary study.

Roman has not only been awarded the prestigious Booker Prize, but also included in university programs in many countries.

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4. "Little Life", Chania Yanagihara

Yanagihara novel became a major literary sensation in 2016. A controversial book about four childhood friends and collected many positive and negative reviews. But just left nobody indifferent.

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5. "The game of go," Shan Sa

Shan Sa moved from China to France after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, was educated and began to write. Excellent knowledge of Eastern culture she combines poetry with the French language, so novels Shan Sa is very unusual and recognizable.

In the novel "The Game of" the unfolding events in Manchuria 1930: Japanese samurai and a young Chinese woman who should be enemies, to love each other for game of go.

6. "On Beauty," Zadie Smith

English writer with Jamaican roots in his work likes to push the culture and traditions. In the novel "On Beauty" we will focus on the two professors with diametrically opposing views on politics, money, art and Rembrandt, whom they both studied. Due to the different understanding of beauty and unfolding conflict, it is meaningless, and therefore funny.

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7. "Five quarters of the orange", Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris was born in the French-English family, and she confesses her whole life since childhood, filled with food and folklore. This is reflected in her work, especially in the novel "Five quarters of the orange."

Together with the main character Framboise, which is inherited from the mother's album with recipes, we are transported to France, in a difficult time of occupation. On the sidelines of the album her mother wrote down his thoughts, he kept a kind a diaryTo help her daughter understand the difficult past of their family.

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8. "The coil of blue thread," Anne Tyler

The main issue of concern to Tyler - what it means to be part of the family. Therefore, in his works she explores the different types of relationships: between husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters.

On the example of a simple family Uitshenk, with its problems, the simple pleasures and mysteries, Tyler once again proves that the house - a special place for everyone.

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9. "The Thirteenth Tale" Diane Setterfield

The debut novel by British writer became a bestseller and razosholsya millions of copies worldwide.

Known writer Vida Winter offered to write the biography of an ordinary worker bookstore Margaret Lee. It would seem that the candidacy is not the most suitable. But Margaret is obsessed with the theme of twins, because her life began with the loss of her sister. That is why the Winter can honestly tell her my story, which hides so long.

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10. "More then life itself," Alice Munro

Alice Munro - a master of short prose and the owner Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition, it is the only writer from Canada, was awarded this award.

Storybook "More then life itself" (in other translation - "Dear Life") is dedicated to 20 century, so the narrative tone imbued with nostalgia for youth, the past and living in small campuses.

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