Reading books is having a great impact not only on intellectual but also on spiritual development. So let's read and grow.
1. "Waiting for the barbarians", John. M. Coetzee
The novel is a metaphor, a parable, in the style of Kafka, a Nobel prize Winner, who at the award ceremony devoted his speech to Robinson Crusoe. Some provincial town of the Empire without a name is in a panic from the news of a possible attack of the barbarian border tribes. The main characters – the Colonel, knocks any price necessary evidence; the judge, which the Prosecutor becomes the accused, the girl who became judge of the object of worship.
2. "The book thief", Markus Zusak
Germany 1939. In the air for hovers the shadow of death. 9-year-old girl her brother's mother takes her to the adoptive parents. Their father is gone, and probably the same proportion expects their mother. On the road boy "meets" with death. When she notices the girl, the girl is on the Heavenly street – the place between heaven and hell.
3. "The rest of the day", Kazuo Ishiguro
In 1989 the novel won the Booker prize and filmed with a successful hire. Guninski the novel "the Coronation" — the new version of "remains of the day". The main character Stephen proudly carries all his life shouldered on the mission of the English servants of a noble gentleman. His life and beyond entrusted to him by the management. However, at the end of the road still have to look further in his Department and realize that life is much more difficult than his job, "gentleman" is just a cult, not used for good purposes.
4. "On the beach", Ian McEwan
Work Amsterdam English writer was awarded the Booker prize. For example, a young couple in the novel displayed the English society in the era of the rise of the sexual revolution – the second half of the 20th century. The boy and girl represent different social strata, with different interests and lifestyles. However, they did get married, but divorce after the first marriage night. Only many years later the man realizes his mistake, which he parted with his only beloved woman.
5. "Egypt", John Crowley
The main character, pierce Moffet arrives in a provincial town, BlackBerry-Slope to write a fantasy novel. How Gypsies can see the future? Where did the dollar bill Masonic symbol – the eye in the triangle? Why Michelangelo made the statue of Moses with horns? Is it because modern civilization preceded Egypt? Found Moffett, manuscript historian Velloza the Kraft causes him to reflect on these issues. Perhaps the world really the rules of magic?
6. "Dandelion wine", ray Bradbury
The novel includes autobiographical moments and spiritual experiences Bradbury. The reader is immersed in the summer of 1928. The events take place in town green town with two brothers adolescence. The grandfather of the brothers every summer, makes dandelion wine. One of the boys thinks that all the events of the summer should be sealed and stored in a bottle of wine.
7. "Wasp factory", Iain banks
The debut novel of English author from scandal. The main character, from whose face there is a story, 16-year-old Frank, who killed three people. The young man lives in a solitary place with his father, in the house where the Wasp Factory, deathwalker. Frank invents and carries out religious rituals with sacrifices. The beginning of a tragic outcome is an escape Erika – brother of the young man from the mental hospital. Frank discovers a terrible secret of his brother...
8. "The rules of attraction", Bret Easton Ellis
The satirical plot of the piece tells the story of several young people, representatives of higher social strata. They are studying at the prestigious English College in the 80-ies of the last century. One of the characters talks about their sexual promiscuity, immoral behavior, drinking until morning, infidelities, quarrels and vices of the entire company.
9. "Literary Ghost", David Mitchell
This is the debut novel of English author, which instantly made him famous. Work presents a lot of characters here and saxophonist, worked in the store, and the sectarian, and the Manager of the London Bank, which "in combination" launder Russian mafia money, and a veteran of the intelligence of England, writing his memoirs with the help of "literary slave". And a Ghost – drone flying over the steppes of Mongolia, a woman physicist from Ireland, where the Pentagon is hunting the kidnappers of paintings of the Hermitage, and many others...
10. "The fifth child", Doris Lessing
The reader familiar with the happy young couple having a lovely home, secure life, four children, many relatives. In a small town observed holidays. And here are a couple places in anxious anticipation of the fifth child. The baby finally is born. But who is he?! published
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