Дэн Роудс

Simplicity finds enormous power in Dan Rhodes's offbeat collection of short (very short) stories. With his award-winning Timoleon Vieta Come Home and chick-lit send-up (under the nom de plume Danuta De Rhodes) The Little White Car, his authorial range became obvious. Now his remarkable collection, Anthropology, only enhanced Rhodes's reputation. Declared one of Granta's Best Young B...

"This is Life" is a missing baby mystery and an enchanted Parisian adventure. Hand in hand with lovable heroine Aurelie Renard, you will see life as you've never seen it before, discover the key to great art, witness the true cost of love, and learn how all these things may be controlled by the in-breath of a cormorant. Chock-full of charming characters and hilarious set-pieces this is a huge...

In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers, lives the Old Man. Caretaker of the museum by day, by night he enjoys the sound of silence, broken by the occasional crunch of a spider between his blackened teeth. Little Hands Clapping brings together the Old Man with the respectable Doctor Ernst Frohlicher, his greedy dog Hans and a cast of grotesque and hilario...

Like a Welsh 'Amelie' set in a pub, 'Gold' is a tender, understated tale of love, loss, and growing up. It is also vintage Dan Rhodes, one of the most critically beloved novelists working today. Miyuki Woodward, lover of beer and microwaveable food, has been taking a two-week vacation?away from her companion?to the same seaside town in Wales for the last eight years. She is mad...

One of John Updike's most sophisticated and moving novels, Marry Me casts a mature eye on infidelity, a subject about which he wrote more insightfully than anyone else. In 1962 Connecticut, married Jerry Conant has entered into a life-altering affair with his equally married neighbor, Sally. Earnest and religious, never one to take love lightly, he's desperate to make an honest woman of ...

Молодой британский писатель Дэн Роудс выпустил в свет два сборника рассказов и роман. На этом он намерен закончить свою писательскую карьеру. "Антропология " - его первая книга, она составлена из коротких историй, по содержанию часто напоминающих детские страшилки или садистские стишки. Вся книжка - сплошной формальный эксперимент: тексты расположены по алфавиту, всего рассказов - сто один, и в ка...