Valery Nougatov Knihy

Kanadská spisovateľka Margaret Atwood v historickom románe Volali ma Grace spracovala prípad vraždy Thomasa Kinneara a jeho gazdinej Nancy Montgomeryovej, ku ktorej došlo v roku 1843 v Hornej Kanade. Zo zločinu obvinili a na trest smrti odsúdili dvoch služobníkov obetí: Grace Marksovú a Jamesa McDermotta. Neskôr však Grace udelili milosť a trest jej zmenili na doživotie. Hoci sa autorka prísne drží faktov a nezmenila ani najmenší detail z vtedajšej tlače alebo z diel iných spisovateľov, ktorí sa o prípad zaujímali, príbeh obohatila fiktívnou postavou psychológa, ktorý má odborne zhodnotiť Gracein duševný stav a jej možnú vinu. Lekár sa zo všetkých síl snaží ostať nezaujatý a profesionálny, a pritom sa čoraz viac sa zaplieta do Graceinho príbehu. Podľa románu nakrútili aj úspešný seriál.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father's new, gold-digging girlfriend. Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget . . . .