Последние издания книг Бернис

Норман когда-то в прошлом — вундеркинд, родительский любимчик и блестящий адвокат… в сорок один год — наркоман, почти не выходящий из спальни, весь во власти паранойи и галлюцинаций. Решение отправить в психиатрическую лечебницу — мучительный шаг для отца и сестры, но прорываются мысли и чувства, которые долгие десятилетия все скрывали — друг от друга и самих себя. Роман «Избранный» принес Бернис Рубенс Букеровскую премию в 1970, но и полвека спустя он не утратил своей остроты. Рубенс безжалостно и с глубоким сочувствием исследует отношения людей, тесно связанных традициями, чаяниями, чувствами вины и долга, любовью и ненавистью. Этот…

Герой романа английской писательницы Бернис Рубенс Альфред Дрейфус всю жизнь скрывал, что он еврей, и достиг высот в своей области в немалой степени благодаря этому. И вот на вершине карьеры Дрейфуса - а он уже глава одной из самых престижных школ, удостоен рыцарского звания - обвиняют в детоубийстве. И все улики против него. Как и его знаменитый тезка Альфред Дрейфус (Б.Рубенс не случайно так назвала своего героя), он сто лет спустя становится жертвой антисемитизма. Обо всех этапах судебного процесса и о ходе расследования, предпринятого адвокатом, чтобы доказать невиновность Дрейфуса, нельзя читать без волнения.

Герой романа Альфред Дрейфус всю жизнь скрывал, что он еврей, и достиг высот в своей области в немалой степени благодаря этому. И вот на вершине карьеры Дрейфуса - а он уже глава одной из самых престижных школ, удостоен рыцарского звания - обвиняют в детоубийстве. И все улики против него.

«Пять лет повиновения» (1978) — роман английской писательницы и киносценариста Бернис Рубенс (1928–2004), автора 16 романов, номинанта и лауреата (1970) Букеровской премии. Эта книга — драматичный и одновременно ироничный рассказ о некоей мисс Джин Хоукинс, для которой момент выхода на пенсию совпал с началом экстравагантного любовного романа с собственным дневником, подаренным коллегами по бывшей работе и полностью преобразившим ее дальнейшую жизнь. Повинуясь указаниям, которые сама же записывает в дневник, героиня проходит путь преодоления одиночества, обретения мучительной боли и неведомых прежде наслаждений. «Пять лет повиновения» — трагикомическая история о добровольном подчинении и о манипулировании людей друг другом, о тайных страстях и смысле жизни

George Verrey Smith, suburban schoolmaster, is bored: with his wife, his life, his job. Plagued by poison pen letters, suffused with lust for Mrs Johnson next door,the only bright spot in George's life is Sunday. On Sunday George looks his best. On Sunday George dresses up. On Sunday George becomes Emily.

"Пять лет повиновения" - роман английской писательницы и киносценариста Бернис Рубенс, автора 16 романов, номинанта и лауреата Букеровской премии.

Эта книга - драматичный и одновременно ироничный рассказ о некоей мисс Джин Хоукинс, для которой момент выхода на пенсию совпал с началом экстравагантного любовного романа с собственным дневником, подаренным коллегами по бывшей работе и полностью преобразившим ее дальнейшую жизнь. Повинуясь указаниям, которые сама же записывает в дневник, героиня проходит путь преодоления одиночества, обретения мучительной боли и неведомых прежде наслаждений.
"Пять лет повиновения" - трагикомическая история о добровольном подчинении и о манипулировании людей друг другом, о тайных страстях и смысле жизни.

It is 1947, one year before the Israeli War of Independence, and Palestine is still under the British Mandate. However, young Israelis are flocking to the leadership of Menachim Begin and his Irgun terrorist movement in an attempt to overthrow their rulers. Two British sergeants are kidnapped by the Irgun. They will be executed unless there is a widespread amnesty for the Irgun freedom fighters—and so begins a hunt throughout Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the whole of Palestine to find and liberate the two innocent young men. Based on a true story, The Sergeants' Tale illuminates an historical episode, and also has enormous contemporary poignancy.

The killer's modus operandi is the same in each instance—strangulation, always with a guitar string, pulled tight from behind until life is taken. And though the murders are taking place up and down country, there is one other similarity that Inspector Wilkins can't help noticing. Each and every victim is a psychotherapist.

Resting in a hospice for the terminally ill, Annie is dying. Supported by her oldest friend, Clemmie, who listens and sympathises, she looks back over her life. Each woman has had a disappointing marriage: Clemmie to a man who turned out to be gay; Annie to a man who left her under tragic circumstances. Gradually Annie reveals her story.


At 18 a GI whom she never sees again impregnates her in the back of a truck. Living alone with her mother, she brings up her daughter to believe the child's father is a dead war hero. After a few years Annie marries Eric, a charming man. However when Mary, her daughter, discovers the truth she is horrified and goes to the US - to Milwaukee - to try and locate her genuine father. She returns with a man who claims to be him, but Annie is highly suspicious. Is Mary trying to get her revenge on the mother - and subsequently Eric - whom she feels betrayed her by lying about her true parentage?

This immensely powerful novel follows four generations of the Bindel family as they fight for survivial in a hostile world. From imperial Russia in 1825 they head towards Western Europe, returning finally to modern Russia, where the persecution of the Jews continues. The Bindel family are knit by unbreakable bonds of love and loyalty, bonds which survive conscription into the Tsarist army in the 1830s, the Odessa pogrom of 1871, emigration to the Welsh valleys and Germany, the Nazis, the concentration camps, and the Gulags.

In this 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel, Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes—until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.

Bernice Rubens is one of England's elder stateswomen of literature, and I,Dreyfus upholds her reputation for producing stately and polished fiction with a serious moral intent. For Rubens, the anti-semitism which rocked France at the turn of the last century has not gone away. This time it crops up in 1990s England. Sir Alfred Dreyfus is the headmaster of a Church of England school. His only sin has been one of omission--he has concealed his Jewish origins to further his career. However, the novel opens with Sir Alfred imprisoned for a crime far more heinous. Literary agent and fellow Jew Sam Temple (names are emblematic for Rubens, and Temple does indeed prove to be an emotional haven for Dreyfus) visits the prisoner in his cell and persuades him to write a memoir of his downfall. The resulting narrative reveals a man coming to terms with his religious identity, and reclaiming his family's past. It is a deeply felt account of spiritual renewal, and should be read as an expertly crafted parable. Fans of psychological realism may balk at the evil anti-Semites she pits against her hero, but will rally at the sly humour of her ending. --Lilian Pizzichini

Bronwen's life has been tainted by her killing of a man who tried to rape her in the lane behind her parents' house. She tells nobody about the incident but her guilt manifests itself in the frequent nosebleeds she has at awkward moments. Fifty years later, she is still living her life sentence.

This sharp and wickedly funny novel tells what happens when a close friend dies and you can't let go. Martin Peabody responds by cutting out the mind of his friend and mentor, Walter Berry, a great novelist. "Autobiopsy" is the story he culls from the late Walter's life-time thoughts.

One day, the man in front of Luke at the post office drops down dead in line. Instinctively, Luke's hand snakes out and slips the corpse's unposted letter into his pocket. With this impulsive act, he begins a search for justice.

Reading a Rubens novel (Mate in Three, Our Father, Sat on Edge--all 1987) requires an iron-nerved distance. Her cool tales about acrid domestic relations and solitary masturbatory griefs, rages, and obsessions, touched as they are with a bizarre comic irony, cut deep. Here, a London psychiatrist, cold as an arctic bean, germinates an evil seed. Dr. Alistair Crown's wife, Virginia, has just given birth to their first child, named ``Doris'' by an angry Virginia from a card she found in the flowers Alistair brought her--flowers purloined from a cemetery. Alistair is cheap as well as rotten. Doris is born with Down's syndrome, and Alistair will never look at the child's face. But he will touch her body (after covering her face) with what he considers one version of parental love, and then, obsessed, he will draw doodles of an imagined Doris face. Inevitably, Alistair and Virginia separate, and he continues to see patients. (Rubens wickedly skewers the workday of a bored psychiatrist). Into Alistair's office one day comes ``Esau,'' a huge man covered with hair like an animal. Rejected by his father, Esau strips before medical men to reverse his father's withering verdict, and Esau becomes Alistair's gentle friend (platonic). Esau's tragic end preludes another erasure of innocence when little five-year-old Doris is kidnapped. The anguish of temporarily reunited parents and grandparents as hours and days tick by has acid calms and tempests of unrelieved nightmare. The close is predictable, but such is Rubens's skill that the reader must plunge along to the end of a very direful road indeed. A teeth-grinding, chilling tale of human nastiness--in guises that are both horrible and most commonplace. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.