Лучшие книги Джозефа О'Коннора

Джозеф О`Коннор - один из наиболее популярных современных ирландских писателей. Его роман `Ковбои и индейцы` был номинирован на премию Уитбреда. Герой романа, юный уроженец Дублина Эдди Вираго, отправляется в Лондон искать счастья в мире рок-музыки. Любовь и наркотики, тяжелая работа и волшебный мир эстрады, разочарования, новые надежды, обретения и потери сопровождают его на пути к самому себе в безумном мире гигантского города.

1847 год, Великий голод в Ирландии. Сотни тысяч людей умирают, арендаторов сгоняют с земли за неуплату, отчаявшиеся крестьяне мстят землевладельцам. Все, кому удается наскрести хоть какую-то сумму, стараются уплыть за границу, в Америку или Канаду. На одном из таких кораблей - "Звезде морей" - сходятся совершенно разные люди.
Аристократическое семейство Дэвида Мерридита, их няня Мэри, несчастный калека Малви, получивший приказ убить Дэвида, американский журналист Диксон. Выясняется, что судьбы этих попутчиков тесно переплетены, и драматический финал их путешествия оказывается совершенно неожиданным.

In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith, his wife and children, and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution.

This journey will see many lives end, others begin anew. Passionate loves are tenderly recalled, shirked responsibilities regretted too late, and profound relationships shockingly revealed. In this spellbinding tale of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the farther the ship sails toward the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past that will never let them go.

As urgently contemporary as it is historical, this exciting and compassionate novel builds with the pace of a thriller to a stunning conclusion.

September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war’s outcome is far from certain.

Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world’s smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn into deadly danger as they seek to help those seeking refuge.

Book 1 in the Rome Escape Line Trilogy, My Father’s House is a powerful, heartbreaking literary thriller based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who risked his life to smuggle thousands of Jews and escaped Allied prisoners out of Italy under the nose of his Nazi nemesis. A deadly high-stakes battle of wits ensues in this astonishing, unforgettable story of love, faith and sacrifice, exploring what it means to be truly human in the most extreme circumstances.

Joseph O'Connor rejoint le catalogue des Editions Rivages après de longues années passées chez Phébus, où il était l'un des auteurs emblématiques. Grand romancier irlandais, il revient à la veine historique qui a fait son succès avec ce roman malicieux sur la vie de Bram Stoker, le créateur du mythique Dracula. Mais il refuse toute biographie romancée trop linéaire et se lance dans une fiction inventive, surprenante, qui évoque aussi une figure légendaire du théâtre anglais, l'actrice Ellen Terry, sorte de Sarah Bernhardt londonienne, figure féministe et puissante. Roman d'amour, roman sur les mystères et les errances de la création, ce texte est une célébration de l'Art de raconter et de vivre des histoires.

In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the Rome Escape Line. When an unidentified airman falls from the sky, The Choir is plunged into lethal danger and the survival of the Escape Line itself is threatened.

At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to chase fame. But the story of this makeshift family is haunted by ghosts from the past.
Spanning 25 years, The Thrill of it All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative soundtrack of struggle and laughter. Infused with blues, ska, classic showtunes, New Wave and punk, using interviews, lyrics, memoirs and diaries, the tale stretches from suburban England to Manhattan's East Village, from Thatcher-era London to the Hollywood Bowl, from the meadows of the Glastonbury Festival to a wintry Long Island, culminating in a Dublin evening in July 2012, a night that changes everything.
A story of loyalties, friendship, the call of the muse, and the beguiling shimmer of teenage dreams, this is a warm-hearted, funny and deeply moving novel for anyone that's ever loved a song.

Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom in America. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, whose life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Their affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is quarrelsome, affectionate and tender.

Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift of memories. Her once dazzling career has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat.

1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a young boy she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary.

It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet and the mercurial revolutionary James Con O'Keeffe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems.

Redemption Falls is a tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Packed with music, balladry, poetry and storytelling, this is a riveting historical novel of urgent contemporary resonance, from the author of the internationally bestselling Star of the Sea.

Как понимать людей и как оказывать влияние на людей.
Одни люди оказываются более способными достигать успеха в своей деятельности, чел другие. НЛП — быстро развивающееся направление прикладной психологии — предлагает простые и доступные описания того, что делают гги люди и что отличает их от других людей. НЛП предлагает вам самим научиться этим действиям и повторить выдающиеся результаты. Такой подход позволит вам овладеть практическими умениями, которые используют выдающиеся коммуникаторы. Коммуникативные способности — а то основа для достижения серьезных результатов в личном развитии и профессиональном росте, в консультировании, образовании и бизнесе.

The author of Desperadoes and Cowboys and Indians directs his acid humour upon contemporary Irish life at home and abroad. The result is a headlong, love-struck, end-of-millenium, coast-to-coast tour of the frustrations, contraditions and giddying glories of being Irish in the 1990s.