100 лучших книг 2014 года по версии The New York Times — 100 книг

With great sadness and much hard truth, Mengestu’s novel looks at a relationship of shared dependencies between a Midwestern social worker and a bereft African immigrant.

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Wyld’s emotionally wrenching novel traces a solitary sheep farmer’s attempt to outrun her past on a remote British island.

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The paths of a blind French girl and an orphaned German boy converge in this novel, set around the time of World War II.

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Most of these stories offer variations on a particular sort of woman: in her 30s, urban, emotionally adrift.

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One has the sense that Mantel is working with some complex private material in these suavely stylish, vastly entertaining contemporary fables.

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In Osborne’s feverish novel, the playing is done on the gambling tables of Macau by a tortured embezzler on the run.

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The uncrowded format of Moore’s first collection in 16 years allows each story the chance it deserves for leisurely appreciation, and lets the reader savor just what makes her work unique.

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In this latest head-­spinning flight into other dimensions from the author of “Cloud Atlas,” all borders between pubby England and the machinations of the undead begin to blur.

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Hustvedt’s multifaceted novel is a portrait of a creative titan whose career and reputation have seemingly been blighted by the art establishment’s ingrained sexism.

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Faber is a master of the weird; in his defiantly unclassifiable novel, a pastor from Earth is picked to satisfy an alien planet’s mysterious yen for religious instruction.

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Latino immigrant characters face the challenges of assimilation.

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Taking “Snow White” as a cultural touchstone, Oyeyemi’s novel offers up a cautionary tale on post-race ideology, racial limbos and the politics of passing.

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Revolving around the assassination attempt on Bob Marley in 1976, this mesmerizingly powerful novel addresses politics, class, race and violence in ­Jamaica.

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In Davis’s stories, the mundane and the fathomless appear together on the same street, and calamity is always close at hand.

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Ullmann’s novel of a guilt-ridden Norwegian family is set in motion by a nanny’s murder.

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A novel of a man’s traumatic entrance into adulthood and the shadowy passages he must then ­negotiate.

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Building its story from fragments, observations, meditations and different points of view, Offill’s cannily paced second novel charts the course of a marriage.

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In O’Neill’s disturbing, elegant novel, his first since “Netherland,” a lost and tormented New York lawyer recognizes more darkness within himself than in the iniquitous place he works, Dubai.

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King’s novel turns an episode in the life of Margaret Mead into a taut tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace.

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In this novel, a tragedy tears away at a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio.

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