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11 6 y separately published work icon Gemina Amie Kaufman , Jay Kristoff , ( trans. S. Ri︠u︡min with title Gemina : Dos'e "Illiumine"_02 ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2020 10439050 2016 single work novel science fiction young adult

'The exhilarating sequel to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Illuminae.

'Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.

'The saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the space station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of BeiTech’s assault. Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter, Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while they are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed to Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.

'When an elite BeiTech team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the crew one by one, and a malfunction in the station’s wormhole means the space-time continuum may be ripped in two before dinner. Soon, Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival. The fate of everyone on the Hypatia - and possibly in the known universe - is in their hands.

'But relax. They’ve totally got this. They hope.

'Featuring guest journal illustrations by bestselling author Marie Lu.' (Publication summary)

14 4 y separately published work icon Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty , ( trans. Gregory Krylov with title Девять совсем незнакомых людей ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2019 14403731 2018 single work novel

"The retreat at health and wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot stone massages. 

"Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. 

"These nine perfect strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.

"With her wit, compassion and uncanny understanding of human behaviour, Liane Moriarty explores the depth of connection that can be formed when people are thrown together in... unconventional circumstances." (Publisher's website)

25 3 y separately published work icon The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Holly Ringland , ( trans. Evgenii Lakeevoĭ with title Потерянные Цветы Элис Харт ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2019 12341482 2018 single work novel

'The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way that she can break the patterns of the past, live on her own terms and find her own strength.

'An enchanting and captivating novel, about how our untold stories haunt us - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

'After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak.

'Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family's story. In her early twenties, Alice's life is thrown into upheaval again when she suffers devastating betrayal and loss. Desperate to outrun grief, Alice flees to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. In this otherworldly landscape Alice thinks she has found solace, until she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man.

'Spanning two decades, set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm, and a celestial crater in the central desert, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows Alice's unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2 16 y separately published work icon The Daughters of Mars Thomas Keneally , ( trans. Aleksandra Utkina with title Дочери Марса ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2018 Z1857705 2012 single work novel historical fiction

'In 1915 sisters Naomi and Sally Durance answer a call for nurses to join the war effort. They are escaping the family dairy farm in the Macleay Valley, and they carry a secret with them. Soon they are in Egypt, where they are put to work on the Red Cross hospital ship Archimedes as it patrols the Dardanelles. On Archimedes they witness Mars in all his ferocity, as he pummels soldiers in the massive, brutal metal brawl that is Gallipoli. Yet the sisters and their newfound nursing friends, with whom they will witness undreamt-of carnage and take care of unspeakably blighted men, find themselves courageous in the face of the horror.

'Naomi, Sally and their gang are then sent to northern Europe, where Naomi nurses in the visionary Australian Voluntary Hospital run by the committed and eccentric Lady Tarlton, and Sally in a casualty clearing station next to the Western Front. Here, again, they must face the inhumanity of war in its many terrible guises - where trench warfare and gas abound. But it is here, too, that the sisters meet the remarkable men with whom they wish to spend the rest of their lives.

'Inspired by journals of Australian nursing sisters who gave their all to the Great War effort and the men they nursed, The Daughters Of Mars is vast in scope yet extraordinarily intimate. This is Keneally at the height of his storytelling powers; a stunning tour de force to join the best of First World War literature, and one that casts a fresh light on the challenges faced by the Australian men and women who voluntarily risked their lives for peace.' (From the publisher's website.)

31 190 y separately published work icon True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey , ( trans. I. Gurova with title Истинная История Шайки Келли ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2018 Z668312 2000 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 29 units)

'"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false."

'In TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semi-literate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist.' (From the publisher's website.)

7 10 y separately published work icon A Long Way from Home Peter Carey , ( trans. Kseniii Chastopolʹskoĭ with title Вдали От Дома ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2018 11398690 2017 single work novel

'The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race, the Redex Trial.

'Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed school teacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them, without warning, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, and then takes you some place else. It is often funny, more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves.' (Publication summary)

10 4 y separately published work icon Three Wishes Liane Moriarty , ( trans. Tatʹi︠a︡ny Kamyshnikovoĭ with title Tri zhelanii︠a︡ ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2016 Z1072425 2003 single work novel

'The three Kettle sisters have had a mortifying mishap. Their raucous, champagne-soaked birthday dinner has come to an abrupt end following a violent argument and an emergency dash to the hospital. So who started it this time? Was it angry, hurt Cat, still recovering from the 'Night of the Spaghetti'? Was it Lyn, so serenely successful, at least on the outside? Or was it quirky, dreamy Gemma, the sister who can't keep a secret, except for the most important one of all?' (Publication summary)

3 1 y separately published work icon Fifty Grand Adrian McKinty , ( trans. M. Ti︠u︡nʹkina with title Деньги На Ветер ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2012 Z1624022 2009 single work novel crime thriller

'Cuban cop Hernandez has a score to settle, on behalf of a deadbeat dad, a "traitor" who skipped free from Castro's control to set up a new life working illegally in Colorado. He settled in a ski resort popular with the Hollywood set, where the facade is maintained by the immigrant cleaners and labourers who work for below minimum wage while the local sheriff is bribed to turn a blind eye. Hernandez Sr's dreams of fortune and freedom came to a swift end when he was killed in a hit-and-run accident.

Sworn to avenge his death, Hernandez has some obstacles to overcome - not least getting out of Cuba, where visas are as elusive as constant electricity.

Seguing back and forth between heat-soaked Havana and the icy luxury of the mountainside resort, Fifty Grand is an audacious thriller from an acknowledged talent - and an incendiary debut for a new hero.' (From the publisher's website.)

26 10 y separately published work icon Youth : Scenes from Provincial Life J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Sergei Ilʹina (Сергей Борисович Ильин) with title Молодость ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 2005 Z1212327 2002 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

"The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him, and from what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, wherever that may be, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art." "Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing. An awkward colonial, a constitutional outsider, he begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting" (Source: Viking publisher's blurb)

1 y separately published work icon Nozh : rasskazy avstraliiskikh pisatelei I. Grachev (editor), ( trans. Unknown )expression Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1963 Z1122318 1963 selected work short story
7 1 y separately published work icon The Last Exile : A Novel James Aldridge , ( trans. Unknown with title Poslednii izgnannik ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1963 Z297259 1961 single work novel historical fiction
6 y separately published work icon Hannibaal Takes a Hand Jack Lindsay , ( trans. M. Ermashcheva with title Gannibal ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1962 Z1203819 1941 single work novel historical fiction
15 4 y separately published work icon Heatwave in Berlin Dymphna Cusack , ( trans. Unknown with title Zharkoe leto v Berline ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1962 Z42385 1961 single work novel
— Appears in: Hohullam Berlinben [and] Fekete villam 1969;

— Appears in: Zharkoe leto v Berlie [and] Solnetise-ceto eshche ne vse 1990;

'After ten years of happy marriage, Joy Miller, a young Australian woman, overcomes the reluctance of her husband to return to his native Germany. There she discovers the truth about his family background and his Nazi upbringing.' (Publisher's blurb)

2 y separately published work icon A Local Habitation : A Novel of the British Way Jack Lindsay , ( trans. Iv. Osnos with title Tvoii dom : roman ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1961 Z1203720 1957 single work novel
6 6 y separately published work icon Shares in Murder Judah Waten , Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1961 Z53084 1957 single work novel crime Shares in Murder (1957) 'was an anti-"crime novel" in which the denouement is the exposure of the detective rather than of the criminal. Although sometimes clumsy, the story's generic reversal is an effective one. The ironic conclusion together with the novel's social realism can be understood in relation to a critique of imported, mainly American "mass culture", including crime thrillers, which was then widely-shared by communists and liberals, in Overland and Meanjin for example.' (David Carter, 'Introduction', Judah Waten : Fiction, Memoir, Criticism (1998): xxvii).
1 y separately published work icon Rozhdestvo v Iende Katharine Susannah Prichard , ( trans. N. Vestoshkinoi et. al.agent )expression Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1960 Z1197935 1960 selected work short story
3 11 y separately published work icon The Mirage F. B. Vickers , Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1960 Z83645 1955 single work novel
5 6 y separately published work icon The Four-Legged Lottery : A Novel Frank Hardy , ( trans. Unknown with title Chetveronogaia lotereia : roman ) Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1959 Z511903 1958 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Pod Nashim Nebom : pesa v trekh deistviiakh Mona Brand , Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1956 Z812030 1956 single work drama
5 12 y separately published work icon Here Under Heaven Mona Brand , Moscow : Izdatel'stvo Inostrannoi Literatury , 1956 Z511842 1947 single work drama
— Appears in: Here Under Heaven : Three Plays 1969; Tremendous Worlds : Australian Women's Drama 1890-1960 1999; (p. 143-208)
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