In anticipation of the holidays, and, consequently, of superfluous reasons to make a pleasant person indifferent, I would like to share with you a small selection of novels for sophisticated lovers of keen reading sensations. So if you have not yet figured out how to please a close woman who loves to hang over a book with a cup of tea, then turn your eyes to our attempt to please her.

1. Philip Gregory, "Another of the Boleyn family." Before us opens England during the reign of Henry VIII, but the protagonist of this novel, or rather it will be said, the heroine becomes a woman. Anna Boleyn competes with her sister Maria for the attention of the king, wanting to become his mistress, and then the queen. Indeed, the future fate of the Boleyn family itself depends on this. To give birth to a bastard from the king is a cherished desire of the girls of that time, such a relationship will provide the whole family with a wonderful future. So which of the sisters will be more insidious, who will be able to penetrate the king’s chambers and provide him with an heir?
2. Audrey Neffenegger, "Time Traveler's Wife." The main character has a very rare disease that allows him to move uncontrollably in time, so he meets his future wife when she was only six years old, for a minute, Henry was thirty-six at that time. This love story is so comical at times as tragic as his wife Claire has to put up with his strange syndrome. Where will the next temporary leap lead the unfortunate Henry? How will his odyssey end?
3. Guzel Yakhina, “Zuleikha opens her eyes”. This is a historical drama about immigrants deep into Siberia of the 1930s. Among them is the peasant Zuleikh. In difficult conditions of life in the taiga, she, along with other dispossessed and resettled peasant fists, is fighting for the right to life. This book was the debut of a young Russian writer of Tatar origin, a story that does not affect, but tears the strings of the soul. Particularly impressionable is not recommended.
4. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha. A non-trivial novel about an ordinary girl with beautiful eyes, where the difficult path of becoming a geisha is described from her face. Sayuri had to go through a lot to achieve this status. In her world there is no place for self-sacrifice, because girls constantly live in a state of fierce competition and betrayal. But even there you can find true love.
5. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. The novel is a revelation, a confession of the main character Humbert in his unusual hobby for girls who are not yet fifteen. Humbert rents a house in New England, where he falls in love with the girl Lolita, the daughter of the mistress of the house. No one knows about his passion for this nymphet, except for his diary. But soon his deception is revealed by the mother of the heroine - Charlotte, who immediately dies under the wheels of the car. Humbert takes Lolita with him on a journey, where he begins to harass her. Or she him. At a convenient moment, Law escapes from his tormentor. Or your victim. But do not think that this is the end.
6. Max Fry, “On Love and Death”. A storybook where different characters become heroes. Before us is a sort of experimental essay for “our” reader; here philosophical reflections and science fiction are harmoniously interwoven. If you want an original answer to an eternal question, then this extravagant fiction is definitely for you. A vivid example of how it is possible to speak in the language of science fiction about the metaphysical aspects of the real world.

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