Blitz competition "Books about Love"

The fall - is a high time to feel magic of homeliness behind a cup of fragrant tea and the book. We know that our users very much like to spend free minutes behind reading books and with pleasure we encourage so useful occupation. We start a new blitz competition - Books about love!

Who told that they fall in love only in the spring? This fine feeling comes unexpectedly at all seasons of the year! And in the fall when people are especially sensual, it is very important to feel warmth. Not only people, but also works of art can present this heat. We will also talk about them in this creative competition.

We will have 3 winners. Everyone will receive on the set consisting of three books.

For participation in a competition write in comments on a post about books with love stories which you imprest and which you are again ready to re-read. It will be creatively and interestingly! Let's roll?

The first winner will receive the following set of books

"Exercises" Ian McEwan

"Exercises" — the emotional psychological drama for slow reading with elements of the biography of the author which is structurally reminding the scattered mosaic pieces.
In the middle of the XX century when the world still counts World War II price, eleven-year-old Roland Bains's life is changed upside down.
The father military takes away it from Libya and defines in the English boarding school where his vulnerability involves the young teacher fortepian, Miriam Cornell. The irrational and tragic first love will stand out through all life of the boy.
Much later, when Roland's wife will disappear, having left his one with the little son, he will look for answers and in the youth, and in the history of the family.
Ian McEwan describes the chronicle of crucial events in the history of Europe from XX to the 21st century through a prism of life of Roland, the characteristic representative of the generation.

"Children's god" Olga Heyfits

14-year-old Philip spends summer at the dacha Girsov. Alexander Girs is an ingenious heart surgeon and the father's chief, Polina is his beauty wife, and the daughter Vick … Vick — perfection! Philip fallen in love, fascinated by all family, their house. But one mistake in the last day of summer — and this house rejects it.
Philip for years watches family Girsov from distance. Also does everything once to become its worthy.
There will pass 20 years, and he will receive the invitation. To that house. Only now neither he, nor its inhabitants will seem to it ideal. It is rather hostages of the defects, the disgusting secrets. Even God will unmask with himself. And then the trap will be closed.


"Night of fight" of Miriam Teyvz

The grandmother Elvira carried out all life in fight. At first she persistently asserted the right for luck and independence, but even now, despite respectable age and weak health, its fight is not ended yet, her pregnant daughter and the little granddaughter so need it.
When nine-year Suiv is discharged of school lessons, inimitable Elvira readily undertakes training of the granddaughter. She will teach to consider Suiv, to write letters, to read recipes of drugs, to dig graves and to settle the conflicts with security guards, but the main thing, she will teach the granddaughter to the most difficult – how not to lose in daily wearisome fight for itself and the darlings and how at the same time not to lose taste to life.

The second winner will receive the following set of books

"Autobiography of one Italian family" of Santo Versace

Santo Versace's memoirs — the brother the glorified fashion designer Gianni Versace. Revelations of the famous family which created VERSACE fashion house.
"My secretary called to report that shot at Gianni. Forty five minutes later one more call informed on his death. In a condition of full shock I said: "Gianni did not die. He is immortal"".
Gianni Versace is world-wide famous fashion designer whose the name became a synonym of the world of luxury from the middle of the 1970th. The genius of fashion, he made women sensual and elegant. Linda Evangelista, Cindi Crawford, Naomi Campbell whom he brought to the level of supermodels worked with Versace. Elton John, Sting and the princess Diana were on friendly terms with him. But deafening success of Gianni Versace — a merit not only his genius, but also talent elder brother Santo. Santo Versace, the diplomaed economist and the politician, threw the career to help Gianni to create fashion house — and after it plunged into the world of luxury, a glamour, improbable take-off, falling and dramas.
The book by Santo Versace is the autobiography of family from the world of fashion telling about formation of talent of Gianni Versace, improbable success of fashion house and family love thanks to which the simple Italian family could conquer the world. It is the first book by the family member Versace — about the life which is carried out near ingenious Gianni.

"Klitemnestra" Costanza Casati

Whom was Klitemnestra?
Elena Troyanskaya's sister. Adulteress and murderer of the great tsar Agamemnon. The mother who lost the daughter and killed by own son. But it is not all its history.
The Spartan tsarevna against will was married to the person whom she hated. After a set of losses and sufferings she did not trust in nice death, after it there is only history. Only words, prosheptanny others lips.
When her husband comes back from the Trojan war by the winner, it rises before the choice — to reconcile to destiny or to revenge. The warrior by the nature, it refuses to rely on favor of gods and joins punishments the game.
Klitemnestra is a fascinating story about the power and prophecies, about hatred, love and about the queen who ruthlessly killed those who did it the harm.

"Malyinverno" Domenico Dara

There are places where the words of novels and verses sound from everywhere, and names of inhabitants suggest an idea of heroes of the world literature. The city of Timpamara became such place since many years ago the paper-mill was constructed here.
In the 1960th years at the city cemetery the anonymous grave which secret the lame librarian and the keeper of the cemetery Astolfo Malyinverno is fated to reveal is found.
As the medieval monk from the novel Humberto Eco, Malyinverno is keen on stories and the mysteries of the Universe. The fan of books with bright imagination, Astolfo mixes plots of novels with the fate of the fellows villager — live and died, but most of all it intrigues a gravestone without name and dates with the photo of the woman. Over time he decides to get into the mystery of this person. Astolfo calls her Emma Ruo as the heroine of "Madame Bovary" Flaubert. In several months he finds a flower before Emma's gravestone. What does it mean? Flowers continue to appear while several weeks later Astolfo does not see the woman leaving other flower and, to his surprise, she is identical to mysterious Emma's image...

The third winner will receive the following set of books

"Orphan house" of Lizzie Page

England, 1948. Clara Newton sends the summary to a children's shelter "Shilling of Greyndzh" and is unexpected for itself and all lodgers becomes his new manager. Her many wards were left without families, their life is broken off by war, as well as Klara's life. War took away her groom — the military pilot.
But now orphans desperately need its help, and Klara hardly takes out their sufferings, but most of all she is afraid not to cope.
In the neighbourhood there lives a native of a shelter and the war hero Ayvor. He does not trust Klara, but well gets on with children. With its support and the help Klara begins to find the way.
Whether it will pass all tests? And whether will dare to open the heart for love again?


"Experiment" Rovena Bergman

Jack and Esther's married couple endures crisis. Eccentrical Johnny — the complete antithesis of the husband of Esther cold and prudent rushes into this moment in their life.
The accident which turned into tragedy presents the heroine with a choice. Esther should decide that is closer to her — quiet and stable life to the husband or bright, but absolutely unpredictable with Johnny? Esther seems that she makes the choice whether but it does it actually?

"Chilean poet" Alejandro Sambra

A story about fathers and children, ambitions and failures and also about what means to start a family. It is the answer to a question that means to be a man in the relations — the partner, the father, the stepfather, the teacher, the lover, the writer and the friend. Sambra fully opens a subject of the relations at all stages.

After the casual meeting in night club the beginning poet Gonzalo reunites with the first love Carla. And though their inclination to each other did not cool down, many other things changed: among other things, Carla has a six-year-old son Vicente now. Soon all three form happy family — summary family though in their language there is no such word.
Eventually ambitions pull lovers in different directions, but nevertheless little Vicente inherits love of the former stepfather to poetry. When in eighteen years Vicente meets Proulx, the American journalist, he induces it to write about the Chilean poets — not about well-known, dead, and about live. Whether will give Vicente and Gonzalo's this investigation back to each other?

Rules of a competition

1. A competition is held from November 7 to November 21, 2023 inclusive, in comments on this record.
2. Participate in a competition only author's, that is, written by the user, the comments which are not copied from other sources and anywhere earlier not published. Comments can be accompanied by the author's photos illustrating scope of a competition.
3. The winner is defined by jury of a competition as a part of administration of the project and representatives of publishing houses.
4. Prizes are delivered across the territory of the Russian Federation. If you became a winner, but live outside Russia, you can win the prize through your relatives living in the territory of the Russian Federation. The term of claiming of a prize - 1 month from the date of the announcement of results of a competition.
5. The number of comments is not limited, but only one comment from the author can win.