No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry''s vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...
Carter and Sadie have nothing in common but their parents: their father Dr. Julius Kane, a brilliant Egyptologist, and their mother, a famed archaeologist who died under mysterious circumstances when they were young. The siblings barely know each oth er, but one night, their father brings them together ...
Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women''''s rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her ...
"A Lolita bizonyos értelemben túlságosan nagy regény. Úgy zúdul rá az olvasóra, mint valami kábítószer, amely erősebb, mint bármelyik, amit eddig felfedeztek vagy létrehoztak. A Lolita kegyetlen könyv a kegyetlenségről." Martin Amis írta ezt Nabokov leghíresebb regényéről: egyike annak a számos - vagy ...
Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime -- beginning in Japanese -- has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an enviable career as the proprietor of two jazz clubs. Yet a nagging sense of inauthenticity about ...
Toru Okada\''s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada\''s vague and blameless life, spent ...
An achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship, We Are Okay is an acclaimed best book of 2017! A TODAY Show Must-Read Book - A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year - A Seventeen Best Book of the Year - A News & Observer Best Book of the Year - A Booklist Editors'' Choice selection ...
