As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When ...
Britská spisovatelka J.K. Rowlingová, která se po celém světě proslavila sérií o mladém čaroději Harrym Potterovi, před časem napsala knihu zcela odlišného žánru - detektivku.A aby ji nezatížila vlastním jménem, vydala ji coby "začínající spisovatel Robert Galbraith". Kniha The Cuckoo's Calling ...
Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt''''s novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college ...
Percy Jackson and the Titan''''s Curse is the third book in Rick Riordan''''s bestselling fantasy adventure series. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. It''''s not every day you find yourself in combat with a half-lion, half-human. But when you''''re the son of a Greek God, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth ...
