From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of silence and how to shut out the worldBehind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notion - silence - lies in wait. But what really is silence? Where can it be found? And why is it more ...
Kniha – autor Colm Tóibín, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá.Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a ...
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form ...
Kniha - Ricki Schultz, 304 strán, slovenský, pevný bez lesklého krytu Vtipný príbeh o trampotách slobodnej tridsiatničky Rae Wallaceová by sa radšej utopila v sude Rulandského živého a potom sa dala zjesť svojmu bíglovi, než aby riskovala, že sa znova zaľúbi - ai za cenu toho, že nepojde na svadbu svojej ...
From the award winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco''s Chinatown during the 1950s. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can''t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing ...
Kniha - autor Barbara U. Cherish, 366 stran, česky Barbara vyrůstala v relativně zámožné rodině, otec zastával vysoké postavení v SS. V roce 1943 se stal velitelem snad nejznámějšího koncentračního tábora Osvětim. Autorka popisuje otcův příběh nezaujatě, líčí jeho vztahy s rodinou, neuhasitelnou lásku ...
''Yet another great Lesley Pearse novel'' Woman Magazine****''Full of love, passion and heartbreak'' Best**Two very different women, one unlikely friendship. In the chaos of war-torn Britain, can any relationship survive? Dead to Me is a story about loyalty, love and the strength of friendship in the ...
Paulo Coelho’s life remains the primary source of inspiration for his books. He has flirted with death, escaped madness, dallied with drugs, withstood torture, experimented with magic and alchemy, studied philosophy and religion, read voraciously, lost and recovered his faith and experienced the pain ...
Indické město čelí po vykácení pralesa útokům tygra Derek Aldo se snaží uniknout své temné minulosti a zamíří do zapadlého indického města Aramša. Je mu přidělen úkol vést místní mediatéku na území vykáceného pralesa. Jeho život by ubíhal klidně a nerušeně, nebýt lidožravého tygra, který začal město ...
