''He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.'' A deliberately severed finger, a junky''s Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamous ...
Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'' In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of ...
Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust'' Thomas Mann A story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the ...
The Classic Analysis of Statesmanship and Power After a lifetime of winning and losing at the game of politics, Florentine nobleman Machiavelli set down its ageless rules and moves in this highly readable treatise. Witty, informative, and devilishly shrewd, it has long been required reading for everyone ...
Kniha - 512 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná Copenhagen detective Carl Morck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. More than 10 million copies have now been sold.
