Úžasná cesta Barnabyho Brocketa okolo sveta (mv)
Na rodine Brocketovcov nie je nič neobyčajné. Sú nudní, vážení a sú na to hrdí, ohŕňajú nos nad všetkým nezvyčajným a odlišným. Až do okamihu, keď prišiel na svet Barnaby Brocket, ktorý sa odmietal podriadiť zákonom gravitácie – on jednoducho lietal. Zúfalo chcel potešiť svojich rodičov, snažil sa zo všetkých síl ostať nohami na zemi, ale jednoducho to nešlo. Jeden osudný deň sa Brocketovci rozhodli, že toho majú dosť a nechajú svojho syna odletieť. Vystrašený, zúfalý a najmä osamelý Barnaby vletel do cesty jednému veľmi špeciálnemu teplovzdušnému balónu a tam sa začala jeho zázračná cesta okolo sveta.
Beneath the Earth
In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves. Drawing on a host of enthralling characters - a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman - Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyne's finest writing to date. It includes 'Rest Day' which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.
Dare
At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt, Danny's mother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured family. Told in John Boyne's unique style from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy, The Dare is a brilliantly compelling story about how one moment can change a family forever.
Boy at the Top of the Mountain
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
There's nothing unusual or different about the Brocket family - and they're keen to keep it that way. But when Barnaby Brocket comes into the world, it's clear he's anything but ordinary. To his parents' horror, Barnaby defies the laws of gravity - and floats. Soon, the Brockets decide enough is enough. The neighbours are starting to talk. They never asked for a weird, abnormal, floating child. Barnaby has to go...Betrayed and frightened, Barnaby floats into the path of a very special hot air balloon - and so begins a magical journey around the world, with a cast of extraordinary new friends.
A History of Loneliness
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation
Zostaň, kde si, a potom odíď
V deň, keď vypukla prvá svetová vojna, Alfiemu Summerfieldovi sľúbil otec, že nikdy neodíde bojovať, no hneď nasledujúci deň svoj sľub porušil. O štyri roky neskôr Alfie netuší, kde jeho otec naozaj je, myslí si, že je na špeciálnej tajnej misii. Raz, keď na stanici King's Cross čistil topánky, úplne náhodou zazrel na papieroch vojenského doktora otcovo meno. Prekvapený a zmätený Alfie zistí, že jeho otec je v nemocnici, v špeciálnej nemocnici pre vojakov s nezvyčajnými ťažkosťami. Alfie sa rozhodne otca z tohto čudného skľučujúceho miesta zachrániť.
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A History of Loneliness
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.
Chlapec v pásikavom pyžame
Príbehy nevinnosti existujú aj v tej najdesivejšej realite. Toto je príbeh dvoch chlapcov v časoch, ktoré nemôžu nijako ovplyvniť. Začína sa v Berlíne roku 1942.
Jedného dňa sa Bruno vráti zo školy a nájde pobalené všetky veci. Jeho otec dostal nové miesto a rodina sa s ním musí odsťahovať ďaleko na zvláštne miesto, kde nemá čo robiť, kde sa nemá s kým hrať. Kam len oko dovidí sa tiahne plot, ktorý ho oddeľuje od čudných ľudí. Bruno je však prieskumník a nezmieri sa s tým, čo vidí. Pri prieskumných cestách pozdĺž plota stretne chlapca, ktorého život a podmienky sú úplne odlišné od jeho.
Pre čitateľov od 12 rokov.
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Chlapec v pásikavom pyžame (mäkká väzba)
Príbehy nevinnosti existujú aj v tej najdesivejšej realite. Toto je príbeh dvoch chlapcov v časoch, ktoré nemôžu nijako ovplyvniť. Začína sa v Berlíne roku 1942. Jedného dňa sa Bruno vráti zo školy a nájde pobalené všetky veci. Jeho otec dostal nové miesto a rodina sa s ním musí odsťahovať ďaleko na zvláštne miesto, kde nemá čo robiť, kde sa nemá s kým hrať. Kam len oko dovidí sa tiahne plot, ktorý ho oddeľuje od čudných ľudí. Bruno je však prieskumník a nezmieri sa s tým, čo vidí. Pri prieskumných cestách pozdĺž plota stretne chlapca, ktorého život a podmienky sú úplne odlišné od jeho.
Chlapec v pásikavom pyžame "ponúka veľmi poeticko-tragický príbeh z miesta, kde sa naplno prejavili dôsledky eskalovaného skupinového šialenstva."
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Stay Where You Are And Then Leave
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place...
Úžasná cesta Barnabyho Brocketa okolo sveta
Na rodine Brocketovcov nie je nič neobyčajné. Sú nudní, vážení a sú na to hrdí, ohŕňajú nos nad všetkým nezvyčajným a odlišným. Až do okamihu, keď prišiel na svet Barnaby Brocket, ktorý sa odmietal podriadiť zákonom gravitácie – on jednoducho lietal. Zúfalo chcel potešiť svojich rodičov, snažil sa zo všetkých síl ostať nohami na zemi, ale jednoducho to nešlo. Jeden osudný deň sa Brocketovci rozhodli, že toho majú dosť a nechajú svojho syna odletieť. Vystrašený, zúfalý a najmä osamelý Barnaby vletel do cesty jednému veľmi špeciálnemu teplovzdušnému balónu a tam sa začala jeho zázračná cesta okolo sveta.
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Barnaby Brocket és a szörnyű dolog, ami vele megesett
Brocketékben nincs a világon semmi rendkívüli. UNALmasak, TISZteletreméltóak (erre büszkék is), s lenéznek mindenkit, aki különös vagy éppen csak MÁSmilyen. BARNABY Brocket azonban a születése pillanatától fogva ellenáll a gravitáció törvényének... és LEBEG. Mivel mindenáron a szülei kedvében szeretne járni, Barnaby igyekezne két lábbal állni a földön - CSAKHOGY ERRE EGYSZERŰEN KÉPTELEN!
Egy végzetes napon Brocketéknél betelik a pohár. Sosem kérték, hogy különc, abnormális LEBEGŐ GYERMEKÜK legyen. BARNABYNAK MENNIE KELL...
A cserbenhagyott, rémült és MAGÁNYOSan lebegő Barnaby útját egy igazán különös hőlégBALLON keresztezi, s ezzel megkezdődik varázslatos VILÁGkörüli utazása...
A gyáva
1919 szeptembere: a húszéves Tristan Sadler Londonból Norwichba vonatozik, hogy Marian Bancroftnak átadjon egy kötegnyi levelet. Tristan Marian bátyja, Will oldalán harcolt a nagy háborúban. Együtt gyakorlatoztak. Együtt harcoltak. Ám Will 1917-ben a harctéren egyszer csak letette a fegyvert, és kijelentette, hogy lelkiismereti okokból megtagadja a katonai szolgálatot, amivel szégyent és gyalázatot hozott a Bancroft családra.
Tristan látogatásának igazi oka azonban nem a levelek kézbesítése. Lelke mélyén egy titkot rejteget, amelytől Marian előtt kétségbeesetten meg akar szabadulni, ha egyáltalán lesz hozzá bátorsága. Akármi történjék is, ez a találkozás meg fogja változtatni az életét - méghozzá örökre.
"Politikus, személyes, erőteljes... A regény nemcsak azt firtatja szenvedélyesen, mit jelent férfinak lenni, hanem azt is, hogy mit jelent embernek lenni a háború szélsőséges körülményei között." (Irish Times)
"Páratlan... Az elbeszélés kiegyenlítetten hol meglepő, hol tragikus... Jelentős alkotás." (Carlo Gébler)
"John Boyne abszolút friss szemmel tekint a legfontosabb történetekre. Egy lényeglátó, megrendítő és valósághű utazás során végigkalauzol bennünket a történelem birodalmán." (Colum McCann)
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
All The Broken Places
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel.
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.
Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy - for the second time in her life. But to do so, she will be forced to reveal her true identity to the world. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?
All the Broken Places is a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her past and a present in which it is never too late for bravery.
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