Innocent
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life - and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening - a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.
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11,58 €
Atonement
On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
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13,94 €
Na pláži
Príbeh, ktorý opisuje jedinú noc v živote čerstvých mladomanželov, postupne odhaľuje charaktery dvojice, ich až chorobnú slušnosť jedného k druhému, ktorá vedie k vzájomnej neúprimnosti a končí sa katastrofou. Slogan "veci, ktoré jeden druhému nepovieme, môžu od základu zmeniť náš život" sa nesie celým príbehom. Dej sa odohráva na pozadí autorom vynikajúco vykreslených spoločenských pomerov konzervatívneho Anglicka 60 rokov.
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9,92 €
Saturday
The critical response to Saturday must be making Ian McEwan a very happy man (not that his virtually unassailable position as Britains leading novelist has been in doubt). While contemporaries (and rivals) Martin Amis and Will Self have had much mor
e hit-or-miss records recently, each new McEwan novel gleans a host of plaudits, and Atonement has been generally hailed as his masterpiece. Saturday may not enjoy quite such acclaim, but its a remarkably accomplished piece of work, as richly drawn
and characterised as anything he has written.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cen
a budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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24,86 €
Samedi
Pour Henry Perowne - neurochirurgien réputé, mari heureux, pre comblé d'un musicien de blues et d'une poétesse - ce devrait tre un samedi comme les autres. Pas question d'aller défiler contre la guerre en Irak. Plutôt goter les plaisirs de la vie. Et pourtant... Un banal accrochage et voil la violence qui surgit dans son existence protégée. Henry aura beau tenter de reprendre le fil de sa journée, ses vieux démons et le chaos du monde le rattraperont sans cesse durant ces vingt-quatre heures, au terme desquelles plus rien ne sera jamais comme avant. Tout en faisant diaboliquement monter le suspense, McEwan entrelace évnements planétaires et privés avec une telle virtuosité que cet étrange samedi devient la métaphore de toutes nos vies fragiles d'Occidentaux pris dans la tourmente de ce début de sicle. Et cette réflexion profonde sur le hasard et le destin, les pouvoirs respectifs de la science et de l'art, la qute d'un sens qui résisterait la mort nous montre une fois de plus, aprs Expiation, un romancier parvenu la plénitude de son art.
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10,79 €
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