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A szerelem egyenlete
„Egy meglepően bájos és szenvedélyes románc.” – Nalini Singh, New York Times bestsellerszerző
„Egy utánozhatatlan szerelmi történet.” – Penelope Douglas - New York Times bestsellerszerző
Stella Lane szerint a világot a matematika tartja össze. A munkahelyén algoritmusokat készít, melyekkel előre láthatóak a fogyasztói tendenciák. Jóval többet keres, mint amennyit el tud költeni, és jóval kevesebb tapasztalata van a férfiakkal, mint egy átlagos harmincéves nőnek. Stella ráadásul Asperger-szindrómával él, és a nyelves csókról az jut eszébe, ahogy az apró halak a cápák fogait tisztogatják. Arra a következtetésre jut tehát, hogy gyakorlásra van szüksége. Mégpedig egy profival. Ezért felbéreli Michael Phant, az eszkortfiút. A félig vietnami, félig svéd, lenyűgözően jóképű Michael nem engedheti meg magának, hogy visszautasítsa Stella ajánlatát, ezért beleegyezik, hogy segít tartani az ütemtervet, az előjátéktól egészen a Káma Szútra bonyolultabb lapjaiig… Stella hamarosan már kifejezetten vágyik Michael csókjaira, és az érzések egész kavalkádjára, melyet a férfi ébreszt benne. Tárgyilagos kapcsolatuk kis idő elteltével egészen meghitté válik, és előkerül a képlet, mely meggyőzi Stellát, hogy a szerelem bizony nagyon is logikus… Helen Hoang első regénye, melyet saját Asperger-szindrómája ihletett, szívmelengető, üde románc, mely minden kétséget kizáróan bebizonyítja, hogy nincs a világon az az adatmennyiség, amelyből megjósolható, mi fogja megdobogtatni az emberi szívet.
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Beware of Pity
Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. The famous novel is published by Pushkin Press in a cloth bound hardback, beautifully designed by Nathan Burton and translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell. In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour and love, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 'Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever read...a feverish, fascinating novel' - Anthony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph The novel I'll really remember reading this year is Stefan Zweig's frighteningly gripping Beware of Pity, first published in 1939 ...and part of the ongoing, valiant reprinting by Pushkin Press of Zweig's collected oeuvre; an intoxicating, morally shaking read about human responsibilities and a real reminder of what fiction can do best' - Ali Smith, TLS Book of the Year 2008 'An unremittingly tense parable about emotional blackmail, this is a book which turns every reader into a fanatic' - Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent Life (The Economist) 'It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that I don't already know about this?' Wes Anderson 'The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year's refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity.' Simon Winchester, Telegraph 'Zweig's single greatest work' The Times 'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' Guardian 'Originaland powerful' New York Times Translated from the German by Anthea Bell, Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity is published by Pushkin Press. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.
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The hare with Amber Eyes
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the ‘netsuke’, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined…
The Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation settling in Paris. Charles’s passion was collecting; the netsuke, bought when Japanese objets were all the rage in the salons, were sent as a wedding present to his banker cousin in Vienna.
Later, three children – including a young Ignace – would play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was occupied.
In this stunningly original memoir, Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique collection.
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Az elnök
A vietnami dzsungel poklában egy katonának óriási ötlete támad - ez lesz élete nagy üzlete. Ám ezzel két kontinensen is események láncolatát indítja el. A következő harminc évben a világ legkülönbözőbb pontjain úgy ölnek meg embereket, hogy senki sem érti, ki és miért végzett velük.
Mindeközben a brit védelmi minisztérium eltűnt vegyi fegyverek után kutat Skócia lankás dombjai között, és tűvé teszik az óceánt egy nukleáris hulladékot szállító hajó után.
A nyolcvanas években egy borgőzös párizsi éjszakán olyasmi történik bulizó egyetemisták egy csoportjával, ami megváltoztatja az életüket.
Miként függnek össze ezek az események?
Vajon mi kapcsolja össze a finn régészt, az amerikai kémelhárítót, a brit tengerészt és a Magyarország köztársasági elnöki székére aspiráló politikust?
A szálak Budapestre vezetnek
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Blessed Days of My Youth
The place: a tavern/restaurant called the Old Vienna, on Király Street in the Sixth District of Budapest, the time: a winter afternoon in the early 's, after the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A table company of eight, including the Chairman, the Deacon, the Editor, the Captain and others, arrives to top off an all-night bender. At another table sit three mysterious foreign visitors, the "Prince", the "General", and the "King".
The proprietors, Mrs and Mr Weisz, do their best to accommodate these guests. A rooster is hypnotized by the Captain, a Porter fetches a bottle of kosher brandy, an insolent Barber is ostracized by the assembled company, and an itinerant Vendor is relieved of his wares. Nothing much happens, and everything happens: The World Goes On... Krúdy's art consists of observing, noting, and annotating these seemingly trivial occurrences, and arranging them into a composition that compares in scope and texture the corresponding chapters of Joyce's Ulysses.
"Open any of his books and let your awareness be permeated by this ceaselessly flowing music that resounds unabated from a hidden workshop where memory meets consciousness...
I know of no other writer who sensed reality with such unerring certainty while at the same time consciously denying the validity of the laws of reality in the realms of imagination, memory and desire - those deeper reaches of life. ...Krúdy's oeuvre will emerge in time as a timeless monument carved of some mysterious material...
A magician lived among us, who could see through walls." (Sándor Márai)
Ázsiai ízek zsebkönyve
E rendkívül hasznos könyvecske a modern ázsiai konyha kisokosa. A thai, a kínai, a japán, az indiai, a koreai, a vietnami és a Fülöp-szigeteki ételek a szemet és az ízlelőbimbókat is egyaránt gyönyörködtetik, ráadásul nagyon egészségesek. A könyvecske segítségével betekintést nyerhetünk a varázslatos kelet konyháinak titkaiba, és azt is megtudhatjuk, hogy hogyan kell kiválasztani, beszerezni, adagolni, tárolni és mindenekelőtt elfogyasztani a különböző hozzávalókat.
A könyv szerzője szenvedélyes szakács és szakácskönyvíró. Az európai gasztronómia mellett szívesen barangol az ázsiai konyhákban is, rajong például a távol-keleti specialitások, az illatos fűszerek, az egzotikus fűszernövények és a tüzes, csípős mártások iránt. Ázsiai ízekről szerzett tapasztalatait most csokorba gyűjtötte, így bárki könnyedén eligazodhat a távol-keleti ízek csodálatos világában.
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Assassination of the Archduke
In The Assassination of the Archduke, Greg King and Sue Woolmans offer readers a vivid account of the lives - and cruel deaths - of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved Sophie. Combining royal biography, romance, and political assassination, the story unfolds against a backdrop of glittering privilege and an Imperial Court consumed with hatred, taking readers from Bohemian castles to the horrors of Nazi concentration camps in a compelling, fascinating human drama. As moving as the fabled romance of Nicholas and Alexandra, as dramatic as Mayerling, Sarajevo resonates with love and loss, triumph and tragedy in a vibrant and powerful narrative. It lays bare the lethal circumstances surrounding that fateful Sunday morning in 1914, examining not only the Serbian conspiracy that killed Franz and Sophie and sparked the First World War but also insinuations about the hidden powers in Vienna that may well have sent them to their deaths. With a Foreword from the Archduke's great-granddaughter, Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, and drawing on a wide variety of unpublished sources and with unique access to previously restricted Hungarian and Czech archives, including Sophie's diaries and family papers, King and Woolmans have written the most comprehensive account of this momentous event available in English. In doing so, they offer readers an intriguing and startlingly revisionist look at this most famous of Archdukes, his family, and their momentous collision with destiny in 1914.
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Bosch - Bruegel - Rubens - Rembrandt
The Albertina museum in Vienna owns one of the world's most important collections of Dutch drawings from the period 1430-1650. Their unrivaled collection offers a scope and quality that makes it the one of the few museums in a position to present Dutch drawing in all of its thematic, technical and stylistic diversity. Bosch, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt presents over 150 of the best of these works, and includes outstanding individual specimens from the circles around Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus and Dirk Bouts. Works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder form one of the first highlights of this astounding collection. The rest of the sixteenth century is represented by drawings from artists such as Jan Gossaert, Maarten van Heemskerck and Hendrick Goltzius. The focus of the collection, however, is Holland's "Golden Age," the seventeenth century, with important works by Rembrandt van Rijn and his school. The southern Netherlands, once dominated by the House of Hapsburg, is represented by the most famous Flemish masters of the age: Peter Paul Rubens, Anton van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. Ranging from preparatory drawings for larger works of painting, stained glass, engravings or altars to "autonomous" works that stand alone, this catalogue offers a full spectrum of landscapes, seascapes, topographical views, portraits, rural genre scenes and still lifes.
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Codices Illustres
Famous Manuscripts. This is the fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination. From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio's Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante's Divine Comedy - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced book introduces the reader to the fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination. 167 of the most beautiful and important medieval scripts from the 4th century to 1600 are presented in chronological order and described in full. Each sample of script is headed by highly informative synopses which serves to orient the reader at a glance. These synopses-together with the abundance of brilliant, large-format reproductions-make this book unparalleled in its field. Although the focus is on European manuscripts (French, Dutch, German, Italian, English and Spanish), examples have also been selected to illustrate the refinement and intricacy of manuscript illumination from non-European cultures (Mexican, Persian, Indian, Ottoman etc.). A 36-page appendix contains biographies of the artists as well as an extensive bibliography, an index and, most importantly, a glossary in which the technical terms used in the book can quickly be found. This is a rare opportunity to come face-to-face with incredibly precious treasures that one would otherwise never see, treasures once belonging to emperors and kings, and now worth many millions. This edition by TASCHEN author editor Ingo F. Walther, is now available in a new format.
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Lacná kniha Codices Illustres (-90%)
Famous Manuscripts. This is the fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination. From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio's Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante's Divine Comedy - see the breathtaking originals of 167 of the greatest classics of all time. This lavishly produced book introduces the reader to the fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination. 167 of the most beautiful and important medieval scripts from the 4th century to 1600 are presented in chronological order and described in full. Each sample of script is headed by highly informative synopses which serves to orient the reader at a glance. These synopses-together with the abundance of brilliant, large-format reproductions-make this book unparalleled in its field. Although the focus is on European manuscripts (French, Dutch, German, Italian, English and Spanish), examples have also been selected to illustrate the refinement and intricacy of manuscript illumination from non-European cultures (Mexican, Persian, Indian, Ottoman etc.). A 36-page appendix contains biographies of the artists as well as an extensive bibliography, an index and, most importantly, a glossary in which the technical terms used in the book can quickly be found. This is a rare opportunity to come face-to-face with incredibly precious treasures that one would otherwise never see, treasures once belonging to emperors and kings, and now worth many millions. This edition by TASCHEN author editor Ingo F. Walther, is now available in a new format.
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Menyasszony rendelésre
Helen Hoang, A szerelem egyenlete című regénye után, mely elnyerte a Goodreads Choice Awards 2018 legjobb romantikus regénye díját, ezúttal egy beilleszkedési nehézségekkel küzdő férfit kísér végig a pártalálás és a szerelem rögös útján.
Khai Diepnek nincsenek érzései. Persze bosszantja, ha valaki odébb teszi a holmiját, és elégedett, ha a könyvelés az utolsó fillérig stimmel, de elsöprő, fontos érzelmeket nem mutat. Nem gyászol, és nem szeret. Azt hiszi magáról, hogy sérült, de a családja ezt másként látja. Ők jól tudják, hogy a férfi az autizmusa miatt egyszerűen csak máshogyan viszonyul az érzésekhez. Mivel nagyon kerüli a párkapcsolatokat, édesanyja a kezébe veszi az irányítást, és Vietnamba megy, hogy tökéletes feleséget találjon neki.
Esme Tran Ho Si Minh-városban lakik. Mivel félvér, mindig úgy érzi, sehová sem tartozik igazán. Amikor lehetősége nyílik Amerikába utazni, hogy egy férjjelölttel találkozzon, nem tud nemet mondani, mert úgy gondolja, a családjának ezzel segítene a legtöbbet. De Khait nem sikerül a tervek szerint elcsábítania. Amit Esme a szerelemről tud, az mind igaz is… de csak saját magára vonatkozóan. Teljesen belebolondul a férfiba, aki meg van róla győződve, hogy sosem fogja tudni viszonozni az érzéseit.
Esme hamarosan kénytelen lesz elhagyni az Egyesült Államokat, de Khai végül rádöbben, hogy mindvégig tévedésben volt… és hogy a szerelemnek sokféle arca lehet.
Helen Hoang, a szívmelengető és üde A szerelem egyenlete című regénye után, melyet saját Asperger-szindrómája ihletett, ezúttal egy beilleszkedési nehézségekkel küzdő férfit kísér végig a pártalálás és a szerelem rögös útján.
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Art Nouveau
Organic reform: Reactionary tendrils, flowers, and flowing linesFor a fruitful period between the 1880s and the First World War, European and North American culture deferred to nature. With a symphony of flowing lines and organic shapes, Art Nouveau ( New Art ) inflected architecture, design, painting, graphic work, applied arts, and illustration.Art Nouveau was deliberately nouveau. With a spirit of willful reform, its practitioners sought to distance themselves from the imitative historicism that characterized much 19th-century art and replace it with undulating, decorative qualities. Turning to vine tendrils, flowering buds, and bird feathers as ornamental reference, they pursued not only a linear freedom but also liberation from the weight of artistic tradition and expectation.At the same time, Art Nouveau followed the example of the earlier English Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements to reject established hierarchies of artistic practice, to emphasize a return to handcraftsmanship, and to synthesize artistic media and practices into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. In this, as in its turn to nature, Art Nouveau is often seen as an aesthetic response to the Industrial Revolution, a recoil from the mass-produced and mechanic, and an elevation of the human hand and wonders of the great outdoors.This fresh TASCHEN edition considers Art Nouveau as a broad historical phenomenon with distinct local features. We consider the style s wider artistic, economic, and political circumstances, as well as its particular flavor in such hubs as Vienna, Glasgow, Munich, Weimar, and Chicago. Outstanding proponents such as Victor Horta, Antoni Gaudi, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are featured in connection with the cities of their greatest activity. The result is a vivid portrait of the age and a movement that is as much entrenched in our imagination of the fin de siecle as it is in the trajectory of modernism."
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East West Street
'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' - John le Carre When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials. Part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller, Philippe Sands guides us between past and present as several interconnected stories unfold in parallel. The first is the hidden story of two Nuremberg prosecutors who discover, only at the end of the trials, that the man they are prosecuting may be responsible for the murder of their entire families in Nazi-occupied Poland, in and around Lviv. The two prosecutors, Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin, were remarkable men, whose efforts led to the inclusion of the terms 'crimes against humanity' and 'genocide' in the judgement at Nuremberg. The defendant, Hans Frank, Hitler's personal lawyer and Governor-General of Nazi-occupied Poland, turns out to be an equally compelling character. The lives of these three men lead Sands to a more personal story, as he traces the events that overwhelmed his mother's family in Lviv and Vienna during the Second World War. At the heart of this book is an equally personal quest to understand the roots of international law and the concepts that have dominated Sands' work as a lawyer. Eventually, he finds unexpected answers to his questions about his family, in this powerful meditation on the way memory, crime and guilt leave scars across generations, and the haunting gaps left by the secrets of others.
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15,50 €
A Fine Line
A story of business transformation and a guide to creative strategies for designing a better business Written by Hartmut Esslinger, the founder of one of the world's foremost innovation firms, frog design, inc., A Fine Line reveals the secrets to better business through better design. Linking the amazing story of Esslinger's transformation from industrial design wunderkind to a global innovation powerhouse to the challenges facing businesses in the rise of the creative economy today, A Fine Line illustrates how successful business leaders partner with designers in building a better and more profitable future. Instead of offering companies a temporary innovation booster, frog works to build creative design into the framework of any organization's competitive strategy. The stories, ideas, and innovative solutions in this book clearly illustrate the economic power of creativity and design's role in shaping a sustainable competitive advantage for businesses in the rapidly evolving creative economy.Hartmut Esslinger (San Francisco, CA and New York, NY) is the founder of frog design, inc, a global innovation firm, and one of the most respected designers and business consultants in the world. Esslinger founded frog design in his native Germany and sparked a design revolution. His work has defined the modern consumer aesthetic with such revolutionary products as the Apple Macintosh computer, Sony's original Trinitron television, and Lufthansa's brand and fleet image. He is also Founding Professor of the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany and Professor for Convergent Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.
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Világtörténelem I.: Nagy csaták - Díszdoboz
Érdekes történelmi áttekintés a világ híres csatáiról, Kádestől egészen a Tora Bora-i akcióig. Az olvasó részletes leírást kaphat a hadvezérekről, stratégiájukról és a kor használt fegyvereiről.
A díszdobozban található kötetek:
A trójai háború; A görög-perzsa háborúk; A második pun háború; A százéves háború; A keresztes háborúk; A guelfek és ghibellinek háborúja; Az első skót függetlenségi háború; A százéves háború; A törökellenes harcok; A harmincéves háború; Háború a Protestáns és a Katolikus Liga között; A spanyol örökösödési háború; Az osztrák örökösödési háború; A napóleoni háborúk; A krimi háború; Az amerikai polgárháború; A porosz-osztrák és porosz-francia háború; Az orosz-japán háború; Az első világháború; A második világháború; Az első indokínai háború; A vietnami háború; Arab-izraeli háborúk; A Falkland-szigeteki háború; Az iraki-iráni háború; A II. Öböl-háború; Az afganisztáni háború
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Eadweard Muybridge: The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) is a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford by photographing a galloping horse. Muybridge invented a complex system of electric shutter releases that captured freeze frames—proving conclusively, for the first time, that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground for a fraction of a second. For the next three decades, Muybridge continued his quest to fully catalog many aspects of human and animal movement, shooting hundreds of horses and other animals, —as well as nude or draped subjects engaged in various activities such as running, walking, boxing, fencing, and descending a staircase (the latter study inspired Marcel Duchamp’s famous 1912 painting).
This book traces the life and work of Muybridge, from his early thinking about anatomy and movement to his latest photographic experiments. Many plates of Muybridge’s groundbreaking Animal Locomotion (1887) are reproduced here. In addition, Muybridge’s handmade and extremely rare first illustrated album, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1881), is reproduced in large part. A detailed chronology by British researcher Stephen Herbert throws new light on one of the most important pioneers of photography.
The author:
Hans Christian Adam studied psychology, art history and communication in Göttingen and Vienna. As a specialist in historical images, he has published numerous articles and books, including titles on travel and war photography. He is the author of TASCHEN’s Edward Sheriff Curtis: The North American Indian, Karl Blossfeldt, Eugène Atget: Paris and Berlin, Portrait of a City.
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Taste of Ashes
This is a superb account of complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives. In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash's The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of totalitarianism. The Taste of Ashes spans from Berlin to Moscow, moving from Vienna in Europe's west through Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw and Bucharest to Vilnius and Kiev in the post-communist east. The result is a shimmering literary examination of the ghost of communism - no longer Marx's 'spectre to come' but a haunting presence of the past. Marci Shore builds her history around people she came to know over the course of the two decades since communism came to an end in Eastern Europe: her colleagues and friends, once-communists and once-dissidents, the accusers and the accused, the interrogators and the interrogated, Zionists, Bundists, Stalinists and their children and grandchildren. For them, the post-communist moment has not closed but rather has summoned up the past: revolution in 1968, Stalinism, the Second World War, the Holocaust. The end of communism had a dark side. As Shore pulls the reader into her journey of discovery, reading the archival records of people who are themselves confronting the traumas of former lives, she reveals the intertwining of the personal and the political, of love and cruelty, of intimacy and betrayal. The result is a lyrical and sometimes heartbreaking portrayal of how history moves and what history means.
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Örök háború
William Mandella csak túl akarta élni ezt a háborút. Nem kitűnni, kiemelkedni vágyott, csupán épségben hazatérni a Földre. Egy olyan Földre, amely távolléte alatt szinte fölfoghatatlanul megváltozott, hiszen a néhány hónapos bevetési idő otthon - átkozott einsteni relativitás!- évszázadok múlását jelentette.
A háborút ugyanis a csillagközi űrben vívja az emberiség egy kiismerhetetlen és legyőzhetetlen ellenséggel szemben, s már az is valóságos tortúra, amíg valaki eljut a csataterekig. Ha pedig dacolva önnön esélytelenségével sikerül életben maradnia, minden megpróbáltatások legkegyetlenebbike vár ár: beilleszkedni egy olyan otthoni létezésbe, mely idegenebb a legtávolabbi bolygók világánál is.
Az SF amerikai nagymestere Hugo- és Nebula-díjas regényében voltaképp a vietnami háború intő freskóját festi meg, galaktikus léptékekre nagyítva. A szereplők azonban így is azok az egyszerű emberek maradnak, akik hazájuk hívó szavát követve fogtak fegyvert, hogy aztán hatalmi játszmák bábjaivá váljanak, és a rendszer végül kifacsarva, hasznavehetetlenné téve elhajítsa őket.
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