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Perfect Leader! Passion Wins
This is what this book brings you: You support certified climate protection projects, quickly receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press comments in the book preview) as well as advice that has been tested in practice, which also leads to success step by step thanks to AddOn. Because what does the Perfect Leader of the future look like in a world in which the understanding of leadership is just changing fundamentally? More agile, more flexible, fewer hierarchies. But what it really comes down to is passion. If you inspire and excite your employees as a boss, you can forget about all the hard-won motivation tools. Another important aspect is diversity in mixed leadership teams. Excellent personnel management and development also has a lot to do with psychology. The boss acts as something between a rule giver, an organizer and an animator, always listening to his or her employees but also guiding them. And this balancing act simply succeeds better when the mixed duo at the top of management covers completely different positions, attitudes and competencies. Only equipped with these skills is the leadership also perfectly positioned for a future in which they must react flexibly to changes and crisis situations at all times. But only in this way can productive, fruitful leadership emerge at all. This book shows what matters. Good luck and have fun reading. We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form. Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process. The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English. Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Stitch
Stitch is not a monster - he's a creation.
He and his friend Henry Oaf were brought to life by the genius Professor Hardacre, and have spent all their days in a castle deep in the woods, far from humankind. But when the Professor dies and his pompous nephew comes to take over the laboratory, they soon find out that his sights are set not on scientific discovery, but personal glory. And Henry is his next experiment.
Can Stitch and Henry escape his clutches and make their way in a world they were never built for - and may never be ready for them?
A magnificent gothic adventure full of heart for age 8+
Duran Duran - Danse Macabre 2LP
Duran Duran je anglická "New Wave" skupina, ktorú založili v Birminghame v roku 1978 spevák a basgitarista Stephen Duffy, klávesák Nick Rhodes a gitarista/basgitarista John Taylor. Po pridaní bubeníka Rogera Taylora v nasledujúcom roku prešla kapela početnými personálnymi zmenami pred májom 1980, kedy sa ustálila na najslávnejšej zostave pridaním gitaristu Andyho Taylora a hlavného vokalistu Simona Le Bona. Objavili sa ako členovia novej romantickej scény, boli inovátormi hudobného videa a vedúcou skupinou v druhej britskej invázii do USA v 80. rokoch 20. storočia pod vedením MTV. V roku 1984 skupina dosiahla úroveň slávy podobnú Beatlemánii. Prvým veľkým hitom skupiny bol „Girls on Film“ (1981) z ich rovnomenného debutového albumu, ktorého popularitu zvýšilo kontroverzné hudobné video. Prelomovým druhým albumom skupiny bol svetový hit Rio (1982). Piesne „Hungry Like the Wolf“ a „Rio“ obsahovali filmové videoklipy režírované austrálskym filmárom Russellom Mulcahym a stali sa dvoma z ich najväčších hitov. Ich tretí album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, sa stal ich jediným britským albumom číslo jedna a obsahoval americký a britský singel číslo jeden „The Reflex“. V roku 1985 sa skupina dostala na vrchol amerického rebríčka so singlom „A View to a Kill“ zo soundtracku k rovnomennému filmu o Jamesovi Bondovi.
Danse Macabre je pripravovaný šestnásty štúdiový album. Jeho vydanie je naplánované na 27. októbra 2023 prostredníctvom spoločností BMG a Tape Modern. Album s halloweenskou tematikou bude obsahovať tri nové skladby, cover verzie a prepracované verzie klasík Duran Duran. Na albume sa objavujú bývalí gitaristi kapely Andy Taylor a Warren Cuccurullo. Ide o ich prvé vystúpenie na nahrávke Duran Duran od roku 2006 (cover Instant Karma od Johna Lennona!) a od roku 2000. Ako hosťujúci umelci vystupujú aj Nile Rodgers a Victoria De Angelis z Maneskin.
Tracklist:
01. Nightboat
02. Black Moonlight
03. Love Voudou
04. Bury A Friend
05. Supernature
06. Danse Macabre
07. Secret Oktober 31st
08. Ghost Town
09. Paint It Black
10. Super Lonely Freak
11. Spellbound
12. Psycho Killer (feat. Victoria De Angelis)
13. Confession in the Afterlife
Queer Encounters with Communist Power
How did the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia approach non-heterosexuality? How did young girls and boys come to realize their queer desires and identities within a state known for repressing individuality? What did they do with that self-awareness—and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their everyday dealings with a state that defined homosexuality as a medical diagnosis? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves groundbreaking queer oral history with meticulous archival research into the discourses on homosexuality and transsexuality in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989.
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Beatles, The - The Beatles 2LP
V listopadu 1968 byly do všemožných hudebních obchodů světa vyslány miliony kopií eponymního devátého dvojalba jedné z nejlegendárnějších kapel hudební historie - Beatles. Albu, které po generace nepřestává lidstvo inspirovat, se později začalo přezdívat The White Album. Reedice desky vyjde 9. listopadu a bude obsahovat 30 Gilesem Martinem (syn George Martina) a Samem Okellem nově vysoce kvalitně zmixovaných písní (The White Album), 27 dřívějších akustických demo nahrávek (Esher Demos) a 50 z většiny dosud nevydaných nahrávek pocházejících ze studiových sessions (Sessions).
The White Album bude k dostání v několika verzích. Super deluxe verze s tradičním unikátním číslem bude obsahovat dva disky, na kterých je nahrané album, jeden disk s Esher Demos, tři disky Sessions, čtyři Blu-ray verze alba a je doplněna knihou plnou fotografií, plakátů, rukopisů, poznámek a textů. Deluxe varianta bude obsahovat výše zmíněné disky, 4LP limitovaný box set - klasické album a audio kolekci, která mj. obsahuje Esher Demos, 24stránkový booklet, plakáty a portréty. Standard verze potom obsahuje klasické původní 2LP.
Většina skladeb byla složena v meditačním centru Mahariši Maheš Jógiho poblíž indického Rišikeše, kam členové skupiny se svými manželkami odcestovali v únoru 1968, aby se zrekreovali a věnovali se meditacím. Na rozdíl od předchozího alba, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, nebylo The White Album zamýšleno jako konceptuální album. Písně nespojuje žádné téma, střídá se i mnoho stylů hudby (blues, hard-rock, folk, ska a další). Je možné, že právě z důvodu takového množství nesourodých „škatulek” či „koutků” chtěli Beatles toto album původně nazvat Domeček pro panenky.
Obal desky navrhl renomovaný autor pop artu Richard Hamilton a je v kontrastu s obalem „Seržanta Peppera” stejně, jako je tomu v případě hudebního obsahu těchto dvou alb. Celá obálka má bílou barvu. Na obálce je pouze plasticky či v odstínech šedi vytlačen název alba.
Album se v Británii i Americe stalo okamžitým bestsellerem, který se umístil na prvních příčkách, kde se držel osm až devět týdnů. Deska se stala 19x platinovou a v roce 2000 byla uvedena do Grammy Hall of Fame jako „deska s neuvadající kvalitou a historickým významem”. „Jedná se o nejlepší album, které kdy Beatles vydali a jenom Beatles mohou udělat ještě lepší,” komentoval tehdy desku spoluzakladatel časopisu Rolling Stone Jann Wenner.
Tracklist:
LP1
Back in the U.S.S.R
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Wild Honey Pie
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I'm so tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
Don't Pass Me By
Why don't we do it in the road?
I Will
Julia
LP2
Birthday
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
Everybody's Got Something to Hide
Except Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long
Revolution I
Honey Pie
Savoy Truffle
Cry Baby Cry
Revolution 9
Good Night
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite.
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Kľúč k temnote
Kľúč k temnote je výberom z neobyčajne rozsiahlej tvorby amerického umelca a prozaika Roberta W. Chambersa (1865 – 1933), ktorý sa preslávil najmä vďaka svojim neobyčajným poviedkam plným desivých nadprirodzených javov. Ako autor sa síce často venoval aj romantickej a historickej fikcii, no jeho strašidelné príbehy sa dodnes považujú za najoriginálnejšie a najzaujímavejšie príspevky do bohatej knižnice hororového žánru. Medzi jeho najslávnejšie diela patrí poviedková zbierka Kráľ v žltom (The King in Yellow, 1895), ktorá mala výrazný vplyv aj na jedného z najvplyvnejších spisovateľov 20. storočia H. P. Lovecrafta (1890 –1937).
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Aerosmith - Aerosmith (Remastered) CD
Aerosmith je americká rocková skupina z Bostonu pohybujúca sa v rozpätí žánrov hardrocku a bluesrocku. V hudobnom biznise sú označovaní aj ako „The Bad Boys from Boston“, prípadne „America´s Greatest Rock and Roll Band“. Aerosmith vznikli v 1970 a sú 30-ročnou kapelou, hrajúcou v pôvodnej zostave. Sú taktiež najpredávanejšou americkou hardrockovou skupinou so 150 miliónmi predaných nosičov v rámci celosvetového meradla a 66,5 miliónmi predaných nosičov v rámci Spojených štátov amerických. Rekord držia aj v počte získaných zlatých a multiplatinových platní pre americkú skupinu. Kapela sa tiež umiestnila na 21. mieste v rebríčku „Top 40 hitov v horúcej 100 Billboardu“, devätkrát na prvom mieste v rebríčku „Mainstreamových rockových hitov“, získala štyri ocenenia Grammy a desať ocenení MTV Video Music Awards. V roku 2001 bola uvedená do Rock and Rollovej siene slávy a piesne „Dream On“ a „Toys In The Attic“ boli zaradené na zoznam „500 piesní, ktoré formovali rock“.V 2005 ju časopis Rolling Stone umiestnil na 57. miesto v rebríčku stovky najvýznamnejších umelcov všetkých čias. Už od začiatku kariéry bola skupina známa aj svojou ťažkou drogovou závislosťou a alkoholizmom, na základe čoho si získala prívlastky „jednej z najrozhádanejších kapiel svetovej rockovej scény", ale aj „nezničiteľnej skupiny s deviatimi životmi“, ktorá sa dokázala dostať z dna opäť na vrchol.
v roku 2023 Aerosmith vydávajú nové reedície ich štúdiových a Live albumov, väčšinou z éry Columbia Records. Neexistujú žiadne bonusové skladby, ale všetky piesne boli pre tieto vydania nanovo remastrované. Väčšina albumov vyjde aj na LP.
Tracklist:
1. Make It
2. Somebody
3. Dream On
4. One Way Street
5. Mama Kin
6. Write Me
7. Movin' Out
8. Walkin' the Dog
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Hunting by Stars
The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream.
Years ago, when plague and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up and are re-opened across the landscape to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams.
Seventeen-year-old French lost his family to the schools and has spent the years since heading into the north with his new "found family"-a group of other dreamers, who like him, are trying to build and thrive as a community. But then French wakes up in a pitch-black room, locked in and alone for the first time in years, and he knows immediately where he is-and what it will take to get out.
Meanwhile, out in the world, his found family searches for him and dodges new dangers-school Recruiters, a blood cult, even the land itself. When their paths finally collide, French must decide how far he is willing to go-and how many loved ones is he willing to betray-in order to survive. This engrossing, action-packed, deftly-drawn novel expands on the world of Cherie Dimaline's award-winning The Marrow Thieves, and it will haunt readers long after they've turned the final page.
Pages & Co.: The Treehouse Library
The fifth and penultimate book in the bestselling bookwandering series for readers aged eight to twelve. As Tilly and Milo hurtle towards their final showdown with the Alchemist, the stakes are higher than ever - though there is always time for hot chocolate! Milo Bolt is ready to be the hero of his own story. With Uncle Horatio trapped in an enchanted sleep by the power-hungry Alchemist, he sets off with his new friend Alessia to find a cure and save them all.
Their journey leads them to the magical treehouse - home of the Botanist, the Alchemist's sworn enemy. Against the clock, they hunt for the cure: foraging in the Secret Garden, challenging Robin Hood and confronting the mighty Jabberwock. But the Alchemist will stop at nothing to unlock the powerful secrets of The Book of Books, and Tilly, Pages & Co. and the whole world of imagination are under threat as a battle for the fate of bookwandering is set in motion...
A Clock of Stars: Beyond the Mountains
The thrilling sequel to the best-selling middle-grade debut of Autumn 2020 Imogen and Marie return through the door in the tree to a whole new Yaroslav. Miro is king, but hates it. Anneshka is no longer Queen.. . and hates it.When Anneshka hears a prophecy that she will rule the Greatest Kingdom, she seizes Marie, believing her to be key to fulfilling it, and heads over the mountains. Imogen and Miro chase after them, in hot pursuit. But what they find in the lands beyond will change everything again, and see them facing dangers they could never have imagined, both human and otherwise.Beautifully illustrated throughout by Chris Riddell, exciting and funny, the Clock of Stars trilogy is a timeless fantasy from the most astonishing new voice in middle grade.
Snowglobe
Discover the groundbreaking Korean YA thriller, for fans of Squid Game, Black Mirror and The Hunger Games!
WHEN YOU'RE INSIDE, THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING . . .
Raised in a climate-ravaged, frozen world, every day is a struggle for survival for Chobahm. Her only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour reality television shows, streamed directly from Snowglobe - the climate-controlled domed city at the heart of her world, and the only warm place left on the planet.
The citizens of Snowglobe have everything: fame, fortune and, above all, safety from the frigid wasteland outside their walls. In exchange, their lives are broadcast to the less fortunate of their world, who watch eagerly, hoping for the chance to one day become an actor themselves and join their ranks.
Chobahm is one of the dreamers. But her life changes in an instant when she is visited by two strangers from Snowglobe, who deliver earth-shattering news: Goh Haeri, Snowglobe's biggest star has died - and because of Chobahm's striking resemblance to her, she's been chosen to take her place.
Given the chance of a lifetime, Chobahm agrees to enter Snowglobe and take on Haeri's identity. Within the domed city's walls, she will finally have the existence she's always dreamed of - but if life in Snowglobe is so great, why did Haeri seem so desperate to escape it? And when everyone around you is a performer, how can you ever know what is reality, and what is created for the audience . . . ?
Published in English for the first time from its original Korean, the critically-acclaimed Snowglobe is a page-turning thriller with twists around every corner.
Women Street Artists
If street art is, in itself, an act of rebellion, it is tragically ironic that the genre seems dominated by men. This exciting book is an important first step in shedding light on the substantial number of women who are gaining fame in the street art world.
It brings together the work of 24 artists, through dazzling photographs of their work and intimate portraits of their lives based on interviews collected by award-winning journalist Alessandra Mattanza. On walls, sidewalks, prison cells, grain silos and other nontraditional canvases, these artists tackle ideas around empowerment, feminism, the pink revolution, body shaming and body imagery, racism, and the climate crisis.
From Oklahoma City and Brooklyn, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh makes site specific work that considers how people experience race and gender within their surrounding environments. South African multidisciplinary artist Faith XLVII imbues her narratives with a longing for a deeper connection to nature, and a resurrection of the divine feminine. Italy's Camilla Falsini incorporates joyful, bold colors and simple shapes to deliver serious messages about the environment. Shamsia Hassani, one of Afghanistan's first female street artists, makes vibrant murals and paintings in which women play musical instruments as a vehicle for self-expression.
Bursting with colorful photographs of works in situ as well as in detail, this thrilling and incisive book proves that street art is not only female-it's the essence of conceptual rebellion itself.
Remember
Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you're over forty, you're probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are completely normal. Why? Because while memory is amazing, it is far from perfect. Our brains aren't designed to remember every name we hear, plan we make or day we experience. Just because your memory sometimes fails doesn't mean it's broken or succumbing to disease. Forgetting is actually part of being human.
In Remember, neuroscientist and acclaimed novelist Lisa Genova delves into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. In explaining whether forgotten memories are temporarily inaccessible or erased forever and why some memories are built to exist for only a few seconds while others can last a lifetime, we're shown the clear distinction between normal forgetting (where you parked your car) and forgetting due to Alzheimer's (that you own a car). Remember shows us how to create a better relationship with our memory - so we no longer have to fear it any more, which can be life-changing.
Annie Leibovitz
The coveted Annie Leibovitz SUMO is now available in an unlimited XXL edition. Drawing on more than 40 years of work, including photojournalism made for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and conceptual portraits for Vanity Fairand Vogue, Leibovitz selected iconic images and also photographs that have rarely, if ever, been seen before.
Black Notice: Episode 1 (EN)
Audiobook Black Notice: Episode 1, written by Lotte Petri. Elegant, trumpet-like lilies, she thought. But there was something off. Something not right. It was the color. It was strange, sort of pale and flesh-colored. In a sleepy seaside town outside Copenhagen, a strange light at the bottom of the harbor has the police call in a military diver with a speciality in wet crime scenes.
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Various - 1968: 50 hitů roku naděje a zrady 2CD
Od roku 1968 uplynulo půlstoletí, a přece jsou vzpomínky stále živé. Atmosféru té doby teď připomíná vydavatelství Supraphon prostřednictvím speciálního 2CD, které má v názvu onen osudový letopočet.
Dvojalbum 1968 - 50 hitů roku naděje a zrady obsahuje hudbu tak rozmanitou, jak tehdejší promíchání stylů nabídlo. Výběr a sestavu měl ve své režii hudební publicista Miloš Skalka, který nevynechal žádný odstín oné písničkové sezony, od velkých pěveckých hvězd přes sílící beatovou vlnu či interprety navazující na swingovou muziku až po šansoniéry a písničkáře.
V sestavě jsou také remasterované originální nahrávky, odrážející srpnovou okupaci, ale nejde o sestavu protestsongů. Je to atraktivní hudební průvodce celým osmašedesátým rokem v podobě padesátky, v bookletu jednotlivě komentovaných skladeb.
Jak bylo těžké vybrat padesátku reprezentativních písní, uvádí Miloš Skalka: "Složité bylo především rozhodnout, které písničky oželet. Rok 1968, stejně jako prakticky celá druhá polovina šedesátých let, byla totiž doba nesmírně blahodárná a múzám přející, a to nejen v muzice. Všechno pak na dlouhých dvacet let skončilo v okamžiku, kdy tehdejší mocní země - podpořeni ve svém úsilí ruskými tanky a "pevnou ideologií" - rozhodli, že bude všechno jinak. Ale v roce 1968 převládala všeobecná radost a spolu s ní radost z tvorby. Snad je to z té padesátky nahrávek poznat."
Tracklist:
CD1
LADY CARNEVAL
LAMPA
DOCELA OBYČEJNÁ PÍSEŇ
SLZA Z TVÁŘE PADÁ
DOBRÁ ZPRÁVA
ČEKEJ A NEPLAKEJ
CÍTIL BYCH SE LÍP
A ZAZVONIL ZVONEC
DOMŮ
ČAS BORŮVKOVÝCH KOLÁČŮ
DOBROU NOC, PANE MOZARTE
ČEKEJ TIŠE (HE´LL HAVE TO GO)
PTÁK ROSOMÁK
OBRAZ SMUTNÝ SLEČNY
CHODÍM
ČÍM LÁSKU BRÁNÍŠ
VÍTR TO VÍ (BLOWIN´ IN THE WIND)
BALALAJKA
JÁ NECHCI MÍT
KLAUNOVA ZPOVĚĎ
BONNIE A CLYDE (THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE)
SPIEVAM SI PIESEŇ
DEJ MI, LÁSKO, NADĚJI
NEVIDOMÁ DÍVKA
CD2
NESTŮJ A POJĎ – U NÁS MÁME MEJDAN
JOSÉ
DEJTE MI KOUSEK LOUKY
BOŽSKEJ TRINI (TRINI´S TUNE)
DLOUHÝ STÍN
CESTA KONČÍ (YOU DON´T OWN ME)
DVĚ LOUTNY / EVERYBODY
GOOD BYE
HERECKÝ ŠANSON
HOU, HOU
PŘEJDI JORDÁN
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
HŘEJ MĚ
INZERÁT
CHMÝŘÍ
JAK TEN ČAS LETÍ
OH, SHENANDOAH
JSEM BLÁHOVÁ
OVEČKA
JAK BLUDNÝ HOLANĎAN
SUITA PRO J. S. BACHA
SVATEJ KLUK
SÍŤ HOUPACÍ
DOBŘE MÍNĚNÁ RADA (BĚŽ DOMŮ, IVANE)
MODLITBA PRO MARTU
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Run for Cover (EN)
Audiobook Run for Cover, written by Graeme Hampton. He gazes at the bodies. Young men, probably in their early thirties. The wooden flooring around them has been stained dark red. He wonders what kind of monster could have done this. And why. As a murder detective in the Met Police, D.I. Matthew Denning is used to seeing the very worst of humanity. But when a young woman's body is discovered in an East London churchyard, her face obliterated by blows, he is plunged into his most shocking case yet.
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Harsh Times
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever." Financial Times
"A compelling and propulsive literary thriller." Hari Kunzru, New York Times Book Review
"A splendidly rich and absorbing novel." The Scotsman
"Compelling . . . full of intrigue, backstabbing and shifting power dynamics." Irish Times
Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas.
Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today.