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Noc nič nezadrží
Noc nič nezadrží je hlboko osobným, až intímnym rozprávaním autorky o svojej matke Lucile. Nutkavá potreba uchopiť jej život prenasledovala Delphine de Vigan od matkinej samovraždy. Túžila nájsť odpoveď na otázku, prečo bol Lucilin život taký trpký a čo vlastne zapríčinilo jej psychické problémy. Matkina bolesť bola súčasťou Delphininho detstva aj dospievania, formovala ju, no každý pokus o jej vysvetlenie či pochopenie bol odsúdený na neúspech. Pátrala preto hlbšie v minulosti, u žijúcich príbuzných, v starých nahrávkach, v zachovanej korešpondencii. Neraz sa zasekla, neschopná uchopiť pravdu či zmätená zo zábleskov nesúrodých spomienok. O Lucile píše zo svojho uhla pohľadu, bez pátosu, očami dieťaťa, ktoré bolo nútené rýchlo dospieť. V príbehu sa stretávame so smrťou, s incestom, neverou aj s chorobami, všetkým, čo by iné rodiny zrazilo na kolená. Práve sila, s akou to príbuzní zvládajú, sa tiahne naprieč celým románom. Temnota ja mocná, ale človek sa jej musí vzoprieť.
Z francúzskeho originálu Rien ne s’oppose a la nuit (JC Lattes, Paris 2011) preložila Andrea Černáková.
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Az emberek legtitkosabb emlékezete
A kötet 2021-ben Franciaország legrangosabb irodalmi elismerésében részesült, elnyerte a Goncourt-díjat.
2018-ban egy fiatal szenegáli író, Diégane Latyr Faye felfedez Párizsban egy legendás könyvet, az 1938-ban kiadott Az embertelenség labirintusát. A szerzőt úgy emlegették annak idején: a "néger Rimbaud", de a műve által keltett botrány miatt eltűnt.
Diégane nyomozni kezd a titokzatos T.C. Elimane után, és tragédiákkal szembesül. Közben Párizsban fiatal afrikai írók egy csoportjával jár össze; figyelik egymást, beszélgetnek, vitatkoznak, isznak, sokat szeretkeznek, és töprengenek a száműzetésbeli alkotás szükségességén.
Az emberek legtitkosabb emlékezete villódzóan ötletes, lebilincselő olvasmány, melyben ott a választás állandó kényszere: írni vagy élni? Szerelmi vallomás az irodalomhoz és az irodalom időtlen hatalmához.
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Chatrč, 4. vydání
Celosvětový bestseller o tom, jak lze tváří v tvář zlu, bolesti a beznaději nalézt Boha, milost, usmíření… a sebe sama. Missy, nejmladší dcera Macka Allena Phillipse, je unesena během rodinného výletu. Důkazy o tom, že byla pravděpodobně zavražděna, se najdou v opuštěné chatrči uprostřed oregonské divočiny. Díky podivné výzvě, kterou Mack obdrží pár let poté, se tam vrací, aby znovu vkročil do samého středu svých nejtemnějších nočních můr. To, co v chatrči najde, navždy změní jeho život…
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Tátovo indiánské léto
Juliane je devětatřicet, má sedmiletého syna, spořádaný život a nemá ráda překvapení. Její táta Jean je odjakživa nespoutaný živel a miluje všechno spontánní a nečekané. Takže když v jeho domě dojde k požáru a on se musí přistěhovat ke své dceři, o zábavu je postaráno. Jean byl vždycky jiný než ostatní otcové, doslova magnet na neuvěřitelné příhody, ale tentokrát se zdá všechno nějak mnohem intenzivnější…
Domem se rozléhá divoký bigbít, na zahradě se má stavět indiánské týpí, dochází k šarvátkám se sousedem, poštou pravidelně přichází spousta nesmyslných produktů nakoupených v teleshoppingu a Jean věčně něco ztrácí a zapomíná… Juliane si zprvu myslí, že otcova podivínská nátura a nonkonformita se věkem prohlubuje, brzy si ale musí přiznat, že s ním zkrátka něco není v pořádku. A lékařské potvrzení této skutečnosti je prvním krokem cesty, která Juliane a celou rodinu po jeho boku ještě čeká.
Někdy je prostě potřeba hodit za hlavu minulost i budoucnost, žít přítomným okamžikem a užívat si každý drahocenný den. Dokud totiž žijeme, stále je čas na všechno možné i nemožné.
Metamorphosis
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories.
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The Prophet
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
In this inspirational, allegorical guide, Al Mustafa the prophet delivers spiritual yet practical homilies on the work of living: beauty, truth, possessions, sorrow, joy, death and more. Translated into more than fifty languages and among the best-selling books of all time, The Prophet remains a wise and revitalising handbook for the soul.
Hell Screen
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing.
Lacná kniha Ideas of Heaven (-50%)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Set in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Joan Silber skilfully and subtly ties one story to the next, as a minor element in one becomes a major element in the next, until the last is tied convincingly to the first. Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, they are about longings - often held for years - and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort.
From a wannabe dancer in contemporary New York City to missionaries in China, Ideas of Heaven showcases Joan Silber's extraordinary deftness as she illuminates love, faith and sex with great originality and profundity.
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Jacob's Room
New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel.
Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered. Impressionistic in style, the narrative is as inspired now as it was when it first appeared.
'A remarkable achievement' New Statesman
Fools
When is it wise to be a fool for something? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber's dazzling connected stories tackle this question head-on.
Vera, the shy, anarchist daughter of missionary parents, leaves her family for love and activism in New York. A generation later, her doubting daughter insists on the truth of being of two minds, even in marriage. The adulterous son of a Florida hotel owner steals money from his family and departs for Paris, where he finds himself outsmarted in turn. Fools ponders the circle of winners and losers, dupers and duped, and the price we pay for our beliefs, offering readers an unforgettable look at work, faith, love and the eternal quest for personal integrity.
Lolly Willowes
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.
By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.
But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.
At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.
In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.
Ideas of Heaven
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Set in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Joan Silber skilfully and subtly ties one story to the next, as a minor element in one becomes a major element in the next, until the last is tied convincingly to the first. Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, they are about longings - often held for years - and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort.
From a wannabe dancer in contemporary New York City to missionaries in China, Ideas of Heaven showcases Joan Silber's extraordinary deftness as she illuminates love, faith and sex with great originality and profundity.
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Of Ghosts and Goblins
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
In this haunting collection, the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore stalk the page. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create these chilling tales. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
Lady Susan
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Recently widowed, the unscrupulous and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way through high society in the hope of a profitable new match - all while trying to marry off her unfortunate daughter. Told through a series of letters, Jane Austen's magnificent first novella is as subversive as it is charming.
'The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste' - Virginia Woolf
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The Queen Of Spades
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, is accompanied here by the thrilling 'Dubrovsky' and unforgettable 'Tales of Belkin'.
Passing
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Clare Kendry, elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she reunites with childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. A taut exploration of race and gender, Passing is one of the Harlem Renaissance's greatest works.
'A tragic story rooted in inescapable facts of American life' The New York Times
Ghost Town
WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD
Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan Berlin, where he finally finds acceptance as a young gay man.
The novel is set about a decade later, on Ghost Festival, the Day of Deliverance. After Keith's release from a maximum security prison, he has nowhere to go but home. With his parents gone, his siblings married, mad, on the lam, or dead, there is nothing left for him there, so it seems. As he explores his uncanny home town, we learn what tore his family apart, and, more importantly, the truth behind the terrible crime Keith committed in Germany.
Told in a myriad of voices-both living and dead-and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town is a mesmerizing story of family secrets, countryside superstitions, and the search for identity amid a clash of cultures.
Aquanaut
Thailand, July 2018. Twelve boys and their football coach vanish into Tham Luang caves just as the monsoon rains hit. A mile from the surface they are trapped by rising flood waters. All attempts to reach them fail.
As hope for their survival fades a retired British firefighter tinkering with homemade cave-diving kit gets a call.
Rick Stanton and his dive partner race to the other side of the world.
The boys have been missing for days.
Each hour, their chance of escape shrinks.
Rick must swim, crawl and squeeze through treacherously tight submerged tunnels hunting for them.
But that is not the impossible part.
Because if by some miracle they're alive then somehow he must bring the boys back out again . . .
He doesn't know it yet but all his life he's been training for this very moment . . .
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