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Cinema Love
For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meagre existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers' Cinema, where gay men cruised for love.
While classic war films played, Old Second and his fellow countrymen found intimacy in the privacy of the Workers' Cinema's screening rooms. Elsewhere, in the box office, Bao Mei sold tickets to closeted men - guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist. But when secrets are unveiled, they set in motion a series of haunting events that propel Old Second and Bao Mei towards an uncertain future in America.
Spanning three timelines - contemporary New York, late '80s Chinatown, and post-socialist China - Cinema Love is a voice-driven, tender epic that bridges the interior landscapes of the disenfranchised with the physical, and sometimes foreign, spaces they inhabit.
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Bad Habit
Told in an irresistible, heartrending voice, Bad Habit takes us deep into the lives of the residents of a godforsaken Madrid neighbourhood ironically named after a holy saint.
An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working-class suburb that has no place for her. She discovers community and kinship in downtown Madrid, amid a dazzling party scene animated by charming junkies, glamorous pop divas, and fallen angels. With each step she takes forward in the city, she finds herself confronted by an antagonism she does not yet know how to counter. In this thrilling and yet often frightening place each decision can have the highest of stakes and yet she knows that only she can forge a path forward to the life she truly wants to live.
Blistering and compassionate, Bad Habit by Alana S Portero is translated by Mara Faye Lethem, and deftly illuminates the ties between gender and class, the search for identity, and the power of chosen family. Shimmering in its lyrical beauty and vivid in its realism, Bad Habit is a searing, mesmerising story of self-realisation that speaks to the outsider in all of us.
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Real Americans
HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO BELONG?
On the precipice of Y2K, unpaid intern Lily Chen is attempting to live the American dream in New York City. But her scientist parents imagined so much more for her when they fled Mao's cultural revolution, hoping for a better life. Despite the glamour of her media job, Lily can barely make rent - until she falls into the arms of Matthew. This young financier can give her a fairy tale life of luxury, and for the first time her dreams appear within reach.
High school student Nick Chen and his best friend Timothy are plotting to break free. College promises escape from an isolated and close-knit island in Washington State, space from his strict and secretive mum Lily, and the chance to finally fit in. But when Nick sets out to find his long-lost father, a world of questions opens, and it is one unexpected member of the Chen family who holds the key to it all.
Real Americans is a family epic about identity, sacrifice, choices and fate. It is a wildly imaginative and profound story of betrayal and forgiveness that asks us how far we should go for those we love.
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries — a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers
Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka’s handwritten diary entries and provides substantial new content, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications — notably, names of people and undisguised details about them, a number of literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones.
By faithfully reproducing the diaries’ distinctive — and often surprisingly unpolished — writing as it appeared in Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary invention and unsparing self-examination but also their value as a work of genius in and of themselves.
The Spoiled Heart
From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room, The Spoiled Heart is a magnificent novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heart
Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She's come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenaged son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A certain defensiveness. Nayan is powerfully drawn to her, though he doesn't quite know why.
He hasn't risked love since he lost his young family in a terrible accident twenty years before. All his energy has gone into work at the union, trying to make the world better, fairer, as he sees it, as he would have wanted it for his son, and he's now running for the leadership against accomplished newcomer, Megha. It's a huge moment for Nayan, the culmination of everything he believes. But as he grows closer to Helen, and to the possibility that their pasts may have been connected, much more is suddenly threatened than his chances of winning.
A magnificent and multi-layered account of one man's inexorable fall, The Spoiled Heart is an explosively contemporary story of secrets and assumptions whose consequences could never have been imagined. It is a blazing achievement from one of our very finest novelists.
V Magellanii
Magellania je území nacházející se v Ohňové zemi, na extrémním jihu amerického kontinentu.
Bludiště ostrůvků a útesů ošlehaných větry. Je to doména Kaw-djera, záhadné bytosti, která odešla ze společnosti lidí za láskou ke svobodě. Magellania je také zemí vraků lodí.
Jedné noci roku 1881 hrozilo, že na útesech ztroskotá čtyřstěžňová loď s tisícovkou přistěhovalců.
Kaw-djer se jim rozhodl pomoci. Netušil, že bude muset čelit něčemu horšímu než rozpoutaným živlům, a to násilí, žárlivosti a lidskému nevděku…
Jedná se o původní text Trosečníků lodi Jonathan. Kniha vychází za ilustračního doprovodu, původních černobílých a barevných rytin, v kartonovém pouzdru, s černobílým přebalem, raženou plátěnou šitou vazbou a se zlatou ořízkou knižního bloku.
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Long Island
Long Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.
A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.
And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?
Whale Fall
It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what’s to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the island's harsh, salt-stung landscape.
When two anthropologists from the mainland arrive, Manod sees in them a rare moment of opportunity to leave the island and discover the life she has been searching for. But, as she guides them across the island’s cliffs, she becomes entangled in their relationship, and her imagined future begins to seem desperately out of reach.
Elizabeth O’Connor’s beautiful, devastating debut Whale Fall tells a story of longing and betrayal set against the backdrop of a world on the edge of great tumult.
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Lacná kniha Posledné pohladenia (-25%)
Birgitte Solheim natoľko zostarla, že väčšina jej priateľov je už mŕtva. Osamelá a krehká stará dáma trávi väčšinu času vo svojom parížskom byte. Teraz, keď sa naposledy pozerá na ľudí a svet, snaží sa zmieriť s osudom a raz humorne, inokedy trpko bilancuje svoj život. Medzitým randí s mužom, ktorého stretla na internete a opisuje napätý vzťah so sestrou, na ktorej je napriek tomu citovo závislá. Posledné pohladenia je nežná a prekvapivo vtipná kniha o osamelosti existencie, láske a smrti.
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Poslední dům v ulici
Manžel architektky Kayly Carterové zahynul po tragické nehodě při stavbě vysněného rodinného domu. Zdrcená žena však musí zůstat silná kvůli jejich čtyřleté dcerce. Do novostavby se zdráhá nastěhovat, a když ji od toho zrazuje i podivná žena v červené paruce, která za ní přijde až do kanceláře, málem ji poslechne. Je jasné, že tajemná neznámá má k místu nějaký vztah… Jenže Kayla touží zůstat manželovi nablízku. Nakonec se tedy do domu nastěhuje a spřátelí se s novou sousedkou, starší paní Ellie Hockleyovou. Ta má tajemství, která se táhnou už téměř padesát let. Je Ellie na cestě za nápravou křivd minulosti? A skrývá k nim poslední dům v ulici klíč?
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Tóték - Helikon Zsebkönyvek 89.
A Tóték című kisregény - az Egyperces novellák mellett - Örkény István (1912-1979) legismertebb és legjellegzetesebb műve. A könyv alakban először 1967-ben megjelent rövid, alig százoldalas írásban a szerző az abszurd és a groteszk csúcsait ostromolja - nem véletlen, hogy a kisregény, illetve az abból készült színpadi adaptáció nem egy mondata szállóigévé vált. ("Háromba vágtad, édes, jó Lajosom?") Igaz, ez nem egyedül Örkény érdeme, hiszen a történet alapján Latinovits Zoltán és Sinkovits Imre főszereplésével készült, Isten hozta, őrnagy úr című, 1969-es Fábri Zoltán-film nagyban hozzájárult ahhoz, hogy Tótékat az egész ország megismerje. A Tóték drámaváltozatát nagy sikerrel játszották külföldön is, többek között franciául is bemutatták, s az előadás 1971-ben Párizsban elnyerte a Fekete Humor Nagydíját. Kétségtelen, hogy Örkény e remekműve meg is érdemelte ezt a díjat, hiszen benne olyan mondatok követik egymást, mint ez: "Kedves Mariska, ha esetleg egy pópának öltözött öregasszony lépes mézet akarna sóra cserélni, legyen szíves, lövesse főbe." vagy ez: "Még senki se szökött meg azért, mert szájában (kizárólag elővigyázatossági okokból) egy zseblámpát tartott."
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Az ötös számú vágóhíd - Helikon Zsebkönyvek 49.
Az ötös számú vágóhíd a világirodalom egyik legnagyszerűbb háborúellenes regénye. Főhőse, Billy Pilgrim elszabadul az időben, és zsiráfok meg gyakorlózubbonyos csecsemők, bombák meg ellopott teáskannák társaságában nézi, amint halál és művészet járja szolgálati keringőjét, most, a múltban és mindig, a Földön és a Tralfamador bolygón. Hozzá madarak csicsergik: Nyitni-kék.
"Már jómagam is csupán megvonom a vállam, ha arról értesülök, hogy valaki meghalt. Olyankor elismétlem, amit a tralfamadoriak szoktak mondani a halottakról. Íme, ezt szokták róluk mondani: "Így megy ez."
Mozgókép
Georg Wilhelm Pabst a két világháború közötti filmművészet kiemelkedő alakja. Az osztrák filmrendező Berlinben is aktív, de Hitler hatalomra kerülésének idején épp Franciaországból menekül Hollywoodba. Pabst később visszakényszerül Ausztriába, és bár családjával ellenállni készül a hatalom csábításának, a berlini propagandaminiszter mégis megkísérti ajánlataival.
Hatalom és művészet, egyén és közösség viszonya: Daniel Kehlmann regénye ma is aktuális kérdéseket vizsgál a bravúros történetmesélés erejével.
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Table For Two
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction- six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.
The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.
In Towles's novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, "Eve in Hollywood" describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself-and others-in a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles.
Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles's canon of stylish and transporting fiction.
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The Gentleman From Peru
We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way.
A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can't help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two. When the group decides to invite the elegant traveller to lunch with them, they cannot begin to imagine the miraculous abilities, strange wisdom, and a life-changing story he is about to impart to one of the friends in particular. . .
Deeply atmospheric and sensual, The Gentleman From Peru weaves achingly poignant insight into a story of regret, fate and epic love.
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The Husbands
A funny, astute and propulsive debut that looks at the world of relationships and romance — through the eyes of a woman whose attic creates her an endless supply of husbands
You wait ages for The One, then 203 come along at once...
One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence - from photos to electricity bills - suggests he's right.
Lauren's attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her.
There's the one who pretends to play music on her toes
The one who's too hot (there must be a catch)
The one who makes a great breakfast sandwich
The one who turns everything into double entendres ('I'll weed your garden')
And the one who can calm her unruly thoughts with a single touch
But when you can change husbands as easily as a lightbulb, how do you know whether the one you have now is the good enough one, or the wrong one, or the best one? And how long should you keep trying to find out?
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Caledonian Road
May 2021. London.
Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.
The second? Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world, has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. He also has a plan.
Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes and secrets and scandals will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves. But then, he always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.
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Love in the New Millennium
In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and conspiracies abound. Some try to flee?whether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest County, where traditional medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self.
Can Xue’s mesmerizing storytelling traces love’s many guises?satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling?against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, and sex and romance drawn from the East and the West.
Domek pro dva
Veterinářka Julia Shawová hledá místo, kde by mohla začít znovu. Po těžkém období chce konečně najít bezpečný přístav. Zamiluje se do idylického Cove Cottage v malé vesničce Carywith v Cornwallu a rozhodne se zde žít a pracovat. Henry Campbell byl dosud neklidný světoběžník, který se nerad vázal. Veterinářskou praxi své přítelkyně Isobell v Cornwallu chce ale za každou cenu převzít. Bylo to vždy jeho útočiště, kterého se nedokáže a ani nechce vzdát. Dva veterináři na takovém místě jsou ale zkrátka přiliš, navíc když musí sdílet jeden zahradní domek. A tak mezi Julií a Henrym, perfekcionistkou a chaotikem, létají nejen věci, ale zanedlouho i jiskry. Ke všemu mají oba veterináři svá dobře střežená tajemství…
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