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Perlmannovo mlčanie
Jazykovedné sympózium v hoteli na ligúrskom pobreží koncom jesene. Uznávaný lingvista Philipp Perlmann očakáva slávnych kolegov a obklopený veľkými očakávaniami si uvedomuje, že v pracovnom živote už nemá čo povedať. Táto skúsenosť, opovrhovanie akademickým svetom, strata viery vo význam akademickej činnosti a životná kríza menia ostatných kolegov na hrozivých protivníkov. Perlmann sa ukrýva v odľahlej hotelovej izbe a útočisko hľadá v preklade ruského textu. Každým dňom sa dostáva do čoraz zúfalejšej situácie, ktorá ho privádza do víru lží a na pokraj vraždy a samovraždy.
Psychologický, jazykovo brilantne spracovaný román par excellence, ktorý udržiava čitateľa v napätí od prvého po posledný riadok.
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Blue-Skinned Gods
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy named Kalki is born with blue skin. He believes that he is the Hindu god Vishnu and that he can perform miracles. The truth, however, is much darker...
As Kalki struggles to extract himself from under the thumb of his controlling father, he must also reconcile with the idea that everything he’s ever been told might not be true. When his father drags him on a tour to America, Kalki seizes his chance to explore what life as an ordinary man might be like.
Pulled between India and America, and his father’s web of control, Kalki must find his true place in the world.
Pokrivený pluh
Román Pokrivený pluh od Itamara Vieiru Juniora je najnovšou senzáciou afrobrazílskej literatúry. Príbeh odohrávajúci sa na statku Čierna voda na brazílskom severovýchode je osobnou históriou potomkov otrokov, pre ktorých je vidina skutočnej slobody v každodennom živote stále vzdialená. Zeca Slamenák s manželkou Salu vychovávajú dcéry Bibianu a Belonísiu, ktoré v detstve poznačí nešťastie. Hoci ich spočiatku zblíži, časom sa ich cesty rozídu a my sa cez ich útrapy dozvedáme o vykorisťovaní černošského obyvateľstva, boji za pozemkové práva, zlatej horúčke, domácom násilí, ale aj o daroch zeme, magických prírodných silách, ktoré sprevádzajú miestnych roľníkov, neoceniteľnej úlohe žien a tajomných obradoch jar?.
Príbeh jednej rodiny, v ktorej sa zrkadlia stáročia útlaku. Príbeh epický i lyrický, skutočný i magický.
Román získal tri prestížne ceny udeľované spisovateľom píšucim po portugalsky LeYa (2018), Jabuti (2020) a Oceanos (2020).
Bánat és öröm
Martha Frielt mindenki okosnak és szépnek tartja. Azt mondják neki: zseniális író vagy, és életed minden napján szeret téged egy férfi, Patrick, a férjed. Martha anyja szerint nincs mindenkinek ilyen szerencséje.
Akkor mégis mi a gond? Tizenhét éves korában bomba robbant az agyában, és egyszerre minden megváltozott. Most lassacskán negyvenéves. Nincsenek barátai, gyakorlatilag munkája sincs, és gyakran szomorkodik. És miért dönt úgy Patrick, hogy kilép a házasságból?
Vajon sikerül Marthának helyrebillentenie az életét? Képes lesz rá, hogy mindent elölről kezdjen, és egy boldogabb véget írjon az eddigi történethez?
Ostrov morských žien
Jong-suk a Mi-džu sú priateľky na život a na smrť. Ich cesty sa pretnú už v detstve a pokračujú celé desaťročia počas búrlivých udalostí na kórejskom ostrove Čedžu. Obe už v mladosti začnú pracovať ako „morské ženy henjo" - potápačky živiace sa často za cenu vlastného zdravia a niekedy aj života celodenným lovom morských živočíchov. Spoločne prekonávajú nielen nebezpečenstvá hroziace na mori aj súši, stratu rodičov, ťažké časy japonskej okupácie, druhej svetovej vojny či vznik samostatného kórejského štátu a násilie, ktoré tieto dejinné zvraty so sebou prinášajú, ale aj svoje vlastné malé drámy. Na svete sú však aj sily, ktoré ľudská vôľa nezdolá.
Krásny svet, kdeže si
Spisovateľka Alice sa zoznámi s Felixom, ktorý pracuje v sklade, a požiada ho, aby ju sprevádzal na služobnej ceste do Ríma. V Dubline sa jej najlepšia priateľka Eileen spamätáva z rozchodu a začína opäť flirtovať so Simonom, s ktorým sa pozná od detstva. Alice, Felix, Eileen a Simon sú stále mladí – no život ich pomaly dobieha. Túžia po sebe a navzájom sa klamú, dávajú sa dokopy a rozchádzajú sa. Majú sex a trápia sa nad ním, strachujú sa o svoje priateľstvo a znepokojuje ich svet, v ktorom žijú. Dokážu uveriť v krásny svet? KRÁSNY SVET, KDEŽE SI sa venuje rôznym témam - kráse, sláve, sociálnym sieťam, duševnému zdraviu, priateľstvu, láske, prerodu priateľstva na lásku aj tomu, aká je príťažlivosť premenlivá. Autorkine postavy hľadajú lásku a vlastnú identitu aj kultúrnu triedu, do ktorej by mohli patriť alebo sa v nej schovať. Hľadajú nádej vo svete, ktorý sa často zdá beznádejný.
White Nights
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.
Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. 'White Nights' tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, 'A Nasty Business' presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while 'The Meek One' is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy.
About Love
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.
Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and deep, powerful mystery. Collected here are five of his very best tales, 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and the trilogy of stories, 'The Man in the Case', 'Gooseberries' and 'About Love'.
The Master And Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov's devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition.
Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, signalling artistic freedom for Russians everywhere. Bulgakov's carnivalesque satire of Soviet life describes how the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow one Spring afternoon. Brimming with magic and incident, it is full of imaginary, historical, terrifying and wonderful characters, from witches, poets and Biblical tyrants to the beautiful, courageous Margarita, who will do anything to save the imprisoned writer she loves.
Of Mice and Men
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.
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work, achieving success as a novel, Broadway play and three acclaimed films.
I Capture the Castle
Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection, celebrating International Women's Day 2023.
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family live in a beautiful, ramshackle castle - but sadly that's not quite as exciting as it sounds when you're having to use the barn door as a kitchen table, and new clothes are literally made out of old curtains...
Determined to forge her own path, Cassandra practices her writing skills by keeping a diary - observing the eccentric comings and goings of her beloved-but exasperating family, and pondering what life may have in store for her. But things are about to get delightfully more dramatic with the arrival of two glamorous Americans - and soon the Mortmain's lives will never be the same again.
Rebel Voices is a new six-part Puffin Classics collection of strikingly designed, highly collectible books, written by female authors, and celebrating courage, rebellion, strength and inspiration.
Bliss
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.
Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield's stories were integral in shaping the Modernist movement and redefined a genre. This collection contains some of Mansfield's most celebrated stories, including 'Bliss', 'The Garden Party' and 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'.
'The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' - Virginia Woolf
Territory of Light
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.
Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter, in her first year of separation from her husband. At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time, and remains one of Yuko Tsushima's most beloved works.
Pure Colour
What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?
In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal - to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.
Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.
Shooting an Elephant
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.
Today, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but in his own time it was his remarkable nonfiction writing which drew most attention. Kind-hearted, intelligent, often funny, occasionally indignant, always insightful: his essays are some of the best ever written. Among others, this selection includes 'Shooting an Elephant', 'Such, Such Were the Joys' and 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.
The Trouble with Happiness
An unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy.
In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife, a woman's obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella - become dark and disconcerting. Here Tove Ditlevsen explores yearning, fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness.
Dream Story
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.
Like his Austrian contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and writer Arthur Schnitzler
was a bold pioneer in exploring the dark tangled roots of human consciousness. His novella Dream Story tells the tale of a young married man who, after a discussion with his wife about their fantasises, experiences an eery reverie through Vienna's underbelly.
The Weight of Loss
A spine-tingling debut about grief and obsession, with a shocking twist of an ending.
Marianne is still reeling from the death of her sister when she starts to exhibit some strange physical symptoms. Each day, it seems, her body betrays her a little bit more, and no one can explain to her what is going on.
Then a doctor offers her the hope of recovery - a stay in Nede, an experimental health retreat deep in the Welsh countryside. Surrounded by high walls and cut off from the outside world, it sounds like exactly what Marianne needs.
Desperate to get her life back on track, she leaves everything behind - her stressful job, her unsatisfactory relationship, her troubled family - hopeful that she finally has a chance to heal. Yet all is not as it seems at Nede. Yes, the surroundings are idyllic. Yes, the other residents seem happy. But something doesn't feel right.
Marianne begins to lose control as she obsessively revisits the days and weeks leading up to her sister's death. But now she must confront a more immediate threat: a dark experiment that appears to be taking over her mind, her body and her precious memories.
Moonlight
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.
Often described as the father of the modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely associated with the form than Guy de Maupassant. Included here is his most famous story, 'Boule de Suif', as well as tales of love, such as the brilliant 'Happiness', and the supernatural, like the chilling 'The Horla'.
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