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Muž jménem Ove/Muž jménem OTTO
Román o lásce, pořádném nářadí a o tom, proč je důležité jezdit saabem.
Ovemu je padesát devět let. Řídí saab. Na pozici předsedy družstva vlastníků ho sice vystřídali už před pár lety — což on sám považuje za převrat —, ale to mu rozhodně nebrání vykonávat funkci strážce pořádku. Samozvaného strážce pořádku.
Když se do protějšího domku přistěhují noví sousedé a místo pozdravu se jim podaří nacouvat do Oveho poštovní schránky, spustí se kolotoč nečekaných událostí — začíná příběh o překvapivém přátelství, toulavé kočce a prastarém umění řídit. A o tom, jak se změní životy lidí, kteří se s Ovem setkají.
Román Fredrika Backmana o starém vzteklounovi humorně ztvárňuje řadu důvěrně známých situací. Je to kniha, jež má svůj vlastní svět, ale zároveň nám říká něco důležitého o nás i naší době.
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Royal
Danielle Steel elbűvölő történetében egy hercegnőt a második világháború idején biztonságos helyre menekítenek, ahol a fiatal lány szerelmes lesz, és örökre elvész.
Nagy-Britannia, 1943.
Hatalmas pusztítást okozva és mindent elsöprő félelmet keltve tombol a háború, amikor a király és a királyné legfiatalabb lányukat, Charlotte-ot egy Yorkshire megyében élő megbízható nemesi családhoz küldi, mivel a gyenge egészségű, ám önfejű hercegnő számára túlságosan kockázatos lenne a háború sújtotta Londonban maradni.
A trónöröklési sorban harmadik, mindössze tizenhét éves Charlotte-nak nincs ínyére, hogy álnéven kell megérkeznie Yorkshire-be, ahol egyedül a pártfogói ismerik valódi személyazonosságát. De lassan kezdi megszeretni a reflektorfényen kívül eső életet, figyelmét lekötik a szeretett lovával folytatott edzések. Ám azt senki sem látta előre, hogy beleszeret pártfogói fiába...
Az események tragikus fordulata folytán egy újszülött kislány árván marad, és a gyermek a legszerényebb körülmények között cseperedik fel. Senki, még ő maga sem tud a származásáról. Ám amikor előkerül egy köteg elrejtett levél, fény derül a csaknem két évtizedes titokra, és előlép egy régen elveszett hercegnő.
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Milenec lady Chatterleyové
Poslední román D.H. Lawrence, lyrický a smyslný, je jedním z hlavních beletristických děl dvacátého století. Příběh plný výjevů intimní krásy zkoumá emoce osamělé ženy uvězněné ve sterilním manželství a její rostoucí lásku ke statnému hajnému na panství jejího muže.
Nejkontroverznější z Lawrenceových knih, Milenec lady Chatterleyové, radostně potvrzuje autorovu vizi individuální regenerace prostřednictvím sexuální lásky. Síla, spletitost a psychologická složitost knihy z ní činí zcela originální dílo – triumf vášně a oslavu života.
Lawrenceovo upřímné zobrazení mimomanželského vztahu a explicitní sexuální zkoumání jeho ústředních postav způsobilo, že tato kniha, nyní považovaná za mistrovské dílo, byla až do roku 1960 zakázána jako pornografie.
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Dom pribehov
Marvin je tridsiatnik, žije v Berlíne a stále sa v živote ešte len hľadá. Neúspešne strieda jedno zamestnanie za druhým,
až kým sa nezamestná v antikvariáte už starého majiteľa pána Rasmusa. Dom príbehov je však viac ako len obyčajný antikvariát.
V suteréne ukrýva tajomstvo, ktoré otrasie Marvinovým čestným agnosticizmom a jeho životu dá nečakané
smerovanie. Medzi knihami prežije prekvapivé dobrodružstvo príbehov, lásky a Boha. Netradične napísaný román, ktorý určite zaujme.
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize
In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year, and where he might witness the splendour of the Northern Lights one night or be attacked by a polar bear the next. After a devastating accident while digging for coal, Sven heads north again and ends up on an uninhabited fjord living in a hut he builds, alone except for the company of a loyal dog, testing himself against the elements. Years into his routine isolation, the arrival of an unlikely visitor sparks a chain of events that brings Sven into a family of fellow outsiders and determines the course of the rest of his life.
Inspired by a real person and written with wry humour, in prose as beautiful as the stark landscape it evokes, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is a testament to the strength of human bonds, reminding us that even in the most inhospitable conditions, we are not beyond the reach of love.
Emma
Emma Woodhouse szellemes és gyönyörű hajadon, aki előszeretettel játssza a kerítő szerepét, ő maga azonban elszántan szembeszegül a házassággal. S bár apjának megfogadja, hogy felhagy a házasságszerzéssel, szeleburdi természete nem engedi, hogy lemondjon erről a kitűnő társasági szórakozásról. Ám ahogy egyre újabb délceg ifjak legyeskednek körülötte, mintha a minden lében kanál lányban is felcsapna a vágy - de vajon kihez vonzódik leginkább: a romantikus Mr. Eltonhoz? Netán a kalandor Mr. Churchillhez? És vajon a környékbeli lányokon kívül Emma számára is tartogat a sors szerelmet? Az események középpontjában három ifjú pár félreértéseken és viszályokon át győzedelmeskedő szerelme áll. A színtér, a környezet itt is ugyanaz, mint a többi Austen-regényben: vidéki angol úriházak, amelyek úgy élik derűsnek és kiegyensúlyozottnak látszó életüket, mintha az országnak semmi köze sem volna a Csatorna túlsó oldalán dúló napóleoni háborúkhoz.
Jane Austen, megannyi világraszóló sikerkönyv írónője ebben a máig friss és humoros regényben ismét bebizonyítja, hogy a női lélek rejtelmeinek, és a társasági élet praktikáinak legjobb ismerője.
Send Nudes
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities: growing up too quickly, yet not quickly enough; taking possession of what one can, while being taken possession of; succumbing to societal pressure but also orchestrating that pressure. These young women are feral yet attentive, fierce yet vulnerable, exploited yet exploitative.
Threading between clubs at closing time, pub toilets, drenched music festivals and beach holidays, these unforgettable short stories deftly chart the treacherous terrain of growing up – of intense friendships, of ambivalent mothers, of uneasily blended families, and of learning to truly live in your own body.
With striking wit, originality and tenderness, Send Nudes celebrates the small victories in a world that tries to claim each young woman as its own.
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent
In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich.
Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband's abuse – have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic.
Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-three years. She has told no one of her own visions – and knows that time is running out for her to do so.
The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more powerful than the world is ready to hear. Their meeting will change everything.
Sensual, vivid and humane, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women.
Hotel Milano
From the bestselling writer of Italian Ways, Europa and The Hero's Way, a story set during the first days of lockdown in Europe, about the unexpected kindness of strangers and one man's emotional reckoning.
Milan, 2020. Drawn abruptly from his reclusive life in London for a friend's funeral, Frank finds himself in the eye of a pandemic he had barely registered on the news. From the relative comfort of his balcony at Hotel Milano, he surveys the train station across the piazza, seeing the mad dash for the last trains, hearing the sirens and watching the police stop people in the street. He feels himself remote from it all.
Then, one night, the sound of a child's footsteps leads him to discover a family sheltering secretly above him: a family who need his help. As the days pass, this reserved and difficult man begins to open himself to others. Faced with the task of saving a life, he must also take stock of his own.
Amazing Grace Adams
Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps.
She doesn't scream or break something or cry. She simply abandons in traffic and walks away. But not from her life - towards it. To the daughter who won't live with her anymore and has banned her from the party. To the husband divorcing her. Towards the terrible thing that has blown their family apart...
Today she'll show her daughter that no matter how far we fall we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams was amazing. Her husband and daughter once thought so. They and the world might have forgotten. But Grace is about to remind them ...
Amazing Grace Adams tells the story of a life, a marriage, a family, set against a single north-London day. A rollercoaster ride of redemption and discovery, it's a powerful celebration of womanhood.
The Slowworm's Song
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving.
An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with Maggie, the daughter he barely knows, when he receives a summons - to an inquiry in Belfast about an incident during the Troubles, which he hoped he had long outdistanced. Now, to testify about it could wreck his fragile relationship with Maggie. And if he loses her, he loses everything.
He decides instead to write her an account of his life - a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of buying time. But as time runs out, the day comes when he must face again what happened in that distant summer of 1982.
German Fantasia
A deserting soldier treks through the torn-up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war.
An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger who whispered another man's name.
A young woman takes up a job in a care home, spending monotonous days scrubbing floors and yearning to dance at the local nightclub.
The artist Franz Marc lives on in an imagined life as a patient at an asylum, before falling victim to Hitler's policy of Gnadentod.
Finally, a young Jewish girl, the life she once knew destroyed, holds her memories close as she finds refuge in wreckage of her homeland.
And throughout there is the shadowy presence of Viktor - one man or many? A looming figure in Germany's own reckoning with its past.
Through these five interconnected stories, Philippe Claudel reflects on Germany's complex history and the experiences of its people, dismantling the idea of "a nation" or "a people" and exploring the malleability of memory.
The Man Who Lived Underground
Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighbourhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago.
This is the simple, horrible premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, a masterpiece written in the same period as his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) that he was unable to publish in his lifetime.
Now, for the first time, this incendiary novel about race and violence in America, the work that meant more to Wright than any other ('I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration'), is published in full, in the form that he intended.
Wahala
Soon to be a high-budget BBC TV series, a major paperback re-launch for this acclaimed debut recommended on BBC Radio Two Book Club and Woman's Hour, published to rave reviews from Sunday Times and Guardian to Good Housekeeping, Stylist and Red.
Three friends. Three 'perfect' lives. Here comes Trouble.
Ronke wants Happily Ever After and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be 'the one'. Her friends think he's just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends.
Boo has just what Ronke wants - a kind husband, a gorgeous child. But she's frustrated, unfulfilled, and desperate to remember who she used to be.
Simi is the golden one with the perfect lifestyle and a career. No one knows she's crippled by impostor syndrome and tempted to pack it all in each time her boss mentions her 'urban vibe.' Her husband thinks they're trying for a baby. She's not.
When the high-flying, charismatic Isobel explodes into the group, she seems to bring out the best in each woman. But the more Isobel intervenes, the more chaos she sows, until Ronke, Simi, and Boo's lifelong friendship begins to crack.
Invisible Child
Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.
Dasani comes of age as New York City's homeless crisis is exploding. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani leads her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental drug addiction, violence, housing instability, segregated schools and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system.
When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love?
By turns heartbreaking and revelatory, provocative and inspiring, Invisible Child tells an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality.
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Jákobův žebřík
Zatím poslední a nejintimnější román Ljudmily Ulické. Autorka se v něm podobně jako ve svých předchozích textech věnuje tématu paměti, tentokrát paměti ryze rodinné – i zde jsou však malé dějiny neúprosně válcovány těmi velkými. Vesměs tragická minulost, o níž zastrašená generace rodičů Ljudmily Ulické před svými dětmi zarytě mlčela, se teprve po smrti všech jejích aktérů odhaluje a vstupuje do současnosti díky truhličce starých dopisů a odtajněným materiálům KGB. Žebřík v názvu románu neodkazuje jen ke starozákonnímu Jákobovu snu o žebříku, nad nímž stál Hospodin, který mu slíbil, že jej nikdy neopustí. Nevede pouze do nebe, ale především k poznání. Čtenář napjatě sleduje, jak za ním svou strastiplnou cestu urazil dědeček hlavní hrdinky – Jakov, autor dopisů, jež se staly impulsem pro rozsáhlou rodinnou kroniku. Jákobův žebřík je také spojnicí generací, symbolem obnovené paměti. A rovněž příběhem, který vypráví o možnosti štěstí v jakékoli době: v epoše represí, stagnace i chaotické současnosti.
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After I Do
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a breath taking novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both.
When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes.
Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren's ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?
This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It's about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you've got. And above all, After I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an old game-and searching for a new road to happily ever after.
At Certain Points We Touch
It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th – the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago.
Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair, with its violent, animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power play will initiate a dance of repulsion and attraction that will cross years, span continents, drag in countless victims – and culminate in terrible betrayal.
At Certain Points We Touch is a story of first love and last rites, conjured against a vivid backdrop of London, San Francisco and New York – a riotous, razor-sharp coming-of-age story that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.
Forever, Interrupted
Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn't expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they've eloped.
Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met-and who doesn't even know Elsie exists.
Interweaving Elsie and Ben's charmed romance with Elsie and Susan's healing process, Forever, Interrupted will remind you that there's more than one way to find a happy ending.
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