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We All Live Here
Single mum Lila:
Has got her hands full with two unruly daughters.
Is the author of an unexpectedly successful self-help book.
Is the impulsive owner of a flashy sportscar.
She also:
Has a stepdad who quietly moved in after her mother died.
Has a deadline looming on a book that just won’t write itself.
Is exchanging school-gate daggers with her ex’s pregnant girlfriend.
It feels like she alone is holding up the sky.
So the last thing she needs is a stranger at the door.
Not even when he’s a Hollywood star.
Needing a place to stay.
With a million-dollar smile she doesn’t trust for a second.
Because this is Gene – the father she hasn’t seen in 16 years...
A Whole Life
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood - his home.
Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are.
Into the Wreck
How do you mourn someone you never really knew?
Three siblings - Anna, Gemma and Matthew - will have to work that out quickly. Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father's funeral, and for the first time in a long while they are under one roof with their mother, imperious Yvonne, awaiting the arrival of their aunt Amy, an award-winning poet.
Yet, as the funeral looms, their everyday concerns refuse to diminish: will newly sex-obsessed Gemma work out what she wants from life, beyond her mother's expectations? Can Anna maintain the fine balance between desire and nonchalance with her not-quite-exclusive boyfriend back in London? Will Amy's past explode the relationships of the present? And, crucially, will Yvonne pull off her grand, post-funeral family dinner, the solution to what she fears may be an unsolvable problem?
Told from five perspectives, into the wreck worries at the knotty complexities of one family's bonds, written with Susannah Dickey's trademark empathy and wit.
The Testaments
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - JOINT WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred?
The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes?
Park Avenue
As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, Jia Song promised herself that she would have every luxury when she grew up. Now she’s made junior partner at her prestigious law firm, and it’s all finally within reach. So when her boss asks her to sit in on the hush-hush family implosion of a client, she accepts without hesitation – only to find out that it is one of the most famous Korean families in the world.
The Parks and their mega successful Korean beauty brand are worth a billion dollars. But the father is filing for divorce while his wife is dying, and the children can’t stop fighting. With both the family fortune and their legacy under threat from the worst kind of scandal, it’s up to Jia to set things right – and she only has a month to do it.
As Jia chases the truth across the globe, she finds herself falling for this broken family, though it’s clear they’re hiding dark secrets. Can she find the truth in time to protect their fortune and secure her success at the firm? And can she hold on to what’s most important, even if it means admitting that what she's always wanted isn’t what she actually needs?
Ghost-Eye
Calcutta, September 1969
Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can't understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked fish with a different mother.
Perplexed, the Guptas turn to Dr. Shoma Bose, a psychiatrist who has been investigating what are known as 'cases of the reincarnation type' for years. But her understanding of the world is changed forever by Varsha's revelations.
Half a century later, Varsha's therapeutic case file catches the attention of a group of environmental activists, and Shoma's nephew Dinu is drawn inexorably into their plans. And as Dinu finds himself caught up in the search for Varsha, buried memories of his own past begin to surface.
Travelling between late-sixties Calcutta and present-day Brooklyn, Ghost-Eye is an urgent and expansive novel about family, fate and our fragile planet.
Předepíšeme vám kočku 2
Okouzlující pokračování oceňované japonské knihy Předepíšeme vám kočku, v němž klinika Kokoro pro léčbu duše znovu otevírá své brány.
V rušném Kjótu, v pátém patře budovy na konci zapadlé uličky sídlí klinika pro léčbu duše Nakagjó Kokoro. Najít ji může ovšem pouze ten, koho sužuje trápení a kdo už neví, jak dál. Těm, kteří do ní zavítají, nabídne vskutku neobvyklou léčbu – chlupatého domácího mazlíčka.
Klinika už mnohokrát prokázala, že kočka na předpis má moc vyléčit nejrůznější citové rány jejích pacientů. Toto půvabné pokračování představuje novou sestavu roztomilých kočičích léčitelek – od čtyřměsíčního bengálského kocoura Kotecua, který svými výboji nevyčerpatelné energie ničí prostěradla i závěsy, přes houževnatou a zvědavou Šašu, která se nikdy v ničem nenechá zastavit ani navzdory svému drobnému vzrůstu, až po nejlínější, ale nejroztomilejší slečnu Mičiko, přívětivou a hebkou jako koláček mochi.
Sledujeme mladou ženu, jež od sebe nedokáže přestat odstrkovat muže, který ji miluje; čerstvě ovdovělého dědečka, jehož vnuk odmítá opouštět svůj pokoj; rodinu ženy, ve které se všichni snaží navzájem porozumět jeden druhému; a úzkostného zaměstnance kočičího útulku, jenž touží dokázat, že i ty nejproblematičtější kočky mohou být zároveň těmi nejvděčnějšími.
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Stoner
A Stoner eredetileg 1965-ben jelent meg, és nagyjából visszhangtalan maradt. Ötven év elteltével fedezték fel újra és nyerte el méltó helyét az irodalmi kánonban világszerte. Magyarországra 2015-ben jutott el, azóta már másik két regénye, a Butcher’s Crossing (1960) és az Augustus (1972) – melyért elnyerte a Nemzeti Könyvdíjat – is megjelent a Park Könyvkiadónál.
William Stoner tizenkilenc évesen beiratkozik a Missouri Egyetem agrártudományi karára. Később tanár lesz ugyanott. Rosszul nősül. Csendes, észrevétlen életet él, és halála után ritkán jut eszébe kollégáinak.
A Stoner univerzális értékű történetet tár elénk: őszintén, részvéttel, átható erővel. Az ember konfliktusairól, kudarcairól és diadalairól mesél, a szürke hétköznapokról, amelyeket nem szokott megörökíteni a történetírás. Az egyedi élet jelentőségének állít emléket. Páratlan olvasmány, dicshimnusza az irodalom erejének, olyan regény, amelynek minden mondatát élvezni kell.
John Williams (1922-1994) amerikai író, költő. Denverben tanult, majd tanított irodalmat. Főbb művei: Nothing but the Night (1948), Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965) és az Augustus, amely 1973-ban megkapta a Nemzeti Könyvdíjat.
Into the Blue
'The?truth is?there's no such thing as a normal life.?There's just?the?time you get and how you spend it.'
In the summer of 2000, seventeen-year-old AJ dreams of being a writer far from her small town. Working in a video rental store, her life changes forever when Noah walks in.
Noah is intense and enigmatic, the youngest in a family of great actors. Despite wildly different upbringings,?the?two forge a deep bond first as friends,?then as acting partners, until?the?day Noah disappears?without a word.
Seven years later in New York City, AJ is shocked to find herself cast in?the?same intergalactic TV production as Noah, by?then a well-known Hollywood heartthrob. As?their on-screen characters grow closer every day,?the?lines between reality and acting begin to blur.
Unable to stay away from each other, AJ and Noah are forced to confront?the?truth of what happened years ago -?and?the?devastating secret that will send?their lives careening apart, even as fate continues to draw?them together.
Blending explosive chemistry, devastating emotion and unforgettable characters, Into the Blue ?is an extraordinary novel that asks: What does it mean to diverge from the script to write your own story?
Wifehouse
"Je suis femme maison."
"You are a wifehouse? Oh, a housewife. Je suis une femme au foyer."
"Wow, that actually sounds worse in French. Let's go with je suis mere."
He is drenched in youth, this young man, she thinks. He is soaked in all its possibilities.
Following years of a life lived as a wife and mother, Annie is gifted French lessons with twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. As time passes and the lessons progress, she finds herself unexpectedly vulnerable to the charms of a man closer in age to her teenage daughter than to her own. A new life for Annie emerges, one she could never have foreseen . . .
Told over the course of one year through the shifting perspectives of wife, husband, lover, best friend and children, Walger paints a contradictory, nuanced portrait of a woman who walks away from every role that tradition and society have expected of her.
The Menu of Happiness
Welcome to the Kamogawa Diner, where every meal is a mystery ready to be solved. This unique establishment is run by a father-daughter duo who offer more than just mouth-watering meals. They act as 'food detectives', delving into the past to produce nostalgia-infused dishes for their hungry clientele.
Among the patrons is a once-renowned pianist whose promising career was marred by a self-inflicted injury. She longs to taste the yakisoba she shared with the only man she ever truly loved. The diner also welcomes a man haunted by shadows of regret. His mind races back to the gyoza served by the parents of a lover he once jilted, as he seeks understanding and, perhaps, forgiveness.
For the Kamogawa Diner doesn't just serve food. Each dish is a portal to the past, serving not just sustenance but solace and reconnection through the miracle of its delicious recipes.
The Menu of Happiness follows on from The Kamogawa Food Detectives and The Restaurant of Lost Recipes. This is an interconnected series, which can be read separately, or binged all at once!
Son of Nobody
The past is never done with: always the song continues
Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs.
In the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea but known to all as 'son of nobody'.
As sole translator and interpreter of the Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the three-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn't frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love and grief.
In this masterpiece of myth, history and domesticity, Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them and how we live - then, now and always.
Seascraper
Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp; spending the rest of the day selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street and rehearsing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but it remains a private dream.
When a striking visitor turns up, bringing the promise of Hollywood glamour, Thomas is shaken from the drudgery of his days and begins to see a different future. But how much of what the American claims is true, and how far can his inspiration carry Thomas?
Haunting and timeless, this is the story of a young man hemmed in by his circumstances, striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.
The Palm House
Laura Miller and Edmund Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions, and lament the state of the world.
Recently, though, Putnam has been harder to reach: he has lost his father, and the magazine to which he has dedicated his life has been hijacked by an insufferable new editor, Simon ‘call me Shove’ Halfpenny.
Laura has her own problems: with a prickly mother and a tricky past, and in a beautiful and indifferent city, her day-to-day life is precarious. But as Putnam starts to sink into despondency, she must try to bring him back.
A novel of enduring friendships and small mercies, The Palm House offers us Gwendoline Riley’s trademark keen observation and wit, and leaves us - somehow - with a curious sense of possibility.
Favourite Daughter
THESE TWO STRANGERS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON . . . THEIR FATHER.
'He left you some money.'
Mickey felt her mouth drop open. The first half of that sentence had rung clear and true. The second half had not. Her father was one to take, not give.
After he left them for his new family, Mickey resolved never to think of her father again. She's fine without him; yes, she drinks, but only sometimes and, really, she can't not.
But with only $181 to her name, she's not above attending some mandated therapy to access her inheritance. She'll kneel at the Kleenex alter and soon be bingeing Bridgerton with a bottle of Russian Standard, five million dollars richer.
Arlo has more issues than most of her clients. Being a therapist has not prepared her for grief. She adored her father - his laughter, his charm, the smell of his cologne. She thought he adored her, too, but now he's given his inheritance to a daughter no one knows, and Arlo is at a loss.
Two sisters are unknowingly thrown together for the first time.
It's crazy, it's unethical.
It's perfect.
Prázdne domy
Materstvo si zvyčajne spájame so šťastím, no môže sa stať, ako aj v tomto príbehu, že sa premení na nočnú moru. Nočnú moru jednej ženy, ktorej syn zmizne z ihriska. A tej druhej, ktorá ho unesie, aby ho vychovávala ako svojho vlastného.
Jedna žena z vyššej strednej triedy, s milencom a manželom, s ktorým sa stará o jeho neter. A druhá, zo sociálne slabšieho prostredia, zažívajúca v partnerstve podvádzanie a násilie. Obe s pocitmi osamelosti a prázdna.
Príbeh týchto dvoch žien – matiek toho istého chlapca, ktorý sa volá Daniel, no neskôr je premenovaný na Leonela – nás konfrontuje s predsudkami o intimite, domácom násilí a sociálnej nerovnosti, osamelosti a starostlivosti, vine a láske.
„Brilantná, oslnivá a hlboko ľudská. Taká je literatúra Brendy Navarro, súčasnej senzácie mexickej literatúry.“
Emiliano Monge
A szegények iskolája - Helikon Zsebkönyvek 150.
Márai Sándor az ember létállapota felől közelíti meg a szegénység fogalmát, tartalmát, s önmagát is a szegények közé sorolja. A mű sztoikus gondolatokon alapuló próbálkozás az élet titkával szemben, ugyanakkor az egész írást átszövi az irónia: Márai nem tudományos értekezést írt, hanem "szatirikus esszét", ahogyan Bálint György fogalmazott.
"Itt az író nem egészen azt mondja, amit gondol, sőt sokszor vigyázni kell, nem az ellenkezőjét mondja-e annak, amit gondol. Az író gondolata valahol a szavakon túl, mögöttük, felettük vagy alattuk van. Ezért nem is elsősorban az a fontos, amit mond, hanem ahogyan mondja. Fontos az attitűd, amelyben témájával szemben áll és még inkább a hang, ahogy beszél róla. Ez a tiszta irónia. S ez az irónia a kis könyv valóságos tartalma. Ritkán olvasni könyvet, melynek tartalmát ilyen mértékben a hangja teszi. Az író íráskészsége, kétségtelen stílusművészete abban áll, ahogy ezt a hangot egyetlen kisiklás nélkül végigviszi."
(Schöpflin Aladár, Nyugat folyóirat, 1933)
"sürgős szükségét látom egy kézikönyvnek, mely a meglepett, orvul megtámadott s a szegénység kazamatáiba hurcolt új szegényeket, akik változott helyzetükben, első elképedésükben éppen oly kevéssé tudnak értelmesen és ízlésesen viselkedni, mint például az újgazdagok, kitanítsa állapotuk igazi mivoltára s az életöröm lehetőségeire, melyek, mondjuk, egy kazamatán belül rendelkezésükre állanak"
Augusztusi kék
A harmincas éveiben járó zongoraművész, Elsa M. Anderson a karrierje csúcsán lesétál a színpadról, miután Rahmanyinov egyik darabja helyett a saját kompozícióját kezdte el játszani. A botrány után Athénba utazik, hogy egy gazdag család gyermekét tanítsa, és a bolhapiacon megpillant egy nőt, aki nyugtalanítóan ismerősnek tűnik számára. Ettől a pillanattól kezdve bárhol is jár Európában, a titokzatos hasonmás mindenütt felbukkan. Elsát gyerekkorában Arthur, a legendás zongoratanár fogadta örökbe, aki most haldoklik, ezért a nő Szardíniára repül, hogy elbúcsúzzon tőle. A szigeten feltárul az igazság a múltjáról, amely elől egész életében menekült. Az Augusztusi kékálomszerű utazás az identitás nyomában. Lírai, melankolikus regény lázadásról, egy csodagyerek metamorfózisáról és a saját hangunk megtalálásáról.
A valkűrök
Paulo Coelho egyik legszemélyesebb, valós élményeken alapuló regényében az író és felesége, Christina negyvennapos útra indul a Mojave-sivatagba, hogy kapcsolatba lépjen őrangyalával. Az utazás hamar belső zarándoklattá mélyül, amely során Paulónak szembe kell néznie félelmeivel, bűntudatával és saját egójának árnyaival. Útjuk során találkoznak a titokzatos valkűrökkel, a sivatagot motorkerékpáron járó, harcos nőkkel, akik az ébredés és az igazság hírnökei. A történet egyszerre kaland és belső utazás, amely a lelkünk legmélyebb rétegéig hatol. Paulo Coelho arra hív, hogy bátran nézzünk szembe a múltunkkal, engedjük el a félelmeinket, és tapasztaljuk meg a hit, a bátorság és a szeretet átalakító erejét.
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