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Hexes of the Deadwood Forest
Anna Frenza hates the tyrannical tree huggers and idiotic eco-warriors, after all, she's CEO of Poland's biggest oil company. But when she finds herself sleepwalking into the woods and making love to a tree, all caught on camera, her career comes to an abrupt end. Her mind splinters and, whether by delusion or possession of spirit, she finds herself in a medieval province ruled by the Catholic Church.
Deep in the past, she falls in with Mathilde Spalt, leader of the Earthen Ones - a congregation of women who live in the woods and reject all patriarchy. Instead engaging in the ecstatic, sensuous worship of Mother Earth. Anna learns to love the forest she had once dismissed . . . until the Church decides to fell the trees and all the women within it.
Bold and entirely unexpected, Hexes of the Deadwood Forest is a collective rebellion, the death knell to the elevation of the erect. Take hold of your seat; patriarchy is coming to an end.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors - until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late...
The Names
It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends for her to follow a long-standing family tradition and call the baby after him. But when faced with the decision, Cora hesitates. Going against his wishes is a risk that will have consequences, but is it right for her child to inherit his name from generations of domineering men? The choice she makes in this moment will shape the course of their lives.
Seven years later, her son is Bear, a name chosen by his sister, and one that will prove as cataclysmic as the storm from which it emerged. Or he is Julian, the name his mother set her heart on, believing it will enable him to become his own person. Or he is Gordon, named after his father and raised in his cruel image - but is there still a chance to break the mould?
Powerfully moving and full of hope, this is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. It is the story of one family, and love's endless capacity to endure, no matter what fate has in store.
The Renovation
Dilara s father is disappearing.
He has dementia and the disease steals a little more of him each day. Dilara has persuaded him to move in with her, hiring builders to adapt her apartment in preparation, but when the renovation is complete she discovers a big problem.
Instead of a new bathroom, the builders have installed a Turkish prison cell. At first she is outraged. There has surely been some mistake. Dilara s family are exiles they left Turkey many years ago and have never been back.
The last thing she wants is a piece of her estranged homeland appearing uninvited in her new home. But as the weeks pass, her indignation gives way to curiosity. Beyond the cell door, she glimpses Turkish guards going about their work. Through the cell walls, she hears Turkish prisoners murmuring, rustling, crying out in their sleep.
And in the strange, impossible air of the cell itself, she smells the sesame scent of freshly baked simit, she tastes the fine dust of the Anatolian steppe on her tongue.
Even as she struggles to care for her father, to keep the family finances afloat and stop the wheels coming off her marriage, Dilara is drawn back again and again to the mysterious prison cell, and through it to a city that once belonged to her to the salt wind off the Marmara, the sky full of gulls and domes and minarets back to Istanbul.
So Old, So Young
How did we get So Old, So Young?From Grant Ginder, the bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes a generation-defining novel that is part love story, part tragic comedy.
Five parties over the course of twenty years bring six college friends together, exploring the ways we run from and cling to our friends in love, life, and death. For Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam, the one constant in life after college together has been change. New jobs. New cities. New spouses. New children. Through it all, one thing they thought would always stay the same is their friendship. But time has a way of breaking even the strongest bonds, and testing what we thought we knew.
From East Village apartment parties and disastrous destination weddings, to fortieth birthdays and suburban backyard barbecues, Grant Ginder's resonant, funny, and deeply moving novel is a story about the growing pains of the Millennial generation, and a celebration of how love can shift, stumble, and grow into something bigger than we ever could have imagined.
The Visit
"The lad is a bit like a stray dog. I keep an eye on him and throw him a few scraps. There are plenty of people in this town who'd just as soon drop him off in the wilderness and hope there's no scent to follow home. The problem is that Patrick could find his way out of any wilderness and they wouldn't like whatever starved thing came back."
Sergeant Jim Field feels a guilty paternalism for Patrick Hatten, a young man struggling to find a job, a life and a purpose in a small-town Wexford community. Both are used to being on the fringes but while Jim is a romantic with bad health and regret, Patrick is full of anger and action, and his actions could have devastating effects.
An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history, Hélene Giannecchini pieces together an alternative genealogy of queer ancestors.
In searching and sensitive prose, she sifts the past to bring existences deemed ‘marginal’ into communion with each other, traces of which may remain only in memory and archival fragments. Roving from Casa Susanna, a space of freedom from persecution in McCarthyite North America, to the diary of a man living with HIV in France, and to the life and work of pioneering lesbian photographer Donna Gottschalk, each narrative counters oblivion through loving acts of witness. A slantwise gathering of queer life and activism in the twentieth century, interspersed with images encountered by chance, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail establishes friendship as a vital political force and offers a moving testament to its liberatory power.
To Kill A Mockingbird
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'
A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with a serious crime.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man’s struggle for justice.
But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
To přece nejsem já
Linnee je šestnáct a její nejlepší kamarádka s ní zničehonic přestala mluvit. B?rd je všeobecně známý tím, že všechno dělá správně a poctivě, ale ve skutečnosti chce odejít od rodiny kvůli kolegyni z práce. Hanne se snaží zbavit traumatických vzpomínek na dětství, kdy ji kvůli nadváze šikanovali ve škole, přestože se jí teď v padesáti konečně podařilo zhubnout a najít si vážnou známost. Když se nyní celá rodina sjíždí na oslavu do malého města, odkud všichni pochází, současná i minulá tajemství vyplouvají na povrch. Dokážou si o starých křivdách promluvit a posunout se dál, nebo se z oslavy všichni vrátí domů stejní jako dřív? Možná je na čase se smířit s tím, že naše představy o druhých lidech nemají s jejich osobností vůbec nic společného a že se i my sami před ostatními celý život nedobrovolně přetvařujeme.
The News from Dublin
In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Toibin delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves.
A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour.
A young woman is pregnant during the Spanish Civil War. An undocumented worker finds himself living an illegal life and must leave San Francisco, and his child, after thirty years in America. Three sisters who have been living in Argentina decide to return to Catalonia.
Nočná hliadka
Ako sa stať zradcom a ako ním nebyť? To je otázka, ktorú si kladie hrdina príbehu, ktorý zároveň pracuje pre francúzske Gestapo aj odbojovú sieť. Táto dilema ho privedie k mučeníctvu, jedinému možnému úniku. Román Patricka Modiana Nočná hliadka (La Ronde de nuit), spolu s románmi Námestie Étoile a Okružné bulváre tvoria tzv. Okupačnú trilógiu – tri romány, odohrávajúce sa v Paríži počas okupácie v rokoch 1940-1944. Z nich práve Nočná hliadka najprenikavejšie odhaľuje temné stránky spoločnosti a jednotlivcov. Osamelosť a vykorenenosť jednotlivca vystaveného na jednej strane bezuzdnému vyčíňaniu kolaborantov, profitérov a francúzskeho Gestapa, a na strane druhej prázdnym gestám a alibizmu francúzskeho dôstojníctva v ilegalite, ktoré sa považovalo za jediných oprávnených predstaviteľov odboja – za predpokladu, že skutočnú “špinavú prácu” za nich odvedie niekto iný. Rozprávač sa stáva dvojitým agentom, aby mohol ochrániť dve bezbranné bytosti. Jeho skutočnú identitu sa čitateľ nedozvie: pozná len dvojicu krycích mien – podľa toho, ktorá zo strán o ňom práve hovorí. Patrick Modiano touto prekvapivo nežnou i krutou prózou nastavil Francúzsku pravdivé, hoci nelichotivé zrkadlo. Vykonal tým istý druh exorcizmu národa z pohnutého obdobia, ktoré sám nezažil, no ktorého posledné záchvevy citlivo vnímal v dobe písania, a ktoré sú podnes prítomné.
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Doktor Živago, 2. vydanie
Román Doktor Živago je jedným z najvýznamnejších ruských románov 20. storočia, ktorý zachytáva dramatické obdobie ruskej histórie začiatku 20. storočia. V centre príbehu stojí Jurij Andrejevič Živago – lekár, intelektuál a básnik, ktorý sa snaží žiť podľa svojich morálnych zásad a zachovať si vnútornú slobodu v čase, keď spoločnosť prechádza radikálnymi zmenami. Jeho kariéru preruší 1. svetová vojna. Lieči sa zo zranenia a spoznáva svoju celoživotnú lásku Laru. Ich láska sa rozvíja na pozadí vojny, hladu a politického teroru, čo dodáva príbehu silný kontrast medzi intímnym citom a krutou realitou. Pasternakovo dielo je viac než len milostný príbeh – je to filozofická reflexia o zmysle života, slobode, utrpení a tvorivosti. Román sa stal symbolom odporu voči totalitnej ideológii a priniesol Pasternakovi Nobelovu cenu za literatúru (1958), ktorú však pod politickým tlakom musel odmietnuť. Prvýkrát vyšiel v Taliansku vo vydavateľstve Feltrinelli v roku 1957 a v ZSSR sa ho podarilo vydať až v roku 1988.
Z ruského originálu Boris Leonidovič Pasternak: Doktor Živago, čas. Novyj mir č. 1 – 4, Moskva 1988, preložila Viera Hegerová.
Básne Jurija Živaga preložil Ján Štrasser.
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Jeřábi táhnou na jih
Boovi Andersonovi v životě zbývají už jen pravidelné návštěvy pečovatelské služby, věrná psí láska a zavařovací sklenice se šátkem dosud vonícím po milované manželce. Víko sklenice už ale jeho revmatické prsty otevřít nedokážou. Čas se krátí a Bo by ještě rád napravil ochladlý vztah se synem. Jenže ten se teď snaží otce připravit i o poslední útěchu v životě — psa Sixtena. Obavy, že přijde o oddaného společníka, ve starém muži vyvolají bouři emocí, která ho nutí ohlédnout se za svým životem, otcovstvím i za tím, jakým způsobem dával najevo lásku.
Švédská kniha roku 2024
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To the Moon and Back
Steph Harper is on the run.
When she was five, her mother ran - with Steph and her younger sister in tow - from an abusive husband into the arms of a small Cherokee community, where she hoped they might finally belong.
But Steph soon sets her sights as far away as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing interfere with her dream to become an astronaut, and ultimately, to go to the moon.
In Steph's certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with the three women who know and love her most dearly: her younger sister Kayla, an artist whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; her college girlfriend Della, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her family as a young girl through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and her mother Hannah, who has held up her family's history as a beacon of inspiration to her kids, all the while keeping the truth about her own past a secret.
Told through these women's interwoven lives, and spanning three decades and several continents, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive coming-of-age novel of mothers and daughters, love and sacrifice, alienation and heartbreak, terror and wonder. At its core, it is the story of the extraordinary lengths one woman will go to find a little space for herself.
Fenevad
Nehéz elfogadni, hogy a gonosznak emberarca van. És még nehezebb belátni, hogy az ember a Föld legveszedelmesebb állata. Böszörményi Márton fenevadja is ember, bármennyire szeretnénk szörnyet csinálni belőle. Egy fantazmagóriákra szűkült elme, egy perverzió rabja, egy névtelen férfi az általános iskola menzájáról.
És éppen ettől lesz ez a történet mellbevágó és felejthetetlen: mert arra emlékeztet, hogy az emberiség legkegyetlenebb ragadozója sosem egy ellenséges faj, hanem mindig önmaga volt. Ma sincs ez másképp. Modern fenevadakat mind ismerünk - ha nem is közvetlenül, de a hírekből, a hallgatásokból, a félrenézésekből. A világban továbbra is tombol a ragadozók és prédák harca, és a legnagyobb veszélyben ma is az ártatlanok, a kiszolgáltatottak vannak: az ember falja fel saját gyermekeit.
Böszörményi Márton megrázó regénye az emberiség egyik legnagyobb tabujának, a pedofíliának a mélyére ás. Betekintést enged egy torzult psziché működésébe, és könyörtelen pontossággal rajzolja fel a gonosz anatómiáját. Tizenhárom hosszú mondatban meséli el, hogyan lesz az áldozatból elkövető, a kiszolgáltatottból szadista zsarnok.
De miért is olvassunk szörnyűségekről? Mert a szembenézés bátorság. A leleplezés erő. És mert a gonosz ellen csak úgy küzdhetünk, ha merjük megismerni.
The Soul Catchers
What if you could come back after death to watch over your loved one, installing yourself in a treasured mug, for example, or perhaps your mother's hearing aid, a diary, or even a climbing frame, to feel the clambering limbs of a beloved younger sister?
Eleven recently deceased protagonists find themselves floating in the afterlife where a nameless ghost offers them a joyous reunion with their loved ones.
But not as you would expect.
In a world where souls linger restlessly around after death, unwilling to depart, The Soul Catchers is a comforting, witty, and surprisingly sensual take on the Japanese folk belief that objects can be inhabited by human presences. Utterly charming and feelgood, Higashi's classic is an original exploration of our eternal reluctance to let go.
Sisters in Yellow
Hana has nothing but she's hopeful. She's fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar.
They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.
Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana.
Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.
But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems.
Soon all of Hana's hope, her optimism, and her drive, will be tested to the limit . . .
Vykoupení
Alexandra riskovala vše pro lásku, ale minulost ji dostihne v ten nejhorší moment, nyní musí najít sílu odpustit. Pilot Stefan roky maskuje praskliny v dokonalém manželství. Jak daleko je ochoten zajít, aby si zachoval lásku milované ženy? Robert je černá ovce rodiny, již pohltilo jedno děsivé rozhodnutí. Češka, Němec a Angličan - tři životy, které by se nikdy neprotnuly, nebýt jedné letecké katastrofy. V napínavém dramatu se ukáže, že někdy musí přijít konec, abychom mohli začít žít.
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Flesh
Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman – as his only companion. When a clandestine relationship begins between them, his life spirals out of control.
As the years pass, István moves from the army to the circles of London’s elite. His competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth win him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.
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