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November 1944. Hitler vkladá všetku nádej aj finančné prostriedky Tretej ríše do zbrane, ktorá má zmeniť neúspešný priebeh vojny a poraziť Veľkú Britániu. V tajnej podzemnej továrni väzni vyrábajú súčiastky rakety V2, ktorú vyvinuli vedci vo vojenskom výskumnom stredisku v Peenemünde. Na základni v lesoch, mimo dostrelu spojeneckých lietadiel, pripravuje raketový inžinier Rudi Graf pod prísnym dohľadom SS ničivú strelu na odpálenie. Na druhom brehu Severného mora sa mladá Angličanka Kay Caton-Walshová pripojí k zvláštnemu oddielu britskej rozviedky. Boj s neviditeľným nepriateľom sa začína.
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The Idea of You
EVERYONE IN THE WORLD KNOWS HIS NAME . . . BUT IT'S YOU HE WANTS.
To the media, Hayes Campbell is the enigmatic front-man of a record-breaking boyband.
To his fans, he's the boy of their dreams.
To his label, he's gold-dust.
And to Solene Marchand, he's the pretty face that's plastered over her teenage daughter's bedroom wall.
Until a chance meeting throws Hayes and Solene together . . .
The attraction is instant. The chemistry is electric. The affair is Solene's secret.
But can it really stay that way forever?
Lacná kniha Here is the Beehive (-25%)
What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours?
For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, their relationship kept hidden from the world. So the morning that Ana's company receives a call to say that Connor is dead, her secret grief has nowhere to go. Desperate for an outlet, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca...
'Utterly gripping' RODDY DOYLE
'A triumph - crackling with psychological and sexual ambiguity' JULIE MYERSON, OBSERVER
'This book is just sublime... I loved every page' CAITRIONA BALFE
'Unmissable ... Incredible' STYLIST
'Amazing ... I read it in one sitting, completely swept up in Ana's fragmented narrative' EMMA HEALEY
'Dark, riveting, powerful' ELIZABETH DAY
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Fox and I
Catherine Raven has lived alone since the age of 15. After finishing her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana, in a place as far away from other people as possible. She viewed the house as a way station, a temporary rest stop where she could gather her nerves and fill out applications for what she hoped would be a real job that would help her fit into society.
Then one day she realises she has company: a mangy-looking fox who starts showing up at her house every afternoon at 4.15pm. She has never had a visitor before. How do you even talk to a fox? She brings out her camping chair, sits as close to him as she dares, and begins reading to him from The Little Prince. Her scientific training has taught her not to anthropomorphise animals, yet as she grows to know him, his personality reveals itself and the two form a powerful bond - shaken only when natural disaster threatens to destroy their woodland refuge.
Fox and I is a story of survival and transformation, a captivating tale of a friendship between two species in a shared habitat, battling against the uncontainable forces of nature on one side and humanity on the other - immersive, original and utterly unforgettable.
Antkind
B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film by an enigmatic outsider - a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete. Convinced that the film will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core, that it might possibly be the greatest movie ever made, B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: the film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius.
All that's left is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the work of art that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of "likes" and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bete noire and his raison d'etre.
A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself - the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.
To Be a Man
Deftly weaving from one end of life to another - from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss's stories illuminate the moments in the lives of women in which the forces of sex, power and violence collide.
Beautiful, taut and dark, spinning across the world, from Switzerland, Japan and New York to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and South America, To Be a Man fearlessly delves into questions of masculinity and violence, regret and regeneration, control and desire.
'How much do we really know ourselves and each other? These questions linger long after the final pages of this supremely intelligent collection' Aminatta Forna, Guardian
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We Germans
'An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the Eastern Front' Antony Beevor
'Starritt's daring work challenges us to lay bare our histories, to seek answers from the past, and to be open to perspectives starkly different from our own' New York Times
When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war, the question is initially met with irritation and silence. But after the old man's death, a long letter to his grandson is found among his things.
That letter is this book. In it, he relates the experiences of an unlikely few days on the Eastern Front - at a moment when he knows not only that Germany is going to lose the war, but that it deserves to. He writes about his everyday experience amid horror, confusion and great bravery, and he asks himself what responsibility he bears for the circumstances he found himself in. As he tries to find an answer he can live with, we hear from his grandson what kind of man he became in the seventy years after the war.
We Germans is a fundamentally human novel that grapples with the most profound of questions about guilt, shame and responsibility - questions that remain as live today as they have always been.
The Paper Palace
Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious freshwater pond below 'The Paper Palace' -- the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle glances through the screen porch at the uncleared table from the dinner the previous evening; empty wine glasses, candle wax on the tablecloth, echoes of laughter of family and friends. Then she dives beneath the surface of the freezing water to the shocking memory of the sudden passionate encounter she had the night before, up against the wall behind the house, as her husband and mother chatted to the guests inside.
So begins a story that unfolds over twenty-four hours and across fifty years, as decades of family legacies, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable incident in her childhood lead Elle to the precipice of a life-changing decision. Over the next twenty-four hours, Elle will have to decide between the world she has made with her much-loved husband, Peter, and the life she imagined would be hers with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadn't forever changed the course of their lives.
Tender yet devastating, The Paper Palace is a masterful novel that brilliantly illuminates the tensions between desire and safety; the legacy of tragedy, and the crimes and misdemeanours of families.
You People
The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants.
At the centre is Tuli, the restaurant's charismatic proprietor and resident Robin Hood, who promises to help anyone in need. Welsh nineteen-year-old Nia, haunted by her troubled past, is running from her family. Shan, having fled the Sri Lankan civil war, is desperate to find his.
But when Tuli's guidance leads them all into dangerous territory, and the extent of his mysterious operation unravels, each is faced with an impossible moral choice.
In a world where the law is against you, how far would you be willing to lie for a chance to live?
'Intelligent and heart-piercing - an exceptional novel about the Britain we live in, even if we choose not to see it' Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire
'Asks tough questions about the nature of goodness in an unfair society' Sunday Telegraph BOOK OF THE WEEK
'Lively, poetically written and above all compassionate' Sunday Times
'A female lead who isn't defined by a romantic story arc? Yes please. Lalwani's serious, ravishing way of writing about the secret life of Britain is just what we need' Times
Here is the Beehive
What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours?
For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, their relationship kept hidden from the world. So the morning that Ana's company receives a call to say that Connor is dead, her secret grief has nowhere to go. Desperate for an outlet, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca...
'Utterly gripping' RODDY DOYLE
'A triumph - crackling with psychological and sexual ambiguity' JULIE MYERSON, OBSERVER
'This book is just sublime... I loved every page' CAITRIONA BALFE
'Unmissable ... Incredible' STYLIST
'Amazing ... I read it in one sitting, completely swept up in Ana's fragmented narrative' EMMA HEALEY
'Dark, riveting, powerful' ELIZABETH DAY
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Homeland Elegies
A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR
'I read it in a fever, swept up in the kind of rapture you fall into when your most audacious friend kicks off on a hilarious, outrageous, but deeply sincere rant' Torrey Peters, Guardian Books of the Summer
'A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY' New York Times
A deeply personal novel of identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, HOMELAND ELEGIES blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part satire, part picaresque, at its heart it is the story of a father and son, and the country they call home.
Ranging from the heartland towns of America to palatial suites in Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, Akhtar forges a narrative voice that is original as it is exuberantly entertaining. This is a world in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear and the unhealed wounds of 9/11 continue to wreak havoc. HOMELAND ELEGIES is a novel written in love and anger, which spares no one, least of all the author himself.
Migrations
A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive.
Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica.
As animal populations plummet, Franny talks her way onto one of the few remaining boats heading south. But as she and the eccentric crew travel further from shore and safety, the dark secrets of Franny's life begin to unspool.
Haunted by love and violence, Franny must confront what she is really running towards - and from.
From the west coast of Ireland to Australia and remote Greenland, this is an ode to the wild places and creatures now threatened, and an epic, moving story of the possibility of hope against all odds.
The View Was Exhausting
A bold, swoon-worthy and utterly modern debut novel about truth, fame and privilege - and how we love now.
Whitman 'Win' Tagore and Leo Milanowski are the greatest love story of our time. International movie star meets the beautiful son of a millionaire. Their kisses write headlines and their fights break the internet. Nobody needs to know it's not real.
Win knows that Hollywood demands perfection - especially from a woman of colour.
Leo just wants to enjoy life, and shift press attention away from his dysfunctional family.
Together they control the narrative.
Except this time, on the shores of Saint-Tropez, Leo is hiding a secret that is about to send Win's world spinning. Now everyone's dream couple must confront the messy reality of their relationship. Just as they're starting to realise that they might actually be falling in love...
Dieťa z Osvienčimu
„Dotkla sa fotografie v pozlátenom ráme, ktorá vždy stála na jej pracovnom stole, fotografie vychudnutej mladej ženy s veľmi krátkymi tmavými vlasmi a s bábätkom v náručí. Ešte ju čakalo rozpovedať posledný príbeh. Ten ich.
A ten sa začínal v pekle na zemi.“
Písal sa rok 1942 a Eva Adamiová nastúpila do vladu do Osvienčimu. Pre množ-stvo ľudí vo vagóne sa sotva mohla nadýchnuť a z dvojdňového státia na nohách bola úplne vyčerpaná. Jediné, na čo dokázala myslieť, bola nádej, že sa opäť stret-ne so svojím manželom Michalom, ktorého tam poslali o šesť mesiacov skôr.
V Osvienčime však nebolo po Michalovi ani chýru, ani slychu a na Evu namiesto radosti zo stretnutia doľahla tvrdá realita koncentračného tábora. Našťastie tam mala priateľku Sophiu, s ktorou sa delili nielen o spoločnú pričňu, ale aj o svoje sny – Eva túžila nájsť Michala a Sophia dozvedieť sa, čo sa stalo s jej synom Thomasom, ktorý zostal v Rakúsku. Sophii sa podarilo zistiť, kde je Michal, a dohodnúť jeho posledné stretnutie s Evou, hoci vedela, že za to bude musieť podpísať zmluvu s diablom...
Keď Eva zistila, že je tehotná, právom sa obávala, že tým ohrozuje tak svoj život, ako aj život svojho ešte nenarodeného dieťaťa. Priateľky si sľúbili, že nech sa stane čokoľvek, každá z nich urobí pre dieťa tej druhej aj to posledné. V snahe prežiť sa upínali na poslednú iskierku nádeje v tom neľudskom, nedôstojnom prostredí – na svoje deti, ktoré raz budú môcť vyrozprávať, čo ich matky skúsili.
Srdcervúci príbeh o prežití, v ktorom o živote a smrti neraz rozhodla náhoda a kde sa šťastie dalo nájsť aj v tých najtemnejších časoch.
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Az eltűnt idő nyomában II. - Virágzó lányok árnyékában
A jegyzeteket és az utószót írta: Karafiáth Judit
"Ez a rész a regényfolyam legimpresszionistább, legderűsebb kötete. (...) Ebben a kötetben kezdődik az elbeszélő beavatása a művészet világába." (részlet Karafiáth Judit utószavából)
Az Atlantisz ezen Proust-kötete után már csak az új harmadik kötet hiányzik a teljes regényfolyam egységes magyar fordításához. A fordító, Jancsó Júlia 2015-ben Tengelyi László-díjat kapott, elnyerte a Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia Szekeres György-érmét is
"Manapság - mondta - mindenki herceg, kell lennie valaminek, ami megkülönböztessen; hercegi címet majd akkor használok, ha rangrejtve akarok utazni."
Hlasy ryb
Když v roce 2020 získal Ewald Murrer cenu Litera za poezii, odůvodnila porota své rozhodnutí mj. tím, že se v jeho poezii potkává imaginace a zájem o tajemno s groteskní, místy až naturalistickou hyperbolou a že autor v tomto ohledu navazuje na poetiku melancholického a bizarního snění, kterým zaujal čtenáře už na počátku devadesátých let v knize Zápisník pana Pinkeho. Vše řečené platí i o jeho nové sbírce Hlasy ryb; oproti dřívější Murrerově tvorbě se tu však stále intenzivněji ozývá posmutnělý, stísněný tón, svíravé vědomí smrti a nebytí, vytvářející působivý kontrast s autorovým nenápadným, nevtíravým, ale o to poťouchlejším vtipem: Rybář smrt / loví v našem rybníku. // () Slyším, co jsem dříve neslyšel. / Šepot kamenů, duté zvuky převracených brázd. / Hlasy ryb, / které po deštích / z kaluží se ozývají.
Egy kifogástalan hölgy
Alva Smith, egy jó nevű, de elszegényedett déli család leánya Amerika aranyozott korszakának egyik legvagyonosabb dinasztiájába házasodott be: az újgazdag Vanderbiltek közé, akiket a korabeli elit társaság mélységesen lenézett. Ám a makacs Alva úgy döntött, minden eszközt bevetve kiharcolja az új családját megillető tiszteletet. Kilenc nagyszerű kúriát terveztetett és építtetett, melyek nagy hatással voltak New York ma ismert városképére; nagy bálokat adott, és elrendezte, hogy a lánya egy grófhoz menjen feleségül. Ugyanakkor sikerrel dacolt a korabeli nőket meghatározó konvenciókkal is, a házasságában érvényesítette az akaratát, és a nők választójogi mozgalmának egyik vezető egyénisége lett. Életrajzi regényében Therese Anne Fowler olyan világot fest le, melyben a mérhetetlen vagyon áll szemben a kétségbeesett szegénységgel; a társadalmi ambíció a társadalmi megvetéssel, a barátság az árulással. Az Egy kifogástalan hölgy felejthetetlen történet egy figyelemre méltó asszonyról, Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmontról, akinek élete remek bizonyíték arra, hogy a történelmet azok írják, akik ismerik – és hajlandók megszegni a szabályokat.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' Guardian
'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' Barbara Kingsolver
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been ten years since she last saw her beloved older brother Lowell.
Now at college, Rosemary starts to see she can't go forward without going back to the time when aged five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.
It was Rosemary's parents who began all of the trouble - isn't it always? But, dear reader, exactly how they did it is a twist you'll have to discover for yourself.
Legvégül a szív
Amerikát romba döntötte a gazdasági válság. A munkanélküliektől és hajléktalanoktól hemzsegő rozsdaövezetekben bandák, vandálok és elmebetegek fosztogatnak. A fiatal házaspár, Stan és Charmaine azért van még életben, mert csodával határos módon megmaradt autójukban laknak, ám nemritkán így is másodperceken múlik a sorsuk. Egy nap megváltásként érkezik a hír: önkénteseket keresnek Consilience városába, a Pozitron Projektbe. A Projekt résztvevőinek rendes munka és kényelmes, tiszta otthon jár - minden második hónapban. A köztes időszakokat viszont a város és a projekt szívét jelentő Pozitron börtönben, fegyencként kell tölteniük, házukat pedig frissen szabadult váltótársaik foglalják el, akikkel szigorúan tilos érintkezniük - erről a Megfigyelés gondoskodik. Elsőre nem tűnik túl nagy áldozatnak egy rendezett életért cserébe, ám amikor Charmaine a szabályokat áthágva szenvedélyes viszonyba kezd váltótársával, nyugtalanító események láncolata veszi kezdetét, s előbb-utóbb kénytelenek feltenni a kérdést, mi zajlik valójában Consilience és a börtön falai mögött.
Margaret Atwood 2015-ben írt disztópiájában a társadalmi felelősség és a közös túlélés problémái mellett előtérbe kerülnek az egyéni lét, legfőképpen a szenvedély kérdései: meddig mehet el az a másik birtoklásában anélkül, hogy elveszítené önmagát?
"Ők maguk, a jövendő Pozitron-tervezők - igazi hősök! Úgy döntöttek, vállalják a kockázatot, az emberi természet jobbik felére apellálnak, a psziché ismeretlen területeit tárják fel. Olyanok ők, mint a régi pionírok, utat törnek, helyet csinálnak a jövőnek: a jövőnek, amely biztosabb, gazdagabb és általában véve jobb miattuk. Az utókor áhítatos tisztelettel emlékezik majd rájuk. Ez a duma. Stan még életében nem hallott ennyi marhaságot. Másfelől viszont valahogy hinni akar benne."
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