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The Virgin Suicides
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.
That girl didn't want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that decorating scheme.
The five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric and, now, gone - had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood. Although the boys that once loved them from afar have grown up, they remain determined to understand a tragedy that has defied explanation. The question persists - why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives? This lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life announced the arrival of one of the greatest American novelists of the last thirty years.
'A flare from my own secret world, all the inchoate longings and obsessions of being a teenager somehow rendered into book form' Emma Cline, author of The Girls
Things to do Before the End of the World
Timely and powerful; the new coming-of-age thriller from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks.
1. Live your best life.
2. Uncover family secrets.
3. Trust no one
What would you do when you hear the news that humans have done such damage to the earth that there might only be a limited amount of safe air left - a year's worth at most?
You'd work through your bucket list, heal rifts, do everything you've never been brave enough to do before?
Olivia is struggling to do any of this. What it is she truly wants to do? Who do she wants to be?
Then out of the blue comes contact from a long-lost cousin Olivia didn't even know existed. Natasha is everything Olivia wants to be and more.
And as the girls meet up for a long, hot last summer, Olivia finds Natasha's ease and self-confidence having an effect on her.
But Natasha definitely isn't everything she first appears to be . . .
I walked home. I kept hearing footsteps behind me, but every time I turned around, no one was there.
Belladonna
An excoriating work of fiction that references the twentieth century's darkest hours
Andreas Ban is a writer and a psychologist, an intellectual proper, but his world has been falling apart for years. When he retires with a miserable pension and finds out that he is ill, he gains a new perspective on the debris of his life and the lives of his friends. In defying illness and old age, Andreas Ban is cynical and powerful, and in his unravelling of his own past and the lives of others, he uncompromisingly lays bare a gamut of taboos.
Andreas Ban stands for a true hero of our times; a castaway intellectual of a society which subdues every critical thought under the guise of political correctness. Belladonna addresses some of the twentieth century's worst human atrocities in a powerful fusion of fiction and reality, the hallmark of one of Europe's finest contemporary writers.
Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
The Jetsetters
When Charlotte Perkins enters the 'Become a Jetsetter' contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist; and Regan, a harried mother who has never got over Charlotte's gift of a Weight Watchers voucher for her birthday.
But when she wins that once in a lifetime trip, all doesn't exactly go to plan...
As long-buried secrets are revealed, and lovers new and old appear, can these four lost adults find their way back to each other?
And more importantly, can they do it without killing each other?
A hilarious and deliciously sun-scented novel about the courage it takes to reveal our true selves and the pleasures and perils of family.
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture.
The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose, Nakajima portrays men and women beset by cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and occupation, by fading traditions, by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers, by the spirits of their recent past.
Problém Spinoza
Záverečným dielom Yalomovej filozofickej trilógie je román Problém Spinoza, v ktorom predstavuje životné peripetie a osobný vývoj dvoch diametrálne odlišných ľudí - Barucha Spinozu, židovského filozofa zo 17. storočia, a Alfreda Rosenberga, pseudofilozofa a nacistického propagandistu z 20. storočia, ktorý bol odsúdený na Norimberskom procese. Život týchto dvoch ľudí spája zaujímavý historický fakt - Rosenberg ako vášnivý antisemita prikázal skonfiškovať Spinozovu knižnicu, no zároveň rozkázal, aby tieto knihy nespálili, ako bývalo zvykom, ale zachovali.
Yalom sa v románe pokúša hľadať odpoveď na otázku, prečo bol Spinoza, autor nesmrteľnej Etiky, takým problémom pre nacistickú antisemitskú ideológiu. Plynulo strieda dve časové roviny, Amsterdam v období zlatého veku a nacistické Nemecko, a skúma vnútorné životy týchto dvoch záhadných postáv. Na jednej strane približuje hĺbku Spinozovho učenia, na druhej strane odhaľuje historické a psychologické pozadie nacizmu. Výsledkom je pútavá kniha, v ktorej Yalom potvrdzuje, že je nielen skvelý psychiater, ale aj vášnivý učiteľ a originálny spisovateľ.
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Na dne v Paríži a Londýne
Orwellov knižný debut Na dne v Paríži a Londýne sa pohybuje na pomedzí sociálnej reportáže a memoárov. Autor v knihe na základe vlastných skúseností a zážitkov ukazuje odvrátenú stranu dvoch európskych metropol na konci dvadsiatych rokov minulého storočia. Privádza nás medzi ľudí na úplnom okraji spoločnosti - zbedačených pracovníkov vychýrených parížskych hotelov a reštaurácií a anglických tulákov, ktorých systém nezmyselne núti celý deň prekonávať veľké vzdialenosti medzi jednotlivými útulkami.
Chudobných a chudobu si nijako neidealizuje, ale čitateľovi predstavuje jej rozmanité podoby - hlad, špinu, zápach, odovzdanosť, prospechárstvo, ale aj hrdosť, vzdor a vzopretie sa osudu. Trvalo niekoľko rokov, kým George Orwell našiel pre túto knihu vydavateľa, dnes už patrí medzi klasické diela hovoriace o nezamestnanosti, chudobe a ľudskej schopnosti prežívať a vynájsť sa aj v tých najhorších podmienkach.
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Země těch druhých
V roce 1944 se Mathilda, mladá Alsasanka, zamiluje do Maročana Amina Belhadže, který bojuje ve francouzské armádě. Po osvobození se mladý pár odstěhuje do Maroka, do posádkového města Meknesu, kde žijí kolonisté z různých evropských zemí, především z Francie. Amin se snaží zúrodnit kamenité pozemky zemědělské usedlosti zděděné po otci, ale Mathildu v nové vlasti záhy začne dusit přísná mravnostní atmosféra. Se dvěma dětmi tráví osamělé dny na statku a trápí ji jak nedostatek peněz, tak nedůvěra, kterou jakožto cizinka vzbuzuje. Deset let žije v zemi pod francouzským protektorátem, v zemi, kde nezadržitelně stoupá napětí a množí se násilnosti, dokud Maroko nevyhlásí nezávislost na Francii. Žije v zemi těch druhých stejně jako další postavy románu: kolonisté, domorodci, vojáci, zemědělci i exulanti. A především ženy, které žijí v zemi mužů a musí neustále bojovat za svá práva.
Po dvou románech chirurgicky ostrého stylu přichází Leîla Slimani s rozsáhlou freskou, výstižnou, empatickou i velice syrovou.
Vydání knihy podpořilo Ministerstvo kultury České republiky a Centre National du Livre.
Sejdeme se na piazzetě
Vydejte se bočními uličkami italských měst, objevujte skrytá zákoutí a vychutnejte typickou vůni a hluk tržišť. Autorka úspěšných knih Pod Toskánským sluncem a Toskánsko pro každý den odkrývá Itálii tak, jak ji znají pouze místní. Se svým manželem Edem tentokrát křižuje všech třináct italských regionů od severního Furlánska po Sicílii a cestou požitkářsky představuje místní kuchyni a lahodné pití, památky a neznámá místa, která v turistických průvodcích nenajdete. Spojuje cestovní deník, konkrétní recepty nebo vyprávění o historických zajímavostech. S její knihou probrouzdáte město dřív, než skončí snová doba mezi obědem a večeří.
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Šarkany
Desaťročný Ludo žije v Normandii so svojím strýkom Ambroisom, ktorý je známy tým, že vyrába krásne šarkany. Do Ludovho detského sveta fantázie, farieb a snov jedného dňa vstúpi mladá poľská aristokratka Lila Bronicka a toto stretnutie navždy zmení jeho život. Osudová láska však bude musieť čeliť mnohým prekážkam: vzdialenosti, rivalom, spoločenským rozdielom, no najmä odlúčeniu, ktoré spôsobí vojna. Samotná láska nebude stačiť na to, aby dala šarkanom krídla. Na to, aby vzlietli dostatočne vysoko, budú potrebovať poriadny kus odvahy a predstavivosti.
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Summer
Discover the unforgettable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour-de-force
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?
Summer.
'Smith's seasonal quartet of novels is a bold and brilliant experiment' Independent
'The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feel-good note' Sunday Times
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At Night All Blood is Black
'This slight book is an extraordinarily powerful exploration of what happens to the souls of men sent to kill and be killed' -- The Times, Historical Fiction Books of the Year
'Extraordinary... full of sadness, rage and beauty' Sarah Waters
Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open.
Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?
At Night All Blood is Black is a hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness.
The Anthill
Lina returns to Colombia after twenty years away. Sent to England after her mother's death when she was eight, she's searching for the person who can tell her what's happened in the time that has passed. Matty - Lina's childhood confidant, her best friend - now runs a refuge called The Anthill for the street kids of Medellin. But her long-anticipated reunion with him is struck by tension. Memory is fallible, and Lina discovers that everyone has a version of the past that is very, very different.
'International in scope, profoundly human in its concerns, it feels like just the kind of novel we need in unsettling times.'
Laird Hunt
All Men Want to Know
All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country.
In Paris, eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a week she makes her way to The Kat, a legendary gay nightclub, where she watches women from the sidelines, afraid of her own desires, her sudden and intoxicating freedom. In her solitude, she starts to write - and finds herself writing about her mother.
All Men Want to Know is a haunting, lyrical international bestseller about mothers and daughters, about shame and sexuality, about existing between two cultures and belonging to neither. A phenomenon in France, this is a defining portrait of womanhood from one of Europe's greatest living writers.
'Blown away by the power and lyricism of All Men Want to Know. What a book. Read it' Niven Govinden, author of THIS BRUTAL HOUSE
'Magnificent... a captivating autobiographical novel' Elle
'A tour de force' Le Figaro
'Haunting, spell-binding, luminous' Lire
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Sorrowland
Vern, a Black woman with albinism, is hunted after escaping a religious compound, then she discovers that her body is changing and that she is developing extra-sensory powers.
Alone in the woods, she gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong - not with them, but with her own body. It's itching, it's stronger, it's... not normal.
To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just the secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanisation, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In the course of reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters aren't just individuals, but entire histories, systems, and nations.
'Sorrowland is a wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real. At the centre of this world and leaping off the page is Vern: unstoppable, unforgettable, and unlike anyone you have ever seen before.' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author
'A fantastical, fierce reckoning ... Sorrowland is gorgeous, and the writing, the storytelling, are magnificent. This country has a dark history of what it's willing to do to black bodies, and Rivers Solomon lays that truth bare in a most unexpected, absolutely brilliant way.' ROXANE GAY
A vendégkönyv
Ambiciózus, nagyszabású és áradó regény a gazdag, befolyásos New York-i Milton család három generációjáról, akik egykor a világot irányították. 1935 – Kitty és Ogden Miltonnak mindene megvan: elegáns lakás az Upper East Side-on, két gyönyörű kisfiú, mindenki által irigyelt szeretet és gazdagság. Ogden Európát járja, és sorra köti a sikeres befektetéseket, különösen a náci Németországban. Ám egy váratlan tragédia megtöri a varázst. A férfi azzal vigasztalja a feleségét, hogy felvásárol egy New England-i kis szigetet. 1959 – A Crockett-szigeti Miltonok tovább bővülnek, minden szabad percüket a saját szigetükön töltik, a saját törvényeik között. Ogden felvesz egy határozott, törekvő, fiatal zsidó férfit, Len Levyt, aki nemcsak főnöke, de felettese gyönyörű, fiatal lánya, Joan rajongását is elnyeri. Amikor Len és barátja, Reg, az Európát is megjárt fekete újságíró meglátogatja a szigetet, a protestáns fehér felső középosztályhoz tartozó Miltonoknak először kell szembesülniük saját álmaik és világnézetük határaival. 2017 – A családi pénz elfogyott, a Sziget eladhatóvá vált. Kitty unokája, az egyetemi történelemtanár Evie, egy utolsó látogatást tesz a Nagy Háznál, és közben nyugtalanító bizonyítékokat talál családja vagyonosodásáról. Újra kell értékelnie a hagyományokat és azt az értékrendszert, amit képviseltek. Sarah Blake feszültségekkel teli könyve a múlt hibáiról, árulásairól, a családtagokat összekötő titkokról és a szembenézésről szól. Elgondolkodtató írás a történelembe vetett egyénről. Kiemelkedő irodalmi stílusban megírt regény az amerikai múltról, amely a generációkon keresztül öröklődve mélyen átszövi a jelent is.
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When We Cease to Understand the World
When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.
Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.
With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
Intimacies
Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother's brush with mortality; from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from 'home'.
Taking in, too, the lives of other women who could be guiding lights - from Monica Lewinsky to Caroline Norton to Sinead O'Connor - Intimacies offers keenly felt and subtly revealing insights into the heartbreak and hope of modern life.
B-52
Kyjev, doba předhipsterská, v čele Ukrajiny stojí Viktor Janukovyč, zemi teprve čeká Euromajdan, krymský poloostrov i východní regiony jsou stále její nedílnou součástí. Miroslav Schäfer, potomek ukrajinských Němců, je úspešný a mediálně známý ekonom korporátní firmy. Na druhé straně je to intelektuál s literárními ambicemi, který hodlá své sociální jistoty opustit a soustředit se výhradně na psaní divadelních her. Svižný a zábavný román úspešného ukrajinského autora, který možná poodhaluje tajemství spokojeného života.
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