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A Burning
A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchased in instalments. On Facebook, there is only one conversation.
#KolabaganTrainAttack
On the small, glowing screen, she types a dangerous thing...
'If the police didn't help ordinary people like you and me, if the police watched them die, doesn't that mean that the government is also a terrorist?'
Set in contemporary India, A Burning is the story of three unforgettable characters, all dreaming of a better future, whose lives are changed for ever when they become caught up in the devastating aftermath of a terrorist attack.
Jivan - a poor, young, Muslim girl, who dreams of going to college - faces a possible death sentence after being accused of collaborating with the terrorists.
Lovely - an exuberant hijra who longs to be a Bollywood star - holds the alibi that can set Jivan free, but telling the truth will cost her everything she holds dear.
PT Sir - an opportunistic gym teacher who once taught Jivan - becomes involved with Hindu nationalist politics and his own ascent is soon inextricably linked to Jivan's fall.
Taut, propulsive and electrifying, from its opening lines to its astonishing finale, A Burning confronts issues of class, fate, prejudice and corruption with a Dickensian sense of injustice, and asks us to consider what it means to nurture big ambitions in a country hurtling towards political extremism.
A Burning is a novel for our times and for all time.
The Most Precious of Cargoes
Told in the gentle tone of a fable, Jean-Claude Grumberg's The Most Precious of Cargoes tells the moving story of a woman who wanted a child, and a child who needed a home. It is a tale that teaches us that even in the darkest, most violent times, there is reason to believe in people's capacity for kindness.
Once upon a time in an enormous forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant companion. Yet every night, the woodcutter's wife prays for a child.
On a train crossing the forest, a Jewish father holds his twin children. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed them. In hopes of saving both their lives, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and gently throws her from the train.
While foraging for food, the woodcutter's wife finds a bundle, a baby girl wrapped in a shawl. She knows that this little girl will be pursued, but she cannot ignore this gift: she will accept the precious cargo, and raise her as her own. . .
Set against the horrors of the Holocaust and told with a fairytale-like lyricism, The Most Precious of Cargoes, translated from French by Frank Wynne, is a deeply moving fable about family and redemption, a story that reminds us that humanity can be found in the most inhumane of places.
Mysteries
'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.
A young man called John Nagel arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town, a stranger in a loud yellow suit who begins to behave very curiously. He shocks, bewilders and beguiles with his open defiance and erratic self-revelations.
Nagel's presence acts as a catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the townsfolk. Cursed with the ability to understand the human soul, especially his own, Nagel can foresee, but cannot prevent, his own destruction.
Red at the Bone
An unexpected teenage pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us.
From the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.
Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer, Melody's mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place.
Unfurling the history of Melody's family - from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to post 9/11 New York - Red at the Bone explores sexual desire, identity, class, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, as it looks at the ways in which young people must so often make fateful decisions about their lives before they have even begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his publisher - to write a book about unemployment and social conditions in the economically depressed north of England. Revolutionary for its time, The Road to Wigan Pier documents Orwell's stint in towns likes Barnsley, Sheffield and Wigan in 1936, where he met and observed working-class people living in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
Orwell graphically and emphatically describes the hardships of ordinary people living in cramped slum housing, working in dangerous mines and growing hungry through malnutrition and social injustice. It is an honest, gripping and humane study that also looks at socialism as a solution to the problems facing working-class northerners - something many readers at the time were uncomfortable discussing. The Road to Wigan Pier cemented ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain to this day.
Azóta is élek
A megannyi műfajban és műnemben alkotó Bereményi Géza 1970-ben A svéd király című novelláskötetével kezdte irodalmi pályáját. Megjelenésekor a mindössze 24 éves szerző kötetbeli alteregójához, Dobrovicshoz hasonlóan az „induló tehetségek közé tartozott”, már első írásaiban is megjelentek későbbi nagy témái, az ős- és hőskeresés, a Teleki tér és nagyszülei legendáriuma. Alkotói figyelme később a dalszövegek, a színház és a film felé fordult, miközben továbbra is fontos műfaja és eszköze maradt a novellisztika, több későbbi filmjének (Eldorádó, Hóesés a Vízivárosban) az ősváltozata eredetileg elbeszélés volt. A korábban megjelent könyvekből maga a szerző válogatta a mostani kötet anyagát, helyenként új címeket adott a novelláknak. Az olvasó pedig eredendő mozgásában, eleven hullámzásában érzékelheti és láthatja a Bereményi-mitológia alakulástörténetét, bizonyos motívumok és figurák megszületését és tovább-formálódását, a kiválás és az elvegyülés gesztusait, az otthonvesztés és a hazatalálás következményeit. 2021-ben a Magvető Kiadó ezzel a kötettel köszönti a 75 éves Bereményi Gézát.
Růže
V den večírku na oslavu Liiny promoce jí její rodiče – bohatí sběratelé umění s přáteli na vysokých místech – darovali nádherný pohár na víno, vzácný artefakt zdobený růžemi. Je to úžasný dárek, na který má zálusk i August Bowman, přítel rodičů a host na večírku. August Lie sdělí, že tento pohár, zvaný Růžový kylix, je ve skutečnosti mnohem víc než jen kus nádobí. Byl používán při chrámových obřadech Erota, řeckého boha lásky, a má moc přivést k životu ty nejintimnější sexuální fantazie. Lia je však vůči mytologii a kouzlům skeptická – koneckonců August je sběratel umění, takže nejspíš prostě jen chce ten vzácný kousek pro sebe.
Zanedlouho se však dívka ze zvědavosti z Růžového kylixu napije. Náhle se ocitá v erotickém mýtu tak živém, že jí připadá jako skutečnost – jako kdyby prožívala tu nejsmyslnější fantazii přímo s Augustem.
Jakmile si Lia uvědomí skutečnou moc této staré a nebezpečné relikvie, nechce se jí jen tak vzdát, přestože August trvá na tom, že je bezpečná pouze u něj. Je dokonce ochoten zaplatit skutečnou hodnotu poháru, ale Lia přemýšlí o jiném obchodu. O takovém, při němž se jejich osudy propletou mnohem víc, než by si vůbec kdy troufli pomyslet.
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Biela veľryba
Mladý námorník Izmael, znudený všednosťou každodenného života na pevnine, sa dá najať na veľrybársku loď. Čoskoro však zistí, že jej kapitán sa nevydal na more preto, aby sa vrátil s nákladom veľrybieho mäsa a tuku. Kapitán Achab túži po pomste. Na jednom z predchádzajúcich lovov natrafil na majestátnu Bielu veľrybu, ktorá ho pripravila o loď aj o nohu. A tak sa začne veľkolepé námorné dobrodružstvo, keď posádka lode zmeria nielen hĺbku morí, ale aj ľudskej duše. Pri fascinujúcom stretnutí s nekorunovaným kráľom oceánov je víťaz iba jeden. Biela veľryba jeden z najvzrušujúcejších dobrodružných románov a jedno z vrcholných diel americkej literatúry.
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A Crown of Talons
Fight or flight . . . or both?
Three months after Aderyn's coronation the court is celebrating the Solstice, but Aderyn is preoccupied by Lucien's continuing hostility. The celebrations are interrupted by the arrival of nobles who have escaped from the neighbouring country of Celonia - the flightless have risen up and overthrown their rulers. The world is changing.
As people begin to question whether Aderyn and Aron are strong enough to rule, there is an attempted assassination on Aderyn's life. Siegfried and Tallis have made their move - they have formed an army, declared war and will take the throne, by any means necessary.
Aderyn must fly to uncharted territories and risk the lives of everyone she loves, to defeat her enemies, secure her throne and unite her people.
Epic, dangerous and impossible to put down, this finale takes you on a soaring journey through grief, strength and determination to fight for what is right, what you love and what is yours.
little scratch
little scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics; clock-watching and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays what it takes to get through the quotidian detail of that single trajectory - from morning to night - while processing recent sexual violence.
little scratch is about the coexistence of monotony with our waking, intelligent lives. It is a powerful evocation of how the external and internal aspects of our lives exist in a helix, and what it means to live out the course of a single day consumed by trauma.
'little scratch is a story that is urgent. It is a story that needs to be told.' Meena Kandasamy
'Reads like the cinders settling in the air after an explosion... daring and completely readable.' Colin Barrett
'little scratch is a little miracle... impossible to read it and not wish there were more books like it.' Alan Trotter
'Confident and vital... little scratch is an absolute gift.' Naoise Dolan
Traja Kamaráti, 6.vydanie
Hrdina a rozprávač tohto románu Robert Lohkamp kedysi sníval, že sa bude venovať umeniu – prvá svetová vojna však všetko zmenila. V povojnových časoch, v období hospodárskej krízy okolo roku 1930, sa spolu s dvoma kamarátmi prebíjajú životom, ako vedia. Majú autoopravovňu a pokúšajú sa čeliť hroziacej nezamestnanosti. Láska Roberta k Patrícii Hollmannovej presvetľuje román ako jasný lúč. Pat pochádza z meštiackej rodiny, žije však v schudobnených pomeroch, a navyše zápasí so smrteľnou chorobou. To všetko Robert spočiatku vôbec netuší.
Remarque na jednotlivých osudoch postáv zachytáva celú spoločenskú i politickú situáciu v Nemecku, hoci ju podrobne neopisuje. Príbeh jasne svedčí o autorovom rozčarovaní z ťažkých čias, napriek tomu je pretkaný sviežim humorom. Patrí k najkrajším dielam oslavujúcim silu priateľstva a lásky až do posledného dychu.
Slečna na hlídání - Emočně a eroticky nabité milostné drama, které vás nepustí
Co se stane, když se střetnou dva lidi ze zdánlivě neslučitelných světů? Co se stane, když se potkají dva lidi, kdy jeden se lásky bojí a druhý na ni nevěří? Co se stane, když se potká dívka, která má chyb milion, s chlapcem, který má jen jednu jedinou?
Mirka je obyčejná holka, která si ničí život. Nenávidí sebe, to, kým je, i to, co dělá. Pochybuje o všem a lásky se bojí. Dala by cokoli za to, aby se její život změnil. A tak opouští Čechy a odjíždí do Londýna. Do města, které miluje. Věří, že jedině tam může nalézt opět sama sebe.
Gad je naprostý opak. Rodilý Londýňan, který je bohatý, úspěšný, arogantní a sobec. Miluje svůj život, svůj vzhled, sám sebe, prachy a své auto. Má všechno naplánované, nepochybuje o ničem a lásky se nebojí. On na ni totiž nevěří.
A právě v ten moment se jejich světy střetnou!
Oba vědí, že jeden pro druhého nejsou dobří. Oba vědí, že je tu jedna zásadní věc, která stojí mezi nimi a rozděluje je. Měli by se od sebe držet dál. Měli by na sebe zapomenout.
Jejich přitažlivost je však osudová, konec nevyhnutelný, a tak oba udělají rozhodnutí, která mění celou hru i jejich životy.
To, co začíná jako skvělý zážitek i vtip, končí jako bitva o společný život.
Můžou ale tuto bitvu vyhrát? Anebo jen natahují jejich společný čas, který stejně vyprší?
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Animal Farm
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep - who overthrow their elitist human master only to find themselves subject to a new authority, is one of the most famous warnings ever written.
Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot due to its daringly open criticism of Stalin, Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945.
One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps Animal Farm ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point.'
Seventy-five years since its first publication, Orwell's immortal satire remains an unparalleled masterpiece and more relevant than ever.
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1984
'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'
The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed.
Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. It is here that he meets and falls in love with Julia. They start a secret, forbidden affair - but nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined.
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Animal Farm
The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones - he's drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. When the boar, Old Major, shares his revolutionary plans, the animals are convinced they can thrive on their own once the despot Jones is overthrown. But as the pigs vie for power, they begin to bear an uncanny resemblance to the tyrants they have overthrown...
George Orwell's renowned fable became an instant success on publication after the Second World War. The novel has continued to captivate readers of all ages, and has secured Orwell's position as one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania.
Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party; abstain from all vices; and, most importantly, possess no critical thoughts of their own. The new notebook he's begun to write in is definitely against the rules - in fact, the Thought Police could arrest him simply for having it. Yet, as Winston begins to write his own history, a seed of rebellion begins to grow in his heart - one that could have devastating consequences.
In George Orwell's final and most well-known novel, he explores a dystopian future in which a totalitarian government controls the actions, thoughts and even emotions of its citizens, exercising power through control of language and history. Its lasting popularity is testament to Orwell's powerful prose, and is a passionate political warning for today.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell's masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.
Homage to Catalonia
'This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back...with a fervent, almost religious belief in its necessity'
Both a memoir of Orwell's experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died, Homage to Catalonia is an extraordinary first-hand record of him time on the frontline. Written with all of the depth, passion and deep human understanding that defines Orwell's writing this is incredible work of non-fiction tells of the battles that were faced by ordinary working people as they fought for both their lives and their ideologies. Although Orwell was himself near-fatally wounded he finds both bleak and comic notes in his experience which is recorded with such clarity and depth that this short work has become one of his best known.
Lacná kniha Domov slávnych spisovateľov (a ich múz) (-25%)
Čarovný príbeh o sile lásky a literatúry. Alfonse Carducci je literárny velikán, ktorý žil svoj život naplno. Dnes prichádza do Domova seniorov v Bar Harbore, aby tam strávil posledné dni medzi spriaznenými dušami z literárneho sveta. Ako sa jeho život neodvratne chýli ku koncu, začína si uvedomovať dôsledky toho, že pred láskou uprednostnil honbu za slávou. Väčšmi než podlomené zdravie ho však trápi, že už nie je schopný napísať ani riadok. O obyvateľov luxusného penziónu sa stará oddaný kolektív zdravotníkov, ktorí podobne ako ich klienti našli za jeho múrmi útočisko. Medzi nimi je aj Cecibel Bringerová, ktorú pred rokmi ťažká autonehoda poznačila na tele i na duši.
Cecibel by si nikdy nepomyslela, aký obrovský dopad bude na ňu mať stretnutie s jej obľúbeným spisovateľom Alfonsom Carduccim, ako ovplyvní doslova celú jej existenciu. Alfonse zasa v Cecibel nachádza múzu, čo v ňom prebudí vášeň, ktorú pokladal za nenávratne stratenú. Zo slov, čo vychádzajú z jeho pera, postupne rastie príbeh, ktorý zaujme ďalších obyvateľov penziónu až natoľko, že sa aj oni zapoja do písania, a v Cecibel, ktorá dychtivo hltá každý riadok, silnie potreba lásky a odpustenia. Ako sa hranice medzi vymysleným príbehom a skutočnosťou stierajú, vzniká svet vo svete. Je to miesto, kde sa ľuďom vracia chuť žiť, kde starí mladnú, chorí sa uzdravujú a kde je možné všetko...
Terri-Lynne DeFino je americká autorka spoločenských románov. Z rušného mesta sa presťahovala na vidiek v Novom Anglicku, aby mala viac času na písanie aj na rodinu. Vo svojej tvorbe sa zameriava najmä na ľudské emócie a miesto človeka v dnešnom komplikovanom svete.
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