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I Am Clarence
A haunting novel exploring a mother's fierce love for her disabled son as she grapples with her own mental health, by the author of the feminist cult classic The Princess of 72nd Street
'Funny, disarming and frequently ruthless' The New York Times
Clarence cannot see very well. He has seizures. He knows the word 'tangerine' but has forgotten the word 'Mommy'. For Clarence's mother, life revolves around her young son; she takes him to see specialists, protects him from the cruelty of other children, loves him fiercely. But she has her own struggles. Her sanity is precarious and fractured. When her mental health reaches breaking point, she is forced to decide between Clarence's well-being and her own.
Told through bright fragments of memories, I Am Clarence is a piercing journey into one woman's mind, which asks, how much can a mother sacrifice for her child, and survive?
With an introduction by Sarah Manguso.
When the Museum is Closed
Rika Horauchi's new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus - in Latin - every Monday, when the museum is closed. Initially reluctant, Rika starts to enjoy her strange new job. Recommended by her old university professor for her exemplary language skills, Rika leads an otherwise unassuming life, working the rest of the week in a frozen-food warehouse.
As Venus comes to life in the quiet of the museum, they talk about everything. Venus opens up new worlds for Rika, both intellectually and emotionally. They soon fall in love. But when the museum's curator, Hashibami, makes it clear he wants to keep Venus for himself, what will Rika do?
When the Museum is Closed is by turns charming, funny and surprising, a surreal take on our most real emotions and concerns: love, loneliness, freedom, perceptions of beauty and how women are seen in society. This fresh and original new novel confirms Emi Yagi as one of the most exciting Japanese writers published in English today.
Translated by Yuki Tejima
Prokleté
V roce 1951, v pohraničním texaském městečku La Cienega, obviní tajemná žena Pilar Aguirreovou, že jí ukradla manžela, a v návalu vzteku ji i její rodinu prokleje. O více než čtyřicet let později se Lulu Munozová snaží zvládnout chaos, jenž kolem ní panuje – náladového otce, tajný život punkové zpěvačky i blížící se quinceaneru. Když zemře její milovaná babička, pohřeb naruší záhadná žena, která žije v ústraní na okraji města. Lulu to k ní táhne a jejich nečekané pouto odkrývá rodinná tajemství. Jak se blíží oslava Luliných narozenin, stará žena se musí smířit s minulostí a mladá dívka sebrat odvahu přijmout svou budoucnost.
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Feťák
Feťák je autobiografický román amerického spisovatele Williama S. Burroughse. Poprvé byl vydán v roce 1953 a je to vůbec první kniha, kterou Burroughs publikoval.
Autor se jejím prostřednictvím pokouší co možná nejpřesnějšími a nejjednoduššími slovy zachytit svou závislost na alkoholu, heroinu, morfiu a dalších drogách. Jedná se o dílo, které popisuje prakticky jen autorův vztah k drogám, jejich účinky, pocity závislosti a příhody spojené s honbou za dávkou drog. Burroughs se snaží co nejlépe přiblížit feťácké prostředí, feťáckou společnost a popisuje, proč je tak těžké se závislostí skončit.
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Teplouš
Drásavá výpověď o duševních stavech a pocitech narkomana a homosexuála, který marně touží po naplnění své lásky, je do značné míry autobiografická. Kniha byla napsána v letech 1951 až 1953, ale poprvé vyšla až v roce 1985, a odehrává se v exotickém prostředí tehdejšího Mexico City, mezi různými životními ztroskotanci. Je volným pokračováním autorovy románové prvotiny Feťák.
Hlavní hrdina tentokrát prochází těžkými abstinenčními příznaky, které mu ve své děsivosti jen pozvolna odkrývají nepřátelský vnější svět a nechávají ho bezbranného vůči znepokojujícím vizím. Bolestivý návrat z drogové izolace se hrdina snaží zmírnit snahou nalézt partnera, lásku, která by zároveň byla vědomým kontaktem s okolním světem.
Když však i v tomto ohledu ztroskotává, vydává se do Jižní Ameriky hledat záhadnou rostlinu, jejíž odvar používají místní léčitelé.
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Život jednoho blázna
Kniha obsahuje celkem třináct povídek, které Rjúnosuke AKUTAGAWA napsal v letech 1916–1927. Každá z nich má své osobité kouzlo a předkládá čtenáři s jemnou ironií a melancholickou skepsí nadčasová dramata pocitu viny, pochybností, zrady a hrabivosti, vycházející z osobních zážitků a úvah autora i dávných mystických příběhů, přenesených do autorovy současnosti. Tři z povídek vycházejí v českém překladu poprvé, ostatní vyšly již v prvním vydání této sbírky v roce 2005. Rukopis poslední povídky nebo spíše poetických zápisků nazvaných Život jednoho blázna zaslal Akutagawa krátce před svou sebevraždou příteli Masaovi Kumemu s prosbou, aby po jeho smrti sám rozhodl, zda si tato svého druhu autorova autobiografie zaslouží být vydána.
Death and the Gardener
My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.
A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning.
His father was one of that generation of tragic smokers born right after the World War II in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes. A rebel without a cause, he knew how to fail with heroic self-deprecation.
The garden he created out of a barren village yard first saved him, then killed him It remains his living legacy: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories.
But without him, his son's past, with all its afternoons, began to quietly crack. Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world.
From the winner of the International Booker Prize, comes a novel about a father, a son, and an orphaned garden in a fading world that spans from ancient Ithaca to present-day Sofia, interweaving the botany of sorrow, the consolations of storytelling and the arrival of the first tulips of spring.
The Girl I Was
'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.'
When Alexis Spencer loses her job and her relationship on the same day, she can't help but feel frustrated with her
younger self. If she'd tried harder and made better choices, maybe she wouldn't be in so much debt, and maybe her old friends would still be around.
Feeling sorry for herself, Alexis finds a bottle of vodka from her college days and goes on a bender, blacking out in the process. Only this time, she doesn't wake up at home, or in the right city. In fact, she isn't even in the right year.
Alexis is back in her college town in the year 2002, where she comes face-to-face with her eighteen-year-old unruly self: Lexi. Getting used to life in the early 2000s is the easy part. Dealing with Lexi is where things prove difficult.
Now Alexis and Lexi must learn to get along and come to terms with the fact that alone, they will never make things right, but together, they could change their life for the better.
From Jeneva Rose, the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and Home is Where the Bodies Are, comes a magical, hilarious, and heart-warming story about learning to love every version of ourselves.
Knihovna blažených duší
Lucie má ráda slova a má ráda lidi. Pracuje jako lektorka, ale kromě toho píše a vydává romány.
Jednoho dne jí ale rodinná tragédie zcela rozmetá život, a tak všeho zanechá, opustí Paříž a vydá se do starého domu po prarodičích v Saint-Malo, kde se chce z události zotavit. Z velkého stavení postupně vytvoří jakési komunitní centrum: ukáže se totiž, že nejúčinnější formou terapie je zabývat se problémy sousedů.
V domě narazíme na bývalého knihovníka, vdovce a mrzouta Léonarda, na Luciinu ochranitelskou a nadšenou matku Annick, na psychicky labilní knihkupkyni Vivianne a na dívku Camille, jež se nestýká s rodinou.
Co je vzájemně pojí? Láska ke knihám! Začnou spolu vymýšlet desítky projektů počínaje vytvořením místní knihovny, jejichž prostřednictvím chtějí s obyvateli Saint-Malo sdílet svou vášeň pro literaturu.
Podaří se nakonec těmto lidem, jimž život nastražil nejednu překážku, najít klid? A dokáže Lucie péčí o kuriózní spolubydlící přemoct vlastní démony?
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Familiaris
Spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has got him into trouble...again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin's north woods, where they hope to make a fresh start - and to live a life of meaning, purpose, and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and it will take all their ingenuity, along with a few new friends - human, animal, and otherworldly - to realise their dreams.
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, mysterious and enchanting, Familiaris takes readers on an unforgettable journey from the halls of a small-town automobile factory, through an epic midwestern firestorm and an ambitious WWII dog training program, examining the dynamics of love and friendship, the vexing nature of families, the universal desire to create something lasting and beautiful, and of course, the species-long partnership between Homo sapiens and Canis familiaris.
Bitter Sweet
'In my life, there are things that have happened to me, and things that I have done, that have proven to be moments that have a clear before and an after. One of those moments, perhaps in some ways the biggest, was the day that I met Richard Aveling for the first time.'
Charlie is twenty-three, single and the new publicity assistant at the independent London publishing house Winden & Shane. Richard Aveling is fifty-six, married and the author that has defined his generation.
Charlie has long idolised the charming, illustrious writer, who also represents a link to her late mother, who loved his work. But as they embark on an illicit and all-consuming affair, Charlie is forced to hide the relationship from everyone she cares about.
And when the success of Richard's latest book launches him to a new level of fame where all anonymity is lost, she realises she might just be in too deep...
A thought-provoking exploration of a relationship founded in power, control and silence, Bitter Sweet is perfect for book clubs and will appeal to fans of Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason and Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors.
Flight Behaviour
A captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change by the award-winning, global bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged?
Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.
Getting Away
Margaret Smith is at the beach.
It is a summer day unlike any other Margaret has ever known.
The Smith family have left the town where they live and work and go to school and come to a place where the sky is blue, the sand is white, and the sound of the sea surrounds them. An ordinary family discovering the joy of getting away for the first time.
Over the course of the coming decades, they will be transformed through their holiday experiences, each new destination a backdrop as the family grows and changes, love stories begin and end -- and secrets are revealed.
Coming this summer, Getting Away is a dazzlingly ambitious new novel from the author of Waterstones' Fiction Book of the Month, This Family, and the Costa shortlisted The Stranding.
The Dilemmas of Working Women
The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women
'Witty, wise and thought-provoking' Cecelia Ahern
'Crackles and pops with humour, empathy and intelligence' Lisa Owens, author of Not Working
'So brilliantly written that I kept trying to memorise sentences in order to repeat them to people later' Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as This
Izumi needs to get a job.
Haruka needs to stop talking about how she once had cancer.
Kato needs to get through a shift at the convenience store without being harassed.
Mito needs to break up with her boyfriend - or marry him.
Sumie just needs somewhere to live.
In this classic Japanese bestseller, published in English twenty-five years after it took Japan by storm, the lives of five ordinary women are depicted with irresistible humour and searing emotional insight.
No Country for Love
'A captivating sweep of a novel about love, resilience and impossible choices' Christina Lamb, chief foreign correspondent Sunday Times
'An unflinching look at the cost of survival in terrible circumstances, which has sad echoes in modern-day Ukraine' The Times
Seventeen-year-old Debora Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; 1930 is a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Debora finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot.
But Debora's prospects - and Ukraine's - soon dim. State-induced famine rolls through the depleted countryside, and any deviation from Moscow ideology is punished by disappearance. When Samuel is sentenced to ten years' hard labour, Debora is left on her own with a baby. As advancing Nazi armies move through Ukraine, its yellow fields of wheat run red with blood. Forced to renounce the man she loves, her identity and even her name, Debora also learns to endure, manipulate and resist.
No Country for Love follows the hard choices Debora makes as Ukraine, caught between two totalitarian ideologies, turns into the deadliest place in the world - while she tries to protect those she loves most.
'Doctor Zhivago meets Stalingrad - a mix of romantic historical fiction and gritty, reportage-like storytelling... The history is spot-on, going from pre-Communist times, through World War II, to the era of Stalin and after. And the stories it tells of the human heart, through the eyes of its heroine Debora Rosenbaum and those who befriend or betray her, are unforgettable' NPR Best Books of the Year
Resurrection
A nobleman faces the consequences of his youthful wrongdoing when the girl he seduced and abandoned some years earlier is put on trial in a murder case. Initially conceived as a love story, Tolstoy’s last novel, published in 1899, is a dark masterpiece in which the whole of Imperial Russian society is tried and found wanting. Resurrection moves from the salons and country estates of the aristocracy to courtrooms and government offices, brothels and prisons; from Moscow and St Petersburg by road, rail and route march to the penal settlements of Siberia.
Its pages are peopled with convicts and gaolers, revolutionaries and religious sectaries, soldiers, labourers and lawyers, peasants, priests and prostitutes. While for Prince Nekhlyudov and Katusha Maslova salvation through love proves problematic, the journey into exile becomes one of self-discovery and spiritual transformation.
The Compound
You wake up in a compound in the middle of the desert, along with nine other women.
All of you are young, all beautiful, all keen to escape the grinding poverty, political unrest and environmental catastrophe of the outside world.
You realise that cameras are tracking your every move, broadcasting to millions of reality TV fans.
Soon, ten men will arrive on foot - if they all survive the journey.
What will you have to do to win?
And what happens to the losers?
The Compound is an addictive literary satire on modern excess: it holds a twisted mirror up to our obsession with winning, losing and, above all, watching.
The Anthropologists
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and rituals should they establish together?
As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentary filmmaker, spends her days gathering footage from the neighbourhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs, anxious to know how people really live. 'Forget about daily life,' chides her grandmother on the phone, 'no one cares about that.'
Meanwhile, life back in Asya and Manu's respective home countries continues - parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up - all just slightly beyond their reach. But the world they're making in their new city is growing, too, they hope. As they open up the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?
Unfolding over a series of apartment viewings, late-night conversations, last rounds of drinks and lazy breakfasts, The Anthropologists is a soulful examination of home-building and modern love, written with Aysegül Savas' distinctive elegance, warmth and humour.
Autocorrect
Imagine a world in which you could take back the stupid thing you just said, unspill the coffee, avoid the accident, roll life back thirty seconds and do it over again - this time the right way. In Etgar Keret's universe, all things are possible. A man can take a yoga class that genuinely transforms his life. A son has the chance to redo a fateful exchange with his father. An alien can offer a guided tour of the destroyed earth. And an angry squirrel can wreck a wedding.
Ranging from sci-fi scenarios to fictional thought-experiments and short vignettes, the stories here all deliver the irreverence, surprises, existential unease, hope and humanity we have come to expect from Etgar Keret - one of the most original and entertaining storytellers at work today.
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