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After the Banquet
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness - then she falls in love.
The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit. Eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. After the Banquet is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare and love in later life.
Spring Snow
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful elite.
Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko. His devoted friend Honda watches from the sidelines. It is only when Satoko is engaged to a royal prince that Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.
Runaway Horses
Read this classic exploration of political violence, traditional samurai values and right wing nihilism.
Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravels, Mishima brilliantly chronicles the conflicts of a decade that saw the fabric of Japanese life torn apart.
The Sound of Waves
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love.
It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the villagers' gossip threatens to divide them, Shinki must risk his life to prove his worth.
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic.
A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject the stupidity of the adult world. They decide it is illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ‘objectivity’. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship’s officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first, but it is not long before they conclude that he is, in fact, soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part – and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
‘Mishima’s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century’ The Times
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Autor patrí k významným talianskym spisovateľom, v diele ktorého dominuje najmä osobná skúsenosť z druhej svetovej vojny. V románe, ktorý predkladáme čitateľovi, na pozadí odboja Milton, študent a dobrovoľník, zmietaný vášnivou láskou k Fulvii, sa rozhodne zachrániť svojho druha Giorgia zo zajatia len preto, aby sa dozvedel pravdu o jeho vzťahu k svojejmilovanej. Fenoglio je vynikajúci rozprávač. Na veľmi malom priestore rozvinie dráždivý príbeh lásky, priateľstva, vojnového bratstva a útrap na pozadí krásneho a drsného severu Talianska.
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Krátká projížďka v neb.kočáře
V této knize vypráví Saroyan o své cestě, kterou podnikl v roce 1963 v postarší limuzíně z kanadského Ontaria do Fresna, kam ale v knize nakonec nedojede. Doprovází ho jeho stejně starý bratranec John, s kterým vede delší či kratší debaty na nejrůznější témata, včetně spisovatelského řemesla, a také o smrti a hledání vlastní identity a původu. Za cíl své cesty vysloví Saroyan snad trochu žertem přání stát se na chvíli šoférem vážených členů své rodiny, a samozřejmě než k ní dojede, povozit a vlastně poznat nejrůznější stopaře, nejlíp potulné vagabundy. Vzniká tak pestrá směs drobných příhod, žánrových obrázků, náhodných setkání a rozhovorů s obyčejnými i originálními lidmi.
The God of Small Things
'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how.
And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt). Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit and magic.
Demons
'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian
Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists. Blackly funny, grotesque and shocking, Demons is a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a compelling study of terrorism.
'Marvellous...a fluid and well-paced translation' Observer
Děti těch druhých
Příběh o nevlastní rodině, o mýtech, pravdách a pokusech vyrovnat se s minulými i přítomnými příbuzenskými vztahy. Román se zabývá stále častějším společenským jevem, nevlastní rodinou a z ní vyplývajícími přítomnými i minulými příbuzenskými vztahy a především chováním k dětem jiných lidí. Setkáváme se tu se ženami, představujícími různé typy mateřství: Nadine, svobodnou matkou, macechou Josií a samozvanou macechou Elizabeth. Poznáváme muže vychované v rozporu s náhledem na moderní otcovství: Matthewa, který musí žít se synem jiného muže v bezdětném manželství, Toma, zmítajícího se mezi vlastními tužbami a tím, o čem si myslí, že dluží své dceři. A co je nejdůležitější, potkáváme se s dětmi, malými, dospívajícími a dospělými, které jsou nuceny bojovat o místo ve vztazích, které si nezvolily. Přeložila Martina Čermáková.
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Máme to v rodině
Kanadský básník a romanopisec je dnes světoznámým autorem díky oceněnému románu Anglický pacient, jehož filmová verze získala největší počet Oscarů v r. 1997. Autor byl do té doby známý spíše jako vynalézavý experimentátor, rozbíjející běžné románové postupy, spojující poezii a prózu, ale také normální děje se značně fantastickými, až surrealistickými jevy. Do této skupiny jeho děl patří i fiktivní memoár Máme to v rodině z roku 1982. V barvité a exotické mozaice poskládané z příběhů, anekdot, básní a faktografických pasáží Ondaatje oživuje svoji minulost a mapuje svůj rodokmen: pochází ze Srí Lanky, kde žil až do svých devatenácti let.
Atlas Shrugged
Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.
Lord of the Flies
This dystopian classic, which has sold over 25 million copies, is 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong?
'One of my favorite books - I read it every couple of years.' (Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games)
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they discover fantastic wildlife and dazzling beaches, learning to survive; at night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast. Orphaned by society, it isn't long before their innocent childhood games devolve into a savage, murderous hunt...
Doctor Faustus
To unlock his full creative potential, Adrian Leverkühn makes a lethal pact with nature and intentionally contracts syphilis.
A brilliant young composer, Adrian believes that the disease-induced madness will fuel his genius. But while his music reaches new heights, his mind and morality begin to unravel. Mann's interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany's moral fall.
'Arguably the great German novel' New York Times
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Selling Hitler
Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. .
The Magic Mountain
This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneration of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of the First World War.
Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic - ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of the First World War.
Buddenbrooks
Wealthy, esteemed, and deeply rooted in tradition, the Buddenbrook family epitomises nineteenth-century German bourgeois values.
But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Spanning four generations, this semi-autobiographical family epic records the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.
'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times
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As I Lay Dying
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The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
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