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Pozvaná
Keď do vzťahu spisovateľky Françoise a jej partnera Pierra vstúpi mladá Xaviere, ich starostlivo vybudovaná rovnováha sa začne rúcať. Čo spočiatku vyzerá ako nevinné priateľstvo, mení sa na nebezpečnú hru túžby, moci a manipulácie. Pozvaná je intenzívnym psychologickým románom o láske, žiarlivosti a slobode, v ktorom Simone de Beauvoir skúma krehkosť ľudských vzťahov a morálne dilemy, s ktorými sa stretávame pri hľadaní vlastnej identity.
Kniha, považovaná za jeden z prvých feministických románov, ponúka prenikavý pohľad na city, ktoré nás dokážu povzniesť, ale aj zničiť.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) bola francúzska spisovateľka, filozofka a významná predstaviteľka existencializmu a feminizmu. Preslávila sa dielom Druhé pohlavie, ktoré zásadne ovplyvnilo feministické myslenie. Vo svojich románoch a esejach skúmala slobodu, vzťahy a postavenie žien v spoločnosti.
Vo vydavateľstve Inaque vyšli jej knihy Zlomená žena a Nerozlučné, ktoré ponúkajú pohľad na ženské prežívanie, lásku a priateľstvo.
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Testament Magdalen Blairovej
Novela Testament Magdalen Blairovej (1913) je denníkom mladej ženy schopnej čítať myšlienky. Počas univerzitného štúdia si jej nezvyčajné schopnosti všimne profesor Blair a čoskoro ju požiada o ruku. Krátko po svadbe však profesor vážne ochorie a Magdalen tak musí byť nielen svedkom pomalého a nevýslovne bolestivého utrpenia milovaného životného partnera, ale zároveň je nútená počuť a cítiť trýznivé myšlienky umierajúceho manžela. Po profesorovom skone však Magdalen aj naďalej vníma jeho myseľ, akoby ani smrť nepripravila nebohého o vedomie.
Zbierka pôvodne časopisecky vydaných poviedok Zlaté vetvičky (1918) je výrazne inšpirovaná monumentálnou štúdiou o magickom a mystickom myslení od anglického etnografa a kultúrneho antropológa J. G. Frazera Zlatá ratolesť.
Osem pútavých a hrôzostrašných rozprávok intenzívne dramatizuje témy z Frazerovho diela – od starovekej legendy o posvätnom dube, až po satanizmus v modernom Francúzsku. Rovnako ako Edgar Allan Poe aj Aleister Crowley dokázal mágiu, vraždy i záhady votkať do nezabudnuteľných príbehov.
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Vörös és fekete
A 21. Század Könyvkiadó Tótfalusi Ágnes fordításában jelenteti meg Stendhal klasszikus művét.
Ez a regény megelőzte a korát - mintha a 20. században írták volna. (André Gide)
Julien jóképű, és tele van ambíciókkal. Célja, hogy származása ellenére érvényesüljön az előkelő körökben. Jellemét tudatosan alakítva ér el egyre nagyobb társasági sikereket, miközben képmutató, érdekelvű döntéseket hoz. Diadallal veszi be a korabeli Párizs fényűző szalonjait.
Julien karrierjének és szerelmeinek története a Napóleon veresége utáni francia társadalom szatirikus krónikája. A főszereplő machiavellista viselkedésének egyetlen gátját saját érzelmei képezik.
Julien Sorel az európai irodalom egyik legizgalmasabb és legkétesebb alakja.
Stendhal (1783-1842) az egyik legfontosabb 19. századi francia író. A realizmus első képviselője, a pszichológiai regény megteremtője. A Vörös és fekete eredetileg 1830-ban jelent meg. Magyarul az utóbbi évtizedekben Illés Endre fordításának javított kiadásait olvashattuk, amely fordítás 1950-ben látott napvilágot.
Tótfalusi Ágnes többek között Anna Gavalda, Catherine Millet, Michel Houellebecq, Éric Vuillard, Guillaume Musso, Muriel Barbery és Georges Simenon műveit fordította magyarra.
Klub vrahov písmen
Sigizmund Kržižanovskij (1887 – 1950) – ruský prozaik, dramatik, scenárista, prekladateľ, filozof a divadelný teoretik poľského pôvodu. Hoci sa talentom i umeleckou jedinečnosťou a rozpoznateľnosťou vyrovná takým svojim súčasníkom ako A. Platonov, B. Piľňak, M. Bulgakov, J. Zamiatin či K. Vaginov, na rozdiel od nich mu z bohatej (vyše 3000 rukopisných strán) umeleckej tvorby (novely, poviedky, divadelné hry) a odborných článkov (napr. o Puškinovi či Shakespearovi) za života vyšlo máločo a boli zrealizované dva filmové scenáre. Jeho literárna tvorba, v ktorej zaujímavo pracuje s témami i s jazykom a v ktorej dnešní literárni vedci badajú podobnosť s F. Kafkom (hoci ho v čase písania svojich noviel a poviedok nepoznal) či neskoršími prózami J. L. Borgesa, však nezodpovedala požiadavkám porevolučnej sovietskej spoločnosti. Cenzúra nepovolila ani vydanie novely Klub vrahov písmen (1926), zaoberajúcej sa otázkou tvorby, vzťahu autora a diela či otázkou morálnej zodpovednosti vedca a možnosti zneužitia technického pokroku na ovládanie celej spoločnosti. Kržižanovskij ostal zabudnutý až do r. 1989, keď začalo vychádzať jeho súborné dielo.
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Dodsworth
A képzeletbeli középnyugati kisváros, Zenith szülötte, Sam Dodsworth ambiciózus, sikeres autótervező és üzletember. Fiatalon házasodik, a felesége a bájos Fran. Sam ötvenévesen eladja autógyárát, majd a feleségével, régi álmukat valóra váltva, európai körutazásra indulnak. Az utazás - melynek során megfordulnak Angliában, Franciaországban, Olaszországban és Bécsbe, illetve Budapestre is eljutnak - jóval hosszabbra nyúlik a tervezettnél, ugyanis Fran annyira megkedveli az európai életstílust, hogy nem kíván visszamenni Amerikába. Egyre nagyobb lelkesedéssel merül el a társasági életben, míg Sam továbbra is inkább turistaként viselkedik az európai városokban, és időnként rövidebb időre visszatér Amerikába, mert nem mond le a tervéről, hogy majd új vállalkozásba fog. Kapcsolatuk lassú, de átható változásnak indul.
A regény, amelyet a szerzőtől már megszokott hol finom, hol erőteljesebb szarkazmus hat át, nemcsak egy házasság története, hanem az amerikai és az európai gondolkodás, életforma, életfelfogás különbségeinek pontos és szellemes rajza is. Kedvelt témáját, az amerikai provincializmust Sinclair Lewis a Dodsworth-ben nem a középnyugati kisváros szociografikus leírásában mutatja be, hanem a - szintén roppant kritikusan ábrázolt - európai színpompával való összehasonlításban.
Hotel Nantucket
Lizbet Keatonová sa spamätáva z bolestného rozchodu s dlhoročným partnerom a zúfalo sa snaží dať svojmu životu nový smer. Keď dostane vysnené miesto generálnej manažérky kedysi slávneho, no dnes spustnutého hotela, v ktorom údajne straší duch zavraždenej komornej, vrhne sa do práce. Je odhodlaná získať nielen uznanie súčasného majiteľa, londýnskeho miliardára Xaviera Darlinga, ale aj nakloniť si známu instagramovú kritičku hotelov Shelly Carpenterovú, ktorá navštevuje hotely inkognito a potom o nich napíše ostré recenzie. Ešte žiadnemu neudelila plný počet bodov, ale Lizbet verí, že profesionálni remeselníci a šikovný personál jej pomôžu získať pre hotel najvyššie hodnotenie.
Nad hotelom však ešte stále visí tieň škandálu z 20. rokov minulého storočia, keď pri požiari zahynula devätnásťročná komorná Grace Hadleyová. Jej duch teraz robí prieky svojráznym hosťom, personál sa takisto zaoberá vlastnými tajomstvami a Lizbet Keatonová musí zvládnuť nielen celú prevádzku hotela, ale aj súkromný život.
Je Hotel Nantucket predurčený na úspech alebo na zánik? Isté je len jedno: v dovolenkovom raji nastanú problémy.
Pútavý letný román Hotel Nantucket od najpredávanejšej autorky plážového čítania prekypuje emóciami a ponúka viaceré uhly pohľadu na konkrétne situácie. Každý si tu nájde svoje – pestré príbehy postáv, dokonalé prostredie luxusného ostrova v Atlantickom oceáne, lásku, humor i napätie.
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The Safekeep
An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement.
It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season…
In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel's desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a revelation which threatens to unravel all she has ever known.
Thirst Trap
Sometimes friends hold you together.
Sometimes they're why you're falling apart.
Maggie, Harley and Róise are friends on the brink: of triumph, catastrophe, or maybe just finally growing up. Their crumbling Belfast houseshare has been witness to their roaring twenties, filled with questionable one-night stands and ruthless hangovers. But now fault-lines are beginning to show.
The three girls are still grieving the tragic death of their friend, Lydia, whose room remains untouched. Their last big fight hangs heavy over their heads, unspoken since the accident. And now they are all beginning to unravel.
Thirst Trap by Gráinne O'Hare is a blazing, bittersweet, bitingly funny, and painfully relatable story about the friendships that endure through the very best and the very worst of times.
The Most
From 'one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-Akner
A warm Sunday in November 1957. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day.
Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn't particularly happy in his job but he fulfils the role, playing golf with the partners, drinking in the bar, chasing the women. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion, with a key shot up her sleeve called 'The Most', is now a mother and homemaker.
Somehow these two, who have been together since college, have fallen into the roles expected of them - the prescribed suburban dream they have been sold as something to covet, something that will fulfil their lives. But on this unseasonably warm, early November Sunday, Kathleen wakes up and decides that she will not be accompanying her family to church.
No, she feels like a swim.
She unearths her old, red bathing suit and descends into the apartment complex pool no other resident uses. And she doesn't want to come out…
Saraswati
Centuries ago, the myths say, the holy river Saraswati flowed through what is now Northern India. But when Satnam arrives in his ancestral village for his grandmother's funeral, he is astonished to find water in the long-dry well behind her house. The discovery sets in motion a contentious scheme to unearth the lost river and build a gleaming new city on its banks, and Satnam - adrift from his job, girlfriend and flat back in London - soon finds himself swept up in this ferment of Hindu nationalist pride.
As the river alters Satnam's course, so it reveals buried ties to six distant relatives scattered across the globe - from an ambitious writer with her eye on legacy to a Kenyan archaeologist to a Bollywood stunt double - who are brought together in a rapidly changing India. Brimming with love, lush, violence and loos, Gurnaik Johal's magisterial debut deftly animates the passions that bind us to our histories, our lands and each other.
To the Moon
The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.
In Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane desk jobs at a confectionary manufacturer. They become fast friends, taking their conversations out of the group chat as they bond over their 'average' employee report cards, the incompetence of their male team leader and a mutual longing for financial freedom amid mediocre raises.
Eun-sang, the eldest of the group, is always looking for ways to earn extra money, but faces trouble at work after she opens a mini mart at her desk.
Jisong, the youngest, dreams of a perfect romance with her Taiwanese boyfriend and spends her low salary on trips to Taipei.
Meanwhile, Dahae searches endlessly for a better apartment - albeit one she can actually afford.
One day over lunch, Eun-sang announces a plan to make enough money to quit her job, by investing her life's savings in cryptocurrency. What's more, she thinks the others should join her. All they need to do, she says, is hold on tight and wait for the price to skyrocket . . . to the moon. But as the market begins to fluctuate and spiral out of their control, the fate of their friendships - and their futures - soon hangs in the balance.
Bonding
Mary is single, jobless, and on her way to Ibiza.
There, at a party, she meets Tom, a brilliant chemist on the verge of launching a new drug that claims to cure the anxieties of modern life.
Back in London after a heady trip, Mary begins going out with Tom and working for her sort-of-ex Lara, who has created innovative dating app designed to revolutionize the industry. As tech and pharma collide, she is forced to question what love and success mean in a world that is hurtling out of control.
Electrifying, urgent, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's debut Bonding is a uniquely modern story of sex, tech and freedom in the messy tangle of our digital age.
The Honey
It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world, ETA.
As Amber embarks on her solo career and her fame intensifies, she increasingly finds herself reduced to a body, a voice, an object. Surrounded by the wrong kind of people and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything, and one mistake can shatter a career.
Inspired by the starlets of the 90s and noughties who became as infamous for their personal lives as their hypersexualised music videos and lyrics, Honey is a novel about the journey from girlhood to womanhood and how far we are willing to go in the pursuit of love . . .
Second Chance Convenience Store
'Holding on to the belief that life had meaning and must go on, I, too, would carry on.'
In this million-copy bestseller from Korea, the owner of a corner store takes in a homeless man who does a good deed - a kind soul whose presence will transform the whole neighbourhood.
Seoul Station is home to Dokgo, a man with no memories of his past. Until one day his subdued existence is disrupted when he stumbles upon a lost wallet, triggering a chain of events that will change the course of his life.
Enter Mrs. Yeom, a retired teacher turned convenience-store owner, who, upon discovering Dokgo's act of kindness in returning her purse, offers him a meal as a token of her gratitude. Their chance encounter blossoms into an unexpected alliance when the man's bravery saves the store from ruin, earning him not just a job but a place in the heart of the neighbourhood.
But just when things are looking up for Dokgo, Mrs. Yeom's troubled son, eager to sell the store, hires a detective to dig into the mysterious man's past and unearth what he seems to be trying so hard to forget . . .
The Second Chance Convenience Store by Kim Ho-Yeon, translated form Korean by Janet Hong, is a moving and joyful story of a woman fighting for her community and a man who has lost everything except the will to try again.
The Road to the Country
When a country is torn apart by civil war, Kunle and Tunde are separated, each on opposite sides. Desperate to find his brother, Kunle's search becomes one of atonement, leading him to join an army and to fight in a war he barely understands. Amidst the chaos, he forms deep, lifelong friendships and falls in love. But his ultimate hope remains: to reunite with his family.
An emotionally powerful masterpiece, Chigozie Obioma's odyssey of brotherhood, love, and extraordinary courage set against the backdrop of the Biafran War captures the essence of a young man's quest for redemption in a nation ablaze.
The Time of our Singing
Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise them beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. Yet they cannot be protected from the world forever.
Even as Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, the opera arena remains fixated on his race. Ruth turns her back on classical music and disappears, dedicating herself to activism and a new relationship. As the years pass, Joseph – the middle child, a pianist and our narrator – must battle not just to remain connected to his siblings, but to forge a future of his own.
This is a story of the tragedy of race in America, told through the lives and choices of one family caught on the cusp of identities.
Ordinary Love
There's no such thing as an ordinary love story
When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought it was forever.
Twenty years later, Gen is an Olympic runner, the career she strived for, while Emily is living a picture-perfect life: Manhattan townhouse, two young children and a wealthy husband, Jack. But Jack's controlling behaviour is spiralling, and Emily has lost sight of who she once was.
Now, despite Emily's fracturing marriage and the pressures of Gen's career, they are drawn back together by a magnetic attraction. After years of heartbreak, missed chances and misunderstandings, will they finally get a second chance at first love?
A sweeping love story about desire, friendship, mistakes and the possibility of second chances, for fans of The Paper Palace and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Never
THE FIRST IN A FANTASY ROMANCE SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MAGNOLIA PARKS
"There is a boy of legend in the tales passed down in my family. He glides on the coat-tails of the sun, rides the wind, and freedom runs through his veins. His heart - so the legend goes - is wild.
The boy lived in a faraway land tucked behind a star, where pirates were still true, mermaids didn't hide, and fairies flew through the air like autumn leaves on a windy day. He took my mother there, just like he took my grandmother, and my great-grandmother.
Just as he would come for me."
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Swept away from her life in London to a place beyond the stars, Wendy's granddaughter Daphne is torn between the boy of legend - Peter Pan, whose fate is irrevocably intertwined with her family's - and Jem Hook, the pirate who has captured her heart against all her better judgement.
Filled with hope and heartbreak, beauty and betrayal, dreams and devastating reality, Never asks: Can we ever be free while we're holding on to the past? And what would happen if - just once - we truly let go?
Meggyőző érvek - Éldekorált kiadás
A Meggyőző érvek nem pusztán az utolsó, hanem a legérettebb, és számtalan kritikusa és olvasója által a legjobbnak tartott Jane Austen-regény amely szerelemről, állhatatosságról, hűségről, reményről és nem utolsósorban a második esély lehetőségéről szól.Anne Elliotot, a regény eszes, ugyanakkor megfontolt és szerény hősnőjét sikeresen lebeszélik arról, hogy hozzámenjen szíve választottjához, egy fiatal, vagyontalan, bizonytalan jövőjű tengerésztiszthez. A pártában maradt Anne idővel lassan bele is törődik, hogy körülményei a vénlányok sorsára kárhoztatják, ám nyolc év után a kikosarazott udvarló előkerül, mint sikeres, vagyonos tengerészkapitány, aki végleg le akar telepedni és családot alapítani. Leendő feleségével szemben pedig mindössze egyetlen követelményt támaszt: bárki lehet, csak Anne Elliot nem.
Kaphat-e a sorstól újabb esélyt Anne, s ha valóban révbe érhet, vajon az egyszer már elutasított Wentworth kapitány oldalán találja meg a boldogságot vagy annak az elragadó idegennek a párjaként, akivel a legváratlanabb helyzetekben találkozik újra meg újra?
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