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Homérovy eposy tvoří jeden ze základů evropské vzdělanosti, ocitly by se v seznamu pěti nejdůležitějších literárních děl evropské kultury, a to na místech předních. Opětovné vydání, tentokrát v kapesní formě, poskytne dorůstajícím generacím studentů a badatelů praktický podklad k soustavnému studiu. Překlady, které nepocházejí od Otmara Vaňorného, většinou postrádají číslování veršů a pro badatelské a studijní účely jsou prakticky nepoužitelné. Tedy ač kapesní vydání, splňuje i zřetel použitelnosti v odborném kontextu. Překlad Otmara Vaňorného se svým nádechem archaičnosti je zatím nepřekonaným přetlumočením Homérových eposů. Vydání vychází z třetího vydání (Jan Laichter, Praha 1942).
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Román inšpirovaný životom portugalského podnikateľa a filantropa Ruia Nabeira, zakladateľa obľúbenej značky Delta Cafés, ktorý výrazne prispel k rozvoju regiónu Alentejo. Príbeh o láske k rodnému kraju, o dôležitosti rodinných väzieb a dobrých vzťahov, o skutočných aj pomyselných hraniciach a o túžbe pomáhať druhým je zároveň citlivou úvahou o veku a starnutí.
Kniha roka 2021 Bertrand, Portugalsko
Ide o silné spojenie: jeden z najznámejších portugalských spisovateľov píše o najobľúbenejšom podnikateľovi. Snaha zachytiť realitu, kým sa nezmení a nestratí.
El País
Tvorbu prekladu z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia.
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Nedeľný obed
Román inšpirovaný životom portugalského podnikateľa a filantropa Ruia Nabeira, zakladateľa obľúbenej značky Delta Cafés, ktorý výrazne prispel k rozvoju regiónu Alentejo. Príbeh o láske k rodnému kraju, o dôležitosti rodinných väzieb a dobrých vzťahov, o skutočných aj pomyselných hraniciach a o túžbe pomáhať druhým je zároveň citlivou úvahou o veku a starnutí.
Kniha roka 2021 Bertrand, Portugalsko
Ide o silné spojenie: jeden z najznámejších portugalských spisovateľov píše o najobľúbenejšom podnikateľovi. Snaha zachytiť realitu, kým sa nezmení a nestratí.
El País
Tvorbu prekladu z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia.
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George azonban más utat keresett. Örökre megőrizheti azokat a legelső, vad álmokat, övé maradhatna a mézeshetek előtti nő, ha Jennyben új életre kelti.”
Vonnegut harmadik posztumusz novelláskötetét tartja kezében az olvasó. Tizenhat kitűnő történet sorakozik a könyvben. Jobbnál jobbak. És bővelkednek életrajzi elemekben. Egy falusi asszony elhatározza, hogy megkeresi szerelmes levelezőpartnerét. Az ateista lapszerkesztő akaratán kívül lesz a karácsonyi ünnep motorja. A diktafonról dolgozó vidéki gépírólány egy gyilkos szavaitól gyúl szerelemre. A ripacs hőstenort fánküzletével tartja távol az operaszínpadtól saját énektanára. És hát a két festő felejthetetlen párviadala! Csupa döbbenetes írás. Mulattatnak, megrendítenek. 1950 és 1954 között keletkezhettek. Amikor az amerikai emberek a győztes háború után vagyonról és hírnévről, könnyű életről álmodoztak, de kemény falakba ütköztek. Vonnegut abszurd humora és kimeríthetetlen fantáziája már a pályakezdés idején is pontosan jelezte, hogy belőle majdan a földkerekség egyik legragyogóbb és legnépszerűbb gondolkodója lesz.
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The Coin
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind.
The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start.
In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags.
But America is stifling her - her wilfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness and the narrator unravels spectacularly.
In enthralling, sensory prose, The Coin explores nature and civilisation, beauty and justice, class and belonging - all while resisting easy moralising. Provocative, wry and inviting, The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.
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I Will Crash
It was a peace offering, I knew that you don’t appear on someone’s doorstep uninvited, saying Alright unless you want to make amends
It’s been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought. Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother.
She’s spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood. Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves.
Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace – to forgive, to be forgiven – when the past she’s worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present?
From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.
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Best of Murakami collection (3 BOOKS BOX SET)
Three of Murakami’s best-known and best-loved novels, brought together in one beautiful boxset.
For nearly half a century Murakami has been delighting readers with his deceptively simple writing. His work is both fantastic and realistic, as gripping as it is beguiling. This boxset contains three of the best novels from Japan’s greatest living novelist.
You might start with Norwegian Wood, a story of young love and the book that shot Murakami to literary stardom. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle displays many of Murakami’s distinctive storytelling tropes – mysterious women and missing cats among them. And Kafka on the Shore, the great masterpiece, is the genre-bending tale of a fifteen-year-old runaway.
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This Motherless Land
From the prize-winning author of WAHALA, a powerful de-colonial retelling of MANSFIELD PARK, exploring identity, culture, race and love
When Funke's mother dies in an accident in Lagos, she's sent to live with her maternal family in England. Against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect, sensible Funke strives to fit in, determined to become one of them.
Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family, to be nothing like them. Fiercely protective of Funke, she at last has an ally. The two cousins give each other what they need most- love.
But the past casts long shadows and the choices made by their mothers haunt them, shaping the trajectory of their adult lives. Can they escape their legacy?
Witty, warm, hugely entertaining, This Motherless Land bridges three decades and two continents, delving into the thorny territories of race and culture and belonging. At its heart is a story about love and how it can make the difference between surviving and thriving.
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The Divorce
Gripping and emotional, THE DIVORCE explores the unravelling of a marriage from first the wife, then the husband's point of view.
There are two sides to every story. Which one will you believe?
Together for more than thirty years, Bea and Niklas live a comfortable life in Stockholm. But one evening, following a trivial argument, Niklas disappears. Weeks pass before it emerges that he has met someone else. To Bea's horror, he insists they must divorce.
But is this divorce really coming out of the blue? Is the person who does the leaving always the one at fault? What emerges once you begin scratching the surface?
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The God of the Woods
From the author of LONG BRIGHT RIVER, a Barack Obama Pick and a New York Times bestseller, comes a once-in-a-generation story; a novel you'll never forget.
Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars.
Some said the Van Laars deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their missing son.
Some said there was a reason it took the family so long to call for help. That they knew what happened to the boy.
Now, fifteen years later, the daughter the family had in their grief has gone missing in the same wilderness as her brother. Some say the two disappearances aren’t connected.
Some say they are.
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Bonding
Adrift in her early thirties, Mary sets out to change her life, one ill-advised decision at a time.
First, she books a spontaneous flight to Ibiza where she meets Tom, a brilliant young chemist working on an experimental drug called Eudaxa that claims to cure the anxieties of modern life. As their connection deepens, Mary thinks she might finally be falling in love.
Then Mary lands a job at Openr, an innovative dating app with no limits. Its founder, Mary’s ex girlfriend Lara, will do everything it takes to make it a global phenomenon.
When Mary introduces Lara and Tom, love and pharma collide with devastating consequences. As whispers about Eudaxa’s side effects begin to grow, Mary is forced to ask whether love is even possible in a society that is falling apart.
Electrifying, urgent, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's Bonding is a uniquely modern story of sex and freedom in the messy tangle of our digital age.
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 . . .
Things Don't Break On Their Own
She could be anyone. She could be you.
Nobody ever found out what happened to Laika Martenwood, the girl who vanished without a trace on her way to school one morning. But for her sister Willa, life shattered into tiny pieces that day, and she has never been able to put them back together again.
Willa sees Laika everywhere- on buses, at parties, in busy streets. It's been twenty-five years, and the only thing that has kept her going is her belief that her sister is alive, somewhere.
But when a dinner party conversation about childhood memories spirals out of control, a shattering revelation from one of the guests forces Willa to rethink everything she thought she knew about her past. And, out of the debris of that explosive evening, the truth of what really happened begins to emerge. Piece by piece.
Masterfully plotted with shades of Magpie and The Push, Things Don't Break on their Own is a propulsive debut about how our memories shape us, and the lies we tell to escape them.
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17,95 €
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.
In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All banned books have been removed from public spaces, and the townspeople are only allowed to read books Lula has deemed ‘appropriate’.
But a small group refuse to be told what they can and can’t read.
The revolution is coming …
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18,95 €
The Modern Fairies
Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?
Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.
No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.
Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.
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18,95 €
Poslední lanovka
V roce 1941 závodí Rachel Brewsterová v Aspenu v Coloradu na národním mistrovství ve sjezdu a slalomu. Malá Ray, jak se jí říká, neskončí ani zdaleka na stupních vítězů, ale podaří se jí otěhotnět. Doma v Nové Anglii se stane lyžařskou instruktorkou. Její syn Adam vyrůstá v rodině, která se vymyká konvencím a vyhýbá se otázkám týkajícím se pohnuté minulosti. Po mnoha letech se Adam vydá hledat odpovědi právě do Aspenu. V hotelu Jerome, kde byl počat, se setká s několika duchy. A nejsou to první ani poslední přízraky, které uvidí… Patnáctý román Johna Irvinga je monumentální rodinná sága, čtivý a dramatický příběh s duchařskými prvky.
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The Second Coming
A luminous novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, addiction, redemption and connection.
When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has always struggled to see past himself. But then a call from his ex makes him fear their daughter's in deeper trouble than anyone realises. Believing he's the only one who can save her, he decides to return to New York with a gift: the whole of his life, its hard-won triumphs and harrowing mistakes...
So begins the intimate epic of Jolie and Ethan: child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same. Their journey toward each other will face opposition from grandparents and siblings and friends. It will strain connections with roommates and benefactors and a probation officer desperate to help. It will push Jolie out past her depth with a mysterious admirer, and Ethan in over his head with his first love, Jolie's mom. But as father and daughter struggle to find their footing, new vistas beckon: from a surf break in mid-'90s Delaware to group therapy during the Great Recession, from an encampment at Occupy Wall Street to a HoJo on Maryland's Eastern Shore, from the heights of the Brooklyn Bridge to horizons seldom seen in fiction.
The Second Coming is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: can we ever really outrun the past, stay true to ourselves while still chasing something new? Full of music and pathos and passion, this beautifully attuned work of fiction makes good Garth Risk Hallberg's extraordinary promise.
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19,95 €
The Third Love
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny.
Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams. And so, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages. As she experiences desire and heartbreak in the past, so Riko comes to reconsider her life as a 21st century woman, as a wife, as a mother, and as a lover, and to ask herself whether, after loving her husband and loving Mr Takaoka, she is now ready for her third great love.
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19,95 €
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