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Room on the Sea
Have you ever had the sense that maybe all lives are nothing more than the chronicle of countless stinging might-have-beens that continue to haunt us?
In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as jurors. Paul is reading a newspaper. Catherine is reading a novel. So begins a whirlwind flirtation: over cappuccinos in Manhattan and gallery trips to Chelsea, Paul and Catherine escape into the illusion of an Italian getaway. Their feelings quickly evolve into something deeper, something - as mature adults with lives of their own - Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret, with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question.
But as the sultry summer week draws to a close, the end of their rendezvous comes into focus, and Paul and Catherine are forced to decide whether to act on their feelings or leave the fantasy of what could have been to the annals of the past.
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Back in the Day
Last night i got woke up by marco ringing, and he was crying, he said, he died ivor, he died, and i didnt need to hear who to know, i just hung up.
Ivor and Marco have been getting high since they were thirteen, started dealing at fourteen, by fifteen they were carrying knives. At sixteen years old, they hurtle from one trip to the next, one fight to the next, always watching their backs. Ivor dreams of getting out - finishing school, becoming a lawyer, marrying the girl he loves from the corner shop - but the path he's on only leads one way.
In flashes of firecracker prose, shot through with rare empathy, irrepressible wit and gut-punch pathos, Oliver Lovrenski gives voice to young men growing up in a brutal and chaotic world.
WINNER of the Oslo City Artist Prize and the Norwegian Booksellers Prize
SHORTLISTED for the Brage Award and the Tarjei Vesaas Debut Prize
The Eights
They knew they were changing history.
They didn't know they would change each other.
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world's most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship.
Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Beatrice, politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way - and her own friends - for the first time. Socialite Otto fills her room with extravagant luxuries but fears they won't be enough to distract her from her memories of the war years. And quiet, clever, Marianne, the daughter of a village vicar, arrives bearing a secret she must hide from everyone - even The Eights - if she is to succeed.
But Oxford's dreaming spires cast a dark shadow: in 1920, misogyny is still rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War are still very real indeed. And as the group navigate this tumultuous moment in time, their friendship will become more important than ever.
The Eights is a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a world that is forever changed.
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Kniha léta, Domeček pro panenky
Kniha léta: Babička s šestiletou vnučkou Sofií tráví letní měsíce na opuštěném ostrůvku ve Finském zálivu. Společně se toulají, sbírají kosti, pozorují ptáky a baví se o smrti nebo o tom, jak se nejlépe potápět. Hádají se, nadávají a podnikají dobrodružství. Nic před nimi není v bezpečí, všechno prozkoumají. Moudrá a zábavná klasika finskošvédské literatury vychází v novém překladu Jany Satrapa Holé.
Domeček pro panenky: Dvanáct příběhů o posedlosti a ctižádosti. S pronikavým vtipem a až nepříjemnou jasnozřivostí zkoumají lidskou povahu a odhalují, že záhady a nejistota – dokonce i nemoc či nebezpečí – se mohou proměnit v něco dobrého a okouzlujícího. Stále dokola se vynořuje jedno téma: co se stane, když se umělci a excentrici poschovávaní v temných koutech středostavovské společnosti pokusí změnit svůj už tak dost složitý vztah k okolnímu světu?
Jeden den Ivana Děnisoviče, 7. vydání
Dnes již legendární novelu Jeden den Ivana Děnisoviče autor promýšlel v Ekibastuzském pracovním lágru v zimě 1950–51 a její původní název zněl Šč-854 – Jeden den jednoho mukla. Postavu Ivana Děnisoviče vytvořil Solženicyn podle vojína Šuchova, který s ním bojoval za sovětsko-německé války, a podle vlastních zkušeností v lágru, kde pracoval jako zedník. Usnesení o uveřejnění novely bylo schváleno na politbyru ÚV KSSS v říjnu 1962 na osobní nátlak Chruščovův. Novela vyšla v časopisu Novyj mir v roce 1962, brzy nato začala vycházet ve statisícových nákladech. V roce 1971 vydalo sovětské vedení tajnou instrukci, na jejímž základě byly výtisky knihy vyřazeny z knihoven a zlikvidovány.
Moldavan utíká jak malá myš, hlavu má vraženou mezi ramena.
„Stát!“ křičí strážný. A zapisuje si K-460. „Kdes byl?“
A už jde na něho a otáčí pušku pažbou kupředu. Z davu všichni křičí: „Svině! Chcíplotino! Hajzle!“
Ale někteří ztichli ihned, jakmile seržant začal obracet pušku.
Chlap ani nemuká, hlavu má sehnutou, couvá před strážným. Zástupce z dvaatřicítky vystoupil z řady:
„Zalezl si dobytek na lešení, schovával se tam přede mnou, pak se tam zahřál a usnul.“
A bác ho pěstí za krk! A bác ho do týla!
Tím ho odehnal od strážného.
Moldavan ucouvl, ale hned proti němu vyskočil Maďar, taky z dvaatřicítky, a kop ho do zadnice! A ještě jednou!
Tohle je, kamaráde, jinší kafe než dělat špiona. Dělat špiona, to dokáže každý pitomec. Takový špion si žije, ručičky si nezašpiní a je mu veselo. Ale zkus to odkroutit si v kárném deset tvrdých s krumpáčem a lopatou!
Strážný nechal pušku klesnout.
A velitel eskorty řve:
„Od-stoupit od vrat! Po pěti ná-stup!“
Potvory, zas budou počítat! Jaképak teď počítání, když je to stejně jasné? Chlapi začali hučet. Všechen vztek se teď od Moldavana obrátil proti eskortě. Chlapi hučí a nehýbají se od vrat.
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I Want To Go Home But Im Already There
Renting is a nightmare...
Áine should be feeling happy with her life. She’s just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic vegetable shops. They even have a garden. And yet, from the moment they move in, Áine can't shake the sense that there's something not quite right about the place...
It's not just the humourless estate agent and nameless landlord: it's the chill that seeps through the draughty windows; the damp spreading from the cellar door; the way the organic fruit and veg never lasts as long as it should. And most of all, it's the upstairs neighbours, whose very presence makes peaceful coexistence very difficult indeed.
The longer Áine spends inside the flat - pretending to work from home; dissecting messages from the friends whose lives seem to have moved on without her - the less it feels like home. And as Áine fixates on the cracks in the ceiling, it becomes harder to ignore the cracks in her relationship with Elliott...
Brilliantly observed and darkly funny, I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There is a ghost story set in the rental crisis. A wonderfully clear-eyed portrait of loneliness, loss and belonging, it examines what it means to feel at home.
The Naked Eye
A suspenseful tale of abduction, obsession and lost identity that spans Vietnam, East Berlin, West German and Paris - and fantasies of Catherine Deneuve.
'Reading Tawada is an immensely fun and occasionally bewildering experience... A blisteringly imaginative writer' ? Guardian
A young Vietnamese woman is invited to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on 'Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism', she is abruptly kidnapped and taken to a small town on the western side of the Berlin Wall. There she falls under a strange spell of domestic and sexual boredom with her abductor, until one night she manages to escape on a train to Moscow... but mistakenly arrives in Paris.
Alone, penniless, and in a completely foreign land, Anh (her false name) wanders the fringes of society, meeting a sex worker, another Vietnamese immigrant, a theatre troupe and other shadowy characters. But at the centre of her new life is Catherine Deneuve, the iconic film star whose films she loses herself in and who becomes the object of her obsessions.
Crossing borders of language, nation, ethnicity, sexuality and art, The Naked Eye is a cinematic, incandescent novel that anticipates and embodies our twenty-first century nightmares and dreams.
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Flesh
At first there seems to be no reason to deny the body what it wants, whenever it wants it.
Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour - a married woman close to his mother's age - as his only companion. As these encounters shift into a clandestine relationship, István's life spirals out of control.
Years later, rising through the ranks from the army to the elite circles of London's super-rich, he navigates the twenty-first century's tides of money and power. Torn between love, intimacy, status, and wealth, his newfound riches threaten to undo him completely.
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Broken Country
Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help thinking they were right.
Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken.
It was Frank who picked up the pieces and together they built a home very different from the one she'd imagined with Gabriel. Watching her husband and son, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading.
But when Gabriel comes back, all Beth's certainty about who she is and what she wants crumbles. Even after ten years, their connection is instant. She knows it's wrong and she knows people could get hurt. But how can she resist a second chance at first love?
A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.
Poslední umělecké dílo
Když světoznámá umělkyně Hanna Stiltjeová představí své nejnovější dílo ve stockholmském Muzeu moderního umění, publikum nevěří svým očím. Místo olejomaleb a bronzových soch, které ji proslavily, vidí podivnou komodu složenou z různého harampádí. Pro samotnou Hannu to však je „Poslední umělecké dílo“, to nejdůležitější z její tvorby – a také vrchol její kariéry. Kousek po kousku se v něm odkrývá příběh dítěte opuštěného rodiči a odvahy žít. Co nejkrásnějšího nám nakonec zůstane? Sofia Lundbergová opět prokazuje mimořádnou schopnost dotknout se těch nejpodstatnějších věcí a donutit nás zamyslet se nad tím, co je v životě opravdu důležité.
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Deep Cuts
The first time Joe plays Percy one of his songs in his college room in 2000, she instantly realises three things:
One, she is watching a star in the making.
Two, she can shape his music into something extraordinary.
Three, she will always be on the sidelines.
She swallows her jealousy and throws herself into collaboration, transforming Joe’s songs into indie hits with her blistering critiques.
But there’s an undercurrent to the music they’re making – something undeniably electric, hurtling towards love. And then, almost inevitably, towards heartbreak.
As Joe steps into the spotlight, can Percy bear to watch on in silence?
And can he exist there without her?
Deep Cuts is an irresistible novel about passion and obsession, love and longing and, above all, our need to be heard.
The Portrait Artist
One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. It's clearly by Timothy Ponden-Hall, whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty, but for the rumours behind them: they were believed to immortalise the souls of their subjects. But Ponden-Hall has been thought dead for the last 50 years. . .
In a bid to quiet the gossip and rumours that swirl around the streets of London, the gallery brings in renowned and reluctant art historian Solomon Oak to investigate. Oak is assisted by an unlikely aide: his daughter Alice. A passionate but sheltered student, Alice has worldly desires which eclipse the life she's expected to lead. Together they discover that exposing Ponden-Hall's legacy will prove more controversial than they could ever have imagined for their family, and for Victorian society.
Set between London and Oxford, The Portrait Artist is a twisting debut exploring race, fame and long-kept secrets.
May You Have Delicious Meals
The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's late-night binge . . .
In their Saitama office, Ashikawa is the kind of woman Nitani knows he will likely marry: sweet, obliging, and determined to wean him off his addiction to instant noodles. But he finds himself increasingly unable to respect her – or the sugary treats she shares around the workplace, winning their colleagues’ affection with baking rather than hard work.
Oshio is bolder and uninhibited – she is Nitani's drinking buddy. In the oppressive office atmosphere, the pair grows closer, both outsiders struggling with the rigid status quo.
Driven to behave in increasingly absurd ways by the workplace rules that govern their lives, they must navigate the tensions of modern life: between leisure and hard work; indulgence and restraint; the promise of delicious food, and the reality of a lonely pot noodle.
The Sirens
Lucy is running from what she's done - and what someone did to her.
There's only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister's desolate cliff-top house, Jess is gone.
Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour. Stories of men disappearing without a trace. A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave. And women's voices murmuring on the waves…
As Lucy searches for her sister, those voices get ever louder. They tell of two sisters, two centuries ago, bound and transported across the world. A world where men always get their way. A world that is at once distant, and achingly familiar.
Are these voices luring Lucy closer to her sister? Or will the secrets of the past pull them both under?
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We All Live Here
Welcome to the Kennedy household:
Lila wrote a bestseller about keeping your marriage alive, before discovering her ex was playing happy families with another woman. A woman she sees everyday at school pick-up.
Bill, her stepdad, moved in after Lila's mum died. He's kind, old-fashioned and driving her absolutely nuts.
Celie, Lila's eldest, hates school. Hates it so much she's stopped going. Her mother's fine with that - because she doesn't know yet.
Violet is nine and sings age-inappropriate rap songs, laughs at fart jokes and Lila dearly hopes she'll never, ever change.
And Truant the dog, who has just bitten the American actor who's suddenly landed on the Kennedys' doorstep.
This is Gene - Lila's estranged father, and no one's idea of a role model. He walked out on Lila and her mum years ago - and wherever he goes domestic discord follows.
Because Gene's presence changes things in unexpected ways. Soon the girls discover a kindred spirit in a man always chasing life's joy. Bill even loosens up. And Lila finds herself, astonishingly, dating.
Something is happening to the Kennedy household - but what is it?
And will it break, or save, their family?
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The Cafe with No Name
It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a café on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter, an unemployed seamstress in search of a job, each bring their stories and their plans for the future. As Robert listens and Mila refills their glasses, romances bloom, friendships are made and fortunes change. And change is coming to the city around them, to the little café, and to Robert's dream.
A story of the hopes, kindnesses and everyday heroism of one community, The Café with No Name has charmed millions of European readers. It is an unforgettable novel about how we carry each other through good and bad times, and how even the most ordinary life is, in its own way, quite extraordinary.
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The Vanishing Point
From the bestselling novelist, travel writer, and "master of the short story" (NPR) comes a brilliant new collection.
The stories in The Vanishing Point are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life's vanishing points-a moment when seemingly all lines running through one's life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.
This Is a Love Story
Abe and Jane have been together for fifty years: as two among the thousands of starry-eyed young lovers in Central Park, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as an artist and a writer whose careers were taking flight. Now, Jane is seriously unwell, and together she and Abe look back on their marriage - on the parts they cherished, and those they didn't: Abe's early betrayal; and the trials of raising their son Max, who, now grown, still believes his mother chose art over parenthood.
A homage to New York, to pleasure, loss and love that endures despite or perhaps because of what life throws at us, This Is a Love Story brings these layered voices together in a chorus as complex, radiant and captivating as the city itself.
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The Boy from the Sea
1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland's west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope for a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world.
Ambrose, a man more comfortable at sea than on land, brings Brendan into his home out of love. But it's a decision that will fracture his family and force him to try to understand himself and those he cares for.
Bookended by the arrival and departure of a single mesmerizing boy, Garrett Carr's The Boy From the Sea is an exploration of the ties that make us and bind us, as a family and community move irresistibly towards the future.
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