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The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm Tóibín
A housewife’s life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing cockroaches fragments into multiple narratives, each uncovering new truths. In this selection of haunting short stories, Lispector reveals the permeable boundaries between past and present, the real and the surreal, showing ordinary moments to contain the deepest existential truths.
Under the Jaguar Sun
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest … The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibres that absorb the sun.
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes: Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, whose powers include shape-shifting, immortality and being incredibly rude. Though he rises to a position of power in the heavenly bureaucracy, Monkey King’s arrogant exploits attract the attention of the Buddha – with very unfortunate consequences.
Tales from the Heart
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.'
Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse Condé.
These affecting vignettes follow Condé's early encounters with love, grief, friendship, as she navigates the pernicious legacy of slavery and colonialism in her home of Guadeloupe and as a student in Paris.
Baron Bagge
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing… Alexander Lernet-Holenia, championed in his lifetime by Roberto Calasso, Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke, triumphs in this dreamlike novel of mystery and yearning.
Paris France
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.'
Gertrude Stein's Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein's life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work.
Paul Austers The New York Trilogy
It was a wrong number that started it . . .
From its iconic opening, The New York Trilogy famously blurred the lines between postmodern literature and noir fiction. Now, for the first time, all three books have been adapted for this landmark graphic novel, each by a different artist, and all overseen by Paul Auster before his death.
In David Mazzuchelli's take on City of Glass, a writer of detective fiction is drawn into a real-life case far stranger than anything he has ever written; in Lorenzo Mattotti's Ghosts, a private eye is hired to stalk a man only to discover a case so puzzling he descends into madness; and in series Director Paul Karasik's The Locked Room, another author hopes to cure his writer's block by solving the disappearance of his childhood friend. As each artist channels the cross-genre thrills of their source material, with its joyous mix of highbrow and lowbrow, the result is a groundbreaking new visual take on a modern classic.
The Wrath of Achilles
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate begins to spin . . . From frenzied rampages to intimate moments of grief, this selection from Homer’s Iliad traces the tale of a warrior whose name echoes through the ages, and whose story remains as powerful as ever.
The Price of Freedom
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together ten of his best stories, focusing on human voices from the religious fracture that forever unhinged two newly independent nations. Powerful, piercing and deeply moving, Manto’s works are key to understanding this bloody chapter in South Asian history.
A Lost Lady
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .
Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her unwavering confidant. Yet, her irresistible charm and dazzling wit conceal a dangerous vulnerability - and her greatest secret. A significant inspiration for The Great Gatsby, this exquisite novella is a poignant elegy for a bygone era, fading into history.
Tristessa
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums'.
Strange News from Another Planet
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit…
A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand the animals talking, a young man turns into a mountain and a bird guides a boy to another planet in this selection of dream-like and visionary fairy tales from the great German-Swiss master.
Night Owls
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'
Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthouse room, a forlorn traveller turns his ear to the riotous tale spun by the garrulous, meddlesome, inane and utterly unprincipled Márya Martýnovna next door. Her exuberant deformations of morality and language scandalized Tsarist society, and she remains one of Russian literature’s most uproarious anti-heroes.
Secretary
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and the inner lives of women negotiating their precarious place in the world. In these coolly compelling and quietly devastating stories, Gaitskill evokes with razor-sharp precision the pleasure, pain, fear and longing that haunt modern life.
A Dill Pickle
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bear
Katherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, whose work was described by Virginia Woolf as 'the only writing I have ever been jealous of'. These eight tales show her gift for transforming fleeting moments - a chance meeting, a letter received, a careless remark - into small miracles of language and feeling.
Hafni vypráví
Hafni vypráví… že se rozvádí.
Je jí devětačtyřicet, opouští vyhaslý rodinný krb a rozhodne se vydat na cestu po restauracích, kde se podávají tradiční dánské chlebíčky smorrebrod - bohatě obložené plátky černého žitného chleba, které se jedí příborem a tvoří esenci dánské kuchyně.Hafniina kulinární cesta z ostrova Sjalland na ostrov Fyn je radikálním pokusem změnit zaběhlý život. Během svého putování zažívá banální, ale zábavná setkání s nejrůznějšími samorosty, svérázy, ale taky s úplně normálními lidmi. Kniha neotřele líčí dánskou mentalitu a kulturu, a přitom vyjadřuje cosi obecně lidského a rozpoznatelného.
Autorka vypráví příběh neprůbojné, ale silné ženy na prahu nové životní kapitoly, který obsahuje groteskní momenty, účtování, ale samozřejmě i nostalgii a smutek.
Step
Horkého léta roku 2010, kdy evropskou část Ruska zachvátily požáry, přijíždí ze Sibiře dvacetiletá dívka, aby se setkala se svým otcem, kterého neviděla deset let. Vyrážejí spolu na dalekou cestu jeho kamionem a jejich cílem je nedozírná step na jihu země. Otec, který to nehostinné prostranství považuje za svůj domov a jediný majetek, by se o něj s dospělou dcerou rád podělil. Avšak rodačku z tajgy otevřená krajina spíš děsí a je jí cizí. A cizí je jí i otec. A tak se cestou v kabině kamionu snaží pochopit, kdo je ten předčasně zestárlý muž, kterému ze zvyku říká tati, a přemýšlí o dětství, které s ním prožila na sibiřském maloměstě devadesátých let, o romantizovaném světě zločinu, ke kterému otec patřil, o nemocech, o kterých se raději mlčí, o rodné zemi, která si neví rady se svou vlastní minulostí.
Step je druhá část autofikční trilogie, která vypráví o autorčiných zemřelých blízkých i o ní samotné. Ránu i Step protíná téma lesbické identity. Dávají nahlédnout i do dětství a rané dospělosti a zprostředkovávají čtenáři prožitek odlišné sexuální orientace v netolerantní společnosti.
Postřehy jedné kočky
Když budoucnost přestane existovat, můžeme najít útěchu v minulosti?
Spisovatelka potratí a ztratí schopnost mluvit a psát. Z Nebeského výzkumného úřadu vyšlou svého zástupce. Ale něco se zvrtne. Objeví se kočka. A ne v Helsinkách v roce 2020, nýbrž na Ostrově daleko na severu v roce 1917. Tam začíná nový život v manželství mladé ženě Eevě. Nakonec se ale kočka ke Spisovatelce do Helsinek přece dostane. A místa, lidé a životy se propojí.
V románu kombinujícím autofikci s magickým realismem odhaluje Katja Kettu ženský úděl nejen na finském pomezí.
Vydání knihy podpořila nadace FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange.
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Whale Fall
It is 1938 and on an island off the coast of Wales, Manod is trying to imagine her future. Her choices are stark: she must either stay and look after her father's house, in the wild landscape that drove her mother to madness, or marry and leave.
And so, when two English anthropologists arrive on the island, Manod senses the possibility of a thrilling new life. But, as she becomes entangled in their work, and their strange relationship, the outside world she had yearned for appears a much darker place than she could ever have imagined.
Elizabeth O'Connor's beautiful, devastating debut Whale Fall tells a story of longing and betrayal set against the backdrop of a world on the brink of war.
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