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A kert
Pétervárról, a cár közvetlen közeléből vidékre, Voronyezs melletti birtokára vonul vissza Borjatyinszkij herceg és hercegné, hogy ottani kastélyuk és az azt körülvevő gyönyörű kert nyugalmát élvezhessék, egyben kihűlt kapcsolatuk újjáélesztésére fókuszálhassanak. Az utóbbi váratlanul jól sikerül: a hercegnő egy kislányt szül, aki néhány év múlva lázongó, a társadalmi szokásokba sehogy sem illő viselkedésével alaposan felforgatja a korábban sem ideális, de legalább annak látszó családot. A lány, Tuszja az első perctől más, mint a környezete: szabadságra és függetlenségre tör, lányként, majd nőként olyan jogokat szeretne, amelyek a tizenkilencedik századi Oroszországban elképzelhetetlenek. Öltözködésével, hajviseletével, párválasztásával és tudásvágyával is már-már megoldhatatlan feladványok elé állítja családját. Törekvéseiben egy ugyancsak különleges szövetségesre lel a család csupa szív orvosában, akit apjaként tisztel, és akivel úgy tud veszekedni, ahogy egy lány csak az apjával tud.
Marina Sztyepnova költői nyelven és költői érzékenységgel megírt könyve a legszebb Tolsztoj-regényeket idézi meg, világábrázolásában, gondosan kidolgozott mondataiban és a női főszereplők történeteiben is.
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Sarajevské Marlboro
Autor sa narodil v roku 1966 v hlavnom meste Bosny – Sarajeve, ako syn chorvátskych rodičov. Vyštudoval filozofiu a sociológiu na Sarajevskej univerzite, potom pracoval ako novinár. V roku 1994 vydal v Záhrebe svoju prvú prózu – knihu poviedok Sarajevské Marlboro, ktorá mu priniesla svetový úspech.
Poviedky z vojnou skúšaného Sarajeva, boli prvou prozaickou reflexiou o hrôzach vojny, ktoré osobne zažil. Kniha bola preložená do mnohých európskych i ázijských jazykov a o jej úspechu svedčí aj skutočnosť, že talianske ministerstvo školstva túto knihu zaradilo na zoznam povinného čítania pre stredoškolákov. V súvislosti s vojnou na Ukrajine uveďme ešte slová ukrajinskej spisovateľky Oksany Zabužkovej: „Ukazuje sa, že keď ľudia čelia kolektívnemu existenčnému ohrozeniu, je pre nich podstatné vedieť, že niekto to zažíval pred nimi – niekto, kto prežil, aby mohol rozprávať.“
Preklad z chorvátskeho jazyka Milan Materák. Ako ilustrácie sú použité výtvarné diela Daniela Brunovského, dizajn publikácie Matúš Chalupa.
Az anyós
Az egyedülálló anya, Asa és fia mindig is közel álltak egymáshoz, kapcsolatuk azonban hirtelen megváltozik a fiú új barátnőjének megjelenésével. Amikor a fiatal párnak sürgősen szállásra van szüksége, Asa megkéri őket, hogy költözzenek hozzá. Ezzel azonban akaratlanul is olyan információk birtokába jut, ami a család széthullásával fenyeget…
Az anyós a Magyarországon A válással berobbanó Moa Herngren nagysikerű családidráma- trilógiájának második darabja.
„Minden karakterem emberi, közel sem tökéletes személyiség. Talán pont ez a legfontosabb üzenetem az olvasóknak, hogy mindig igyekezzenek megismerni minden fél motivációját, érzéseit, nézőpontját, mielőtt ítélkeznek.”
(részlet Moa Herngren Nők Lapja-interjújából)
Wuthering Heights
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Emily Bronte's extraordinary masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
This is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children.
This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
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Taková jsem byla
Eden si přeje jen jedno jediné, a sice aby měla tu moc vrátit čas. Chtěla by ten den, který se jí nesmazatelně zapsal do paměti, prožít znovu. Kdyby to totiž šlo, udělala by všechno jinak. Nesmála by se jeho vtipkování, neignorovala by, jak se na ni tehdy večer díval. A především by se zamkla ve svém pokoji.
Jenže minulost se bohužel změnit nedá. Eden utají onu krutou pravdu, pohřbí ji spolu s dívkou, kterou kdysi bývala. Předstírá, že nepotřebuje žádné přátele, lásku ani spravedlnost. A zatímco se její svět rozpadá na kousíčky, začíná být naprosto zřejmé, že ji může zachránit jen jeden jediný člověk, a sice ona sama.
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Little Women
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the beloved classic of girlhood with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
The four March girls live together, as different as sisters as can be. There is sensible, romantic Meg and sweet, sunshiny Beth. There is Jo who burns with the ambition to be a writer and there is Amy who wishes for a more beautiful nose. Simple, true, and keenly resonant with life, spirit and affection, Little Women is a beloved classic for the ages.
This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
A beautiful hardback edition of Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel: a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic.
'I love her.'
'Then you do not love the Lord.'
'Yes, I love both of them.'
'You cannot.'
'I do.''
This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman almost as much as she loves the Lord. How on Earth could her Church called that passion Unnatural?
Both a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel and a pioneering work of autofiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit goes beyond facts into the deepest truths. Searing and tender, playful and provocative, it is a portrait of the artist as a young evangelist, re-writing her own Bible.
The Divorce
Gripping and emotional, THE DIVORCE explores the unravelling of a marriage from first the wife, then the husband's point of view.
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?
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.
Real Americans
New York City, 1999. Lily Chen is an unpaid intern, pursuing the American Dream, when she falls for a young financier – and the life of luxury his vast fortune promises. Everything she wants seems to finally be within reach. But deep down, she knows that her ambitious scientist mother, Mei, imagined so much more for her when she fled the unspoken horrors of Mao’s cultural revolution.
Twenty years later, Lily is a single parent, estranged from her own family and increasingly isolated from her teenage son, Nick. Desperate to break free from their life on a remote island in Washington State, Nick strives to live better than the generation before him, unable to understand his mother’s choices. But when he looks into the past and is unexpectedly confronted by the ghosts of his grandmother’s young life in 1960s China, he risks unsettling a legacy of family secrets – passed on from mother, to daughter, to son.
Following three generations of one Chinese American family, REAL AMERICANS is a mesmerising, multilayered family drama which explores the choices we make for ourselves, and for our children. Spanning decades and continents, it is a soaring, heartfelt story about fate, fortune, and what it means to belong.
Paní Quinnová na cestě ke slávě
Jenny Quinnová, která žije už šedesátý rok v láskyplném klidném vztahu po boku svého manžela Bernarda, dospěje k rozhodnutí, které by od ní nikdo nikdy nečekal. Uprostřed neměnného tichého života, péče o manželovo zvolna slábnoucí zdraví a setkávání s přáteli, jejichž životy se točí jenom kolem vnoučat – která Jenny sama nikdy neměla – se rozhodne udělat něco sama pro sebe a tajně se přihlásí do známé televizní soutěže o pečení.
Uprostřed neznámého světa televizních kamer a náročných výzev se Jenny těší z nově nabyté nezávislosti. Ale právě ta nezávislost, stres v soutěži a nově navázaná přátelství v ní začnou pomalu poodkrývat vzpomínky, které před desítkami let ukryla hluboko ve svém nitru. Čokoládové indiánky jí připomenou tajnou pochůzku se snubním prstenem na prstě, pocukrované koblihy v ní vyvolají vzpomínku na dobrý skutek jednoho cizího člověka, bochník chalupářského chleba ji vrátí do okamžiku, kdy se jí jednou provždy změnil život.
Čím víc žije soutěží, tím obtížněji v sobě drží tajemství, které by mohlo otřást samotnými základy jejího šťastného manželství. Byla to jediná věc, kterou před Bernardem za celých šedesát let zatajila.
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Suder
Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears he’s inherited his mother’s insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his LP of Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology” and flees.
A dazzling tale of madness, confinement and the need for escape, Suder introduced Percival Everett to the world as a writer already fully capable of conjuring whole lives and worlds on the page.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
As Young as This
An irresistible and achingly relatable debut novel for anyone who has ever had to let go of what they thought their life would look like and open themselves up to the dizzying possibilities of chance.
Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men Margot has loved, liked, lusted over.
Since she was seventeen, she’s pictured them like stepping stones – each one bringing her closer to finding someone to share her life with and, eventually, father the children she’s always imagined in her future.
From her first sexual encounter, to her first love, from grown-up dilemmas to spontaneous thrills, she’s soaked up every experience available to her, discovering friendship, joy and despair. Through all of this she’s refined her search until she believes she’s arrived at ‘the ending’ to her story.
So how did she find herself here, single at thirty-four, and about to make the biggest decision of her life?
Walk Me to the Distance
David Larson can never go home.
His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from Georgia until he breaks down in the nowhere town of Slut’s Hole, Wyoming.
There he finds lodging with Chloë Sixbury, a one-legged sexagenarian widow, and her disabled son. Their ersatz family is complete when Larson takes in Butch, a Vietnamese girl abandoned at the highway rest stop where he works, but at the edge of this tableau lingers the unmistakable spectre of violence.
Blending the grotesquerie of the Southern Gothic with the Western's codes of frontier justice, in Walk Me to the Distance Percival Everett renders a vivid and haunting landscape of the American badlands, where cruelty is the lingua franca.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
Jane Eyre
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. But Thornfield is a house full of secrets, its master a passionate, tormented man, and before long Jane faces her greatest struggle in a choice between love and self-respect.
This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Oscar Wilde's decadent and disturbing novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...
This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
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Pride and Prejudice
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Jane Austen’s masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy’s friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love – Jane Austen’s classic romance novel.
This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
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Emma
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Jane Austen's beloved novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.
This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
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1984
George Orwell zseniális disztópiáját 1948-ban írta meg, de mit sem veszített aktualitásából. Az író által bevezetett fogalmak, mint például a Nagy Testvér, a Gondolatrendőrség, a 101-es szoba, vagy az olyan mondatok, mint: "a szabadság az, ha szabadon kimondható, hogy kettő meg kettő az négy" a mai napig erősen hatnak.
Egy olyan világ jelenik meg ebben a műben, ahol a rendszer legfőbb célja az emberek fölötti totális hatalom megszerzése legbelsőbb lényegük megtörésével, elméjük ízekre szedésével és teljes átalakításával. Ehhez minden létező eszközt bevetnek, a beszélt nyelv - és ezáltal a gondolatok - egyre erőteljesebb redukálásától kezdve az állandó megfigyelésen át (a Nagy Testvér mindent lát), az agymosáson, tudatmanipuláción, a legrafináltabb testi- és lelki kínzásokon keresztül a történelemhamisításig, míg végül: "Soha többé nem leszel képes normális emberi érzésekre. Minden meghal benned... Üres leszel. Kipréselünk belőled mindent, aztán megtöltünk önmagunkkal."
A magányos lázadó, Winston Smith történetét is magában foglaló, sokkoló és egyben gondolatébresztő kultuszregényt minden érző és gondolkodó embernek fontos megismerni. Még fontosabb ezt követően olvasmányélményét a történelmi ismereteivel és az aktuális jelenével összevetni...
Nechajte sa vtiahnuť do sveta najznámejších príbehov svetovej literatúry. Prežívajte osudy hlavných hrdinov a objavujte novinky, ktoré vám neustále prinášame v oblasti svetovej beletrie. Čítajte romány, novely, či poviedky od známych autorov ako Jane Austen, Haruki Murakami, Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij, Jules Verne, Erich Maria Remarque, Paulo Coelho, Daniel Defoe, George Orwell a mnohých ďalších.
