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Margaret Atwood je jedna z najoriginálnejších vizionárok svetovej literatúry. V najnovšej zbierke poviedok opisuje so sebe vlastným humorom, s prenikavým postrehom a nadhľadom vzostupy a pády života svojich literárnych postáv. Ťažiskom zbierky je sedem brilantných poviedok o veľkých aj malých radostiach, ale aj starostiach manželskej dvojice v priebehu niekoľkých desaťročí spoločného života, v ktorých autorka opisuje ich neobyčajný príbeh lásky a aj to, čo príde potom. Publikáciu z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia.
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Růst
Magnát z Wall Street a jeho krásná mladá manželka v časech nadbytku a spekulací stoupají na vrchol newyorské společnosti. Nyní jim však jeden romanopisec vyhrožuje, že odhalí nepěkné tajemství jejich manželského svazku, a onen bohatý muž se ocitá jen krůček od ztráty kontroly nad svým vlastním příběhem – příběhem nenasytnosti, lásky a zrady.
Růst, román složený ze čtyř konkurenčních verzí této nádherně ošidné legendy, nás přivádí na pouť za pravdou, zatímco se střetáváme s celou paletou lží často pohřbených hluboko v lidských srdcích.
Diaz v této knize dokazuje, že je opravdu výjimečně nadaný spisovatel. Tato kniha je zářivý kaleidoskop, který funguje zároveň jako strhující literární záhada a naprosté zesměšnění kapitalismu. Přečtete ji jedním dechem a nebudete ji chtít odložit!
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Námesačná krajina
Prvý a najznámejší román mozambického spisovateľa Miu Couta sa odohráva na pozadí krvavej občianskej vojny v Mozambiku. Zničenú a vyschnutú krajinu obývajú postavy bez nádeje či budúcnosti. Starec Tuahir a chlapec Muidinga, ktorý stratil pamäť, nájdu na ceste vyhorený autobus a vedľa neho telo a kufor s nebožtíkovými zápiskami. Tu sa začínajú rozvíjať dva príbehy: jeden o chlapcovi a starcovi, ktorí putujú zničenou krajinou plnej čarovných, priam chimérických postáv, a druhý o mladíkovi Kindzuovi, ktorý sa chce pridať k bájnym bojovníkom naparama. Cestou však nachádza len strach, beznádej, chaos a smrť a predstavivosť a sny sú často jeho jediným útočiskom pred krutou realitou.
Námesačná krajina je snový román plný podmanivých magických postáv a africkej ústnej tradície, ktorý nám ukazuje, že sa dá snívať aj v tých najneprajnejších podmienkach. Mia Couto prináša vlastný, inovatívny a poetický jazyk, ktorý nazýva „hravotvorba“, a majstrovsky premiešava realitu s fantáziou. Niet divu, že tento román bol zaradený medzi dvanásť najlepších afrických diel 20. storočia.
Blue Sisters
The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different.
Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever.
Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she's been working as a bouncer in LA – until a reckless act one night threatens to drive her out of the city.
And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her.
Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling.
When, a year later, the three of them must reunite in New York to stop the sale of their childhood home, they find that it's only by returning to each other that they can navigate their grief, addiction and heartbreak and learn to fall in love with life again.
Vészlény - Boszorkányok lányai - Éldekorált kiadás
2019. Kate az éj leple alatt menekül el Londonból családja düledező vidéki házikójába. A borostyánnal beszőtt ház és a körülötte burjánzó kert mintha teljesen más világba tartozna, mint ahonnan idemenekült erőszakos partnere elől. A lány azonban arra is rájön, hogy a rég meghalt nagy-nagynénje, Violet által ráhagyott hely titkokat rejteget, amelyek egészen a 17. századi boszorkányperekig nyúlnak vissza.
1942. A társadalmi konvenciók és elnyomó apja által gúzsba kötött Violet a világ megismerésére vágyik, ám ehelyett családja düledező kúriájában kell töltenie napjait. A magányos lány megpróbálja megfejteni fiatalon elhunyt anyja titkait, aki halála előtt állítólag megtébolyodott, és nem hagyott rá mást, mint egy V betűt mintázó medált, a hálószobájának padlójába vésett Vészlény feliratot és megválaszolatlan kérdések seregét.
1619. Althára anyja hagyta rá a növények titkát, ami nemzedékek hosszú sora óta öröklődik a Vészlény családban. A falusiak gyakran fordulnak hozzá segítségért, ám a különleges nőket mindig gyanakvás övezi, és miután egy helyi földművest saját nyája tapos halálra, Althát gyilkosság és boszorkányság vádjával állítják az ítélőszék elé.
Emilia Hart három, évszázadok által elválasztott nőről szóló debütáló regénye varázslatos, felkavaró olvasmány a megtörhetetlen női akaraterőről és a természet gyógyító erejéről.
The Library of Heartbeats
A POWERFUL, MOVING NOVEL OF GRIEF, HOPE, FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE BASED ON A REAL HEARTBEAT ARCHIVE ON AN ISLAND IN JAPAN.
To find what you have lost, you must listen to your heart . . .
On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still alive or have already passed away continue to echo.
Several miles away, in the ancient city of Kamakura, two lonely souls meet: Shuichi, a forty-year-old illustrator, who returns to his home-town to fix up the house of his recently deceased mother, and eight-year-old Kenta, a child who wanders like a shadow around Shuichi's house.
Day by day, the trust between Shuichi and Kenta grows until they discover they share a bond that will tie them together for life. Their journey will lead them to Teshima and to the library of heartbeats . . .
Homesick
Mara longs to escape the London rental market and the small, damp flat she shares with her housemate, Lewis (who refuses to wash up cutlery because it makes him feel weird). She wants nothing more than to get into her pyjamas at 6pm and watch Real Housewives in a judgement-free zone.
Then Mara's prayers are answered as she unexpectedly comes into some money that helps her find a home of her own. She just needs her long-term boyfriend, Tom, to move in so they can be happy and grown-up together.
Except Tom has decided to leave London - and Mara.
Just as her life should be coming together, everything starts to unravel. Navigating a break-up/non-break-up, a best friend accusing her of being self-involved, and a fixation with her new neighbours, will Mara ever be able to shake this homesick feeling?
Rabbit Hole
A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession - by a striking new talent
Teddy Angstrom is no stranger to morbid public interest in her family's tragedies. And when her father dies suddenly, ten years to the day after her sister Angie's disappearance, she intends to maintain as much privacy as she always has.
Clearing out her father's office, however, Teddy discovers her father's double life: a decade-long investigation into wild conspiracies from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie. Repelled and compelled in equal measure by this new online dimension, Teddy finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole.
So when nineteen-year-old Mickey, a charming amateur internet sleuth, materialises in real life, Teddy determines that the two of them are going to team up to find out what really happened to Angie - and whether there's any chance she might still be alive.
But as she struggles to reconcile new information with old memories, Teddy doesn't notice that her obsession is making her increasingly self-destructive. And she's in way over her head before she's realises that Mickey, too, is not all she seems…
Noirish, haunting and razor-sharp, as compulsive as a late-night Reddit binge, Rabbit Hole is an unforgettable debut about violence, family and grief.
The Living Stones
Painter Ithell Colquhoun arrives in Cornwall in the late 1940s, searching for a studio and a refuge from bombed-out London. So begins a profound lifelong relationship with Britain's westernmost county, a land surrounded by sea and steeped in myth, where the ancient Celtic past reaches into the present.
Sacred and beautiful, wild and weird, Colquhoun's Cornwall is a living landscape, where every tree, standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore - and a place where everyday reality speaks to the world beyond.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.
With a new introduction by Edward Parnell, the PEN Ackerley shortlisted author of Ghostland and The Listeners
Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was born in British India and brought up in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and started exhibiting her paintings in the 1930s, gaining some renown as one of the few women associated with British Surrealism. She began visiting Cornwall during the Second World War, and eventually moved there, continuing to write, paint, and pursue the study of the occult until her death. As well as The Living Stones: Cornwall, she is the author of The Crying of the Wind: Ireland and the novel Goose of Hermogenes, both forthcoming from Pushkin Press.
Sedem manželov Evelyn Hugovej, 2. vydanie
Starnúca hollywoodska hviezda Evelyn Hugo, ktorá už roky žije v ústraní, sa konečne rozhodne prezradiť celú pravdu o svojom nevšednom a škandalóznom živote.
Za autorku svojej biografie si vyberie neskúsenú reportérku Monique Grantovú, čím zaskočí nielen jej kolegov, ale najmä samu Monique. Prečo práve ona? Prečo teraz? Evelynine dôvody síce nepozná, no jej vlastná kariéra už nejaký čas stagnuje, a tak sa rozhodne túto príležitosť využiť a vyťažiť z nej čo najviac.
Keď dorazí do herečkinho luxusného bytu na Manhattane, Evelyn jej rozpovie svoj životný príbeh: od začiatkov v Los Angeles v päťdesiatych rokoch cez sedem manželstiev až po rozhodnutie odísť zo šoubiznisu v osemdesiatych rokoch. Evelynino rozprávanie odhalí jej nemilosrdnú ambicióznosť, nečakané priateľstvá i veľkú zakázanú lásku...
Z anglického originálu The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York 2017) preložila Zdenka Buntová.
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A névtelen kávéház
Az Egy egész élet és A trafikos szerzőjének új könyve
Mindig egy kicsivel jobban kell reménykedni, mint aggódni. Minden más ostobaság lenne, nem igaz?
Bécs, 1966. A harmincas évei elején járó Robert Simon egyszerű életet él, nincsenek komoly ambíciói. De amikor húsz évvel a háború után Bécs felébred álmából, ő is a tettek mezejére lép. Üzletet bérel a város egyik legszegényebb negyedében, és kávézót nyit. Noha nem sokat kínál, névtelen kávéháza megtelik emberekkel, szenvedélyekkel, vágyakozásokkal, barátságról és halálról szóló történetekkel. És Simon élete szép lassan megváltozik...
"Robert Seethaler érzékeny őszinteséggel, csodálatos részletgazdagsággal tárja fel az igazságon túli igazságot, úgy, hogy a történet, amelyet elbeszél, végső soron bárhol, bármikor megtörténhet."
Elizabeth Strout, a Kisvárosi életek szerzője
- Mi kapható magánál?
- Minden, ami kell - felelte Simon. - Kávé, tea, kakaó. Narancs- és citromízű üdítő. Málnaszörp szódával, sör, stammersdorfi meg gumpoldskircheni bor, vörös és fehér. Enni zsíros kenyér hagymával és ecetes uborka.
- Puncs nincs?
- Nincs.
- Puncs az kell - mondta az özvegy. - A tél puncs nélkül nem tél. De nem ám akármilyen puncs. A legjobb legyen, különben kár a gőzért.
Robert Seethaler (1966) osztrák író, forgatókönyvíró, színész. Az Egy egész élet című regénye 2016-ban szerepelt a Nemzetközi Man Booker-díj listáján, sokáig vezette a Der Spiegel bestsellerlistáját, több mint 100 ezer példányban kelt el, és azonos címmel meg is filmesítették.
Piglet
Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?
For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss – effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding...
But if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the façade Piglet has created. It has the power to strip her of the life she has so carefully built, so smugly shared.
To do something about it would be to self-destruct.
But what will it cost her to do nothing?
As the hours count down to their wedding, Piglet is torn between a growing appetite and the desire to follow the recipe, follow the rules. Surely, with her husband, she could be herself again. Wouldn’t it be a waste for everything to curdle now?
Piglet is a searing, unforgettable and original debut which is taking readers by storm.
The Defense
Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin.
Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest warmth'.
White Teeth
A stunning new edition of one of the most iconic fictional debuts of all time, to mark the 25th anniversary of this modern classic - perfect for any Zadie Smith fan!
'What's past is prologue…'
First published in the year 2000, Zadie Smith's White Teeth was one of the most celebrated novels of the new millennium. Adored by critics and readers alike, it remains a perennial bestseller, which still delights with the audacity of its scope and vision, its fresh-minted style, and the wit and warmth of its voice.
Funny, generous and big-hearted, it deals - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle.
A life affirming, riotous must-read of a book, it won the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Hope
The Greenspan family are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts. Scott Greenspan is a successful cardiologist. His wife is a pillar of the community, his daughter works at a distinguished New York publishing house and his son is at medical school, preparing to follow in his footsteps. They are an exceptional family, living in exceptional times.
But when Scott is caught faking blood test results, he sets in motion a series of scandals that threatens to shatter his family. HOPE is an excruciatingly funny account of the tumultuous year that follows, written by one of the most brilliant young American novelists at work today.
Cinema Love
For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meagre existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers' Cinema, where gay men cruised for love.
While classic war films played, Old Second and his fellow countrymen found intimacy in the privacy of the Workers' Cinema's screening rooms. Elsewhere, in the box office, Bao Mei sold tickets to closeted men - guarding their privacy and finding her own happiness with the projectionist. But when their secrets are unveiled, they set in motion a series of haunting events that propel Old Second and Bao Mei towards an uncertain future in America.
Spanning three timelines - post-socialist China, 1980s Chinatown, and contemporary New York - Cinema Love is a tender epic about men and women who find themselves in forbidden and frustrated relationships as they grapple with the past and their unspoken desires.
The Garden
In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know.
Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. So, when a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the centre of this new Eden, the reality of their existence is irrevocably shattered. Who is he? And where did he come from?
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My Brilliant Career
The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time
Miles Franklin's debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn - closely modelled on Franklin herself - as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life. Growing up on her parents' outback farm, Sybylla is desperate to read, write, sing and achieve great things. Yet her aspirations for a 'brilliant career' are persistently thwarted, first by the arduous demands of rural family life, and later by the shackles of a proposed conventional marriage to the wealthy Harold Beecham. With only her brilliant, conflicted mind to guide her, Sybylla is forced to define a life on her own terms.
My Brilliant Career is acclaimed for capturing the spirit of Australia at the turn of the twentieth century. The struggles of its fiery, precocious protagonist shine a light on the emergent women's rights and suffrage movement during this period, and memorably evoke the intensity of youth.
Víťazný oblúk
Román Víťazný oblúk je po Remarquovej prvotine Na západe nič nové jeho druhým dielom, ktoré zaznamenalo celosvetový úspech.
Dej sa odohráva v predvečer druhej svetovej vojny v Paríži, kam emigroval lekár Ravic po tom, ako sa mu podarilo utiecť z nemeckého koncentračného tábora. V tomto meste pod Víťazným oblúkom žijú aj mnohí iní utečenci zo všetkých kútov Európy. Chirurg Ravic patrí k tým šťastnejším, lebo netrpí núdzu, no jeho situácia je neistá, keďže lekársku prax môže vykonávať iba načierno. Za zvláštnych okolností sa stretáva s herečkou a speváčkou Joan Madouovou a prežije s ňou vášnivý ľúbostný vzťah plný rozporov. Spolu s tragickým osudom Joan Madouovej sledujeme osudy ďalších postáv a postavičiek, hotelových hostí a Ravicových pacientov. Na stránkach knihy pritom pred nami ožívajú parížske uličky, námestia, kaviarne, bistrá, hotely a penzióny s ich záhadnými hosťami a zamestnancami, emigrantmi, ktorí sa podobne ako hlavný hrdina pokúšajú dostať z Paríža čo najďalej, preč od rozmáhajúceho sa fašizmu.
Remarque v tomto románe o trpkom údele emigrantov odhaľuje neľútostnú tvár fašizmu, kriticky hodnotí politický a spoločenský systém „krajiny slobody“ a humanisticky vyzdvihuje jediný zmysel ľudského života, ktorým je porozumenie a láska.
Z nemeckého originálu Arc de Triomphe (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2017) preložila Zuzana Guldanová.
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