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Sweetness in the Skin
Pumkin Patterson dreams of a life beyond her Jamaican hometown. But what we dream of and where we belong aren't always the same thing…
Eleven-year-old Pumpin knows a few things:
That her mother has never loved her
That Aunt Sophie does
That baking makes everything better
And France is a long way from her Jamaican home
What Pumkin doesn't know is:
What will happen when Aunt Sophie leaves for France
How far a mother can go to hurt a daughter
Why a secret can rot a family
That her cakes might just help save her life
Whatever happens, Pumkin knows she needs someone to love her.
But she just doesn't know who . . .
Vymazána
V románu Vymázána vypráví Miha Mazzini příběh o matce samoživitelce Zale Jovanovi?, která v porodnici zjistí, že její osobní údaje nejsou zapsané v počítačových systémech a že ona ani její novorozený chlapec úředně neexistují. Zoufalé hledání východiska ze složité situace se mění v napínavé drama, které odhaluje odvrácenou tvář slovinského společenského systému a úspěšného osamostatnění země na počátku 90. let 20. století.
Mazzini v něm jako první slovinský autor literárně zpracoval téma "vymazaných" - dne 26. února 1992 nezákonně vymazaných 25 671 osob z evidence obyvatel Slovinska s trvalým pobytem bez upozornění a bez možnosti odvolání, které se ze dne na den staly osobami bez státní příslušnosti. Jejich jediným "proviněním" bylo, že se nenarodili ve slovinské části bývalé Jugoslávie.
V roce 2018 pak podle tohoto románu autor zrežíroval stejnojmenný celovečerní film s Juditou Frankovi? Brdar v hlavní roli, který získal deset ocenění ve Slovinsku i zahraničí.
Help Wanted
Tightly plotted, slyly caustic and often very funny' Daily Mail
When the store manager at an upstate New York superstore announces he's leaving, the motley crew members of Team Movement take the news surprisingly well. Overworked and exhausted, they spend their early morning shifts scheming about their jobs and their futures. Now is their only chance to get their hated line manager Meredith promoted up and away from them. And then one of them can replace her - but who will it be?
These Violent Delights
When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and like a stranger to his family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm.
Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship. But Julian is as volatile and cruel as he is charismatic, and Paul begins to suspect that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.
As their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence. From then on, everything changes…
These Violent Delights is an exquisitely plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can unleash upon us...
The History of My Sexuality
Funny, joyous and wholly irreverent... a breath of fresh air... it is incredibly moving to follow Sofie's journey to the place it's possible to become "less of a girl and more of a boy ? Irish Times
Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. So, naturally, she thought that things could only improve from there. But she was wrong.
It seems Sofie's been wrong about a lot of things. First, she thought she was into men: wrong. Then she met Frida and thought she was set for life: wrong again. Turns out, facing up to everything she thought she knew about herself requires a lot of trial and error. Will Sofie ever be able to untangle the impossible knot of sex, love, loneliness, family relationships and grief that constitutes a life? Does it even matter?
The History of My Sexuality is a frank, funny, exuberant journey through the highs and lows of your 20s, and making peace with getting it wrong again and again...
Formalita v Kyjevě
Toto je dojemný příběh rodiny, která kdysi opustila svou zemi v naději, že začne nový život. S hořkosladkým humorem jej vypráví syn, který se snaží stát Němcem. Řeč umí lépe než úředník, u nějž žádá o německý pas, žije tu přeci pětadvacet let, což je většina jeho života... Žádná formalita však není bezvýznamná, když jde o přistěhovalce.
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The Favorites
She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family's support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating—and each other—to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and roller-coaster relationship.
Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end.
As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorized documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha, claiming to uncover the "real story" through interviews with their closest friends and fiercest rivals. Kat wants nothing to do with the documentary, but she can't stand the thought of someone else defining her legacy. So, after a decade of silence, she's telling her story: from the childhood tragedies that created her all-consuming bond with Heath to the clash of desires that tore them apart. Sensational rumors have haunted their every step for years, but the truth may be even more shocking than the headlines.
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Nech těch lží
"Když byl Philippe malý, opakovala mu matka, aby si nevymýšlel. On si ale z příběhů udělal kariéru a teď je z něj zkušený spisovatel. Jednou v hotelu v Bordeaux narazí na mladého muže, který se nápadně podobá jeho první lásce, Thomasovi. To Philippa přiměje ohlédnout se za vztahem, na nějž nikdy nezapomněl, a poprvé odvyprávět příběh bez jediné smyšlenky. Oběma bylo v roce 1984 sedmnáct a chodili do posledního ročníku střední školy v Barbezieux. Nemohli tehdy dát najevo, jak dobře se znají, ale kradli si každou chvilku, aby mohli být spolu. Jejich osudová láska trvala šest měsíců, než se museli navždy rozejít. Román s autobiografickými prvky vypráví o dospívání a fascinuje svou neokázalostí. I ta, spolu s vybroušeným literárním stylem, přispívá k působivosti této silné love story. Podle knihy vznikl v roce 2022 také film Společné lži."
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Denník Bridget Jonesovej, 3. vydanie
Bridget Jonesová má veľký problém – prekročila tridsiatku a ešte vždy je slobodná. Veľa fajčí, popíja a okolie rada častuje bezočivými poznámkami. Striedavo úspešne bojuje s nadváhou, každý deň si úzkostlivo zapisuje prírastky na váhe, podrobne sa skúma v zrkadle a počíta vrásky – skrátka, trápi sama seba, pretože vo svojom vzhľade vidí príčinu nezdaru v láske. Zo všetkých strán počúva dobre mienené rady, že ak si žena nenájde partnera do tridsiatky, zostane na ocot a postupne prepadne zúfalstvu. Vydaté priateľky zas Bridget ubezpečujú, že vždy je lepšie byť osamelá ako vydatá za večne sexuálne neuspokojeného sukničkára.
Bridgetinej matke leží budúcnosť dcéry na srdci a nenápadne jej dohadzuje právnika Marka Darcyho. Ten na novoročnom večierku upútal pozornosť nemožným pulóvrom a ponožkami s čmeliakmi, ale inak pôsobí ako poriadny suchár a Bridget radšej podľahne zvádzaniu šarmantného šéfa Daniela.
Ako to všetko dopadne?
Z anglického originálu Bridget Jones’s Diary (Picador, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London 1997) preložili Mária Klenková a Tamara Chovanová.
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Daleko od Doualy
Velká a především pestrá africká pátrací a iniciační road movie nás zavede po slavné státní silnici smrti č. 3 z Doualy do vykřičených čtvrtí v Youndé a dál až na samý sever země k hranicím s Nigérií, do kraje čarokrásné přírody, sužovaného teroristy patřícími k islamisticko separatistickému hnutí Boko Haram.
Autobusy, vlaky a prorezivělými taxíky, které „pamatují Němce v Kamerunu“, podnikneme divokou jízdu napříč zemí plnou kontrastů a paradoxů, z níž navzdory přírodnímu bohatství i krásám mladí lidé hromadně odcházejí za štěstím do Evropy, od čehož je nemohou odradit ani houfy těch, kteří se odtud s hanbou a nepořízenou vracejí. Na cestě plné barev, chutí, pachů a zvuků potkáme nejrůznější bizarní postavy: transsexuální Gazelu z Melenu, místního bosse Omara z Benghází, obchodníka s drogami i lidmi, kafkovskou policejní inspektorku „špínoložku“ nebo šejdířského pastora Ndžoha Sola. Pochopitelně nechybí ani fotbalisté v čele s národní legendou, Rogerem Millou, vždyť fotbal je v „Kamerunu povýšený na náboženství“.
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Martyr!
Cyrus Shams has always been lost. He's grown up tangled in the mysteries of his past - an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter, and his mother, whose plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby. Now, newly sober and maybe in love, he's headed for an encounter that will transform everything he thought he knew. Can a final revelation change the truth of Cyrus's life?
Electrifying, funny, and all-consuming, Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! is a masterpiece.
Night Watch
In the wake of the Civil War, twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. Delivered to the hospital by a war veteran known to ConaLee as Papa, mother and daughter are soon swept up in the life of the facility and its characters: the night watchman who lost his eye in battle, the child called Weed, the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen, and the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution. There, far from family and the mountain home they knew, ConaLee and Eliza try to reclaim their lives, and uncover identities lost, hidden or unknown.
Night Watch was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 on 6 May 2024
Blessings
When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, her truest friend.
Interweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.
How I Won A Nobel Prize
In Julius Taranto's wickedly satirical and refreshingly irreverent debut novel, a young physicist follows her mentor to an island research institute that gives safe harbour to 'cancelled' artists and scientists.
Helen, a graduate student on a quest to save the planet, is one of the best minds of her generation. But when her irreplaceable advisor's student sex scandal is exposed, she must choose whether to give up on her work or accompany him to RIP, a research institute which grants safe harbour to the disgraced and the deplorable.
As Helen settles into life at the institute alongside her partner Hew, she develops a crush on an older novelist, while he is drawn to an increasingly violent protest movement. As the rift between them deepens, they both face major - and potentially world-altering - choices.
Hilarious, provocative and thought-provoking, How I Won A Nobel Prize approaches the issues of our times in a genuine and fresh way. Examining the price we're willing to pay for progress and what it means, in the end, to be a good person.
My Friends
Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.
Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.
Chevengur
The Soviet Don Quixote, Chevengur is now seen by many Russian writers as Russia's greatest novel of the last century. This is the first English version to convey its subtlety and depth.
Zakhar Pavlovich comes from a world of traditional crafts to work as a train mechanic, motivated by his belief in the transformative power of industry. His adopted son, Sasha Dvanov, embraces revolution, which will transform everything: the words we speak and the lives we live, souls and bodies, the soil underfoot and the sun overhead.
Seeking communism, Dvanov joins up with Stepan Kopionkin, a warrior for the cause whose steed is the fearsome cart horse Strength of the Proletariat. Together they cross the steppe, meeting counter-revolutionaries, desperados and visionaries of all kinds. At last they reach the isolated town of Chevengur. There communism is believed to have been achieved because everything that is not communism has been eliminated. And yet even in Chevengur the revolution recedes from sight.
Comic, ironic, grotesque, disturbingly poetic in its use of language and profoundly sorrowful, Chevengur is a revolutionary novel about revolutionary ardour and despair. Unpublished during Andrey Platonov's life, it is now one of the most celebrated Russian novels, and the most ambitious and moving of Platonov's recreations of a world undergoing revolutionary transformation.
Poslední tajemství
Závěrečný díl strhující trilogie. Tři sourozenci, tři knihy, tři příběhy. Dosáhne Lucas Carson, který v minulosti strávil šest měsíců v nápravném zařízení pro mladistvé, vykoupení? Když se zničehonic objeví jeho nejmladší sestra, která před lety utekla z domova, Lucas se nedokáže vyrovnat s pocitem viny, že jí nepomohl. Vidí jen jediné řešení – vypařit se. Cestou potkává patnáctiletou bezdomovkyni Shiloh, která se podobně jako on snaží uniknout minulosti. Lucas v ní spatřuje svou malou sestru, kterou zanedbával, a věří, že tohle je jeho šance všechno odčinit. Ale nebezpečí se kolem nich stahuje jako smyčka a Lucas si brzy uvědomí, že takhle to už dál nepůjde. Je načase čelit všemu, co za sebou zanechal.
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The Princess of 72nd Street
An unforgettable portrait of a smart, sensitive, yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms
'I don't need LSD for things to look pretty.'
Ellen is an artist living alone on New York in the 1970s. She is beset by irritating ex-boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by 'radiances' - episodes of joyous, reckless unreality during which she becomes Princess Esmerelda, a brightly-dressed star ruling over her kingdom of West 72nd Street. Yet there are those around her, particularly the men in her life, who are threatened by this incarnation, and wish to curtail the giddy freedom it brings her. A rhapsodic work of exuberant invention and deadpan humour, The Princess of 72nd Street sees female liberation and mental health through new eyes.
With an Introduction by Melissa Broder
'One of literature's hidden gems … demands a place on your bookshelf right next to Plath and Ditlevsen' Sarah Rose Etter
Wild Houses
It’s the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change – the thrilling debut novel from the prize-winning author.
In Ballina, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer Cillian English and County Mayo’s enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. Soon the reclusive Dev and Cillian’s teenage brother Doll are drawn headlong into the Ferdias’ revenge fantasy. Meanwhile, Doll’s girlfriend Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save him.
Life in this ordinary town will never be the same again…
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