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Francie, 1940. V poklidné vesničce v údolí Loiry se s příchodem německých okupantů všem znenadání obrátí život naruby. Každá ze tří sester Aubierových se s válkou vyrovnává po svém. Klára utíká k malování, Violeta podléhá zapovězené vášni a Margot skrývá pod přísahou tíživé tajemství, které se nesmí nikdo dozvědět.
S pokračující německou okupací přetne sourozenecké pouto mezi Aubierovic dvojčaty nepředstavitelná zrada, která dívky přiměje přehodnotit dosavadní postoje a uvědomit si, na čí straně chtějí stát. Zatímco bojují o přežití, obě si musí položit otázku: Kam až jsi ochotna zajít, abys zachránila ty, které nejvíc miluješ?
Španělsko, rok 2011. Věra Vogelová má za sebou ošklivý rozvod a dovídá se, že její dědeček beze stopy zmizel. Vydává se ho hledat a objeví starou fotografii, která rázem zboří představu, jakou dosud měla o své rodině. Při pátrání proti proudu času musí Věra vytáhnout na světlo všechna tajemství minulosti a od základu změnit i svou přítomnost.
Dva příběhy o lásce propletené v čase. Velkolepý ponor do minulosti, při němž vyjdou najevo nečekané a zdrcující skutečnosti.
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Cesta k Wigan Pier
Cesta k Wigan Pier je reportážnym spracovaním autorovho pobytu na priemyselnom severe Anglicka v roku 1936, krátko po skončení veľkej hospodárskej krízy. George Orwell sa zameriava predovšetkým na banícku komunitu a jej životné pomery a postoje. Jeho návštevy v tmavých baniach aj preplnených domoch poskytujú drsný obraz toho, ako v tom čase žila pracujúca i nepracujúca chudoba. Zúfalstvo a bieda, ktoré tento obraz sprostredkúva, majú desivú silu, ktorá presahuje hranice času a štátov.
Kniha je zároveň aj Orwellovou cestou k socializmu, keď skúma svoje vlastné vnútro. Narodil sa v britskej strednej triede a spomína, ako postupne začal pochybovať a neskôr nenávidieť prísne triedne bariéry, ktoré rozdeľovali vtedajšiu britskú spoločnosť. Pretože v jeho mysli socializmus v konečnom dôsledku znamená len jeden pojem: „spravodlivosť a sloboda“. Osudy ľudí z robotníckej triedy vykresľuje na základe vlastných skúseností, bez prikrášľovania a idealizácie, ale aj bez predsudkov, akými v tom čase trpeli mnohí mestskí intelektuáli.
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This first volume includes Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
Locks
In Ashleigh Nugent's dynamic coming-of-age comedy of errors, Locks, teenager Aeon is on a quest for belonging.
Locks is the story of Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb, who is desperate to find his Black roots and understand the Black identity foisted upon him by his community. To his growing shame, the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin, Increase - but they don't count. Aeon's dad is intent on ignoring race and climbing the social ladder. And Increase has taken to demeaning all Black culture since the shady and unresolved death of his own father, a 'Yardie' gangster.
Aeon's quest seems set to be fulfilled when he and Increase travel to Jamaica. But Aeon soon finds that smoking loads of weed, growing messy dreadlocks and wearing massive red boots don't, necessarily, help him to fit in. He gets mugged, stabbed, arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre, where he is beaten unconscious for being the 'White boy'. And then things really start to go wrong . . .
How to Get a Life
An uplifting and inspiring novel about becoming the person you were always meant to be, from the author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman.
When reality comes calling, do you face it . . . or keep running?
Danny is the definition of a man who 'could do better'. He drinks more than he should, lives in his best friend's garden shed - and he hasn't spoken to his sister in sixteen years.
But when Danny is the subject of a misleading newspaper article, claiming his lifestyle might actually be quite enlightened, he suddenly finds himself in the limelight. Letters begin to flood in from strangers seeking his guidance.
Wolfie is the daughter of Danny's estranged sister. She's never met her uncle, but her mother is struggling and Wolfie needs him. So when she sees Danny's picture in the paper, she sets out to find him.
Within a week, Danny goes from being responsibility-free to a big brother, an uncle and an unwitting existential 'guru' to some very lost souls.
Can he become the man they all need him to be?
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
Disgrace
After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.
The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics series
Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature.
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La Vie
For fans of Peter Mayle, 'Britain's finest living nature writer' takes the plunge and buys an old farmhouse deep in the French countryside - a perfect slice of sunny escapist joy from the perennial Sunday Times bestseller.
The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the sound of bells skipping across miles of rolling, glorious countryside.
For many years a farmer in England, John Lewis-Stempel yearned once again to live in a landscape where turtle doves purr and nightingales sing, as they did almost everywhere in his childhood. He wanted to be self-sufficient, to make his own wine and learn the secrets of truffle farming. And so, buying an old honey-coloured limestone house with bright blue shutters, the Lewis-Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers.
Over that first year, Lewis-Stempel fell in love with the French countryside, from the wild boar that trot past the kitchen window to the glow-worms and citronella candles that flicker in the evening garden. Although it began as a practical enterprise, it quickly became an affair of the heart: of learning to bite the end off the morning baguette; taking two hours for lunch; in short, living the good life - or as the French say, La Vie.
Into a Star
Intimate and devastating, a luminous debut novel about untimely grief and the resilience of the human heart, inspired by the author's own experiences
'Three in the bed. One not yet born, another dead, and I'm alive.'
Puk is 26 years old, preparing for the birth of her second child, when her husband has a heart attack while out running. She leaves their toddler with a friend and dashes to the hospital, where Lasse lies unresponsive in a coma. He dies a few hours later.
Into a Star follows Puk and her young family in the first year after this tragedy, which has shattered the ordinary life she imagined for them. As the days turn to weeks and months, Puk's second son is born, her sister moves in, her relationship with her in-laws fractures and evolves. She reckons daily with her memories of Lasse: how they met and fell in love, their adventures, their dreams for the future. And she navigates the miraculous, brutal, overwhelming days of early parenthood alone.
Into a Star is a luminous meditation on loss and renewal. With remarkable dignity, candour and attention to human detail, Puk Qvortrup invites us into the hardest moments of her life. And she reveals, amid the devastation, a powerful, life-affirming thread of hope.
The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese women, four America daughters - can they learn to understand each other?
In 1949 a group of Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters’ futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers’ advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they’ve inherited of their mothers’ pasts.
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic.
Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle.
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.
Maureen Fry és az Észak Angyala
Tíz évvel ezelőtt Harold Fry egy hatszáz mérföldes sétára indult, hogy megmentse egy barátját. De a történet itt még nem ért véget. Most a feleségének, Maureennak kell elindulnia a saját zarándoklatára. Csak ő fejezheti be az utat, amit a férje kezdett meg. Maureen és Harold élete elcsendesedett, de amikor kapnak egy északról érkező váratlan üzenetet, az megzavarja nyugalmukat. Maureen ráébred, hogy ezúttal rá vár egy sorsfordító út. De ő nem olyan, mint a jókedélyű, barátságos férje. Néha túl erélyes, majd sebezhető, és nehezen találja meg a közös hangot az emberekkel, ráadásul egyre ismeretlenebb vidékeken jár. Maureennek fogalma sincs, mit fog az út végén találni. Csak azt tudja, hogy oda kell érnie.
Maureen érzelmekkel teli története bemutatja a szeretetet, a veszteséget, és azt is, hogyan lehet feldolgozni a múltat, hogy a jelenünk jobbá válhasson.
Čokoláda
Keď sa do dediny Lansquenet nad Tannou prisťahuje cudzinka Vianne Rocherová s dcérou Anouk a otvorí si oproti kostolu obchodík s čokoládou, otec Reynaud v nej cíti nebezpečenstvo pre svoje ovečky. Kňaz preto vyhlasuje prisťahovalkyni, v ktorej vidí pokušiteľku k hriechu, otvorený boj. Vianne sa však svojich odporcov nezľakne a rozhodne sa na Veľkú noc usporiadať Čokoládový festival. Jej plán rozdelí dedinu na dva tábory. Zdá sa, že velebnosť cirkvi môže ohroziť pohanská vášeň pre čokoládou!
Anne az élet iskolájában
A regénysorozat második részében az egykori bájos és cserfes, vörös (barátai szerint gesztenyebarna) hajú kislány, Anne (e-vel a végén), immár tizenhat éves ifjú hölgy, aki tanítónőként helyezkedik el Avonlea iskolájában, ahol - még nem is olyan régen - maga is a padokat koptatta.
Miközben kis tanítványait terelgeti a tudás útján, a Faluszépítők Társaságának oszlopos tagjaként Avonlea megszépítésén is fáradhatatlanul munkálkodik. Mindeközben új barátokat is szerez, akik között valódi rokonlelkekre lel a gazdag képzelőerővel megáldott kisfiú, Paul Irving és az elbűvölő Miss Lavendar személyében. Mivel Anne szeretetre méltó egyénisége mellett szerencsére megőrizte azt a szokását is, hogy bármikor képes új kalamajkába keveredni, így bonyodalmakban ezúttal sem lesz hiány.
Anne Shirley magával ragadó egyénisége és sorsának története milliók szívét ejtette rabul, és számtalan alkotást, köztük több filmet is megihletett.
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Jediný muž na kontinente
Darius Kopp sa oženil krátko potom, čo prekročil štyridsiatku. Pracoval ako jediný zástupca americkej firmy pre bezdrôtové technológie pre krajiny strednej a východnej Európy a región Nemecko-Rakúsko-Švajčiarsko. V čase globálnych hospodárskych katastrof sa Kopp snažil obhajovať svoj životný štýl. Firma, pre ktorú pracoval, sa síce zmenila na fantóm (jeho šéfovia aj tak sedia v Londýne a v Kalifornii) a aj manželstvo s jeho veľkou láskou stálo pred rozpadom, no i tak chcel dlho veriť v to, že všetko pôjde dobre a že žije v najlepšom z možných svetov. Predovšetkým však, že sa mu podarilo odkrojiť si pre seba veľký kus z dobrého života.
The Silence In Between
The gripping historical debut about a family separated by the Berlin wall - perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See, In Memoriam and Alone in Berlin
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your child...
Lisette is in hospital with her baby boy. The doctors tell her to go home and get some rest, that he’ll be fine.
When she awakes, everything has changed. Because overnight, on 13 August 1961, the border between East and West Berlin has closed, slicing the city - and the world - in two.
Lisette is trapped in the east, while her newborn baby is unreachable in the west. With the streets in chaos and armed guards ordered to shoot anyone who tries to cross, her situation is desperate.
Lisette's teenage daughter, Elly, has always struggled to understand the distance between herself and her mother. Both have lived for music, but while Elly hears notes surrounding every person she meets, for her mother - once a talented pianist - the music has gone silent.
Perhaps Elly can do something to bridge the gap between them. What begins as the flicker of an idea turns into a daring plan to escape East Berlin, find her baby brother, and bring him home....
Based on true stories, The Silence in Between is a page-turning, emotional epic that will stay with you long after you finish reading.
Obrazy z ciest II
Básnik a prozaik Heinrich Heine patrí medzi najväčšie postavy nielen nemeckej literatúry, ale je trvalou súčasťou svetového literárneho dedičstva. Heineho dielo je nielen majstrovsky napísané, no stále veľmi aktuálne.
Kniha Obrazy z ciest II obsahuje štyri samostatné rozprávania. Časť O Poľsku je básnikovou prvou politickou úvahou, v ktorej odvážne vyjadruje spoločenskú kritiku a vlastné politické názory. Cesta Harzom je zaujímavým spojením romantických básnických prvkov a poctivej správy o živote bežných ľudí. Kniha Le Grand je ukážkou Heineho nadhľadu a neobyčajného zmyslu pre humor. Námetom diela je autorov vlastný život a láska k sesternici Terézii, no nechýbajú ani autorove politické názory. V poslednej časti Anglické zlomky
Heine opisuje Anglicko ako príklad parlamentnej demokracie, no všíma si aj jeho spoločenské kontrasty, chudobu vedľa prepychu, náboženskú neznášanlivosť, pôvab anglického vidieka i obludnosti miliónového Londýna, širokú politickú vzdelanosť, ale aj strojenú konverzáciu a neskrývaný egoizmus.
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.
