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The Survivor of the Holocaust
A courageous and remarkably accomplished Holocaust survivor''s powerfully vivid account of his transformation from a 13-year-old music student, to smuggling food and arms for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and tenaciously enduring a series of brutal concentration camps, fighting for life against impossible odds. When Hitler''s Nazis marched into Poland, it brought an abrupt, cruel end to Jack Eisner''s childhood, shattered his loving family, and turned his peaceful Jewish community into a nightmarish world of atrocity and murder. Instead of entering the Warsaw Music Conservatory, to which he''d won a scholarship, Jack found himself climbing cemetery walls, leaping over rooftops, and tunneling through sewers with a gang of fellow teenagers to smuggle food, hope, and survival into his besieged home. Pulse-pounding and chillingly graphic, Jack''s story takes you into the terror of the Warsaw ghetto... to the clandestine meetings with Christian friends who risk their lives to help the teenagers... and alongside young rebels as they raise the flag with the Star of David in the final, unforgettable moments of the daring but doomed Warsaw uprising. From the rubble of the ghetto to the horror of the concentration and slave labor camps, The Survivor of the Holocaust is both a stunning chronicle and a poignant true story of a young man sustained by his passionate desire to be reunited with the girl he loves. It also stands as captivating memorial to the 100 members of a single family who perished, told by one among them who - pitted against overwhelming odds - clung fiercely to their life-affirming message.
Gathering Blossoms Under Fir
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire presents four decades' worth of personal journals to offer a passionate, intimate record of Alice Walker's intellectual, artistic and political development.
Walker writes in an unvarnished and singular voice about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with civil rights foot soldiers, marrying a Jewish lawyer and defying 1960s anti-interracial marriage laws, writing her first novel, experiencing the trials and triumphs of the women's movement, being both admired and maligned for her work and activism, burying her mother and estrangement from her daughter. Her journals reveal an inextricable intertwining of the personal and political, exploring her thoughts and feelings in real time as a woman, writer, African American, wife, daughter, mother, lover, sister, friend and citizen of the world.
Chopping Onions on My Heart
Samantha’s mother tongue is dying out. An urgent need to find out more becomes an expansive investigation into how to keep hold of her culture – and when to let it go
The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language that’s now on the verge of extinction.
The realisation that she won’t be able to tell her son he’s ‘living in the days of the aubergines’ or ‘chopping onions on my heart’ opens the floodgates. The questions keep coming. How can she pass on the stories without passing on the trauma of displacement? Will her son ever love mango pickle?
In her search for answers Samantha encounters demon bowls, the perils of kohl and the unexpected joys of fusion food. Her journey transports us from the clamour of Noah’s Ark to the calm of the British Museum, from the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages to the banks of the River Tigris. As Samantha considers what we lose and keep, she also asks what we might need to let go of to preserve our culture and ourselves.
This is a life-affirming memoir about resilience and repair, and the healing power of dancing to our ancestors’ music, cooking up their recipes and sharing their stories.
Tak som si zapamätal
Žijem ako posledný z troch Jánov Fraňovcov, ktorých život v a pre Turiec a najmä Martin je poznačený užitočnou prácou, ktorú sme všetci traja brali vážne. Maximum pre Martin z nás samozrejme urobil starý otec, ktorý dokázal z malého chudobného predprevratového mestečka, bez hnuteľného i nehnuteľného majetku, žijúceho len zo svojich daňových poplatkov, urobiť za 15 rokov jedno z najdôležitejších miest po Bratislave. Môj otec bol jedným z prvých absolventov Obchodnej akadémie v Martine. Stal sa funkčne dôležitým zamestnancom Národnej banky, najprv v Bratislave, potom v Prahe a v rokoch tesne po II. svetovej vojne bol poverený založiť novú filiálku Národnej banky v Prešove a vytvoriť vhodné podmienky pre prvý Darex. Ja najmladší som vyštudoval lekársku fakultu a pracoval najviac rokov vo Fakultnej nemocnici v Martine. Táto práca, ak sa robí seriózne a nezištne, je užitočná pre pacienta a úspech liečby. Zákonite lekára poteší a inšpiruje ešte k ďalším úspechom v jeho práci.
Max Verstappen (CZ)
Max Verstappen vtrhl do formule 1 jako uragán a sotva se závodní svět stačil rozkoukat, ukázal, že z něj bude velká hvězda. Čtyřnásobný mistr světa má na kontě několik dalších rekordů v historii F1 a kdyby vznikl experiment, jak vytvořit dokonalého závodního pilota, proces by značně připomínal zrod Maxe Verstappena.
Syn bývalého jezdce F1 Jose rychle vystoupil ze stínu svého otce: mladické charisma, rychlost, neohrožený styl jízdy, spalující soustředění a odmítání ustupovat z něj dělají skutečného šampiona. V posledním kole posledního závodu neuvěřitelně intenzivní a kontroverzní sezony 2021 Verstappen chladnokrevně předjel sedminásobného mistra světa Lewise Hamiltona a vybojoval první místo a první titul mistra světa - v pouhých 24 letech.
Uznávaný autor knih o motorsportu Mark Hughes popisuje Verstappenovu neuvěřitelnou cestu, od prvních závodů v motokárách přes vstup do světa F1 až po úspěchy ve stáji Red Bull Racing.
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Enough
A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain?s highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soulAt twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of Mount Everest, she felt ravaged by defeat. Driven by a relentless, lifelong quest to prove to herself, her family, and the world that she was enough, she had set herself an incredible goal?to become the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. The failure battered her spirit and left her struggling to keep her tenuous grip on hope.In the candid and adventurous spirit of Cheryl Strayed?s Wild, Enough is a story of a life in which the most dangerous mountain faces became a refuge?until suddenly they, too, no longer seemed safe. From a childhood marked by conflict, betrayal, and predation, Reid propelled herself to the top of the mountain climbing world, summiting and guiding on the world?s most challenging peaks and establishing herself as a woman unafraid to throw elbows in a milieu dominated by men. And yet for every summit she reached, her valleys of inner turmoil?over her estrangement with the family she believed she?d destroyed as a child; over relationships that cycled through deception and infidelity?grew deeper and more self-destructive. Eventually, she could not keep these worlds from colliding, especially after a series of tragedies at dangerous elevations took the lives of her mentors and friends. Forced at last to face herself, Reid made her most perilous climb yet?toward the uncertain promise of forgiveness and self-acceptance.A beautiful, aching memoir of a journey with life-and-death stakes on the mountain and off, Enough bares the soul of one of the world?s greatest climbers, from the rarified heights visible only at thin-air altitudes to the dark depths home to demons familiar to anyone who has struggled to find compassion for themselves.
Královny jedů - Příběhy světových traviček
Originální kniha o ženách světových dějin, které spojuje záliba v jedech. Seznamte se s příběhy více než pětadvaceti traviček světové historie. Co vedlo tyto ženy k jejich činům? Láska, žárlivost, peníze, pomsta, chamtivost či zoufalství? Odhalte tajemství známých traviček, jako je Lucrezia Borgia nebo Kleopatra, a seznamte se i s dalšími zajímavými příběhy a osobnostmi. Možná se přistihnete, že některým hrdinkám fandíte – například Sally Bassettové, která pomohla otrávit otrokáře na Bermudách, nebo Giulii Tofaně, lidové hrdince italských žen 17. století. Ta prodávala svůj lektvar „aqua tofana“ nešťastným ženám, které se potřebovaly osvobodit od násilnických či jinak nežádoucích manželů. Řada příběhů je naopak děsivých.
Kniha je uspořádána do tematických kapitol podle vražedných motivů a je doplněna osobitými ilustracemi autorky Lisy Perrin. Součástí je ilustrovaný úvodník s původem a účinky známých jedů a informacemi, jak byly historicky získávány.
Ženy dokážou dělat cokoliv. Dokonce i vraždit.
Život. Moje cesta dějinami
První oficiální autobiografie papeže Františka.
14 zastavení u dějinných milníků v kontextu Františkova života od začátku druhé světové války do současnosti.
Při listování tou vzácnou knihou, kterou je sám život, nás papež František vede po stezce tvořené emocemi, radostmi a bolestí. Je to okno do minulosti, jež nám umožní lépe poznat naši přítomnost.
Vůbec poprvé vypráví papež František příběh svého života, a to prostřednictvím událostí, které za posledních osmdesát let poznamenaly lidstvo. Svěřuje čtenářům i původ svých myšlenek, které mnozí považují za odvážné a pro jeho pontifikát charakteristické. Od jednoznačných postojů proti chudobě a ničení životního prostředí, až k přímému apelu na světové lídry, aby vytyčili jiný směr své politiky ohledně témat, jako je dialog mezi národy, závody ve zbrojení, boj proti nerovnostem.
Od vypuknutí druhé světové války v roce 1939, kdy budoucímu papežovi byly téměř tři roky, až do dnešních dní Jorge Mario Bergoglio provází čtenářky a čtenáře svými vzpomínkami na své dlouhé, mimořádné cestě desetiletími. Papežův hlas a jeho velmi osobní vzpomínky se prolínají s řečí vypravěče, který v každé kapitole rekonstruuje historický scénář, do nějž jsou vzpomínky vloženy. Řečeno slovy pontifika: „ŽIVOT jde za světlem, tak aby zvláště nejmladší generace mohla naslouchat hlasu staršího a zamyslet se nad tím, co prožil na této planetě, a neopakovat chyby minulosti. Zamysleme se například nad válkami, které sužovaly a dál sužují svět. Přemýšlejme o genocidách, perzekucích, nenávisti mezi bratry a sestrami různých náboženství! Kolik je v nich bolesti! Jakmile dosáhneme určitého věku, i pro nás samotné je důležité vrátit se ke vzpomínkám a zaznamenat je, abychom si uvědomili to špatné a toxické, co jsme prožili, včetně hříchů, jichž jsme se dopustili. Ale také abychom si připomněli vše, co dobrého nám Bůh seslal. Je to sebezpytující cvičení, které bychom měli dělat úplně všichni, dříve než bude příliš pozdě!“
„Neměli bychom zapomenout na to nejdůležitější poučení: Můžeme si znovu přečíst příběh našeho života, abychom jej uložili do paměti a mohli něco předat tomu, kdo nám naslouchá. Avšak abychom se všichni naučili žít, musíme se naučit milovat.“
František
Knihu na základě svých rozhovorů s papežem Františkem uspořádal vatikánský korespondent televize Mediaset Fabio Marchese Ragona.
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These Foolish Things
Few people can say they have shaped the cultural landscape of the last four decades while crossing paths with some of the most extraordinary personalities on the planet. But then, of course, Dylan Jones isn't just anyone. These Foolish Things captivatingly charts Dylan's life: from his peripatetic childhood and late adolescence in 1970s London - a city then alive with possibility - to his award-winning tenure at what would become one of the most dynamic magazines of its era, GQ. It details how he came to be in that hot seat: a journey through the Swinging London slipstreams of punk and new romanticism, and through i-D, The Face and Arena, which created the platform on which GQ was based, with Dylan as a common denominator. Littered with a gold-star cast of characters - including a who's who of celebrity from David Bowie and Bryan Ferry to Alastair Campbell and Prince Charles, via Samuel L. Jackson, Piers Morgan and Rihanna - this memoir reflects on how GQ became an established style and how Dylan sought to stir up music, politics and fashion. Witty, perceptive and deliciously entertaining, but by turns bravely vulnerable, These Foolish Things is a memoir like no other: a dazzling retelling of the start of the twenty-first century from one of the world's most fascinating media giants.
Blaise Pascal
“Readable and expert - a brilliant guide to the life and thought of 17th century Europe's supreme polymath”Tom Holland, host of ‘The Rest is History’ podcast and author of Dominion “A richly detailed account of Pascal's life and times, which displays an energetic sympathy for Pascal's startling combination of intellectual precocity and humble faith.”Rory Stewart, host of ‘The Rest is Politics’ podcast and author of Politics On the Edge “A beautiful, accessible account of one of the era's most remarkable lives”Katherine Rundell, author of Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne He lived for just 39 years, yet Blaise Pascal was one of the most remarkable and creative figures of the seventeenth century. He is known for his famous argument 'the wager', but there's so much more to him than that (and most people misunderstand the argument anyway). Pascal can lay claim not only to have built an early version of the modern computer, done ground-breaking work in mathematics and geometry and virtually invented probability theory, but also to have produced one of the most haunting and effective works of Christian apologetics ever written. He is a major intellectual figure at the beginning of the modern age who blends together in his own person and thinking issues that are critical to our age. Blaise Pascal is therefore a crucial figure: not just in the history of European thought, but in how he can shed light on many contemporary debates.
Our Oaken Bones
SHORTLISED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2025An enormously moving and inspiring story about war, trauma, nature and rebirth, written with infectious passion and unsparing honesty. I loved it. - DOMINIC SANDBROOKScholarly, wise, funny, charming, terrifying and thrilling... I adored it all, every page. - JOANNA LUMLEYBoth a comfort and an inspiration - CHLOE DALTON, author of Raising HareThis is a lovely book - wise, brave, thoughtful, painfully intimate - but with a remarkable spiritual and environmental vision. - RORY STEWARTAn extraordinarily courageous, urgent and powerful book. - ISABELLA TREEDeeply compelling... emotional, informative, pleasurable. I believe that this is an important work with planet-sized dreams and ambitions. Perhaps the greatest philosophy or teachable lesson that came to me off the page is that dominion comes with responsibility. - RUSSELL CROWEI love this book. - RICK STEINPowerfully enchanting, written with verve and imbued with hope. - GUY SHRUBSOLEI lie on the rock to let my limbs dry after my immersion in the river. My bones warm. I have no towel but the moss is grateful for the additional moisture that I bring as the water runs off me and into its spongy web of roots and branches. I look up through the canopy and time freezes as the oak leaves drift gently backwards and forwards, dappling the light as it falls onto my body. I am home. Reeling from the pain of devastating miscarriages and suffering from PTSD after military adventures in Afghanistan, Merlin and his wife Lizzie decide to leave the bustle of London and return to Merlin’s childhood home, a Cornish hill farm called Cabilla in the heart of Bodmin Moor. There, they are met by unexpected challenges: a farm slipping ever further into debt, the discovery that the overgrazed and damaged woods running throughout the valley are in fact one of the UK’s last remaining fragments of Atlantic temperate rainforest, and the sudden and near catastrophic strickening by Covid of Merlin’s father, the explorer Robin. As they fall more in love with the rainforest that Merlin had adventured in as a child, so begins a fight to save not only themselves and their farm, but also one of the world’s most endangered habitats. Our Oaken Bones is an honest and intimate true story about renewal, the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return. For fans of The Salt Path and The Lost Rainforests of Britain.
Music and Mayhem
Music and Mayhem charts the immersive and explosive life of one of Ireland’s most important musicians, and the golden decade of Irish music he was at the very centre of. Keith Donald’s story begins in Unionist east Belfast, hurtling through vivid memories of a childhood as a musical prodigy, first performing at the BBC aged ten. His story takes him to the classics department of Trinity College Dublin in the early 60s, a hotbed of new ideas, before he becomes enveloped in the beauty of tenor sax. Jazz clubs by night and studying classics by day, Donald soon felt the early onset alcohol addiction, fueld by childhood PTSD. From university he joined the booming showband scene with The Federals in Belfast and The Greenbeats in Dublin, touring the dancehalls and marquees of the Irish country. The 70s saw Donald building a music career in Dublin and Europe, coping with addiction, a crumbling marriage, and forging a separate life as a qualified social worker. It was the 1980s however, when his greatest breakthrough came to pass withthe formation of the Celtic rock supergroup Moving Hearts. With the Hearts Donald was manager, star performer and inspiration, alongside bandmates including Christy Moore and Donal Lunny. Their fusion of jazz, rock and traditional music created the soundtrack of an era and paved the way for a generation of Irish musicians.
A Bloomsbury Ingenue
Euphemia Lamb was painted and sculpted by many renowned artists during the period before the First World War, such as Augustus John, Henry Lamb, Ambrose McEvoy, Jacob Epstein and James Dickson Innes. She was at the vanguard of modern British art. She was also a literary muse for many leading writers of the period, including Virginia Woolf, Henri-Pierre Roche and Aleister Crowley.Euphemia was the embodiment of the modern woman: sexually liberated, hard-working and ambitious. She used her connections in bohemian London and Paris to educate herself and advance the notion of what a woman could be in early twentieth-century British society. Euphemia was a pioneer who broke down barriers and her legacy survives in art and literature.
To Keep The Ball Rolling
**The abridged memoirs of Anthony Powell, with a new introduction from Louisa Young**''Powell can offer many of the rewards of comic creation we find in a Dickens or a Jane Austen'' TLS Anthony Powell earned a reputation as a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell and Greene, best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time.These memoirs reveal Powell - the man and author - providing an insider''s view of the British literary scene and social elite from the 1920s to the 1980s. In these pages, Powell observes the obscenity trial sparked by Lady Chatterley''s Lover, and Shirley Temple''s libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed Wee Willie Winkie with ''more than his usual verve''. Throughout, Powell paints vivid, witty and superbly written portraits of his contemporaries, other authors including Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.Featuring an illuminating new introduction by Louisa Young, TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLING is the abridged version of Anthony Powell''s four volumes of memoir, first published between 1976 and 1982.
My Battle of Hastings
‘This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing’ Lauren ElkinIn the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront – a room of her own where she can spend time writing, liberated from her domestic responsibilities in London.She immerses herself in the English landscape and its past and becomes preoccupied by the violence between Normans and Saxons. Filled with profound, beautiful and wry reflections on war, history, migration and belonging My Battle of Hastings is a chronicle of Xiaolu’s life in Hastings and a portrait of a dislocated artist seeking to connect with her local environment in the hope of finding a deeper connection to her adoptive nation.''Magnificent, brutal and poetic'' Iain Sinclair‘There is nobody quite like Xiaolu Guo… With My Battle of Hastings, Guo shows us the effort that it takes to truly put down roots in a culture so different from the one she was born into’ The Times
No Country For a Woman
''A fascinating and well-researched biography of a fearless woman, it combines history, adventure and romance. I loved it.'' - Lady Antonia FraserLady Dorothy ‘Dolly’ Mills was a trailblazer, whose larger-than-life personality led her to extraordinary adventures. Born in 1889 into the Walpole family, who were eminent in political and literary spheres, Dolly defied the constraints of her upper-class upbringing by marrying a poor army captain, prompting her disinheritance.From becoming the first English woman in Timbuktu she forged a reputation as one of the most renowned explorers in West Africa and beyond, travelling deep into Venezuela and the Middle East – territories often considered the preserve of men – breaking the mould and challenging her background and the expectations of her gender.Dolly wrote acclaimed travel books, documenting remote places and peoples, capturing history in the making. By the 1930s, she was the best-known female explorer, appearing on platforms and in books alongside prominent men. She was elected as an early female Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was a strong advocate for women in the field, leaving a bequest for women explorers on her death in 1959.A feminist with unorthodox views which ultimately cost her her marriage, Dolly also wrote bold novels and incisive features for women. Despite life-changing obstacles, she never lost her love of donning a glamorous frock and downing a cocktail.No Country For a Woman is the first book about the life of the best-known female explorer, set against the backdrop of the decadent Jazz Age, and will captivate not only those who are fans of other famous explorers but also curious readers, interested in the lives of fearless women.
Unshrunk
One of Lit Hub''s Most Anticipated Books of 2025''Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill... compelling, important, haunting.''THE NEW YORK TIMESA really moving and heart-rending story. Unshrunk will help and empower so many people.JOHANN HARI, author of Stolen Focus and Lost ConnectionsUnshrunk is the story of a young woman who dared to be herself, and a potent reminder of why human suffering can never be reduced to a diagnostic manual. A must read for anyone probing the dark side of mental health treatment. ANNA LEMBKE, author of Dopamine Nation''A wonderful, incisive and deeply moving book... provides a rare glimpse behind the curtain of a profession in peril.''DR JAMES DAVIES, AUTHOR OF CRACKED AND SEDATES''Inspiring... A wake-up call about a deeply flawed system''PROFESSOR JOANNA MONCRIEFFIn this gripping, essential memoir, Laura Delano takes readers through the labyrinth of the American mental health system, where ''the best available care'' left her sicker, more desperate, and more lost than ever before. This beautiful, rageful, joyful book is a beacon for all seeking a life beyond labels, beyond medication, beyond disorder.JESSICA NORDELL, AUTHOR OF THE END OF BIAS: A BEGINNING***I began to think about the forces at play, not just within me, but beyond me. What if my life hadn''t fallen apart in the way that it had because of ''treatment-resistant mental illness'', as I''d been led to believe, but because of the treatment itself?At age fourteen, Laura Delano''s parents took her to her first psychiatrist. At school, she was the model student, but at home Laura felt an uncontrollable rage that she unleashed on family, friends and herself. She was promptly diagnosed with bipolar disorder and started on a course of mood stabilizers and antidepressants. It was to mark the beginning of a painful and relentless journey. For the next thirteen years, Laura sought help from the best psychiatrists and hospitals, accumulating an ever-expanding list of diagnoses and prescriptions for nineteen different drugs. She accepted her diagnoses and embraced the pharmaceutical regime she''d been told was necessary to manage her incurable, lifelong disease. But as her symptoms only got more severe and eventually she was deemed ''treatment resistant'', Laura began to wonder if the drugs and diagnoses were the cure - or had they become the problem?Weaving together Laura''s medical records and doctors'' notes with illuminating research on the drugs she was prescribed, Unshrunk is the powerful memoir of one woman''s battle against the commercial psychiatric industry and the role it plays in shaping what it means to be human.
Agent Zo
Agent Zo tells the incredible true story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 resistance fighter known as 'Zo'. The only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, Zo undertook two missions in the capital before secret Special Operations Executive training in the British countryside.
As the only female member of the Polish elite Special Forces - the SOE-affiliated 'Silent Unseen' - Zo became the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo (who arrested her entire family), she played a key role in the Warsaw Uprising and ultimately in the liberation of Poland. After the war, Zo was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her but ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years.
Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten hero back to life, transforming the way we see female agency in the Second World War.
Hourglass
The New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time - abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning - a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise - how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lac? rawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers. ‘A beautiful book by a writer of rare talent’ Cheryl Strayed
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
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Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
