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Atomised
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised (Les Particules elementaires) tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines. A dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral.
Sushi for Beginners
Marian Keyes' Sushi for Beginners is the blissfully funny, smart tale of three women who discover that the line between success and failure, happiness and sadness, sanity and madness is finer than they ever thought . . .
'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'
Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York, when suddenly she's blown off-course into the delights of low-rise Dublin. But what on earth can she do about it?
Ashling Kennedy, Lisa's super-organized assistant, is good at worrying. Too good. She's even terrified of a little bit of raw fish . . .
Clodagh Kelly is Ashling's best friend and has done everything right: beautiful kids and a husband come prince - everything in fact that Ashling has ever wanted. She should be - yet, she's not - happy.
Three women on the verge of happiness and even closer to a complete breakdown. Which way will they fall?
'Keyes has given romantic comedy a much-needed face-lift. Chatty and warmhearted, Keyes's talent is to tell it how it is' Independent
'Laden with plots twists, jokey asides and nicely turned bits of zeitgeisty observational humour ... her energetic, well-constructed prose delivers life and people in satisfyingly various shades of grey' Guardian
'The voice of a generation' Daily Mirror
Sabbath's Theater
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.
The Decay of the Angel
The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting.
Music for Chameleons
At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a 'nonfiction novel' based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven 'conversational portraits' including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the 'beautiful child' and a hilarious one of a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York.
Lacná kniha La Premiere Enquete de Maigret (-70%)
Qui a tiré un coup de revolver, en pleine nuit, dans l'hôtel particulier de la puissante famille Gendreau-Balthazar, rue Chaptal ? Tout jeune secrétaire du commissariat du quartier Saint-Georges, Jules Maigret se voit confier une enqu?te officieuse - car on n'attaque pas de front ces gens de la haute société, aux relations influentes. Maigret va habilement débrouiller l'écheveau des secrets de la famille Gendreau. En particulier les ambitions d'Hector, fondateur de la dynastie: assurer ? sa descendance un nom ? particule. Comment la vanité m?lée aux intér?ts d'argent peut déboucher sur le meurtre, c'est ce que nous découvrirons au terme de l'enqu?te. Enqu?te inutile. Maigret apprendra que les riches méritent des égards auxquels d'autres classes sociales n'ont pas droit...
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Let it Come Down
"Let It Come Down", with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers as he gives in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles' second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.
Notes from Underground
A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity. From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life, to the anxious antihero of Notes From Underground--a man who both craves and despises affection--this volume and its often-tormented characters showcase Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as "an author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul"--and Notes From Underground as "an awe-and-terror-inspiring example of this sympathy." Translated and with an Afterword by Andrew R. MacAndrew
With an Introduction by Ben Marcus
Lacná kniha Un paese di temporale e di primule (-70%)
Un paese di temporali e di primule pu essere considerato il libro della giovinezza pasoliniana, il libro che con piena novit , attraverso scritti che vanno dal´45 al ´51, racchiude ed esprime l´esperienza friulana dell´autore. Per la formazione umana, in
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Lacná kniha Le petit vieux des Batignolles (-70%)
Le petit vieux des Batignolles
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Lacná kniha Furie (-50%)
Vous êtes professeur d'anglais, à la retraite, plutôt célèbre grâce à la télévision, et puis une nuit vous vous retrouvez, un couteau à la main, dans la chambre de votre femme, où dort paisiblement votre garçon. En furie. En pleine transe rageuse. Prêt à commettre l'irréparable. Inquiétant, non ? De quoi filer à l'anglaise, dare-dare, abandonnant femme et enfant, pour gagner les États-Unis. C'est ce qui arrive à Malik Solenka, Londonien d'origine indienne, "irascible créateur de poupées naguère historien des idées". Mais voilà. À New York, le refuge qui se voudrait un moment de répit, de méditation, de quête d'une sérénité perdue, la furie poursuit son œuvre démentielle. Elle prend d'abord la forme de meurtres de jeunes filles puis de rencontres amoureuses, de jeux érotiques qui tournent au cauchemar… Pour son dernier roman, Salman Rushdie n'a pas fait dans la petite dentelle, le point de Bruges ou d'Alençon, ni lésiné sur les moyens de lancer et relancer son abracadabrant récit. Il cite Woody Allen et Proust, commente un match de foot de l'Euro 2000, parle d'Alain Ducasse et d'Excalibur… Il convoque genres policier et psychologique, la tragédie et la drôlerie, l'érotisme et l'humour distant (so british), use des suspensions, des interrogations, rebondit dans l'exclamation, oscillant entre rêve et réalité. Un livre plein et entier. --Céline Darner
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Lacná kniha Furie (-50%)
Vous êtes professeur d'anglais, à la retraite, plutôt célèbre grâce à la télévision, et puis une nuit vous vous retrouvez, un couteau à la main, dans la chambre de votre femme, où dort paisiblement votre garçon. En furie. En pleine transe rageuse. Prêt à commettre l'irréparable. Inquiétant, non ? De quoi filer à l'anglaise, dare-dare, abandonnant femme et enfant, pour gagner les États-Unis. C'est ce qui arrive à Malik Solenka, Londonien d'origine indienne, "irascible créateur de poupées naguère historien des idées". Mais voilà. À New York, le refuge qui se voudrait un moment de répit, de méditation, de quête d'une sérénité perdue, la furie poursuit son œuvre démentielle. Elle prend d'abord la forme de meurtres de jeunes filles puis de rencontres amoureuses, de jeux érotiques qui tournent au cauchemar… Pour son dernier roman, Salman Rushdie n'a pas fait dans la petite dentelle, le point de Bruges ou d'Alençon, ni lésiné sur les moyens de lancer et relancer son abracadabrant récit. Il cite Woody Allen et Proust, commente un match de foot de l'Euro 2000, parle d'Alain Ducasse et d'Excalibur… Il convoque genres policier et psychologique, la tragédie et la drôlerie, l'érotisme et l'humour distant (so british), use des suspensions, des interrogations, rebondit dans l'exclamation, oscillant entre rêve et réalité. Un livre plein et entier. --Céline Darner
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Lacná kniha Faith of Fallen (-25%)
Richard must follow a vision that will mean turning his back on the people of the new world when they need him most and taking Kahlan away from the protection of the D'Haran armies as they face the hordes of Emperor Jagang.
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Lacná kniha Blue Gold (-10%)
Kurt Austin and the NUMA team must prevent terrorists taking control of the planet's water supply. They travel to the heart of South America where they discover Francesca Carvell, who perfected the process of desalination, living with a tribe wh
o worship her as the "white goddess" of the jungle.
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Death Comes As The End
A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BC It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest's daughter, believes that the woman's death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father's household. As the wife of an eminent archaeologist, Agatha Christie took part in several expeditions to the Middle East. Drawing upon this experience and exhaustive research, she wrote this serial killer mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago.
Death in the Clouds
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite&894 ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit&894 across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.
Sad Cypress
An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will...Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows!
Foucault´s Pendulum
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth.
Hobbit
The classic bestseller behind this year's biggest movie, this definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a preface by Christopher Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon! The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.
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