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Bruno Berni

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    The Woman & the Ape
    Borderliners
    The Last Good Man
    Cit slečny Smilly pre sneh
    • Cit slečny Smilly pre sneh

      • 424 stránok
      • 15 hodin čítania

      Román tak trochu detektívny, tak trochu sci-fi, plný napätia, s originálnou zápletkou a nečakaným rozuzlením. Smilla je vedec - glaciológ, t.j. odborníčka na sneh, z jeho farby, štruktúry, zloženia dokáže zistiť a interpretovať údaje pre laika nedostupné. Vďaka svojmu grónsko-americkému pôvodu má slečna Smilla nevídané vlastnosti, ktoré jej pomôžu pri pátraní po príčinách smrti malého zanedbaného syna susedky - alkoholičky, pre ktorého bola Smilla snáď jedinou blízkou dušou. Súčasťou príbehu sú pre nás zaujímavé informácie o politicko-ekonomickom postavení Grónska voči "materskému" Dánsku.

      Cit slečny Smilly pre sneh2013
      3,8
    • A story based on the Jewish legend about how the world is always protected by 36 people, follows the sudden deaths of dozens of humanitarians who each bear a bizarre tattoo and whose untimely ends are investigated by Copenhagen detective Niels Benzon, who would save the remaining protectors

      The Last Good Man2011
      3,6
    • Borderliners

      • 252 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania

      Strange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. The school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. Soon, they suspect they are guinea pigs in a bizarre social experiment and that their only hope of escape is to break through a dangerous threshold of time and space. Peter Høeg's "brilliant" and dystopian Borderliners is a "uniquely philosophical thriller" (Boston Sunday Globe) and a haunting story of childhood travail and hope.

      Borderliners1997
      3,7
    • The Woman & the Ape

      • 224 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania

      Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called "The Ark". Burden aims to use the ape as the means to fulfil his ambition to direct the London Zoo. Erasmus and Madelene elope.

      The Woman & the Ape1997
      3,4