Ike and Kay
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- 13 hodin čítania
Ike and Kay is a thrilling tale of wartime romance, brimming with love, duty, sacrifice and heartbreak, set against the backdrop of the most tumultuous period of the twentieth century.
James MacManus Knihy
James MacManus je autorom románu "Black Venus", ktorý živo opisuje vzťah Charlesa Baudelaira a jeho milenky Jeanne Duval. Duvalová, haitská kabaretná speváčka, inšpirovala Baudelairove najslávnejšie a najkontroverznejšie básne. MacManusov román sa odohráva v Paríži devätnásteho storočia a skúma toto fascinujúce spojenie a jeho umelecký dopad. Jeho predchádzajúce diela zahŕňajú "On the Broken Shore" a "Ocean Devil", životopis George Hogga, ktorý bol tiež sfilmovaný.
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Journalist Richard Brady arrives in Africa looking for stories, but soon finds Patience, a young freedom-fighting teacher. In a country shadowed by a bitter war, and with the odds increasingly stacked against them, can true love triumph?