Claude Demanuelli Knihy

An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's The People of the Book

Reissue of this highly acclaimed Virago title, a 'finely written, beautiful and tragic novel' - Hermione Lee, FT

Spisovatelka Vida Winterová již po desetiletí okouzluje čtenáře po celém světě svými strhujícími příběhy, ale ten nejúžasnější si dosud nechávala pro sebe. Teď však cítí, že se neodvratně blíží smrt, a tak se rozhodne konečně odhalit dlouho očekávaný třináctý příběh: tajemství svého života. Ale i mladičká badatelka Margaret , kterou si zvolila za autorku svého životopisu, v sobě dusí bolest z minulosti. Obě ženy pomalu rozkrývají své osobní příběhy plné vášně, lásky, krutosti a oddanosti, protože jen pravda může ulehčit umírání a otevřít cestu do budoucnosti. Román Diane Setterfieldové navazuje na největší klasiky ženského románu a podobně jako Jana Eyrová nebo Na Větrné hůrce nabízí hluboce romantický příběh, v němž nechybí napětí, láska, tajemství ani magická a hrůzostrašná atmosféra.

[Longman Simplified Fiction]Contemporary / British English It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. He is a Japanese American living on the island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. The Second World War has left an atmosphere of anger and suspicion in this small community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial? And will the true cause of the victim's death be discovered?

On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his vehicle. Archie - working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt - is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion the events of the story. Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half of the twentieth century follows two families - the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire - as they make their way in modern England

Román Hľadaj moju tvár od Johna Updika vyšiel v roku 2002 a predstavuje slávneho amerického spisovateľa na vrchole tvorivých síl. Poučná, zábavná aj pikantná kniha je poctou modernému americkému výtvarnému umeniu a nahliadnutím do zákulisia ľudskej kreativity. Dej sa odohráva v rozmedzí 30. a 50. rokov minulého storočia, keď na umeleckej scéne dominovali osobnosti abstraktného expresionizmu a pop-artu. Centrálnou postavou je maliarka Hope Chafetzová, ktorej traja manželia boli slávnymi a kontroverznými umelcami. Príbeh o partnerstvách, láskach, sexe, ale najmä o umeleckom hľadaní predstavuje newyorskú bohému, zmes reálnych a fiktívnych postáv: Jacksona Pollocka, Willema de Kooninga, Andyho Warhola či Jeffa Koonsa. Originálnou kolážou prózy a umenovedy vznikol román, ktorým spisovateľ potvrdil svoje renomé majstrovského rozprávača.

A wonderful new collection of short stories, most of which are published here for the first time.Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone — friend, foe or journalist — to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, had forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.This superb story plays with the selectiveness of why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety? She can remember her first two husbands — one a bit of a brute, the other very boring — but not the world-famous third one.The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and an East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life. He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his “frame” — or does he? And there’s a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel.From the Hardcover edition.

"It is twenty-five years after Lord Lucan's mysterious disappearance in the wake of the savage murder of his children's nanny and the vicious attack on his wife. The celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Hildegard Wolf is approached in her Paris consulting rooms by not one but two men, both claiming to be Lord Lucan. Dr. Wolf is intrigued. Which, if either, of the men is the real 'Lucky' Lucan? Will Lucan's daily appetite for smoked salmon and lamb chops provide the clue?". "Aiding and Abetting is a novel which races between Paris, London, the wilds of Scotland and central Africa, taking in blackmail, stigmata, Interpol investigations and Scottish monasteries along the way."--BOOK JACKET.