Heleen ten Holt Knihy

From the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages.

Astrid je jediné dieťa slobodnej matky, talentovanej, no vášňami ovládanej poetky Ingrid, ktorá využíva svoju oslňujúcu krásu na podrobovanie si mužov a ich následnú manipuláciu...

There were six of them. Professional men and their waiter. They gather at the Milano Restaurant once a month for good food and good conversation. But lately the Black Widowers have added a new entertainment to their meetings. They have begun to solve mysteries, murders, and conspiracies of seemingly impossible dimensions -- book cover

Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

Autorka známa čitateľom zatiaľ skôr ako prenikavá esejistka a kritička rozohráva na širokom plátne svoje historické romance osudové dráma Williama Hamiltona, jeho ženy Emmy a admirála Nelsona na farbisto zachytenom pozadí Neapola závere 18. storočia. Príbeh citovo chladného aristokrata a diplomata, vášnivého zberateľa umenia a amatérskeho prírodovedca, jeho mladé druhej ženy a jej ambiciózneho a krutosti sa nestranícího milenca nezaprie autorkino bohaté myšlienkové zázemie, určite však zaujme svojou nápaditosťou, plastickosťou, zmyslom pre humor a iróniu i nezabudnuteľným panoptikum farbisto vykreslených postáv.

In the mid-18th century James Dyer is born unable to feel pain, and grows up to be a brilliant but heartless brain surgeon. Then, en route to St Petersburg in 1767, he meets his match - a strange woman with supernatural healing powers. When she introduces him to pain he is driven mad with shock.

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research.

Een tienjarige weesjongen uit Edinburgh achterhaalt tijdens zijn verblijf bij zijn excentrieke oom in de Schotse Hooglanden de volledige waarheid omtrent zijn afkomst.

Vier Chinese vrouwen in San Francisco vertellen elkaar over hun jeugd in China.