Manik Sarkar Knihy

Úšpešný mladý spisovateľ Marcus Goldman prechádza tvorivou krízou, písanie sa mu nedarí, zato termín odovzdania rukopisu súri čoraz väčšmi. Obráti sa teda na svojho bývalého profesora Harryho Queberta - aj on je slávnym spisovateľom, no žije už v ústraní na vidieku. Profesor pozve Marcusa k sebe, debatujú o živote, o písaní, až kým vidiecku idylku nenaruší udalosť, čo všetko zvráti: Queberta obvinia z vraždy dievčaťa, ktoré je nezvestné už tridsať rokov, a jeho mŕtvolu nájdu zakopanú pred profesorovým domom. Marcus je presvedčený o nevine svojho mentora, namiesto písania sa pustí do pátrania, a na povrch postupne vyplávajú dlho utajované vášne.

Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man; his caseworkers are compassionate, but overworked. Monsieur Linh struggles beneath the weight of his sorrow, and becomes increasingly bewildered and isolated in this unfamiliar, fast-moving town. And then he encounters Monsieur Bark. They do not speak each other's language, but Monsieur Bark is sympathetic to the foreigner's need to care for the child. Recently widowed and equally alone, he is eager to talk, and Monsieur Linh knows how to listen. The two men share their solitude, and find friendship in an unlikely dialogue between two very different cultures. Monsieur Linh and His Child is a remarkable novel with an extraordinary twist, a subtle portrait of friendship and a dialogue between two cultures.

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy—in their town, their homes, even in their hearts. When Irène Némirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation. From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day, a flamboyant stranger rides into the village, upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer, "the other", and tensions rise until, one night, the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death, but his report delivers much more than the bare facts: it becomes the story of a community coming to terms with the legacy of enemy occupation. In a powerful narrative of exceptional fascination, Brodeck's Report explores the very limits of humanity.

Set against the backdrop of Rwanda's genocide, the narrative unfolds as a poignant love story that explores the depths of passion and human connection amidst chaos and violence. It captures the emotional struggles of its characters, revealing how love can emerge in the darkest of times while highlighting the stark realities of the historical context. The novel intertwines personal and collective trauma, offering a profound reflection on resilience and the power of love in the face of adversity.

"Spectacular . . . drops the reader through one trapdoor into another" A.J. FINN It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622. This anomaly piques the interest of Joël Dicker, Switzerland's most famous literary star, who flees to the Verbier to recover from a bad breakup, mourn the death of his publisher, and begin his next novel. Before he knows it, he's coaxed out of his slump by a fellow guest, who quickly uncovers the reason behind Room 622's erasure: an unsolved murder. The attendant circumstances: a love triangle and a power struggle at the heart of Switzerland's largest private bank, a mysterious counter-intelligence unit known only as P-30, and a shadowy émigré with more money than God. A Russian doll of a mystery crafted with the precision of a Swiss watch, The Enigma of Room 622 is Joël Dicker's most diabolically addictive thriller yet. Praise for Joël Dicker "It's that most engaging of treats, a big, fat, intelligent thriller" SIMON MAYO "Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path" Sunday Express Translated from the French by Robert Bononno

This is ostensibly a detective story, about a crime that is committed in 1917, and solved 20 years later. The location is a small town in Northern France, near V., in the dead of the freezing winter. The war is still being fought in the trenches, within sight and sound of the town, but the men of the town have been spared the slaughter because they are needed in the local factory. One morning a beautiful ten year old girl, one of the three daughters of the innkeeper, is found strangled and dumped in the canal. Suspicion falls on two deserters who are picked up near the town. Their interrogation and sentencing is brutal and swift. Twenty years later, the narrator, a local policeman, puts together what actually happened. On the night the deserters were arrested and interrogated, he was sitting by the bedside of his dying wife. He believes that justice was not done and wants to set the record straight. But the death of the child was not the only crime committed in the town during those weeks. More than one record has to be set straight. Beautiful, like a fairy story almost, frozen in time, this novel has an hypnotic quality.

Autorka koncipovala román ako hudobný opus o piatich častiach, stihla však napísať iba prvé dve. Búrka opisuje bezhlavý útek Parížanov z mesta, všeobecnú paniku, vzájomnú nevraživosť, ohromenie, sklamanie, strach z prichádzajúcich Nemcov, ústup zvyškov francúzskej armády. Irene Némirovsky majstrovsky vyjadrila všeobecný chaos a zmätok, ktorý všade zavládol. Druhá časť Dolce líči príchod nemeckej jednotky do malého francúzskeho mestečka, počiatočnú nedôveru, postupné zbližovanie miestnych s okupantmi, príbeh má aj svojho Rómea a Júliu a ich láska je rovnako nemožná a zakázaná ako láska shakespearovských hrdinov.

Dá sa zlomené srdce vyliečiť? Autorka tohto bestsellera Agnes Martin-Lugand vás zavedie do drsného, no čarokrásneho Írska, kde sa odohráva príbeh prirovnávaný k obľúbenému filmu Pod toskánskym nebom. Šťastní ľudia čítajú a pijú kávu. Tak sa volala útulná literárna kaviarnička, ktorú vlastnila mladá Parížanka Diane. Žila si svoj šťastný život s malou dcérkou a milujúcim manželom, až kým jedného dňa tragédia nezlomila jej srdce. Vzala jej nielen tých najbližších, ale aj zmysel života. Zúfalá mladá žena sa na celé mesiace uzavrela pred svetom a márne hľadala nový zmysel života. Napokon sa rozhodla splniť sen svojho muža a odísť do Írska. Tam, na búrlivom a drsnom západnom pobreží, sa začína veľké dobrodružstvo. Do jej pochmúrneho života vstúpi záhadný fotograf Edward, a čudné veci, čo sa okolo neho dejú, konečne donútia Diane konať... Filmové práva na knihu získala spoločnosť TWC a chystá sa filmová verzia tohto bestsellera.

De dood van zijn moeder voert een jonge dertiger terug naar zijn door verval bedreigde Noord-Franse geboorteplaats, die hij, puber nog, kwaad heeft verlaten, omdat zijn moeder hem zou hebben voorgelogen over de identiteit van zijn vader.