Set in a 1970s Irish fishing village, the story revolves around a baby boy found on the beach, who captivates the local community. As he grows into a charismatic yet enigmatic young man named Brendan, the narrative explores the intertwined lives of his adoptive family and the village, revealing the impact of a changing global economy on their traditional way of life. The dynamic between Brendan and his brother Declan, alongside their father's struggles, highlights themes of family, community, and the complexities of identity in a shifting world.
Román ocenený v roku 2023 Pulitzerovou cenou Aj v ruchu búrlivých 20. rokov 20. storočia každý Newyorčan počul o Benjaminovi a Helen Raskovcoch. On je legendárny finančník z Wall Street, ona je dcéra excentrických aristokratov. Spoločne vystúpili na vrchol úspechu, práve keď sa dekáda excesov a finančných špekulácií blíži ku koncu. Za akú cenu však nadobudli to nesmierne bohatstvo? Túto záhadu rieši román Záväzky od istého Harolda Vannera, ktorý so zatajeným dychom číta celý New York. Existujú však aj ďalšie verzie tohto príbehu o úspechu. Dôvera je román o peniazoch, moci, intimite, ale aj brilantná literárna skladačka. Pozýva čitateľa hľadať pravdu napriek lžiam, ktoré neraz tvoria podstatu osobných vzťahov, a sile vplyvu poháňanom peniazmi, ktoré vedia ohýbať realitu podľa svojich predstáv. Ak sa chceme dopátrať pravdy, často si ju musíme vyskladať z rôznych výpovedí a kopať hlbšie, ako sa na prvý pohľad zdá.
Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they aren’t enough to make it through a life. Dorothy Baker’s Young Man with a Horn is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it pulses with the music that defined an era. Baker took her inspiration from the artistry—though not the life—of legendary horn player Bix Beiderbecke, and the novel went on to be adapted into a successful movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insanely gripping' - India Knight 'A mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once' - SJ Watson Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entrance door is locked from the inside. The clocks have stopped. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been clear all week. What happened to those three men, out on the tower? The heavy sea whispers their names. The tide shifts beneath the swell, drowning ghosts. Can their secrets ever be recovered from the waves? Twenty years later, the women they left behind are still struggling to move on. Helen, Jenny and Michelle should have been united by the tragedy, but instead it drove them apart. And then a writer approaches them. He wants to give them a chance to tell their side of the story. But only in confronting their darkest fears can the truth begin to surface . . . The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex is an intoxicating and suspenseful mystery, an unforgettable story of love and grief that explores the way our fears blur the line between the real and the imagined. 'Gripping' - Guardian 'Riveting' - Independent 'Excellent' - Observer 'A triumph' - Daily Mail
Elwood Curtis, černošský chlapec, vyrastá v Tallahassee na Floride v 60. rokoch 20. storočia, v čase stále platných segregačných zákonov, ale aj silnejúceho hnutia za občianske práva. Sníva o štúdiu na vysokej škole, namiesto toho sa však ocitne v obávanej polepšovni Nickel.
Elwooda drží pri zdravom rozume len priateľstvo s ďalším nespravodlivo odsúdeným mladistvým „delikventom“ Turnerom. Pomáhajú si, hoci Turner považuje Elwooda za beznádejne naivného. Je presvedčený, že v tomto skazenom svete sa dá prežiť, len ak človek uvažuje pragmaticky a vyhýba sa problémom. Život v polepšovni však začína byť neznesiteľný a napätie medzi Elwoodovým idealizmom a Turnerovým skepticizmom vyústi do osudného rozhodnutia.
Román Chlapci z Nickelu je fikcia inšpirovaná príbehom skutočnej polepšovne, ktorá fungovala viac ako sto rokov a zničila život tisíckam detí. Colson Whitehead vytvoril strhujúce rozprávanie, ktorým potvrdzuje povesť jedného z najlepších spisovateľov svojej generácie
When Frances Shore moves to Saudi Arabia, she settles in a nondescript sublet, sure that common sense and an open mind will serve her well with her Muslim neighbors. But in the dim, airless flat, Frances spends lonely days writing in her diary, hearing the sounds of sobs through the pipes from the floor above, and seeing the flitting shadows of men on the stairwell. It's all in her imagination, she's told by her neighbors; the upstairs flat is empty, no one uses the roof. But Frances knows otherwise, and day by day, her sense of foreboding grows even as her sense of herself begins to disintegrate.
Georgia, polovica 19. storočia.
Cora je mladá otrokyňa na bavlníkovej plantáži. Aj medzi svojimi však patrí medzi vyvrheľov. Keďže dospieva a stáva sa ženou, dobre vie, že ju čaká ešte viac utrpenia. A tak keď ju otrok Caesar osloví, aby spolu s ním ušla podzemnou železnicou na sever, Cora sa napokon rozhodne pre tento riskantný krok.
Hoci výrazom „podzemná železnica“ sa v dejinách USA tradične označuje sieť tajných ciest a úkrytov pre otrokov na úteku, tu ide o skutočnú koľajovú vlakovú dráhu pod povrchom zeme.
Coru čaká strastiplná púť cez jednotlivé štáty a na každej zastávke – podobne ako Gulliver na svojich cestách – prežíva nové dobrodružstvo a stretáva sa s novou podobou sveta.
Podzemná železnica je strhujúci román, v ktorom nájdeme brutálny realizmus i poetickú krásu, zúfalstvo aj nádej.
Love is not consolation, it is light.'From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 - a story of war, of one family's losses, and of the simplest, most enduring human impulses.Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions can't keep them out of harm's way...From the wilds of Afghanistan to the heart of the family left behind - their blind father haunted for years by the death of his wife, by the mistakes he may have made in the name of Islam and nationhood, Jeo's steadfast wife and her superstitious mother - Aslam's prose takes us on an extraordinary journey, through war, tragedy, love and brotherhood.
Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, the son of a once prosperous landowning family, a poet of fiery language and tempestuous passions. Yet his life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Scarred by a childhood of loneliness and severity he has long been ill, but he loves to walk the wild places of Ireland. The affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is turbulent, sometimes cruel, often tender. Many years later, an old woman makes her way across London on the morning after a hurricane. Christmas is coming. As she wanders past bombsites and through the city's forlorn beauty, a snowdrift of memories and lost desires seems to swirl. She has twice been married: once widowed, once divorced, but an unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat as her dazzling career has faded. A story of love's commitment, of partings and reconciliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms, Ghost Light is a profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting novel.
Haváriu lietadla na neobývanom ostrove prežije iba skupina anglických chlapcov. Pocit dobrodružstva zakrátko vystriedajú hodiny plné hrôzy a strašidelných predstáv. Čitateľ čoskoro stratí pocit, že číta príbeh chlapcov, ktorí vinou svojej nezrelosti nie sú schopní zorganizovať sa, a ocitne sa vo svete dospelých, ktorých najnižšie ľudské pudy, túžba zabíjať a vládnuť brutálne prenikajú tenkým nánosom civilizácie. Román je alegóriou spoločnosti bez práva a zákonov, kde je život neistý a hrozivý; obraz spoločnosti vytvorenej človekom, ktorý stratil nevinnosť a zmenil sa na sebca a nositeľa zla.
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER David Mitchell's novels have captivated critics and readers alike, as his Man Booker shortlistings and Richard & Judy Book of the Year award attest. Now he has written a masterpiece. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the kind of book that comes along once in a decade - enthralling in its storytelling, imagination and scope. Set at a turning point in history on a tiny island attached to mainland Japan, David Mitchell's tale of power, passion and integrity transports us to a world that is at once exotic and familiar: an extraordinary place and an era when news from abroad took months to arrive, yet when people behaved as they always do - loving, lusting and yearning, cheating, fighting and killing. Bringing to vivid life a tectonic shift between East and West, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is dramatic, funny, heartbreaking, enlightening and thought-provoking. Reading it is an unforgettable experience.
One of the most original and daring writers in English letters, Michel Faber shows his incredible mastery of wildly diverse literary forms with this, his long-awaited second collection of stories. Faber’ s characters in these 17 fictions are often dislocated— fragile beings confronting moments of fracture— in worlds that are both real and surreal. From the achingly sad lives of “ The Safehouse” to the moments of exquisite happiness in “ Vanilla-right Like Eminem” to the futuristic savagery of “ The Fahrenheit Twins,” these are fearless stories that crack our humanity wide open. With his brilliant characterization and pitch-perfect prose, Michel Faber has produced a short story collection that will seal his reputation as one of our most arresting and gifted writers.
Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's war against terrorism', The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually indistinguishable.
Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.
De verhouding van de Latijnse dichter Catullus met Clodia lijkt zich te herleven in die van een archeoloog die Clodia's villa opgraaft en zijn assistente.
