Jean Demanuelli Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

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.

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.

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Snow Falling on Cedars, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listHe saw the soft cedars of San Piedro Island, its high, rolling hills, the low mist that lay in long streamers against its beaches, the whitecaps riffling its shoreline. The moon had risen already behind the island - a quarter moon, pale and indefinite, as ethereal and translucent as the wisps of cloud that travelled the skies.A fisherman is found dead in the net of his boat off the coast of a North American island. When a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memories grow as thickly as cedar trees - memories of a charmed romance between a white boy and a Japanese girl. Above all, the island is haunted by what happened to its Japanese residents during the Second World War, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched.