Johan Hos Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

The highly anticipated follow-up to Peter Behrens' Governor General's Literary Award-winning novel, The Law of Dreams. The O'Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O'Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building a business and a bright young family with his wife, Iseult, he is never quite able to leave his past behind. Told from the perspectives of Joe, Iseult, and their children and spanning the construction of the Canadian railroad as well as both world wars, this is a majestic novel that mirrors the scope and sweep of what Wilfrid Laurier calls "Canada's Century." Tragic, romantic, and as vivid as the novel that preceded it, The O'Briens is an epic of great heart, imagination, and narrative force.

The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience.  Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work.  Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.

Prvotina a najznámejšia próza významného amerického prozaika patrí ku kultovým dielam svetovej literatúry. Hrdina Holden Caulfield, ktorý prechádza životnou krízou, je priťahovaný i odpudzovaný fyzickými aj duševnými stránkami života. Súcit s nedospelými deťmi, ohrozenými pádom do priepasti dospievania, ktoré túži zachrániť, v ňom vyvoláva rozporné pocity, ktoré môžu podliehať rozličným interpretáciám. K tomuto Salingerovmu dielu sa hneď po jeho vydaní prihlásilo množstvo mladých čitateľov, ktorí v ňom videli predovšetkým dokument generačnej kritiky mladých proti starým a jeho stále nové vydania potvrdzujú, že je aktuálny dodnes.