Anna Nadotti Knihy

Kaddáfího režim mu ukradol otca a spravil z neho vyhnanca. Dvadsaťpäť rokov nevidel svoje mesto, svoje ulice, svoj rodný dom. Teraz, keď diktatúra padla, rozhodol sa vrátiť. Žije ešte jeho otec? A ak zomrel – ako a kedy? Za svoj silný autobiografický román Návrat dostal líbyjsko-britský spisovateľ Hišám Matar Pulitzerovu cenu. Ponára sa v ňom do tých najväčších hĺbok samého seba i svojej krajiny. V Líbyi, ktorá zo seba zhodila okovy autokratického Kaddáfího režimu hľadá nielen svojho strateného otca, ktorý po únose zmizol kdesi v hlbinách krutej väznice Abú Salím, ale aj ďalších rodinných príslušníkov, za ktorých prepustenie bojoval zo svojho londýnskeho exilu. Kto prežil toto dlhé utrpenie? Komu sa to podarilo? Vo svojom rýdzo osobnom príbehu nám Hišám Matar ponúka aj výnimočný portrét Líbye – minulej, prítomnej i budúcej. Od oslobodenia spod talianskej nadvlády až po občiansku vojnu na začiatku 21. storočia.

It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war.One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their own agenda to pursue. Among them is Kesri Singh, a sepoy in the East India Company who leads a company of Indian sepoys; Zachary Reid, an impoverished young sailor searching for his lost love, and Shireen Modi, a determined widow en route to China to reclaim her opium-trader husband's wealth and reputation. Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War and China's devastating defeat, to Britain's seizure of Hong Kong.

The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times

The sequel to the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted, Sea of Poppies.

'Byatt has contrived a masterly ending to a fine work; intelligent, ingenious and humane, Possession bids fair to be looked back upon as one of the most memorable novels of the 1990s' Times Literary Supplement

V románe K majáku z roku 1927 sa Virginia Woolfová, jedna z najinovatívnejších autoriek a najuznávanejších literárnych kritičiek dvadsiateho storočia, zameriava na rodinné vzťahy a napätie medzi mužmi a ženami. Prostredníctvom prúdu vedomia prezentuje vnútorný svet viacerých členov rodiny Ramsayovcov pri ich zápase so sklamaním a stratou. Príbeh rozdelený na tri časti sa odohráva pred prvou svetovou vojnou aj po nej, počas návštev v letnom sídle Ramsayovcov na ostrove Skye v Škótsku.

A classic of our time Untouched by the twentieth century, Thul, the small fishing village near Bombay, is still ruled by the age-old seasonal rhythms. Hari and Lila have lived in the village all their lives, but their family is now desperately down on its luck. Their father drinks; their mother is seriously ill; and there is no money to keep them fed and clothed. Delicately and exquisitely executed, Anita Desaiýs gentle and probing story traces the evolution of Hari and Lila into adults as each of them faces the familyýs predicamentýjust as the first signs of industrial India creep into their villages.

A spellbinding, globe-trotting novel by the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy