Javier Calvo Perales Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River comes an immersive novel about a missing child whose disappearance sends shockwaves through three distinct worlds: an opulent Adirondack summer estate, a rustic teen summer camp, and the blue-collar community that serves them. When Barbara Van Laar goes missing from her camp bunk in August 1975, a frantic search ensues. Her disappearance is particularly tragic as she is the daughter of the wealthy family that owns both the camp and the nearby estate. This incident is eerily reminiscent of a past tragedy—Barbara’s older brother vanished sixteen years earlier, never to be found. Liz Moore crafts a richly textured drama, balancing emotional depth with a compelling mystery. As the narrative unfolds, the secrets of the Van Laar family and the surrounding community are revealed, drawing readers into the lives of characters forever altered by this harrowing summer. This ambitious novel explores themes of love, inheritance, identity, and second chances, delving into the tensions between family and community, and the haunting legacy of secrets that bind them all.

Jeden je agent vietnamských komunistov, druhý slúži juhovietnamskému demokratickému režimu. Sú dvaja a pritom je len jeden. Rozštiepená osobnosť i rozštiepená myseľ dvojitého agenta. Schizofrénia, alebo absolútna prispôsobivosť? Sever a juh Vietnamu tu proti sebe bojujú vo vnútri jedného človeka, ktorý vidí, že jeho krajina sa rozpadá na márne kúsky. Aj preto sa snaží na všetky udalosti pozerať mimoriadne objektívne, hoci každá jedna sa ho bytostne dotýka. Po úteku do Ameriky sa snaží začať nový život v zámorskej vietnamskej utečeneckej komunite – a práve to je príležitosť, aby zrekonštruoval svoj dovtedajší život. Príbeh knihy Sympatizant zachytáva hrôzostrašnosť a zároveň absurdnosť vietnamskej vojny, ktorá sa neodohráva len na úrovni armády, ale najmä medzi obyčajnými ľuďmi. Román Sympatizant je vynikajúcim špionážnym trilerom s pridanou hodnotou kvalitnej historickej reportáže, za ktorý dostal Viet Thanh Nguyen Pulitzerovu cenu.

Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanising sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.

A novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. These stories were told by the people who have answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'.

Homer Macauley trabaja como mensajero para una compañía de telégrafos y se convierte en testigo de la vida cotidiana de los habitantes de Ithaca, una pequña población del valle de San Joaquín, en California, que ve como muchos de sus soldados, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, no regresan al frente.