Rob van der Veer Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

The internationally acclaimed novel, is the story of an idealistic medical graduate who arrives at an isolated South African hospital to take up a year's community service

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS

What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as it goes on being written every day. An autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels.

A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure. In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of the soap-boiler Anna, and under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is made the first Khoi or ‘Hottentot’ missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his early beliefs. After being drawn into the fierce struggle between the missionaries and the Dutch colonists, he rises to some prominence and is appointed as missionary in a remote and arid region in the North-western Cape. But this also marks the beginning of his decline, as the Society abandons him to his fate. One by one, the members of his congregation disappear into the desert, so that in the end, abandoned even by his wife and children, he is left to preach to the stones and thorn trees and tortoises, returning to the dream-world of his people. In a heady mixture of comedy and tragedy, the real and the magical, and immersed in the ancient, earthy, African world of magic and dreams, Praying Mantis explores through the historical figure of Cupido Cockroach the origins of racial tension in the shadowlands between myth and history.

Dejiny lásky sú akousi poctou pre veci stratené, pre nevyriešené záhady. Osudy hrdinov sú zasadené do súčasného New Yorku, každý z rozprávačov má pritom vlastný štýl, vlastný príbeh, no pomaly sa začnú prepletať navzájom, tak ako aj so záhadným rukopisom knihy s rovnakým názvom. (Artforum) Leo Gursky je starý imigrant vracajúci sa v spomienkach do rodného Poľska, ktorý tajne sleduje život svojho znovu-nájdeného syna. Alma Singer, mladučké dievča, sa musí vyrovnať so smrťou svojho otca a pátra po žene, po ktorej dostala meno – hlavnej hrdinke záhadného románu...(Artforum)

Een ex-politieke gevangene probeert in Dublin de draad van zijn leven weer op te pakken.

On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely enthralling.