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Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.

Awakening after a decade of unconsciousness, former Tiananmen Square protester Dai Wei learns that his mother had sold one of his kidneys to finance his care, and that the China he knew has undergone radical change.

Čudná príhoda so psom uprostred noci je úplne iná detektívka ako ostatné. Detektívom a zároveň rozprávačom príbehu je Christopher Boone, pätnásťročný chlapec s Aspergerovým syndrómom, čo je druh autizmu. Vyzná sa dobre v matematike, pozná všetky krajiny sveta a ich hlavné mestá a vie všetky prvočísla až po 7057, ale o ľuďoch nevie takmer nič. Miluje zoznamy, vzory a pravdu. Nenávidí žltú a hnedú farbu a dotyky. Nikdy nešiel sám ďalej ako na koniec ulice, no keď nájde na dvore zavraždeného susedkinho psa, vydáva sa na hrôzostrašnú cestu, ktorá mu prevráti celý život naruby.

Román mladej americkej autorky Marishe Pessl označilo viacero prestížnych amerických denníkov za najlepšiu knihu roku 2013. Investigatívny novinár Scott McGrath prechádza hlbokou osobnou krízou: jeho súkromný život je v troskách a jeho úspešná kariér a spľasla ako bublina. Obvinil tajomného režiséra Stanislava Cordovu z perverzných a kriminálnych činov a jeho právnici novinára mediálne zdiskreditovali. Keď sa však jednej upršanej októbrovej noci nájde v manhattanskom sklade telo Ashley Cordovovej , režisérovej dcéry, McGrath je presvedčený, že nejde o ďalšiu tragickú náhodu, spojenú so zdanlivo prekliatym rodom. Hoci o Cordovových temných a znepokojujúcich filmoch tlač už kadečo popísala, o samom režisérovi sa vie iba málo. McGrath sa rozhodne preniknúť hlbšie do jeho desivého, hypnotického sveta, aj keď riskuje, že tentoraz môže prísť i o rozum.

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works. "The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, an original world of its own is created."--Chicago Sun-Times"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world, to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times

At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares for her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by the way the wedding planning gets in the way of her affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.

Dojemný román o objavovaní podstaty lásky a zmyslu života. Príbeh robia jedinečným jeho tri hlavné postavy: Millie Birdová alias Slečna Hrobárka má sedem rokov a vždy nosí červené gumáky, ktoré ladia s farbou jej kučeravých vlasov. Matka bojujúca so žiaľom za manželom ju zabudla v obchodnom dome a už sa po ňu nevrátila. Agatha Panthová je osemdesiatdvaročná žena, ktorá od smrti svojho manžela nevyšla z domu ani s nikým neprehovorila. Dni trávi pozorovaním svojho starnutia, sledovaním televízneho šumu a vykrikovaním z okna na okoloidúcich. Karl Hmatopisár má osemdesiatsedem rokov, ťuká prstami do vzduchu, tak ako „písaval“ svojej manželke na pokožku a premýšľa o svojom úteku z domova dôchodcov. Keď sa títo traja stratení ľudia náhodou stretnú a spoločne vydajú na cestu po Austrálii, všetky doterajšie pravidlá a stereotypy miznú. Millie túži nájsť svoju matku. Karl chce zistiť, ako sa stať mužom. A Agatha si želá, aby sa všetko vrátilo do starých koľají. Príbeh o živote a láske vás prinúti smiať sa a plakať zároveň a naučí, že prežívanie smútku môže byť kľúčom k životu. V románe sa vrátite do svojho detstva rovnako ako Millie a precítite, aké je byť v objatí, v ťažkostiach a v samote, aký úprimný a vtipný vie byť pohľad na život, a najmä, ako možno nájsť priateľstvo a láskavosť na miestach, kde to najmenej čakáte.

When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of the small Ontario community must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths. Set in the 1970s, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past to explore the dire legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the war.

The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, Don DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to.As Lauren, the body artist of the title, becomes strangely detached from herself and the temporal world, the novel becomes an exploration of a highly abnormal grieving process; a fascinating exposé of 'who we are when we are not rehearsing who we are'; and a rarefied study of trauma and creativity, absence and presence, isolation and communion.

'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.

Een onopvallende Engelsman besluit wat meer allure aan zijn leven te geven door de oprichting van een riddergenootschap.