Bernard Turle Knihy

It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to that last frontier - the interior of Alaska - in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of 'Drop City' arrive only to find their utopia already populated by other Alaskans who are successfully homesteading in the wilderness. As the two communities collide and winter sets in, friendships and enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life - love, nourishment, and a roof over one's head.

The Sunday Times Novel of the Year 'With The Stranger's Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular' Sunday Times In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story, told and interpreted in different ways by successive generations. Powerful, absorbing and richly comic, The Stranger's Child is a masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes over a century of change. 'I would compare the novel to Middlemarch . . . a remarkable, unmissable achievement' Independent 'Magnificent . . . universally acclaimed as the best novel of the year' Philip Hensher

Tout va bien ce jour-là à Amsterdam : il fait beau et, lorsqu'il sort entre deux répétitions acheter des cigarettes, le narrateur, danseur comblé, n'imagine pas un instant qu'au détour d'une ruelle déserte sa vie va basculer. Enlevé par trois femmes portant cagoule, il se réveille enchaîné dans une chambre close où ses geôlières lui font subir d'invraisemblables sévices avant de le libérer dix-huit jours plus tard sans la moindre explication. Obsédé, malgré ses efforts de fuite, par le désir de retrouver ses ravisseuses et d'éclaircir le mystère de ce viol surréaliste, le danseur entame une traque surprenante. De victime, il devient à son tour chasseur, bourreau, fétichiste...