Lette Vos Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Taking place in a remote house in the south-west of Ireland, this rich and vivid novel spans seven years and speaks to the times we live in, asking how we may withdraw, how better to live in the natural world, and how the choices made or avoided lead us home.

Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother is prone to disappearing for days at a time. As the landlord of their apartment block threatens to raise their rent, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her. Then one night Kiara is picked up by two police officers, and the gruesome deal she is offered in exchange for her freedom lands her at the centre of a media storm. If she agrees to testify in a grand jury trial, she could help expose the sickening corruption of a police department. But honesty comes at a price - one that could leave her family vulnerable to their retaliation, and endanger everyone she loves. Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world, told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerising.[Bokinfo]

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020* On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendez-vous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven. These precious, hidden hours are their only nourishment. But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink – with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other. And so, after half a lifetime spent in secret, certain long-avoided facts need to be faced, consequences examined, decisions made, and – perhaps – chances finally taken. A quiet, intense drama of late-flowering intimacy, My Coney Island Baby condenses, within the course of a single day, the histories, landscapes, tragedies and moments of wonder that constitute the lives of two people who, although born worlds apart, have been drawn together. O’Callaghan, a masterful prose stylist, has created a devastatingly powerful novel about two unforgettable characters and the choices they have made. This is a book full of sorrow, but also radiant with beauty, longing and breathless desire.

Silné, strhujúce a nezabudnuteľné rozprávanie, v ktorom Tara nič neprikrášľuje ani nedramatizuje, ponúka autentický a neuveriteľne poetický životný príbeh. Rozpráva o hľadaní vlastného ja, neoblomnej rodinnej lojalite a smútení, ktoré sprevádza pretrhnutie najužších väzieb. Príbeh Tary Westoverovej o dospievaní sa vyznačuje prenikavým postrehom a zdôrazňuje význam skutočného vzdelania – schopnosť vidieť život novými očami a ochotu meniť ho. Tara prvýkrát vstúpila do triedy ako sedemnásťročná. Narodená v rodine survivalistov v horách Idaha, pripravovala sa na koniec sveta, zatiaľ čo s rodinou varila bylinné odvary a triedila kovový šrot. Otec nedôveroval zdravotníctvu, a tak sa nikdy nenavštívili lekára, liečili sa doma pomocou byliniek. Rodina bola izolovaná od bežného života a vzdelanie detí nebolo prioritou. Násilné správanie staršieho brata ostalo bez povšimnutia. Keď jej brat začal študovať na vysokej škole a priniesol jej novinky z vonkajšieho sveta, Tara sa rozhodla vyskúšať nový život. Vďaka samoštúdiu sa jej podarilo zvládnuť matematiku, gramatiku a vedu, čo ju priviedlo na Brigham Young University. Tam sa prvýkrát dozvedela o závažných svetových udalostiach. Túžba po vzdelaní ju zmenila a priviedla na Harvard a Cambridgeskú univerzitu, no zároveň si začala klásť otázku, či nezašla priďaleko a či ešte nájde cestu domov.