Penelope Lively Knihy

Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt. 'Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away' Anne Tyler 'A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes' Daily Telegraph 'Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished' Literary Review

Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens- the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lostto Alice in Wonderland, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.

Současná britská spisovatelka, nositelka řady prestižních cen, se ve svém románu zamýšlí nad láskou v mnoha jejích podobách. Na konci světa se nazývá jistá usedlost na britském venkově, kde tráví horké letní měsíce Pauline, redaktorka středních let, a její dcera Tereza se svou rodinou. Zatímco Tereza pečuje o malého Luka, její manžel Maurice zde dokončuje práci na své knize. Na první pohled idyla, ale jak se ukáže, jen zdánlivá. Pauline rediguje rukopisy, ale zároveň přemýšlí o rodině své dcery. Srovnává vlastní osud s osudem Terezy, kterou by ráda uchránila před chybami a omyly, kterých se kdysi dopustila ona sama. Z různých náznaků Pauline vycítí blížící se krizi dřív, než kdokoli jiný. Citlivě reaguje na napětí ve vzájemných vztazích, které s postupujícím horkým létem stoupá, až vyvrcholí tragédií.

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