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Lavie Tidhar

    16. november 1976

    Lavie Tidhar je plodný autor, ktorý sa pohybuje na pomedzí žánrov a preslávil sa najmä svojou schopnosťou prepojiť literárne postupy s prvkami science fiction a fantasy. Jeho diela často skúmajú témy identity, pamäti a dopadu histórie na súčasnosť, pričom sa vyznačujú originálnym štýlom a neotretým pohľadom na známe archetypy. Tidharove príbehy sú známe svojou surovou atmosférou a hlbokým záujmom o kultúrne a sociálne kontexty, čo čitateľom ponúka jedinečný a provokatívny zážitok.

    Lavie Tidhar
    The Violent Century
    Adama
    Central Station
    Osama
    Candy
    Muž leží a sní
    • Muž leží a sní

      • 328 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania
      3,6(38)Ohodnotiť

      Druhá polovina 30. let 20. století. Evropa je v krizi a Velká Británie se potýká s přílivem uprchlíků. V Německu totiž došlo k Pádu, moci se chopili komunisté, a tak boháči i fašisté, nechtějí-li skončit v trestaneckém táboře, musí utéct za hranice. Většinou se rychle vzpamatují a dál se věnují tomu, na co mají talent, třeba obchodu nebo organizovanému zločinu, ale jistý pan Wolf je muž s ideály, hnusí se mu všeobecný morální úpadek, a zatímco živoří v zaměstnání soukromého detektiva, sní o tom, že už brzy vydá další část svého životního díla, knihy nazvané Můj boj. Pravda, mezitím si ještě bude muset vytrpět něco sexuálního ponížení v rukou zdegenerovaných prostitutek či špinavé Židovky a párkrát dostane pořádnou nakládačku, ale to muže jeho formátu nezlomí. Zatím v jiném čase a na jiném místě leží muž a sní…

      Muž leží a sní
    • CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY meets BUGSY MALONE for 9+ readers. In a city where all chocolate and sweets have been banned, Nelle Faulkner is a 12-year- old private detective looking for her next case. So when candy gangster Eddie de Menthe walks into her office (her dad's garden shed) and asks her for her help, the chase is on.

      Candy
    • A private detective pursues a mysterious quarry - Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante - in the 10th-anniversary edition of Lavie Tidhar's World Fantasy Award-winning metafictional novel.

      Osama
    • Central Station

      • 275 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania
      3,5(2214)Ohodnotiť

      "When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris's ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik--a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return. Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena; and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war"--Amazon.com.

      Central Station
    • THERE IS NO LAND WITHOUT BLOOD, AND I WATER THIS LAND WITH THE BLOOD OF MY MEN. Ruth's family were in Budapest when the Nazis came. Now Ruth is in Palestine, amid the bare hills inland from Haifa, breaking the rocky soil of an unyielding land before it breaks her. With her comrades, her fellow kibbutzniks, she will build a better world. There will be green grass, orange trees and pomegranates, a land that is their own and no one else's. So they till their fields, dig their wells, build their homes and forge a new way of living, fiercely proud of their shared pursuit of a dream. But as one generation begets another, the dream unravels, twisted into a dark tapestry of secrets and lies; sacrificed for revenge, forbidden love and murder. A sweeping historical epic following four generations of a single family as they struggle to hold on to their land and each other. 'Tidhar [is] fast emerging as the leader of a new wave of Israeli literature' Daily Mail 'Adama is an unstoppable masterpiece... If history is a nightmare we're all trying to wake up from, then Adama is a trumpet blast that rings out the past and into the future' Junot Diaz 'Word by word I was drawn deeper and deeper into this incredible book - a story of inheritance, loss, longing and what could have been. Lavie Tidhar's prose is beautiful, his characters lacerating and heartbreaking by turns. I loved it.' Catriona Ward

      Adama
    • The Violent Century

      • 332 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania
      4,4(30)Ohodnotiť

      "A torrid tour de force." --James Ellroy "Like Watchmen on crack."--io9 "If John le Carre wrote a superhero novel about the Cold War, it might be this good." --Charles Stross A bold experiment has mutated a small fraction of humanity. Nations race to harness the gifted, putting them to increasingly dark ends. At the dawn of global war, flashy American superheroes square off against sinister Germans and dissolute Russians. Increasingly depraved scientists conduct despicable research in the name of victory British agents Fogg and Oblivion, recalled to the Retirement Bureau, have kept a treacherous secret for over forty years. But all heroes must choose when to join the fray, and to whom their allegiance is owed--even for just one perfect summer's day. From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Central Station comes a sweeping novel of history, adventure, and what it means to be a hero.

      The Violent Century
    • The Lunacy Commission

      • 168 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania

      "Lavie Tidhar's novel A Man Lies Dreaming introduced Adolf Hitler as a down-at-heels private detective, forced to eke out a miserable living in 1930s London. Forgotten by history, the man now calling himself Wolf is the lowest of the low, suffering fresh humiliations at every turn. Now Wolf is back, in five darkly comic new stories that see him take on blackmail, murder, and theft - not to mention his old comrades."--Provided by publisher

      The Lunacy Commission
    • Best of British Science Fiction 2018

      • 314 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania

      This anthology features twenty-six compelling stories that explore diverse themes in science fiction, including the fragility of pristine worlds and the complexities of human relationships marked by mistrust and isolation. It delves into issues of alienation, the rebranding of slavery, and the criminalization of bodily autonomy. The narratives highlight ongoing struggles against injustice and the necessity of reexamining past rebellions. Additionally, it confronts the implications of AI on storytelling, offering a thought-provoking reflection on the future of narrative itself.

      Best of British Science Fiction 2018
    • Great Game

      • 432 stránok
      • 16 hodin čítania

      Airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and Houdini: The Great Game is a cranked-up steampunk thriller in which nothing is certain - not even death.

      Great Game
    • Set in Israel across four decades, Maror is a story of life and death, politics and history.

      Maror