Megan Lloyd Davies Knihy

Dvanásťročný Martin z ničoho nič ochorel. Bolo to vážne, jeho stav sa zhoršoval a lekári boli bezmocní. Postupne prestal chodiť, hýbať očami a napokon aj hovoriť. Nevnímal okolitý svet, neprítomne civel pred seba a v štrnástich rokoch bola z neho už len bezduchá telesná schránka. No jedného dňa sa jeho myseľ začala prebúdzať. A potom strávil nepredstaviteľných desať rokov pri plnom vedomí uväznený vo vnútri nehybného tela, kým si jedna vnímavá terapeutka nevšimla reč jeho očí. Vtedy sa všetko začalo meniť k lepšiemu a Martin sa naučil komunikovať pomocou prístroja. Svoj príbeh vyrozprával v knihe Väzeň vo vlastnom tele. Úprimne v nej opísal mrazivé podrobnosti zo života nehybného človeka, ktorý intenzívne vnímal okolitý svet – počnúc zneužívaním ľuďmi, ktorí sa nazdávali, že jeho mozog už dávno nepracuje, až po nádej, ktorú mu dodávali tí, čo verili v jeho návrat medzi „živých“. Martinovo rozprávanie nám predstaví svet zdanlivej temnoty a hlboko sa dotkne čitateľovej duše svojou múdrosťou, humorom a vďačnosťou k životu.

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When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers and then captured, it is only a matter of time before he breaks his chains and begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn, with his wayward brother Jayan, into the alluring world of ivory hunting, while his family relationships grow ever more complicated. Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and revenge, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination and arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original and heartbreaking story about how we treat nature, and each other.