Anne Tyler Knihy

Reštaurácia je rovnako jedinečná ako život jej majiteľa. Jeho reštaurácia je mu útočiskom aj miestom úniku. Radšej chce byť samotárom bez domova ako by sa mal podrobiť tuctovým konvenciám dobrých a spoľahlivých občanov , ktorí zničili životy jeho najbližších. Ezra nie je sám ani vo svojej osamelosti.

Tridsaťročný Barnaby má za sebou búrlivú mladosť a je čiernou ovcou váženej rodiny. Tento dobrosrdečný mladý muž sa s humorom jemu vlastným snaží nájsť si miesto na zemi a odhaliť to, na čom vlastne v živote najviac záleží. Bývalá manželka ním pohŕda. Matka mu vyčíta nedostatok ambícií a neochotu pracovať s otcom v zabehnutej nadácii. A hoci má Barnaby trvalé zamestnanie, ktoré sa všeobecne nepokladá za prestížne, niektorí ľudia naňho pozerajú cez prsty. Jemu však jeho práca poskytla zázemie a našiel tu ľudí, ktorí sú naňho odkázaní a ktorým na ňom záleží. V Barnabyho rodine sa traduje, že každý z nich niekedy v živote stretne svojho anjela, ktorý zmení jeho život na dobré. Barnaby ešte zatiaľ nestretol svojho anjela. A možno ním je práve mladá Sophia...

Americká prozaička Anne Tylerová v románe Dychové cvičenia, za ktorý bola odmenená Pulitzerovou cenou (1989), opisuje jeden deň v živote Maggie a Iru Moranovcov. Hoci predstavujú nanajvýš nesúrodý manželský pár — Ira je životom sklamaný, večne nespokojný a introvertný, kým Maggie prekypuje energiou, je spontánna, výbušná, posadnutá potrebou každému pomôcť — napokon zisťujú, že ich zväzok je napriek vzájomným výhradám nerozlučný. Autorke, pohybujúcej sa na pomedzí komickosti a tragickosti, sa podaril autentický portrét americkej rodiny stredných vrstiev, ktorých životné kolízie i drobné radosti sú však blízke ktorejkoľvek rodine. Tým, že do deja vsúva spomienky oboch protagonistov a mení perspektívu rozprávania, docieľuje šírku a mnohovrstevnosť románu. A. Tylerová (1941) vyštudovala slavistiku na Columbijskej univerzite a svojimi jedenástimi románmi patrí k popredným autorkám súčasnej americkej literatúry — kritika ju prirovnáva k J. Updikeovi. Jej preferovanými témami sú partnerské či rodinné vzťahy, ktoré spracúva s obdivuhodným psychologickým vcítením a s láskavým humorom. Predchádzajúci román Cesty pána Learyho (1985) bol úspešne sfilmovaný.

Through every family run memories which bind it together, despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Now as Pearl lies dying, stifly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it its secrets.

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste.

Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly. He measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life. But then the order of things starts to tilt. And when a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son, Micah is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle...

A major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, from giving a child a ride to a painstaking Easter lunch, a fateful train journey to an unexpected homecoming. And it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations.

A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of French Braid Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life- her mother's disappearance when she was just a child, being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one, the accident that would leave her a widow in her forties. Each time, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call from a stranger informing her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter leads Willa into uncharted territory and the eventual realisation that it's never too late to choose your own path. **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE** 'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce 'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks 'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor. Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler’s work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.

Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The Taming of the Shrew."