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''Brilliant... a biting critique of the orientalist, gender and class attitudes that shape Britain today. I loved it.'' Preti Taneja It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime: the open road, London to Kathmandu, just three young people looking for adventure. No one could have predicted the way it ended, and for fifty years the truth has been buried. But now, Joyce is ready to tell her story. London, 1970. Fresh out of a dead-end job, Joyce answers an ad in the local paper: Kathmandu by van, leave August. Share petrol and costs. Joyce is desperate to escape life in suburbia, and aristocrat Freddie looks like he can show her a wild time. Together with Anton, Freddie’s best friend from boarding school, they embark on the overland trail from London to Kathmandu in a beaten-up old Land Rover. But as they cross the borders into Asia, Freddie can’t outrun his family’s history, leading to devastating consequences for everyone.Overland is a novel about youth, privilege, class and the sharp echoes of British imperialism from one of the most exciting new voices in literary fiction.

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Moje pravda - Yasmin Rahmanová

Blíží se maturita a nejlepší kamarádky Amani a Huda začínají být nervózní. Nejen ze zkoušek, ale i z?budoucnosti. Plachá Amani má na první pohled dokonalou rodinu: úspěšného otce, rozkošného mladšího bratra a matku, která je miluje. Huda naopak vyrůstá u láskyplných pěstounů, kteří právě čekají vlastní dítě. Obě si navzájem závidí snadný život, aniž by si uvědomovaly, že za pozlátkem se skrývají i starosti. Jenže pak Huda zahlédne, jak Amanin otec uhodí její matku a kamarádčino největší tajemství je venku. Potom se rozjede školní blog, který odhaluje osobní životy studentů a na nikom nezůstane nit suchá. Dostane se anonymní autor i k Amaninu tajemství? A dokáže Huda mlčet?Doporučený věk 15+

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The Coin - Zaher Yasmin

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mindThe Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags. But America is stifling her - her wilfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness and the narrator unravels spectacularly.In enthralling, sensory prose, The Coin explores nature and civilisation, beauty and justice, class and belonging - all while resisting easy moralising. Provocative, wry and inviting, The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.

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