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Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - Claire Keeganová
A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHYA SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut'Masterly.' The Times'Miraculous.' Herald'Astonishing.' Colm Tóibín'Stunning.' Sunday Independent'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas StuartIt is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season.As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. Claire Keegan's book Small Things Like These was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 05-11-2022-----Readers love Small Things Like These: ????? 'Gripping and very moving and thought-provoking ... brilliantly done, but also softly and slowly.You'll never regret reading this book, but it will haunt you for ever after.'????? 'I haven't loved a book for so long. This has changed it. Every word counted.Moral, heartfelt & a beautiful read.'????? 'This is a beautifully written story, both simple and profound. Set at Christmas, it is, in essence, an exploration of the best and the worst of what it is to be human. A stunning achievement.'????? 'A remarkable novel - short, succinct, moving.I read it in one sitting early on a Sunday morning before anybody else was up.'????? 'This book needs to sit and settle with the reader after it's read. Much lies here within what seems a simple tale. It strikes to the heart.'
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Small Things Like These - Claire Keeganová
** A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement **One of the New York Times'' ''100 Best Books of the 21st Century''A Sunday Times and Irish Times BestsellerSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS‘Exquisite.’ Damon Galgut‘Masterly.’ The Times‘Miraculous.’ Herald‘Astonishing.’ Colm Tóibín‘Stunning.’ Sunday Independent‘Absolutely beautiful.’ Douglas StuartIt is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him — and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.Claire Keegan''s book Small Things Like These was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 05-11-2022
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The Overstory: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 (1784708240)
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BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - Karen Joy Fowlerová
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin' Sunday Times Book of the MonthIn 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instability - moves to a remote cabin outside Baltimore with his wife, who bears him ten children.Of the six who survive infancy, one is John Wilkes - the hot-tempered but much-loved middle son who, in 1865, fatally shoots Abraham Lincoln in a Washington theatre, changing the course of history.What makes a murderer? His family or the world? And how can those who love him ever come to terms with his actions? Strikingly relevant to the world today, Booth is the story of one extraordinary family and the terrible act that shattered their bonds forever.
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Small Things Like These (0571368700)
Kniha - 128 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.
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Study for Obedience: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Sarah Bernstein
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2023NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise BennettA woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address.And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property...
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The Bee Sting: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Paul Murray
Ambitious, expansive, hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction' Irish TimesThe Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman.His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil?Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?
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The Sellout: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 (1786070170)
Kniha - autor Paul Beatty, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná
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James: The Powerful Reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author of The Trees - Percival Everett
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha HaEnthralling and ferociously funny, James by Percival Everett is a profound meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love. It is also a bold reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as the enslaved Jim emerges to reclaim his voice and defy the conventions that have consigned him to the margins.The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan.Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise.With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he is desperate to protect and the constant lie he must live. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most dangerous, and life-changing, odyssey of them all . . .'A captivating response to Mark Twain’s classic that is both a bold exploration of a dark chapter in history and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit' – the 2024 Booker Prize judges 'James has the potential to become a classic . . . thrilling, bold and profound' – The Sunday Times'This is the work of an American master at the peak of his powers' – Financial Times‘Funny and horrifying, brilliant and riveting . . . Who should read this book? Every single person in the country’ – Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 - Daniel Mendelsohn
From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols in his estranged classicist son Daniel’s course on the Odyssey, the journey of a lifetime commences. Professor and student glean life lessons from the page over a semester and, that summer, son and father take to the sea to follow Odysseus’s epic trail. Reading Homer becomes their chance to understand each other before it’s too late. Theirs is a moving and erudite story of filial love and the importance of the classics. Rich with literary and emotional insight and weaving themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home, this is memoir writing at its finest.
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Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 (152901929X)
Kniha - autor Stuart Douglas, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas...
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Walk the Blue Fields - Claire Keeganová
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan is the long awaited second collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These. A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out.A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone.And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair. In her long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.
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So Late in the Day - Claire Keeganová
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The TimesAfter an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently.All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed. From one of the finest writers working today, Keegan's new story asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women. 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel'Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Toibin
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The Forester´s Daughter: Faber Stories - Claire Keeganová
*From the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These*Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord.She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog will break her daughter's heart, she's sure of it. Claire Keegan's mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victor Deegan, with his 'three teenagers, the milking and the mortgage'.When Deegan finds a gun dog and gives it as a present to his only daughter, his wife is filled with foreboding at this seeming act of kindness. As the seasons pass, long-buried family secrets threaten to emerge. Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
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Lucy by the Sea: From the Booker-shortlisted author of Oh William! - Elizabeth Stroutová
''A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own'' Hilary MantelFROM THE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR ''It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us''In March 2020 Lucy Barton''s ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it''s just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea.Rich with empathy and a searing clarity, Lucy by the Sea evokes the fragility and uncertainty of the recent past, as well as the possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this miraculous novel are the deep human connections that sustain us, even as the world seems to be falling apart.''A terrific writer'' Zadie Smith''I cannot get Lucy Barton out of my head'' The Times''She gets better with each book'' Maggie O''FarrellSunday Times bestseller, October 2022Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 2022Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 2009Elizabeth Strout''s new novel Tell Me Everything is available for pre-order now!
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Victory City: The new novel from the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight´s Children - Salman Rushdie
In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga - literally 'victory city' - the wonder of the world. Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana's life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga's as she attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and as years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, Bisnaga is no exception.
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Antarctica - Claire Keeganová
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' George Saunders'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' ObserverA secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor.A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.
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Foster - Claire Keeganová
A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan's classic and beloved novella Foster.
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Foster - Claire Keeganová
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is.
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Takové maličkosti - Claire Keeganová
Podmanivý příběh nominovaný na prestižní Man Bookerovu cenu 2022 lze číst jako báji o dobru a zlu nebo podobenství o laskavosti. Přivádí nás do irského města poloviny osmdesátých let sužovaného prosincovými mrazy a vrcholí na Štědrý den, kdy skutečným zázrakem je tiché hrdinství a odvaha jednoho obyčejného muže. V předvánočních týdnech čeká Billa Furlonga, obchodníka s uhlím a dřevem, nejrušnější období. Irsko skličované recesí ještě nevkročilo do moderní doby a fronty na podporu jsou pořád delší. Furlong ví, jak snadné je přijít o všechno, a jako otec pěti nezletilých dcer je odhodlaný tvrdě pracovat se sklopenou hlavou, aby si nenadělal nepřátele a mohl sledovat, jak všechny jeho děti dostudují na jediné dobré dívčí škole ve městě. Mezi Furlongovy klienty patří místní klášter spravovaný jeptiškami, provozujícími také prádelnu. O klášteru se vedou různé řeči, krom jiného že jsou tam zavřené padlé dívky, které se mají napravit. Furlong ničemu z toho věřit nechce, ovšem jednou večer dorazí do kláštera s nákladem o hodně dřív, než ho čekali, a odhalí temné tajemství. Když o chvíli později zabloudí v mlze a ptá se staříka na cestu, dostane se mu symbolické odpovědi: "Tahle cesta vede tam, kam chceš jít, chlapče." Nesentimentální novela je psána průzračně čistým stylem. Chválí ji i taková jména ostrovní literatury jako Hilary Mantelová či Colm Tóibín. A lze ji zařadit hned vedle Vánoční koledy Charlese Dickense a Vánoční vzpomínky Trumana Capoteho, děl slavných a u nás důvěrně známých.
Objev podobné jako Takové maličkosti - Claire Keeganová
Takové maličkosti - Claire Keeganová - audiokniha
Audiokniha: Koleda naruby. Před Štědrým dnem se ho život zeptá, zda je ochoten splatit i to málo štědrosti, jíž se zatím dočkal… Do Vánoc 1985 zbývá jeden jediný den, ale obchodníček s uhlím, dřívím a rašelinou Bill Furlong v irském městečku New Ross stále pilně zaváží zboží. Přestože ho dámská domácnost v podobě zjihlé manželky a pěti nezletilých děvčat nutí užívat si vyvrcholení adventu, ještě je třeba zaopatřit poslední sousedy. Přece nezmrznou! Navíc je záhodno popřát šťastné a veselé svátky místním hlavounům, neboť uštvaný dříč neví, kdy se to může hodit. Bez otopu nesmějí zůstat ani jeptišky z kláštera, na jehož přímluvě v kraji tolik záleží – ostatně závisí na něm i štěstí uhlířovy nejmladší dcery, jenže… Jenže sotva Bill zahlédne v kůlně vlivné katolické instituce onu zuboženou postavičku, všechno se v něm sevře. Sám se odmala protloukal jenom díky dobrodiní druhých, a rázem opět čelí mezní situaci. Dokáže neokázalý hrdina stejně odhodlaně rozetnout i kruh Zla, co se věčně tváří, jako by se nechumelilo? Podmanivě vánoční, a přesto kousavá novela, nominovaná na Bookerovu cenu 2022. Obdivovaná irská prozaička v ní poukazuje na poměry, které její zemi drtily ještě koncem 80. let. Pod knutou kléru bylo tehdejší Irsko na hony vzdálené dnešní vzorové prosperitě. Víra nevíra, svátky nesvátky. „S obdobně tichým zaujetím, s jakým sněhové vločky zasypávají zemi, v nás tahle knížečka postupně hromadí nezpochybnitelné přesvědčení, že čteme budoucí klasické dílo. Pořiďte si ji hned dvojmo. Jednu si nechte a druhou darujte.“ – The Washington Post. „Keeganová váží slova a řadí větu za větou tak precizně, že nakonec nadchne i rafinovaně jemným odsudkem. Dokonale zvládnuté umění skrýt vše podstatné mezi řádky.“ – The Times Literary Supplement. „Čirá krása. Omamné a vzrušující irské vyprávění z rodu těch, co překračují hranice zemí i hrany epoch.“ – The New York Times. „Už to není zničující pozorování jako v autorčiných předešlých novelách. Snad poprvé je u ní ladnost výrazu tak nadějeplná, tak prosvětlená – naprostý opak stínů číhajících na druhé straně zavátého maloměsta.“ – The Guardian. „Vánoční příběh Keeganové naznačuje, že dary, jež jsme kdysi dostali, bychom měli dopřát i druhým. Pokud to potřebují. (…) U málokterého díla současného spisovatele najdeme takové spojení: zemité příběhy a téměř nábožnou úctu, kterou si jimi získává.“ – Lidové noviny. „[Autorčina] tvorba se vyznačuje vycizelovanou úsporností. Píše ‚jen‘ to, co napsat musí, to správné a nejpodstatnější. (…) V jejích textech tak nacházíme výjimečnou hloubku. Zdánlivě jednoduchým příběhům obyčejných lidí propůjčuje obecnou platnost, což se týká i ústřední postavy Takových maličkostí – hrdiny, který ‚začínal od nuly. Podle některých až z mínusu.‘“ – iliteratura.cz.
Objev podobné jako Takové maličkosti - Claire Keeganová - audiokniha
Na konci dne - Claire Keeganová
V trojici brilantních povídek Keeganová zkoumá různé podoby vztahů a příčiny toho, co je narušuje a ničí. V titulním příběhu Na konci dne nás seznamuje s mužem, který tráví dlouhý víkend osudovým přemítáním nad ženou, s níž by mohl strávit život, jen kdyby se byl kdysi zachoval jinak, než jak se stalo. V následující povídce Pomalá, bolestná smrt sledujeme spisovatelku na rezidenčním pobytu v přímořském domě literáta Heinricha Bölla. Její pobyt ovšem naruší příjezd akademika, který ji vnucuje nejen svoje názory, ale také samu svou přítomnost. Třetí příběh Antarktida věnuje autorka vdané ženě, která odjíždí z města s jasným cílem: Zjistit, jaké to je, vyspat se s jiným mužem. Plány se nevyvíjí tak, jak si představovala, a ona končí v sevření majetnického cizince. Každý z příběhů sleduje jiný osud, přesto je všem společné téma pokřivených vztahů a zkoumání toho, co mezi ženy a muže klade překážky. Ať už jde o nedostatek štědrosti, tíhu očekávání či přítomnost hrozícího násilí. Na první pohled nenápadné povídky jsou hluboké, silné a zůstanou ve čtenářích ještě dlouho po přečtení poslední stránky.
Objev podobné jako Na konci dne - Claire Keeganová
Takové maličkosti - Claire Keeganová - e-kniha
eBook: Podmanivý příběh nominovaný v roce 2022 na prestižní Man Bookerovu cenu lze číst jako podobenství o boji dobra se zlem. Přivádí nás do irského města poloviny osmdesátých let 20. století sužovaného prosincovými mrazy a vrcholí na Štědrý den, kdy skutečným zázrakem je tiché hrdinství a odvaha jednoho obyčejného muže. V předvánočních týdnech čeká Billa Furlonga, obchodníka s uhlím a dřevem, nejrušnější období. Irsko skličované recesí ještě nevkročilo do moderní doby a fronty na podporu jsou pořád delší. Furlong ví, jak snadné je přijít o všechno, a jako otec pěti nezletilých dcer je odhodlaný tvrdě pracovat se sklopenou hlavou, aby si nenadělal nepřátele a mohl sledovat, jak všechny jeho děti dostudují na jediné dobré dívčí škole ve městě. Mezi Furlongovy klienty patří místní klášter spravovaný jeptiškami, provozujícími také prádelnu. O klášteru se vedou různé řeči, krom jiného že jsou tam zavřené padlé dívky, které se mají napravit. Furlong ničemu z toho věřit nechce, ovšem jednou večer dorazí do kláštera s nákladem o hodně dřív, než ho čekali, a odhalí temné tajemství. Když o chvíli později zabloudí v mlze a ptá se staříka na cestu, dostane se mu symbolické odpovědi: „Tahle cesta vede tam, kam chceš jít, chlapče.“ Nesentimentální novela je psána průzračně čistým stylem. Chválí ji i taková jména ostrovní literatury jako Hilary Mantelová či Colm Tóibín. A lze ji právem zařadit po bok Vánoční koledy Charlese Dickense nebo Vánoční vzpomínky Trumana Capoteho, děl slavných a u nás důvěrně známých. Claire Keeganová Claire Keeganová (1968) vyrostla ve velké katolické rodině na farmě v chudém irském hrabství Wicklow. Vystudovala anglickou literaturu a politologii na Loyola University v New Orleans a následně získala magisterský titul v oboru tvůrčí psaní na University of Wales a titul z filozofie na dublinské Trinity College. Už její první kniha povídek Antarctica (Antarktida, 1999) se stala čtenářskou senzací a byla vyznamenána několika prestižními literárními cenami v Evropě i v USA. Mnohých ocenění se dočkala také následující sbírka Modrá pole (česky 2009) a kratší novela Třetí světlo (česky 2011), zařazená britským deníkem The Times mezi padesát nejlepších beletristických děl vydaných v 21. století. Zatím poslední autorčin titul Takové maličkosti (PROSTOR 2023) se probojoval na seznam šesti knih nominovaných na Man Bookerovu cenu 2022 – coby nejkratší próza v historii jejího udílení. Díla irské spisovatelky byla přeložena do třiceti jazyků včetně čínštiny, hebrejštiny a turečtiny.
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Na konci dne - Claire Keeganová - e-kniha
eBook: V trojici brilantních povídek zkoumá Claire Keeganová různé podoby vztahů mezi ženami a muži a příčiny toho, co je narušuje a ničí. V titulním příběhu Na konci dne nás seznamuje s mladíkem, který tráví dlouhý víkend osudovým přemítáním nad ženou, s níž mohl strávit život, kdyby se byl kdysi zachoval jinak. V následující povídce Pomalá, bolestná smrt sledujeme spisovatelku na rezidenčním pobytu v přímořském domě literáta Heinricha Bölla. Její práci ovšem naruší příjezd akademika, který jí vnucuje nejen vlastní názory, ale také samu svou přítomnost. Třetí příběh nazvaný Antarktida věnuje autorka vdané ženě, která odjíždí z města s jasným cílem: zjistit, jaké to je vyspat se s jiným mužem. Její plány se však nevyvíjejí tak, jak si představovala. Každý z příběhů sleduje jiný osud, přesto je všem společné téma pokřivených vztahů a zkoumání toho, co mezi ženy a muže klade překážky. Ať už jde o nedostatek štědrosti, tíhu očekávání či hrozbu násilí. Na první pohled nenápadné povídky jsou hluboké, silné a budou čtenáře provázet ještě dlouho po přečtení poslední stránky. Prozaická díla této autorky se těší mezinárodnímu uznání a byla přeložena do více než třiceti jazyků. Za knihu Antarctica (Antarktida, 1999) obdržela Rooneyho cenu za irskou literaturu. Modrá pole (Walk the Blue Fields, česky 2009) získala ocenění Edge Hill Prize za nejlepší sbírku povídek vydanou na Britských ostrovech. Třetí světlo (Foster, česky 2011) získalo Cenu Davyho Byrnese – světově nejvelkoryseji dotovanou cenu udělovanou za povídku. Novela Takové maličkosti (Small Things Like These, česky PROSTOR 2023) se dostala do užšího výběru Bookerovy ceny a ceny Rathbones Folio Prize. Obdržela Orwellovu cenu za politickou fikci a Kerryho cenu za irský román roku. V roce 2022 získala Claire Keeganová ocenění Žena roku za irskou literaturu a v roce 2023 cenu Autorka roku.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021''A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion'' Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021‘This book is a delight, and it’s about delight too. How necessary, at our particular moment’ Tessa Hadley________________From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
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Days Like These - Brian Bilston
A brilliant way to brighten each day. In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year.Each poem is inspired by a significant – often curious – event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the Rubik’s Cube to the first appearance of the phrase, ‘the best thing since sliced bread’.Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with friends, Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems will take the blues out of Monday, flatten the Wednesday hump, and amplify that Friday feeling.
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The God of Small Things - Arundhati Royová
‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt).Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit and magic.
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Friends Like These - Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
Tegan Sheffield's annual end-of-summer beach party is the only way to start their senior year. At least that's what Jake Healy tells his girlfriend Jessica Sanchez.But when a video prank from the party goes viral and a body is discovered at the beach, Jake and Jessica find themselves at the centre of a national media storm and a police investigation.It's a race to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again.
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The Joy of Small Things - Hannah Jane Parkinson
''This book is a not-so-small joy in itself.''NIGELLA LAWSON''Parkinson has the gift of making you look with new eyes at everyday things. The perfect daily diversion.''JOJO MOYES''Always funny and frank and full of insight, I absolutely love Parkinson’s writing.''DAVID NICHOLLS''I loved this book . . . Parkinson’s writing transports you to unexpected places of joy and comfort . . . these pages contain happiness.''MARINA HYDE''The twenty-first century feels a lot more bearable in Parkinson''s company.''CHARLOTTE MENDELSONDrawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days. Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown (''like bathing in marshmallow’), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts (''you’ll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice''), celebrates pockets and gleefully abandons a book she isn’t enjoying. Parkinson’s everyday exaltations – selected from her immensely successful Guardian column – will utterly delight.FEATURES BRAND NEW MATERIAL''A compendium of delights.''OBSERVER''Delightful . . . a love letter to those little moments of bliss that get us through the daily grind.''RED
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The Dutch House : Longlisted for the Women´s Prize 2020 - Ann Patchettová
Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime - the unforgettable Sunday Times bestseller 'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020 A STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CAN'T LET GO. Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been taken from us by the person who still lived inside.
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The God of Small Things (Collins Modern Classics) - Arundhati Royová
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hairEstha and Rahel, seven-year-old twins, are growing up amidst vats of banana jam, mountains of peppercorns and scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. But when their beautiful young cousin Sophie arrives, their world is irrevocably shaken. An illicit liaison and tragedies both accidental and intentional expose things that lurk unsaid, in a country drifting dangerously towards unrest.Winner of the Booker Prize, The God of Small Things is lush, lyrical and unnerving: a literary sensation and a modern classic.‘A voice of breathtaking beauty… a masterpiece’ Observer
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Ferry Bryan: These Foolish Things - LP (6763292)
LP vinyl - These Foolish Things je debutové sólové studiové album od Bryana Ferryho, který v té době byl ještě zpěvákem v Roxy Music. These Foolish Things je debutové sólové studiové album od Bryana Ferryho, který v té době byl ještě zpěvákem v Roxy Music. Rok vydání : 1973 (1.album sólo) Rok reedice : 2021 Seznam stop LP A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall / River Of Salt / Don't Ever Change / Piece Of My Heart / Baby I Don't Care / It's My Party / Don't Worry Baby / Sympathy For The Devil / The Tracks Of My Tears / You Won't See Me / I Love How You Love Me / Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever / These Foolish Things
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The Years – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE - Annie Ernaux
Considered by many to be the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate’s defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and collective, and a new genre – the collective autobiography – in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism’ (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.
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Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller (1788167228)
Kniha - autor Torrey Peters, 352 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel' Chris Kraus 'Tremendously funny and sexy as hell' Juliet Jacques 'I loved this very smart book from start to finish, with its beautifully drawn, complicated, and winning characters.' Madeleine Miller Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrina's pregnant. Could the...
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Zrcadlo a světlo: Román z tudorovské Anglie od držitelky dvou cen Man Booker Prize (978-80-257-3685-2)
Kniha - autor Hilary Mantel, 740 stran, česky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá V románu Zrcadlo a světlo se završuje trilogie pojednávající o osudech Thomase Cromwella, chudého kovářského syna, který se vlastními schopnostmi vypracoval na pravou ruku anglického krále Jindřicha VIII. První dva svazky - Wolf Hall a Předveďte mrtvé - líčí Cromwellův vzestup a okolnosti, za kterých se postupně stal Jindřichovým nepostradatelným rádcem. Zrcadlo a světlo navazuje přesně v okamžiku, kde druhý díl končil: kat si čistí krvavý meč, dvoní dámy ukládají do rakve bezhlavé tělo Anny Boleynové. A Thomas Cromwell vyráží na závěrečný úsek své pouti, přes vrchol politické moci a pád z výsluní královy obliby až k popravčímu špalku. Kritika označuje cromwellovskou trilogii Hilary Mantel za největší anglicky psaný historický román, který zatím v tomto století vznikl. Vydání knihy podpořilo Ministerstvo kultury České republiky
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The Duck Who Didn't Like Water - Small Steve
Duck is not like other ducks. Duck doesn’t like water and is perfectly fine alone, thank you very much.But then, one dark and stormy night, an outgoing, water-loving, and very lost Frog turns up at Duck’s door. Can this odd couple find Frog’s home? And will they find friendship along the way? This endearing, gorgeously illustrated tale marked the author-illustrator debut for Steve Small, illustrator of the highly acclaimed, I’m Sticking with You and is now available in this board book edition.
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Simple Passion – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE - Annie Ernaux
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, Ernaux seeks the truth behind an existence lived, for a time, entirely for someone else.
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A Woman's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE - Annie Ernaux
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux’s mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother’s condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the author’s own social ascent. Mirroring A Man’s Place, in which she narrates her father’s slow rise to material comfort, A Woman’s Story explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter, its fluctuation over the course of their lives, the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was.
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Best of Friends: from the winner of the Women´s Prize for Fiction - Kamila Shamsieová
Maryam and Zahra.In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome.Zahra and Maryam.In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power; and both have very different ideas of how to wield it. Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it be undone by one decision?'An epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship, the possibility of escape, the way the political world intrudes into the personal, all through the lens of two sharply drawn protagonists' Observer
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A Spell of Good Things - Ayobami Adebayo
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor and begging, dreaming of a big future.Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of family friends.When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola and Eniola''s lives become unexpectedly intertwined. In this breathtaking novel, Ayobami Adebayo shines her light on Nigeria, the gaping divides in its society, and the shared humanity that lives in between.
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Box na drobné předměty Printworks Small Things
Box na drobné předměty z kolekce Printworks. Model vyroben z umělohmotného materiálu.
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The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For - Douglas Adams
The Meaning of Liff has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since it was first published in 1983, and remains a much-loved humour classic. This edition has been revised and updated, and includes The Deeper Meaning of Liff, giving fresh appeal to Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's entertaining and witty dictionary. In life, there are hundreds of familiar experiences, feelings and objects for which no words exist, yet hundreds of strange words are idly loafing around on signposts, pointing at places. The Meaning of Liff connects the two.
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Diář 2022 Stranger Things
Anglický diář na rok 2022 s licenčním motivem.
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Booker Ervin - The Song Book (LP)
Země původu: USA Subžánr: Jazz Rychlost: 33 1/3 RPM Typ: Audiofilní kvalita;LP deska;Album Žánr: Jazz Dekáda interpreta: 1950 - 1959;1960 - 1969;1970 - 1979 Složení setu: 1 ks Vydavatelství: Analogue Productions Rok vydání: 2017.0 Barva podle výrobce: Black Varianta: The Song Book (Vinyl LP) Datum vydání: 2017-10-31 Země interpreta: USA Interpret / Téma: Booker Ervin Rok nahrávky: 1964.0 Barva: Černá Balení obsahuje: LP Hmotnost: 200 g
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The 50 Things : Lessons for When You Feel Lost, Love Dad - Peter Dunne
Humane, wise and funny letters to Peter's children; a blueprint for liberal, thoughtful living in the modern world.
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Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the YearShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004Winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the YearSouls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.*Please note that the end of p39 and p40 are intentionally blank*
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Obraz na zeď s textem Do small things
Obraz na plátně s realistický zobrazeným motivem ve vysoké kvalitě dostupný v různých rozměrech. Moderní obrazy pro moderní bydlení a moderní interiér. Motiv v digitální kvalitě vytištěn na kvalitním plátně, které je natažené na dřevěném rámu. Plátno natažené i po stranách rámu vytváří na stěně neopakovatelný 3D efekt. Ekologický výrobek bez zápachu. Obrazy na stěnu, které Vás prostě inspirují.
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Booker T. & The M.G.s - Green Onions (LP)
Žánr: Rock;Soul;Funk Subžánr: Rock;Classic Rock;Funk;Soul Barva: Černá Dekáda interpreta: 2020 - 2029;2010 - 2019;1980 - 1989;2000 - 2009;1970 - 1979;1990 - 1999;1960 - 1969 Složení setu: 1 ks Balení obsahuje: LP Země původu: Evropská unie Typ: Nové vydání;Album;LP deska Země interpreta: USA Hmotnost: 180 g Varianta: Green Onions (Vinyl LP) Rychlost: 33 1/3 RPM Vydavatelství: Rhino Records Interpret / Téma: Booker T. & The M.G.s Rok vydání: 2017.0 Datum vydání: 2017-06-23 Barva podle výrobce: Black
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The Four Books (Defekt) - Yan Lianke
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016. "One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists". (Guardian). In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the 'three bitter years', the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive. Divided into four narratives, The Four Books tells the story of the Great Famine, one of China's most devastating and controversial periods. WINNER OF THE FRANZ KAFKA PRIZE 2014. NOMINATED FOR CZECH AWARD MAGNESIA LITERA 2014. HUA ZHONG WORLD CHINESE LITERATURE PRIZE 2013. FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013. WINNER OF THE HUA ZHONG WORLD CHINESE LITERATURE PRIZE 2013. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2012. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2012. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE 2011. WINNER OF THE LAO SHE LITERATURE AWARD 2004. WINNER OF THE LU XUN AWARD 1997
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The Four Books - Yan Lianke
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016. "One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists". (Guardian). In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the 'three bitter years', the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive. Divided into four narratives, The Four Books tells the story of the Great Famine, one of China's most devastating and controversial periods. WINNER OF THE FRANZ KAFKA PRIZE 2014. NOMINATED FOR CZECH AWARD MAGNESIA LITERA 2014. HUA ZHONG WORLD CHINESE LITERATURE PRIZE 2013. FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013. WINNER OF THE HUA ZHONG WORLD CHINESE LITERATURE PRIZE 2013. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2012. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2012. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE 2011. WINNER OF THE LAO SHE LITERATURE AWARD 2004. WINNER OF THE LU XUN AWARD 1997
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Finally Mine: the unmissable small town love story from the author of Things We Never Got Over - Lucy Score
Gloria is due a happily ever after. She's lost ten years to a toxic, dangerous relationship. Now that she's finally free - and medicating with makeovers and margaritas in her mother's kitchen - she has a long road ahead of her remembering who she really is.And just when she has sworn off men for at least a decade more, along comes larger-than-life, hometown hero Aldo Moretta. He's saying all the right things and flirting in all the right ways, but he is leaving for six months.One dazzling kiss, and he's gone. Or so Gloria thought . . .
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