2005: In the midst of a cold Montreal winter, a Cambodian woman, known only to us as 'Janie', separates from her husband and son. She takes refuge in the apartment of her friend, the neurologist Hiroji Matsui, but one day he leaves the Brain...
Nearly ten years into a horrific civil war which has claimed the lives of millions, and that neither side seems to be winning, a squad of guerrillas crawls through the remains of a once-great city far behind enemy lines. Tired, embittered, always...
The first edition of Dolores was published in 1911. It sold well, and was promptly forgotten. Now that her career of sixty years is ended, and her long achievement more and more acclaimed, Dolores, standing at that remote beginning, is curiously...
»Dom dzienny, dom nocny« jest najambitniejszym projektem prozatorskim Olgi Tokarczuk. Ta pełna melancholijnego smutku (a miejscami i okrucieństwa) książka oferuje nam w finale wspaniały, optymistyczny koncept. Otwiera nas na poznawanie...
W typowych romansach zawsze jest tak: Ona spotyka Jego (lub On J?), potem si? zakochuj?, co? im przeszkadza, ale w ko?cu odbywa si? wesele i "?yj? d?ugo i szcz??liwie". W "Domu na klifie" zawarcie ma??e?stwa jest potrzebne ze...
Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm is nearly ruined by a trusted employee named Carker who also runs away with...