New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal.
In the summer of 1968, the year of Prague Spring with a...
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Paryžius, 1897 m. kovas. Avantiūristas, falsifikatorius, slaptasis agentas kapitonas Simonas Simoninis savo dienoraštyje prisimena, kaip buvo įtrauktas į politines intrigas, visam laikui pakeitusias Europos...
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• Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize (2007)
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (2007)
A sweeping transcontinental novel of secrets and lies buried within a single family
Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg...
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Wydaną w 1996 r. powieść nagradzano wielokrotnie, m.in. Nagrodą im. Kościelskich, Paszportem „Polityki", nominacją do NIKE i wyróżnieniem publiczności w tym konkursie. Właśnie „Prawiekiem"...
“The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem’s concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in...
The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom...
The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an inhabitant of Beckett’s world: a dreamer who in his savage and deductive folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures,...
Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive...
The discoveries of recent years indicate that Russia may be older than Ancient Greece. This book includes the most valuable from dozens of sources and gives the reader a clear picture with the optimal amount of information from different fields of...