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"...
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Klątwa templariuszy zbiera krwawe żniwo. Ludwik Kłótliwy umiera otruty. Po raz pierwszy od trzystu lat władca z rodu Kapetyngów odchodzi, nie pozostawiając męskiego potomka, a córka króla posądzana jest o nieprawe pochodzenie. Rozpoczyna...
“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...
'Can there be a more unreliable narrator than a teenage girl?'
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Intercut with the realities of their adult relationship, Fiona...
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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...