Spójrz na świat oczami Joanne Harris, a życie stanie się ciekawsze. Może do buta przyklei ci się szczęśliwy los na loterię? Może znany od lat sąsiad zaskoczy cię swoim hobby? Harris...
Opowieść paraboliczna o grupie młodych chłopców, którzy ocaleli z katatastrofy lotniczej w okresie nieoznaczonego konfliktu nuklearnego. Rozbitkowie znajdują schronienie na nieznanej, egzotycznej wyspie. Pomimo...
"Achingly beautiful…Ha Jin depicts the details of social etiquette, of food, of rural family relationships and the complex yet alarmingly primitive fabric of provincial life with that absorbed passion for minutiae characteristic of Dickens and...
Fleeing Stalin’s advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Vytas, a young doctor who gets into medical school by saving a child’s life, is haunted by a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress whose...
Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the nature of his...
"[A] distinguished piece of fiction…[Its] power of historical immediacy gives the novel its thrust, its larger and, if you wish, 'universal' value." The New York Times
"I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of man....
Ivan Klima was in the United States when Russian tanks entered Prague in 1968 but, against the advice of friends, he returned home. He became a dissident, writing books (never published) that were invariably inspired by Czechoslovakia's repressive...
Though best known now for his novels, this collection of pre-exile short stories by the renowned Romanian author and "onirist" not only show Dumitru Tsepeneag at his best, but provide a glimpse into the secret history of surrealism...
Berlin, 07.06.1942. Auf einer Parkbank in der Nähe der Siegessäule wird eine Leiche entdeckt. Zunächst deutet alles auf Selbstmord hin, doch Kommissar Tom Sydow will nicht so recht daran glauben. Zumal es sich bei dem Toten um ein...