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Latecomers
ISBN: 9780141048291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. And in adulthood they have been unable to separate, sharing a successful business. Yet Hartmann's carefully polished manners conceal the past he refuses to think about. While Fibich, a mass of fears and neuroses, can do nothing but remember. Together these two men seek to build a future from the shaky foundations of their own pasts . . . 'Like Virginia Woolf, Brookner's aim is not to draw characters in the round,...
'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange...
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Hotel du Lac
ISBN: 9783961611072 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Ein fabelhafter Schmöker!« ELKE HEIDENREICH »Ein fabelhafter Schmöker!« ELKE HEIDENREICH |
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Fraud
ISBN: 9780679743088 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice?
As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through the eyes of her acquaintances, she gives us a witty yet ultimately devastating study of self-annihilating virtue while exposing the social, fiscal, and moral frauds that are the underpinnings of terrifying rectitude. At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappe...
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Look At Me
ISBN: 9780241977774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Seht mich an
ISBN: 9783961611539 / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Frances Hinton arbeitet in einer medizinischen Bibliothek und führt ein zurückgezogenes Leben, gemeinsam mit der früheren Haushälterin ihrer längst verstorbenen Mutter. Doch ihre eintönige Existenz wird von neuem Glanz erfüllt, als sie ein extravagantes Paar kennenlernt, das sie in ihren illustren Freundeskreis aufnimmt. Frances kann sich der Bewunderung des charmanten Nick und seiner umwerfenden Frau Alix nicht erwehren und schafft es mithilfe des glamourösen Paares, endlich aus ihrem Schattendasein herauszutreten. Doch muss Frances bald erkennen, dass diese neue aufregende Welt... Frances Hinton arbeitet in einer medizinischen Bibliothek und führt ein zurückgezogenes Leben, gemeinsam mit der früheren Haushälterin ihrer lÃ... |
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A Private View
ISBN: 9780679754435 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured, who incites in George the most alarming feelings.
Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Blan...
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Visitors
ISBN: 9780140264258 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dorothea May's tranquility is shattered by Kitty Levinson's announcement of her granddaughter's forthcoming marriage. As the wedding approaches, the scene is set for a highly charged conflict of generations, in which the claims of the young are in stark and selfish contrast to the disabling propriety of the old. "Visitors" is a vivid exploration of familial responsibilities and the expectations that perpetually threaten to overwhelm them.
Dorothea May's tranquility is shattered by Kitty Levinson's announcement of her granddaughter's forthcoming marriage. As the wedding approaches, the s...
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Visitors
ISBN: 9780679781479 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening.In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.
Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers.When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected family wedding, Thea's carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray.As the wedding approaches, old family... The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel ...
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Making Things Better
ISBN: 9781400031061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he s confronted by life s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his heart, Herz finds himself also blessed with a stirring sense of exhilaration. After a lifetime of deferring to others stronger wills, he faces a future of possibility, the only constraint the deeply...
Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling str...
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A Private View
ISBN: 9780241979471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Bay of Angels
ISBN: 9780375727603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoe Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zoe is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon s affection for his new family allows Zoe to pursue what she thinks is an independent life: her own apartment in a fashionable part of London, a university education, casual affairs, and carefree holidays at Simon s villa in Nice. When a series of unexpected calamities intervene, Zoe learns...
Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoe Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, ...
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Undue Influence
ISBN: 9780241977828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This superb new novel by the author who has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" (The New York Times) tells the story of Claire Pitt, a young woman who has lived most of her life under the watchful eyes of her parents. After her mother's death, Claire reexamines her day-to-day routine and her future in her London flat. She passes the time working in a bookstore, where she meets a mysterious and attractive young man whose wife is ill, and they begin a relationship that dramatically alters Claire's vision of herself, her past, and her future.
"Under Brookner's... This superb new novel by the author who has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" (The New York Times) tells the story of Claire...
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81,93 |
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Incidents in the Rue Laugier
ISBN: 9780241979488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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A Misalliance
ISBN: 9781400095223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While Blanche finds this turn of events baffling, she feels that Bertie must have left her because of her overly sensible demeanor. Yet many of their mutual friends disagree. In fact, Blanche has come to be regarded as undeniably eccentric--making elliptical remarks that no one knows how to read, and chatting at great length about characters in fiction. She resolutely fills her unwanted hours with activities, maintaining her excellent appearance,...
After twenty years of marriage Blanche Vernon is alone; abandoned by her husband Bertie for a childishly demanding computer expert named Mousie. While...
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The Debut
ISBN: 9781982107512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Lewis Percy
ISBN: 9780679729440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.
Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the...
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Fraud
ISBN: 9780241979419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Strangers
ISBN: 9780141040264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.' Paul Sturgis is a retired banker manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers: the cheerful Australian girl who cuts his hair, the lady at the drycleaners. His only relative, and only acquaintance, is a widowed cousin by marriage - herself a virtual stranger - to whom he pays ritualistic visits on a Sunday afternoon. Trying...
'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances ...
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The Rules of Engagement
ISBN: 9780141014128 / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Providence
ISBN: 9780679738145 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This brightly polished yet immensely touching comedy presents the romantic quest of Kitty Maule, who, in revenge against the impossibly charming and elusive man who rejects her, resolves to become totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful, to any number of others.
This brightly polished yet immensely touching comedy presents the romantic quest of Kitty Maule, who, in revenge against the impossibly charming and e...
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