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Leaving Home
ISBN: 9781400095650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In her exquisite new novel, Brookner deals with one of the great dramas of one's life: growing up and leaving home. At 26, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture out into the wider world.
In her exquisite new novel, Brookner deals with one of the great dramas of one's life: growing up and leaving home. At 26, Emma Roberts comes to the p...
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Look at Me
ISBN: 9780679738138 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.
A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to...
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Brief Lives
ISBN: 9780241979396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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A Start in Life
ISBN: 9780241977750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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A Closed Eye
ISBN: 9780679743408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives. In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lyt...
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A Start in Life
ISBN: 9780241981498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literatu...
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Family and Friends
ISBN: 9780241977781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Hotel Du Lac
ISBN: 9780679759324 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses.
But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a... In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal...
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Hotel du Lac : Roman. Mit einem Vorwort von Elke Heidenreich. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize 1984
ISBN: 9783961610792 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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The Bay Of Angels
ISBN: 9780241977835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' Zoe is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoe and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . . 'One of her very best - possibly her finest . . . reverberates long after it's put down ... Brookner in all her...
'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' Zoe is...
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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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Eine Mesalliance
ISBN: 9783961611188 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die verletzte weibliche Seele Die verletzte weibliche Seele |
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Ein tugendhafter Mann
ISBN: 9783961611980 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein heldenhaftes, abenteuerliches Leben, das wäre Lewis Percys Ideal. Ein Leben, wie es die Männer in den Romanen führen, die er studiert. Doch in der Realität wohnt er mit seiner Mutter zusammen in einem Londoner Vorort. Lange geht er den Weg des geringsten Widerstands, bis er an einen Pubkt gelangt, an dem er sich entscheiden muss, ob sich nicht doch ein Stück Abenteuer ins Dasein retten lässt. »Brillant.« THE NEW YORK TIMES Ein heldenhaftes, abenteuerliches Leben, das wäre Lewis Percys Ideal. Ein Leben, wie es die Männer in den Romanen führen, die er studiert. |
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The Next Big Thing
ISBN: 9780241977842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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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 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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Brief Lives
ISBN: 9780679737339 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The latest novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac chronicles an unlikely friendship between two very different women thrust together by their husbands' business partnership--and by a guilty secret. Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight.--The Washington Post Book World.
The latest novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac chronicles an unlikely friendship between two very different women thrust together...
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Altered States
ISBN: 9780241979518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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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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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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