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The Light of Day
ISBN: 9781400032211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, revisits the catastrophes of his past and reaffirms the extraordinary direction of his future. Two years before, an assignment to follow a strayed husband and his mistress appeared simple enough, but this routine job left George a transformed man. Suspenseful, moving, and hailed by critics as a detective story unlike any other, The Light of Day is a gripping tale of murder and redemption, as well as a bold exploration of love and self-discovery. This powerful novel...
On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, revisits the catastrophes of his past and rea...
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Out Of This World
ISBN: 9781471187476 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War veteran and prominent figure in the arms industry, is killed by a car bomb. The event cuts short the career of his son Harry, a news photographer, and comes close to destroying his granddaughter Sophie. Ten years later, Harry, now working in aerial photography, and Sophie, visiting an analyst in New York, remain scarred and divided by the event. Around their broken relationship and Harry's memories of his truncated career and his father, the novel...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War ve...
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Prentis, employed in the police archives, is becoming confused. His obsession with the plight of his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, is alienating him from his wife and children, while at work he feels under scrutiny from his intimidating boss, Quinn. Gradually, Prentis suspects that his father's breakdown and Quinn's menacing behaviour are related and that the connection is to be found in his father's memoir: `Shuttlecock'. Shuttlecock is an intense...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Prentis, employed in the police archives,...
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels by the winner of The Booker Prize One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history-and tell stories . . . Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner The classic edition of one of the 20th Ce...
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Waterland
ISBN: 9781841593562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, this book takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, this book takes in ee...
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Da sind wir, 4 Audio-CD : Ungekürzte Lesung mit Ulrich Noethen (4 CDs), Lesung. CD Standard Audio Format
ISBN: 9783742413550 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Mothering Sunday: A Romance
ISBN: 9781101971727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair--but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted.
As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers--expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Booker... On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the y...
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Nach dem Krieg
ISBN: 9783423284622 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Über Krieg und Frieden nach 1945 1959: Im Rathaus einer deutschen Kleinstadt steht Hans Büchner einem britisch-jüdischen Soldaten gegenüber, der den Verbleib seiner deutschen Verwandtschaft in Erfahrung bringen möchte. 1962: Kurz vor der Hochzeit seiner Tochter plagen Frank Green, einen ehemaligen Bomberpiloten, Sorgen um den Ausbruch eines Atomkriegs. 11. September 2001: Lucy, die philippinische Hausangestellte einer amerikanischen Diplomatenfamilie, besucht mit deren vierjährigem Sprössling den Londoner Zoo und fragt sich, inwieweit ihre Geburt am Tag des... Über Krieg und Frieden nach 1945 1959: Im Rathaus einer deutschen Kleinstadt steht Hans Büchner einem britisch-jüdischen ... |
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Here We Are
ISBN: 9781471188961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A quietly, devastating, magical novel' Daily Telegraph'Beautiful, gentle, intricate... Here We Are smuggles within the pages of a seemingly commonplace tale depths of emotion and narrative complexity that take the breath away.' The Observer It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each... A quietly, devastating, magical novel&#... |
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The Light of Day
ISBN: 9781471161964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday
An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday
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Waterland
ISBN: 9780679739791 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.
"Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."--"Los Angeles Times" Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book t...
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Out of This World
ISBN: 9780679740322 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter--each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged--surveying their losses and grievances on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
"A moving, ingenious and often very funny tale that takes us deep into his characters' wounded, resilient hearts with breathtaking virtuosity...rich, complicated, joyful, arresting."--USA Today Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating ...
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Twelve Post-War Tales: 'A marvel of the storyteller's art', Financial Times
ISBN: 9781398535480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and Mothering Sunday 'His archly modulated, precise prose, reminiscent at times of his friend Kazuo Ishiguro’s, has lost none of its power ... immensely readable late-career Swift from start to finish, Twelve Post-War Tales is a marvel of the storyteller's art', Financial Times ‘The characters in this collection share their thoughts and memories with the reader as though with a close friend, and the warmth of their confidences... The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and Mothering Sunday 'H... |
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Margate. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them . . . On the surface a simple tale of an increasingly bizarre day's outing, this Booker-prize winning, internationally acclaimed novel is a resonant and classic exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. Intensely local but overwhelmingly universal, faithful to the fleeting rhythms and accidental eloquence of everyday...
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes s...
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history-and tell stories . . . Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of time; a tale of two...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper H...
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Learning to Swim
ISBN: 9781471187544 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift's first collection of short stories confirms his power to bring an edge of the extraordinary, the dangerous or the subversive into otherwise familiar, safe, even comforting settings. On a holiday beach, a mismatched couple wage a sexually charged war for the devotion of their literally floundering son. A family doctor, oppressed by his own domestic insecurities, intimidates an apparent time-wasting patient. A zookeeper becomes the keeper of a bizarre fixation . . . ...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift's first collection of short ...
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Wasserland : Roman
ISBN: 9783423140539 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2011 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Eine hervorragende Beschreibung von England, eine bemerkenswerte Sicht auf das Land und die exzentrische und eigensinnige Mentalität seiner Bewohner." The Times
"Eine hervorragende Beschreibung von England, eine bemerkenswerte Sicht auf das Land und die exzentrische und eigensinnige Mentalität seiner Bewohner...
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Here We Are
ISBN: 9781471188930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Mothering Sunday and winner of the Booker Prize
The extraordinary new novel from the author of Mothering Sunday and winner of the Booker Prize
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Ein Festtag, 3 Audio-CDs : Ungekürzte Lesung mit Iris Berben (3 CDs), Lesung
ISBN: 9783862319978 / Niemiecki / Audio (mc/cd) / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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