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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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Wish You Were Here
ISBN: 9780307744395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction |
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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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Shuttlecock
ISBN: 9780679739333 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him. And as Prentis desperately tries to hold on to the scraps of his sanity, he uncovers a conspiracy of blackmail and betrayal that extends from his department and into the buried past of his father, a war hero code-named "Shuttlecock"--and, lately, a resident of a hospital for the insane.
Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going cra...
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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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Wish You Were Here
ISBN: 9781471161988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called `Profound and powerful . . . an unputdownable read' by Scotland on Sunday. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton - former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park - receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother's remains, but also to return...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called `Profound and power...
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Twelve Post-War Tales: 'A marvel of the storyteller's art', Financial Times
ISBN: 9781398535510 / Angielski / Miękka / 07-05-2026 Książka dostępna od: 07-05-2026 |
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The Sweet-Shop Owner
ISBN: 9780679739807 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop owner, confronts the specters of his beautiful and distant wife and his clever, angry daughter, the history through which he has passed, and the great, unrequited passion that has tormented him for forty years.
The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally ...
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Twelve Post-War Tales
ISBN: 9780593803387 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Bill Unwin, an academic of dubious status, has never recovered from the death of his famous actress wife and is now convalescing from a recent brush with his own mortality. He has two tales to tell. One, spanning post-war Paris, 1950s Soho and contemporary sexual and scholarly entanglements, surveys the muddle of his own life. The other, drawn from the notebooks of a Victorian ancestor, is the very different story of Matthew Pearce, a serious-minded man whose happiness is destroyed by...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Bill Unwin, an academic of dubious status...
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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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The Sweet Shop Owner
ISBN: 9781471187353 / 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 For forty years, Willy Chapman has struck a strange but steadfast bargain between the two poles of his life: his beautiful but emotionally damaged wife and the sweet shop he runs on a south London high street. Devoted to each, he has maintained a delicate, precarious balance. Now, on a hot summer's day, he attempts to settle his final accounts and reach an understanding with a third, disruptive element in his reckoning: his angry, unforgiving daughter. Spanning five decades and...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner For forty years, Willy Chapman has struck...
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels 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,...
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 The classic edition of one of the 20th Century's finest novels Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butc...
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Da sind wir : Der neue Roman des Man-Booker-Preisträgers
ISBN: 9783423282208 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Hypnotisch erzählt der große englische Romancier Graham Swift von den magischen Momenten im Leben, die sich selten im Rampenlicht abspielen.
Hypnotisch erzählt der große englische Romancier Graham Swift von den magischen Momenten im Leben, die sich selten im Rampenlicht abspielen.
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Mothering Sunday
ISBN: 9781471155246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland
The Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland
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England und andere Stories : Erzählungen
ISBN: 9783423146166 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Ein Höhepunkt in Swifts Werk." Lothar Müller in 'Süddeutsche Zeitung'
"Ein Höhepunkt in Swifts Werk." Lothar Müller in 'Süddeutsche Zeitung'
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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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Da sind wir
ISBN: 9783423148023 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Jack Robbins und Ronnie Dean sind Freunde und sie träumen beide vom Ruhm - Jack als Entertainer, Ronnie als Zauberer. Nach ihrer Militärzeit lassen sie das berüchtigte Londoner East End hinter sich und stürzen sich Ende der 50er-Jahre ins flirrende Showgeschäft. Als die bezaubernde Evie White zu ihnen stößt, steigt ihr Stern, bis er zu verglühen droht: Aus Freunden werden Rivalen. Denn Evie - erst Ronnies Assistentin, später seine Verlobte - beginnt eine Affäre mit Jack. Wenig später verschwindet Ronnie während eines Auftritts und bleibt verschwunden. Als könnte er wirklich... Jack Robbins und Ronnie Dean sind Freunde und sie träumen beide vom Ruhm - Jack als Entertainer, Ronnie als Zauberer. Nach ihrer Militärzeit lass... |
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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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