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The Claimant
ISBN: 9781533448415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In the turbulent political summer of 1968, the lives of four very different people become inextricably intertwined. All four are shape-shifters, identity-switchers, two for criminal reasons, two for blameless purposes of survival. One of the four is a smooth con man, a charmer similar in style to Bernie Madoff, stylish, gentlemanly, classy and unencumbered by a conscience. Another is an equally charming and even smoother serial killer who never arouses suspicion. The four lives are scattered (to Vietnam, to France, to Australia) but are drawn back together in Manhattan in 1996 for the trial...
In the turbulent political summer of 1968, the lives of four very different people become inextricably intertwined. All four are shape-shifters, ident...
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Isobars: Stories
ISBN: 9780807117101 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Lonely characters harboring bad memories often slip into dreamy phases of the subconscious in a collection of fifteen stories that unfold around the globe.
Lonely characters harboring bad memories often slip into dreamy phases of the subconscious in a collection of fifteen stories that unfold around the g...
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82,53 |
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Izobary
ISBN: 9788090244399 / Czeski / 1999 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Výbor povídek kanadsko-australské autorky, která patří mezi nejznámější současné žijící prozaičky píšící v angličtině. V jejích povídkách se odrážejí různorodá prostředí, kterými prošla. Zabývá se tématy charakteristickými pro konec 20. století: ztráta pevných bodů a životních konstant, překračování či smazávání hranic dělících společenské třídy, rasy a kultury.
Výbor povídek kanadsko-australské autorky, která patří mezi nejznámější současné žijící prozaičky píšící v angličtině. V jejích...
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38,03 |
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North of Nowhere, South of Loss: Stories
ISBN: 9780393327526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In these prize-winning, "heartbreakingly nuanced" ("Speakeasy") stories, Janette Turner Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of loss; lovers meeting again in midlife re-experience, through the memory of photographs both real and imagined, the passion that both frightened and thrilled them; a young dental hygienist adrift, living in a hostel in northern Australia, receives a heart-wrenching visit from her drug-dependent brother; a mother and adolescent daughter move into a new house, and their sense of safety is shaken when the previous owner reappears, desperate to reclaim what he has...
In these prize-winning, "heartbreakingly nuanced" ("Speakeasy") stories, Janette Turner Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of loss; lovers me...
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91,04 |
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Orpheus Lost
ISBN: 9780393334142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus myth, Leela, a young mathematician, encounters gifted Australian musician Mishka performing in the subway. The connection is immediate; a steamy love affair ensues. Insulated by their love, the pair ignores the anxious urban landscape. But when Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation center and an explosion rocks the subway, the fabric of their bond--and their very identities--begins to unravel. Reading group guide included.
In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus myth, Leela, a young mathematician, encounters gifted Australian musician Mishka performing in the subwa...
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98,64 |
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Dislocations: Stories
ISBN: 9780393306811 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation: from their culture, from their native countries, from themselves. Her intimate stories capture the turning points in her characters lives from Indian lovers on a last romantic weekend before their arranged marriages to a daughter's welcome home after years of travel. Janette Turner Hospital is a wanderer herself. A native of Australia, she has lived in India, England, Canada, and...
These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's cha...
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76,02 |
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The Last Magician
ISBN: 9780393325270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Last Magician is about power and betrayal, sexual obsession and social ostracism. At its center is Lucy, a good girl and a whore, whose nights are spent in a kaleidoscope of identities as she dons the masks her customers demand. Charlie is a photographer, filmmaker, voyeur, and the last magician--monitoring Lucy, piecing together the splinters of evidence surrounding the death of a child and a murder that happened half a lifetime ago. A New York Times Notable Book. Reading group guide included.
The Last Magician is about power and betrayal, sexual obsession and social ostracism. At its center is Lucy, a good girl and a whore, whose n...
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91,04 |
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Due Preparations for the Plague
ISBN: 9780393325737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital's electrifying novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions, and of individual and national...
Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New Yor...
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102,44 |
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Oyster
ISBN: 9780393319361 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Outer Maroo, a small, opal mining town in the Australian outback, is stewing in heat, drought, and guilty anxiety. Some ghastly cataclysm has occurred on the opal fields, but this is a taboo subject. At the heart of the mystery is the cult messiah, Oyster, dressed in white, sexually compelling, and preaching the end of time.
Outer Maroo, a small, opal mining town in the Australian outback, is stewing in heat, drought, and guilty anxiety. Some ghastly cataclysm has occurred...
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102,44 |
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Flesh in Armour : A Novel
ISBN: 9781570037702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Leonard Mann privately published his first novel, Flesh in Armour, in Melbourne in 1932, after he was unable to place it with a publisher in Australia or England. The novel was an immediate success, and Mann was subsequently awarded the Australian Literature Society's gold medal for outstanding book of the year. The book's merits then established, it was republished in England and Australia in 1944. Nearly 420,000 Australians enlisted during World War I, and more than half were killed, wounded, or captured. The conflict was the most costly in Australia's history. In the fates of his...
Leonard Mann privately published his first novel, Flesh in Armour, in Melbourne in 1932, after he was unable to place it with a publisher in Australia...
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82,53 |
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