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God's Fool
ISBN: 9780393352641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an act of God. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. Mark Slouka recounts their tumultuous story, from the docks of Vietnam to American fame, with intimacy and compassion. A Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Dallas Morning News Best Book of the Year. Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an act of God. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. ... |
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Lost Lake
ISBN: 9781447219248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Set on the shores of Lost Lake, in upstate New York, these twelve tales tell of three generations of the small Czech community who have made their homes there, beside the water’s edge. Both land and lake feature large in their lives – shaping events, individuals, relationships: in the dead of night, a woman unhitches a boat and rows across the darkness to meet her lover; a young soldier sees hope for the future reflected in the water’s rippled surface; a boy recalls a catch of fish and learns to question the past as later presented. Characters emerge and re-emerge, time moves on, yet...
Set on the shores of Lost Lake, in upstate New York, these twelve tales tell of three generations of the small Czech community who have made their hom...
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Brewster
ISBN: 9780393348835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's childhood death and stuck in the dead-end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running track. Meanwhile, Ray Cappicciano, a rebel as gifted with his fists as Jon is with his feet, is trying to take care of his baby brother while staying out of the way of his abusive, ex-cop father. When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it's not until Ray falls in love with...
The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's chi...
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Daleko v srdci
ISBN: 9788072603961 / Czeski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Americký spisovatel Mark Slouka, syn českých rodičů, kteří po únorovém puči odešli do Spojených států, ve svém románu Syn bez rodičů skládá kousek po kousku spletitou a často neveselou mozaiku svého života. Rozhodl se odhalit své nitro, použít psaní jako určitou formu terapie a strhnout závoj z dětských vzpomínek na své rodiče. Centrálním bodem memoárů je však především jeho matka, která pro mladého chlapce znamenala během jeho dospívání celý svět a po dlouhou dobu byla nejdůležitější osobou jeho života. Jak stárnul, jeho vztah k ní se...
Americký spisovatel Mark Slouka, syn českých rodičů, kteří po únorovém puči odešli do Spojených států, ve svém románu Syn bez rodičů...
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War Of The Worlds
ISBN: 9780465004874 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Warning: A technological revolution is unfolding that promises, in the words of its creators, to redefine what it means to be human. Face-to-face communication ("F2F" to those in the know) is quickly becoming obsolete; already we turn to computers for information, entertainment, companionship--even love. Science fiction? Hardly. This is the brave new vision of the digital avant-garde, computer crusaders leading a high-tech assault on what was once known as reality. Sophisticated, well-funded, unabashedly messianic, they have the power, the technological know-how, and the marketplace savvy to...
Warning: A technological revolution is unfolding that promises, in the words of its creators, to redefine what it means to be human. Face-to-face comm...
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Widzialny świat
ISBN: 9788375361995 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 2010 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Widzialny świat to poruszająca opowieść o synu, który w matce zaczyna dostrzegać pełną namiętności, żywiołową kobietę. Narrator, nowojorczyk, urodzony w Ameryce syn czeskich emigrantów, dorasta w atmosferze tajemnicy i powtarzanych szeptem strzępków rodzinnych wspomnień. Już jako dorosły człowiek postanawia pojechać do Pragi, mając nadzieję, że zrozumie burzliwą przeszłość Ivany. Marzy, by poznać sekret młodzieńczej miłości matki łączącej ją z tajemniczym Tomasem, członkiem ruchu oporu.
Nie jest w stanie odtworzyć zdarzeń z przeszłości, pozwala... Widzialny świat to poruszająca opowieść o synu, który w matce zaczyna dostrzegać pełną namiętności, żywiołową kobietę. Narrator, nowojor...
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All That Is Left Is All That Matters: Stories
ISBN: 9780393292282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Nobody's Son: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780393354751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial--admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell--in an attempt to reach his mother, the... Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their o... |
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Visible World
ISBN: 9780547053677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From an author whose gifts recall Milan Kundera and W.G. Sebald, "The Visible World" is a literary page-turner and an immensely powerful novel about the vagaries of love and the need to make sense of life through the telling of stories.
From an author whose gifts recall Milan Kundera and W.G. Sebald, "The Visible World" is a literary page-turner and an immensely powerful novel about t...
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God's Fool
ISBN: 9780375702099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In God's Fool""Mark Slouka, the acclaimed author of Lost Lake and Other Stories, presents us with an unparalleled novel about Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins. In a masterstroke of creative storytelling, we experience their lives through Chang's eyes.
Despite the incomparable predicament of their physical condition, Chang is wrapped in ordinary grace and suffering, searching for tranquility as he travels from Siam's marketplace to Parisian salons, to London's underworld and P.T. Barnum's side show, all the while improbably connected to a man who becomes his sworn enemy. In a last... In God's Fool""Mark Slouka, the acclaimed author of Lost Lake and Other Stories, presents us with an unparalleled novel about Chang and Eng, the origi...
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