Obfitymi piersiami i pe?nymi biodrami natura obdarza kobiety z rodziny Shangguan, mieszkaj?cej w ma?ej chi?skiej wiosce, w prowincji Shandong. Od obfitych piersi i matczynego mleka uzale?niony jest narrator powie?ci, d?ugo wyczekiwany syn, brat o?miu starszych si?str. Losy rodziny ukazane s? na tle wydarze? historycznych, pocz?wszy od Powstania Bokser?w w 1900 roku, poprzez upadek dynastii Qing, inwazj? japo?sk?, walki Kuomintangu z komunistami, „rewolucj? kulturaln?”, a? do reform gospodarczych. Na prowincji ?ycie toczy si? jednak obok wielkich przemian, rz?dz? tam najprostsze instynkty, a podstawow? warto?ci? jest przetrwanie....
Arthur, un joven arquitecto californiano, vuelve a Los ?ngeles despu?s de pasar una larga temporada en Par?s.Sin embargo, durante todo este tiempo no ha conseguido olvidar a Lauren, el gran amor de su vida que le rob? el coraz?n cuando, a ra?z de un accidente, cay? en estado de coma.Gracias a la insistencia y la valent?a de Arthur, Lauren sigui? viviendo, a pesar de la opini?n del doctor y de la madre de desenchufar los aparatos que la manten?an con vida.?stos, avergonzados, le hicieron jurar que jam?s confesar?a la verdad a la joven, que no recuerda nada de aquellos meses. Arthur cumple su palabra, desaparece de su vida e intenta olvidarla. Cuando vuelve a Los ?ngeles el destino har? que se reencuentren.Basada en esta novela (y con importantes variaciones en el gui?n), se ha estrenado recientemente una pel?cula con el mismo t?tulo, dirigida por Mark Waters.
Jedna z wielkich powie?ci XX wieku, sprzedana w ponad 20 milionach egzemplarzy, ws?awiona obsypanym Oscarami filmem Francisa Forda Coppoli z genialn? rol? tytu?ow? Marlona Brando. Opowie?? o honorze i nienawi?ci, szacunku i pogardzie, mi?o?ci i ?mierci. Motto ksi??ki stanowi cytat z Balzaca – Za ka?d? wielk? fortun? kryje si? zbrodnia. Don Vito Corleone jest Ojcem Chrzestnym jednej z sze?ciu nowojorskich Rodzin mafijnych. Tyran i szanta?ysta (s?ynne powiedzenie "mam dla Ciebie propozycj? nie do odrzucenia"), a zarazem cz?owiek honoru, sprawuje rz?dy ?elazn? r?k?. Jego decyzje maj? charakter ostateczny. ...
Otra faz en la narrativa de Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez. Casi todas las obras de este gran autor se caracterizan por la presencia simult?nea de ?mbitos aparentemente alejados entre s?. -Adem?s de lo on?rico y de la rareza individual- escribe Mario Vargas Llosa a prop?sito de Garc?a M?rquez- en este mundo en que lo social, lo pol?tico y otros niveles objetivos (como el sexo) parecen arrolladores, tienen cabida hechos y situaciones que por su car?cter ins?lito y pintoresco contrastan con los hechos opresivos, obvios y mon?tonos que constituye ...
One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official or ‘beadle’. The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London. Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that includes ...
Jack Kerouac's On the Road is one of the most controversial American novels of the 20th century. When critics concede that the book and its author were instrumental in triggering the rucksack revolution, this is to damn with praise, as Kerouac is reduced to a one-book author (though he published some twenty volumes containing a wide range of prose and poetry). Moreover, the spiteful acknowledgement of a sociohistorical fact imports an aesthetic grudge against a novel that a close reading reveals to be far more conventional than most of its adversaries would would care to realize. Nor does the ...
A novel of love and growing up by Andre? Makine, whose bestselling Dreams of My Russian Summerswas hailed by the Los Angeles Timesas one of the "best autobiographical books of the century."In the immense virgin pine forests of Siberia, where the snows of winter are vast and endless, sits the little village of Svetlaya. In the early years of the century the village had been larger, more prosperous, but time and the pendulum of history had reduced it by the 1970s to no more than a cluster of izbas. As wars and revolution had succeeded one another, ...
"Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." – Junot DiazLate afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a ...
A former captain in the Marines’ First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle.If the Marines are “the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, charged with working clandestinely, often behind enemy lines. Fick’s training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth, and advances to the pinnacle—Recon—four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. Along the way, ...
Chief Bromden, half American-Indian, whom the authorities believe is deaf and dumb, tells the story of a mental institution ruled by Big Nurse on behalf of the all-powerful Combine. Into this terrifying grey world comes McMurphy, a brawling gambling man, who wages total war on behalf of his cowed fellow-inmates. What follows is at once hilarious and heroic, tragic and ultimately liberating. Since its first publication in 1962, Ken Kesey’s astonishing first novel has achieved the status of a contemporary classic. “Kesey can be funny, he can be lyrical, he can do dialogue, and he can write a muscular narrative. In fact there's not much better come out of America in the sixties… If you haven’t already read this book, do so. If you have, read it again” – Douglas Eadie, “Scotsman”.
New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him. He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill's Language School, and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang. Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs'? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler known as The Slab? Like his runaway bestseller, Man and Boy, Tony Parsons's new novel is full of laughter and tears, biting social comment and overwhelming emotion.
One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain , this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty.In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has traveled to this Western-influenced Chinese city-state, so close to his homeland, for ...
One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain , this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty.\In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has traveled to this Western-influenced Chinese city-state, so close to his homeland, for ...
From Publishers WeeklyIn 1948, a 12-year-old boy named Fintan is sailing to Africa with his Italian mother to live with the British father he doesn't remember. At times, this French novel paints too precious a picture of the young Fintan and his mother, who occasionally writes down poetic bits like "In my hands I hold the prey of silence." The ship's voyage can drag, too, with too many hints about the characters' previous lives (upon learning that Fintan has contracted scabies, his mother cries out "A barnyard disease!"). But once the pair arrive in Onitsha, in Nigeria, Fintan's ...
