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Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of th…

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement-and a great gift for its publisher.When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome-but that will define his life forever.In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance. Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 832, Nakladatelství: Random House Publishing, Autor: Hanya Yanagihara, ISBN-13: 9780804172707, Datum vydání: 2016

What would you change if you could go back in time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee sh…

What would you change if you could go back in time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story - translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot - explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 224, Nakladatelství: Macmillan, Autor: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, ISBN-13: 9781529029581, Datum vydání: 2019

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the…

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri   farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls   in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from   the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters   a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper” family estranges him from   his parents his career is stymied his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him   a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper   within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts   an essential solitude. John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a   work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal   American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting   by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world. Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 288, Nakladatelství: Random House Publishing, Autor: John Williams, ISBN-13: 9781590171998, Datum vydání: 2006