Zbirka: Moderni romani (po l. 1945)
25001 rezultatov
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Loving(2001) GREEN, HENRYOne of his most admired works, LOVING describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the warVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Holy Fools(2004) HARRIS, JOANNEIn seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, seeks refuge with her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, and reinvents herself as SoeurVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Wreckers Must Breathe(2013) INNES, HAMMONDThe spectre of another world war haunts journalist Walter Craig and disturbs the peace of his seaside holiday. Craig and his singularly resourceful fisherman friend alone discover the terrible truth - a potentially devastating threat to Britain’s merchantVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Artist of Disappearance(2012) DESAI, ANITAA government official who is inspecting a faded mansion of forgotten treasures, comes across the final, shocking gift which is bleeding the museum dry.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Something Might Happen(2004) MYERSON, JULIEOn a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. There are clues, false trails, detectives, all the paraphernalia of the whodunnit, but Myerson's concern is with the effect of the murder on an ordinary communiVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Abortion(2002) BRAUTIGAN, RICHARDA reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until a trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Sliver(2014) LEVIN, IRAA sinuous, erotic thriller about obsession and the temptation of ultimate powerVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Yellow Dog(2004) AMIS, MARTINNovelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future. This work serves as an example of how the novel, or more particularly the cVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Mother Island(2015) ROBERTS, BETHANThis is the story of two women, Nula and Maggie, joined by old family history and love for the same little boy. Nula, struggling with her new baby and feeling alone in her marriage, employs her cousin Maggie as a nanny when she returns to work.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
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It's A Battlefield(2002) GREENE, GRAHAMDrover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; pretty, promiscVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Other People(1999) AMIS, MARTINWhen she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby voice tells she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before? This story unfVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Virtue(2000) MACKESY, SERENASaints, sinners, and the mere mortals in betweenWhat do you need to be a saint these days? Anna and Harriet are about to find out. Anna and Harriet share a burden: hellishly saintly mothers. But when they tread on one toe too many, they find that they hVezava: Mehka18,17 €
