Zbirka: Moderni romani (po l. 1945)
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Instance of the Fingerpost(1998) PEARS, IAINAn intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Giant's House(1997) MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETHSet in a small town on Cape Cod in 1950, this tells of the relationship between Peggy Cort, a 28-year-old librarian, and James Carlson Sweatt, an "over-tall" 11-year-old. They are odd candidates for friendship, but they still find their lives entwined inVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Fall On Your Knees(1997) MACDONALD, ANN-MARIEFollowing the curves of the twentieth century, FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Intruder in the Dust(1996) FAULKNER, WILLIAMAn elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help of Lucas's cynicalVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Loaded(1997) TSIOLKAS, CHRISTOSDiscover the explosive first novel from the author of The Slap Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Song of Solomon(1998) MORRISON, TONIBegins in 1930s America with Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group of poVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Jazz(2001) MORRISON, TONIJoe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is gVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Child in Time(1997) MCEWAN, IANNow a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch‘Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty’ Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of chVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
On The Black Hill(1998) CHATWIN, BRUCEOn the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments moviVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Karoo(1999) TESICH, STEVEKaroo is a professional fixer of other people's scripts and, by his own acknowledgement, he ruins them all. Calamity and comedy follows shambolic Saul Karoo as his life breaks down. He is a man prone to luck both good and bad, and when a young woman withVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Bullet Park(1992) CHEEVER, JOHNEliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheever's sharp and funny hymnVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Solomon Gursky Was Here(1991) RICHLER, MORDECAIWINNER OF THE 1990 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1990Since the age of eleven Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of Jewish-Canadian descent.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
