Zbirka: Moderni romani (po l. 1945)
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Fair Stood the Wind for France(2005) BATES, H. E.When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his mind, the safety of his crew and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French faVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Moon Tiger(2006) LIVELY, PENELOPEClaudia Hampton lies dying in hospital. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom, her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. This novel weaveVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Guys and Dolls(2005) RUNYON, DAMONSlick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls. 'Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is the highest.. He will bet all he has, and nobody can beVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Sunset Song(2007) GIBBON, LEWIS GRASSICYoung Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths, takes her own life and poisons her two yVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Child of All Nations(2009) KEUN, IRMGARDKully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she aVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Americana(2006) DELILLO, DONProsperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only companVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Poorhouse Fair(2006) UPDIKE, JOHNAt the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in the self-respect they gain from this one day. But when the fair goes less well than the folks had hoped, they blaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Complete Henry Bech(2006) UPDIKE, JOHNHenry Bech, the celebrated author of "Travel Light", has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. This work explores the writing life and what happens when a writer becomes a literary celebrity.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
All the King's Men(2007) WARREN, ROBERT PENNAll the King's Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey 'Kingfish' Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career asVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Light Years(2007) SALTER, JAMESNedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Call it Sleep(2006) ROTH, HENRYDavid Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant. David is hated by his father, but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. This novel interweaves the love between a mother and son with tVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Shooting Party(2007) COLEGATE, ISABELIt is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving through the rituals ofVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Dangling Man(2007) BELLOW, SAULWhen his induction into the army is delayed, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. This journal presents an account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity whileVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Angle of Repose(2006) STEGNER, WALLACETells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover hiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mr Sammler's Planet(2007) BELLOW, SAULMr Artur Sammler, intellectual and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a registrar of madness, a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future. His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the deVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Victim(2008) BELLOW, SAULLeventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man's life, he haVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Actual(2008) BELLOW, SAULThe story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Ravelstein(2008) BELLOW, SAULAbe Ravelstein is a professor who has lived much beyond his means. His close friend Chick suggests that he put forth a book of his convictions and much to his surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Dean's December(2008) BELLOW, SAULDean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, Corde is troubled: at home the centVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Month of Sundays(2007) UPDIKE, JOHNUpdike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
