Zbirka: Moderni romani (po l. 1945)
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L-Shaped Room(2004) REID BANKS, LYNNEWhile the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the pages'The GuardianPregnant by accident, kicked out of home by her father, 27-year-old Jane Graham goes to ground in the sort of place she fVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Passionate Man(1991) TROLLOPE, JOANNANow bedded firmly into country life - three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate - they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Choir(1992) TROLLOPE, JOANNACrisis loomed in the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral. The urbane and worldly Dean wanted nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Each human dilemma took its paVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Palace Walk(1994) MAHFOUZ, NAGUIBAhmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house'sVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Rector's Wife(1992) TROLLOPE, JOANNAFor twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Men And The Girls(1993) TROLLOPE, JOANNAHugh and James, lifelong friends, feel blessed indeed. But age differences cannot be ignored forever and when James accidentally knocks a fiercely independent spinster from her bicycle a chain of events is set off in which many suppressed discontents anVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Spanish Lover(1994) TROLLOPE, JOANNAAnd, equally unexpectedly, Lizzie's world begins to tilt, Frances's Christmas defection seems overwhelmingly threatening to their unity. As Frances's future begins to change into something exciting and Lizzie's deteriorates as financial pressures eat inVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Maybe The Moon(2000) MAUPIN, ARMISTEADIn a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small childreVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Palace Of Desire(1994) MAHFOUZ, NAGUIBFollows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an aVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Marrying The Mistress(2001) TROLLOPE, JOANNAMerrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. But now the time has come for things to change. Guy has become conscious of wasted years and he wants toVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Son Of The Circus(1995) IRVING, JOHN'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.'Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla iVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Other People's Children(1999) TROLLOPE, JOANNAWhat's even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew's three teenagers, who have been conditioned by their mother Nadine to hate his mother Josie. Matthew's children come to their father for weekends and make it clear how much they loathe JosVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Next Of Kin(1997) TROLLOPE, JOANNAThe land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro and now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, asVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Sugar Street(1994) MAHFOUZ, NAGUIBAs Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he watches helplessly as his dynasty and the traditions he holds dear disintegrVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Emotionally Weird(2001) ATKINSON, KATENora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to leVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Best A Man Can Get(2001) O'FARRELL, JOHNFor Michael is living a double life - he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by telling his wife he has to work through the night or travel up north. And while she is valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret flat, doinVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Blackberry Wine(2001) HARRIS, JOANNEJay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide the key to an old mystery. As the unusual properties of thVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Human Croquet(1998) ATKINSON, KATEThe brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson. 'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' ObserverOnce it had been the great forest of Lythe.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Wrong Boy(2001) RUSSELL, WILLYTold through a series of heartfelt letters to the frontman of The Smiths, this is a laugh-out-loud funny, incredibly poignant tale from a character you can't help but love. 'Big-hearted, wonderfully funny and engrossing' THE MIRROR'A warm, funny, poignaVezava: Mehka18,21 €
