Zbirka: Moderni romani (po l. 1945)
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Ex-Wives(2006) MOGGACH, DEBORAHFeaturing Buffy with three ex-wives, a failing career and only his dog George for company, Buffy's bachelorhood is looking worryingly confirmed. Until he meets Celeste. Dazzled by love, Buffy has no idea that Celeste is systematically researching his ex-wVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Georgy Girl(2005) FORSTER, MARGARETGeorgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty, callous flatmate, although when James, middle-aged socialite and self-imposed 'Uncle', asks Georgy to become his mistress, she is teVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
26a(2006) EVANS, DIANAIdentical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate univerVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Ladder of Years(1996) TYLER, ANNEBut how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her? **ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 1 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE** 'One of my favourite authors' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'A masterly authVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Counterlife(2005) ROTH, PHILIPWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionThe Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Loving, Living, Party Going(2005) GREEN, HENRYLoving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of workers and owners in a Birmingham iron foundry.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Nothing, Doting, Blindness(2008) GREEN, HENRYTAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. In Blindness, Green's first novel, a young man is blinded in a senseless accident but thereafter discovers new imaginative powers.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Thrill of it All(2015) O'CONNOR, JOSEPHLuton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to chaseVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Orlando(2004) WOOLF, VIRGINIAOrlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Deacon King Kong - CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ(2021) JAMES MCBRIDEVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Lady's Maid(2005) FORSTER, MARGARETLondon 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No. 50, Wimpole Street. Subtly and compellingly, Lady's Maid gives voice to Elizabeth Wilson's untold story, her complex relationship with her mistress, ElizabethVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The Poet - A novel of toxic love, unspoken rage and fighting back(2022) REID, LOUISAVezava: Trda24,10 € -
Bench(2020) SARGINSON, SASKIAThe most romantic novel of the year, this is a tragic love story spanning three decades where the love affair starts and ends on a bench.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Celestial Navigation(1996) TYLER, ANNEJeremy is a child-like, painfully shy batchelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make mosaic sculptures, until the day his mother dies and the beautiful MaVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son(2009) ALEICHEM, SHOLEMPresents an account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and heart, his daughters' courtships and marriages, and the eventual menace of the pogroms, this title reveals the fabric of a vanishVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Devil on the Cross(2017) WA THIONG'O, NGUGIWariinga, a young woman who moves from a Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later a corrupt businessman. As Wariinga struggles to survive, she realizes that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal malaiseVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs(2007) WELSH, IRVINEAt Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
To Sir With Love(2005) BRAITHWAITE, E. R.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CARYL PHILLIPSIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering. In desperation he turns to teaching, taking a job in a tough East End school, and left to govern a class of unrVezava: Mehka14,01 €
