Zbirka: Moderni romani (po l. 1945)
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History of Living Forever(2019) WOLFF, JAKEA chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the Elixir of Life.Vezava: Trda34,92 € -
Hummingbird Salamander(2021) VANDERMEER, JEFFFrom Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Annihilation, comes a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things.Vezava: Trda32,24 € -
Orphan Train(2014) BAKER KLINE, CHRISTINAWould they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude?As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was one such child, sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Worst. Person. Ever.(2014) COUPLAND, DOUGLASWe also meet Raymond's upwardly failing sidekick, Neal, as well as Raymond's ex-wife, Fiona, herself ‘an atomic bomb of pain’. Even though he really puts the ‘anti’ in anti-hero, you may find Raymond Gunt an oddly likeable character.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Player One(2011) COUPLAND, DOUGLASA real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Sail(2009) PATTERSON, JAMESAs Peter Carlyle, a smooth-talking, super-successful lawyer, waved his family off on a sailing holiday, all they had in mind was lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm broke out, an explosion caused the boat to vanish without a trace and the famiVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Summer of Love(2012) FFORDE, KATIESian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind and has thrown herself into a new life in the country. With her young son, her picture-postcard garden and her small thriving business, she's happy and very busy. She is not - repeat not - lookVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
French Affair(2014) FFORDE, KATIEGina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House - an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English countryside. Gina is determined to drag the French House and its grumpy owner into the twenty-first century. The last thing eitherVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Perfect Match(2015) FFORDE, KATIEThree years ago Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart over Dominic Thane. Now she's made a new life for herself in the country, working as an estate agent. Bella loves her job and she loves her boyfriend Nevil. And when Dominic turns up uVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Noah's Compass(2010) TYLER, ANNELiam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Forgotten Waltz(2012) ENRIGHT, ANNEShortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered,Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
What the Day Owes the Night(2011) KHADRA, YASMINARe-named Jonas, he grows up in a colourful colonial Algerian town, and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing - not even the Algerian Revolt - will shake. He meets Emilie - a beautiful, beguiling girl who captures tVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Inheritance(2011) SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLASPressured to sign the register, little does he realise what effect that signature will have upon his life. The extraordinary story that follows tells of one man's failed love, the temptations of unanticipated wealth, the secrets of damaged families andVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Disputed Land(2012) PEARS, TIMLeonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Summertime(2010) COETZEE, J.M.A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age(2009) HRABAL, BOHUMILThis ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiVezava: Mehka12,61 €
