At 40, the great boxer Max Le Corre was enjoying a renaissance, back at the top of the ticket after a long absence. When he wasn''t in the ring, he worked as a driver for the mayor, Quentin Le Bars. Above all, he was a father to Laura, his 20-year-old... Zobraziť viac
Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I''ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends.... Zobraziť viac
''Mercy is not an ointment for cruelty.'' Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border.... Zobraziť viac
Forty years ago-almost a lifetime-he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late mother''s house with the obsolete archive of the newspaper he once worked for, he looks back on days spent poring over files and... Zobraziť viac
Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori became a doctor at a time when female graduates in Italy provoked outright scandal. At around age 30, she was struck by the work being done with children from the slums of the San Lorenzo, and... Zobraziť viac
When he first meets Najwa at a lecture by Siri Hustvedt - whom he''s never read - our hero discovers a whole new world of feminist thought. Determined to impress her, he sets out sincerely on his journey to allyship. His mother confides in him about... Zobraziť viac
In Gour Noir, an isolated valley cut off from the rest of the world, there live four siblings. Three brothers and one sister, who are united by an unfailing bond: Marc, who constantly reads in secret, in defiance of his father''s wishes; Matthieu, who... Zobraziť viac
A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark... Zobraziť viac
Tel Aviv society is in the middle of an identity crisis... as explored through the interconnected lives of the residents of an apartment building. On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought... Zobraziť viac
Elsa is dying. Her husband, Martti, and daughter Eleonoora are struggling to accept the crushing thought that they are soon to lose her. As Elsa becomes ever more fragile, Eleonoora's childhood memories are slipping away... Zobraziť viac
He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous... Zobraziť viac
This novel is the saga in five parts of Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld, who grows up in Kolodetz, a small town near Lvov, which, when he is a boy, is part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but which subsequently belongs to Poland, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany... Zobraziť viac
Abdulhamid II ruled the Ottoman Empire for thirty-three years, from 1876 to 1909, when he was deposed following the Young Turk Revolution and sent into exile in Thessaloniki. Now, more than a century after that fateful night of April 27, Zulfu Livaneli... Zobraziť viac
A retired General - the leader of the latest military takeover - moves to a peaceful island and decides to rid it of what he sees as its last remaining ''anarchic'' components. The island, described by its people as a utopia, the last peaceful resort... Zobraziť viac
Marina has left behind her stalled relationship and floundering career in Stockholm to visit her sister in rural Skane, where she lives in a house full of books, gorgeous flowers and, as Marina soon learns, many secrets. Nothing is as it seems in this... Zobraziť viac
Uncovering their remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. In the centenary of the Russian Revolution... Zobraziť viac
A compelling hybrid of novel and biography, Life of David Hockney offers an accessible overview of the painter who shook the world of art with a vitality and freedom that neither heartbreak nor illness nor loss could corrode.... Zobraziť viac
Fisherman Mustafa and his wife, Mesude, are devastated with grief for their son Deniz, who was lost at sea at seven years old. One day, Mustafa discovers the bodies of a woman and man in the water, likely refugees from Syria, Pakistan, or Afghanistan... Zobraziť viac
Ragnar Johansson is born in 1932, a transformative moment in Swedish history. He has Swedish social democracy flowing through his veins - convinced it lifted humankind out of the dark ages and into modernity, he cherishes it. At times Ragnar despises... Zobraziť viac
More than a decade ago, the historian Tony Judt considered whether the behavior of Israel was becoming not only ''bad for Israel itself'' but also, on a wider scale, ''bad for the Jews.'' Under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, this issue has grown... Zobraziť viac
