Historická a válečná próza

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's how it seems to Chaim and Gittel, twins whose lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches, forbidden forests, and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon. But in all darkness there is light, and the twins find it through Chaim's poetry and the love they have for each other. Like the bright flame of a Yahrzeit candle, his words become a beacon of

*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ***

'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard

'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times

Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why.

Před sto roky, když se krvavý zápas národů po čtyřech letech chýlí ke konci, nabývá na obrátkách smrtonosná epidemie – pověstná pandemie španělské chřipky. Armáda mrtvých narůstá každým dnem, po desetiletích budou epidemiologové mluvit o 20 až 50, někteří dokonce o 100 milionech obětí chřipky na celém světě. Počet vyhaslých lidských životů tak vysoce překračuje krvavou daň, kterou si vybrala celá světová válka. Jen v českých zemích španělské chřipce podlehlo až k 75.000 civilistů.

An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day'You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...'The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.