Kniha přináší překlady čtyř úspěšných románů se záhadnou nebo kriminální zápletkou od anglických a amerických autorů. / Tatínkova holčička - Mary Higgins Clarková / Zázračný rok - Geraldine Brooksová / Poslední detektiv - Robert Crais / Čas návratu - Patricia Gaffneyová
Skrytý svět muslimských žen. Soubor dvanácti příběhů o životě a postavení muslimských žen napsala americká novinářka, která prožila šest let na Středním východě jako novinářka. Ve své knize se snaží nazírat problémy muslimských žen ze všech možných úhlů, mluví s ženami, jimž islám vyhovuje, s ženami, u nichž ztroskotaly všechny pokusy o alespoň částečné osvobození z mužského područí i s Evropankami, které se z lásky provdaly za muslimy a snaží se přizpůsobit zcela odlišné kultuře. Svými příběhy dokazuje, že chtějí-li se muslimské ženy skutečně osvobodit, musí to udělat samy a žádné zásahy zvenčí je rovnoprávnosti nepřiblíží. Z anglického originálu „Nine Parts of Desire“ vydaného nakladatelstvím „An Anchor Book“ v New Yorku roku 1995 přeložila Petra Eflerová. Obálku navrhla Jana Šťastná. Doslov k českému vydání napsala Alena Jakoubková. Vydání první.
Poté, co mladá australská restaurátorka objeví v troskách zničeného Sarajeva iluminovaný židovský rukopis, začíná odkrývaní starého tajemství. Příběh, inspirovaný skutečnými okolnostmi spojenými s nalezením tzv. Sarajevské hagady, zavede čtenáře do středověkého Španělska, Benátek inkviziční éry, Vídně přelomu století až po Sarajevo obsazené nacisty.
“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” — The New York Times Book Review“ Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” — TIME“ A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative voices create a story so powerful, reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race, galloping to its conclusion—you just can’t look away.” — Oprah DailyWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardA discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American historyKentucky, 1850 . An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954 . Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019 . Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.
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When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders." Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history.
Set in a village in remote England which is confronted by plague - Anna Frith is a housemaid who discovers powers of healing.
As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness. Intimate, moving, and often humorous, Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.
Pulitzer Prize winning-author Geraldine Brooks transports the reader to 1660s Martha's Vineyard and Cambridge to tell the dramatic tale of the intertwined destinies of Caleb Cheshahteaumuck, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard, and Bethia Mayfield, a young woman who is struggling to find her own place in the world even as she helps enable Caleb to cross from his world into hers.
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