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Alexa Weik von Mossner

    Alexa Weik von Mossner se zabývá ekokritickými tématy v literatuře a filmu. Její práce se soustředí na propojení emocí, empatie a environmentálních narativů, zkoumá, jak tyto prvky formují naše chápání světa. Analýzou různých literárních a filmových děl nabízí hlubší vhled do našeho vztahu k přírodě a dopadu environmentálních otázek na lidskou psychiku. Její přístup obohacuje chápání ekologických problémů prostřednictvím emocionálních a narativních rovin.

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    Fragile: A Novel
    • Fragile: A Novel

      • 330 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      A man responsible for keeping New York City alive falls for an underground activist from the wrong side of the East River in this compelling fiction debut about love, loss, and resilience in the face of ecological crisis. New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving, but the eastern boroughs have been given up to the rising Atlantic. The planet has been ravaged by climate change, causing a global scarcity of pharmaceuticals, food, and other essentials for survival. Shavir Tayard, barista and urban community farmer by day, rescuer of animals by night, is on a dog liberation raid in the coastal evacuation zone of Brooklyn when she sustains an injury that changes her relationship with the cute regular at her coffee shop—and her life. Jake Alvaro is a troubled Homeland Security agent tasked with securing critical medical drugs for New York in a world running out of everything. His view of whose lives must be saved and who can be sacrificed is challenged when Shavir takes him across the East River to the people he was told to ignore. Soon, he begins to question the fragile truths he built his life upon.

      Fragile: A Novel2023
      4,6
    • Fragile

      • 330 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      A man responsible for keeping New York City alive falls for an underground activist from the wrong side of the East River in this compelling fiction debut about love, loss, and resilience in the face of ecological crisis. New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving, but the eastern boroughs have been given up to the rising Atlantic. The planet has been ravaged by climate change, causing a global scarcity of pharmaceuticals, food, and other essentials for survival. Shavir Tayard, barista and urban community farmer by day, rescuer of animals by night, is on a dog liberation raid in the coastal evacuation zone of Brooklyn when she sustains an injury that changes her relationship with the cute regular at her coffee shop—and her life. Jake Alvaro is a troubled Homeland Security agent tasked with securing critical medical drugs for New York in a world running out of everything. His view of whose lives must be saved and who can be sacrificed is challenged when Shavir takes him across the East River to the people he was told to ignore. Soon, he begins to question the fragile truths he built his life upon.

      Fragile2023
      4,3