Emma Hooper Knihy

Ettě je 82 let a celý život strávila na farmě uprostřed kanadské prérie. Vidět oceán je její největší přání. A tak jednoho rána vstane ještě časněji než obvykle, vezme si pušku, čokoládu a na nohy své nejpevnější boty a vydá se na východ. K oceánu to má přes 3000 kilometrů daleko. Její manžel Otto na ni trpělivě čeká doma, vaří podle Tetiných kartiček s recepty a vzpomíná. A soused Russell vzpomíná také, ale jeho vzpomínky jsou jiné – stále Ettu miluje stejně, jako ji milovat před 50 lety, předtím, než se provdala za Ottu. Silný a poetický příběh, ve kterém se hranice mezi vzpomínkami, iluzemi a realitou pomalu smazávají.

Newfoundland, Canada, 1992. When all the fish vanish from the waters, and the cod industry abruptly collapses, it's not long before the people begin to disappear from the town of Big Running as well. As residents are forced to leave the island in search of work, ten-year-old Finn Connor suddenly finds himself living in a ghost town. There's no school, no friends and whole rows of houses stand abandoned. And then Finn's parents announce that they too must separate if their family is to survive. But Finn still has his sister, Cora, with whom he counts the dwindling boats on the coast at night, and Mrs Callaghan, who teaches him the strange and ancient melodies of their native Ireland. That is until his sister disappears, and Finn must find a way of calling home the family and the life he has lost.

"During the golden age of the Roman Empire, five young girls enjoy a modest childhood in their small Portuguese village. They race each other through lemon orchards and pick fresh fruit for the commander who overlooks his people from a large house on the hill. Though the girls are all raised by different families, there is one thing they know without a doubt: they are sisters. What they don’t know is that their simple existence is about to be irrevocably changed. When soldiers abduct them from their village and bring them to the commander, the sisters are suddenly forced to confront long-buried secrets that reveal their lives to be anything but ordinary. Burgeoning on womanhood just as the Empire begins to show signs of crumbling around them, they soon find themselves at the centre of a deadly standoff and must part ways to fight their own battles if they're to have any chance of surviving. One of Emma Hooper’s most compelling novels yet, We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky is bursting at the seams with abstract miracles, devastating tenderness, hope, desire, and treachery—with life and death in all their glory. Demonstrating both the force and fragility of human nature, Hooper urges us to consider how we'll each face our own final hour, to examine what the end really means: is it something to fear, or is it a daring leap into the blaze of a new beginning?"-- Provided by publisher