Silvia Morawetz Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Every so often a new writer appears who is wiser than her years would suggest, whose flesh-and-blood characters embody more experience than a young writer could possibly know. Sana Krasikov is one of those writers. Her first published story appeared in the New Yorker, her second in The Atlantic Monthly’s fiction issue. One More Year is her debut collection, made up of stories of people who hold out hope, despite the odds, that life will be kind to them.The characters who populate Krasikov’s stories are mostly women–some are new to America; some still live in the former Soviet Union, in Georgia or Russia; and some have returned to Russia to find a country they barely recognize and people they no longer understand. Mothers leave children behind; children abandon their parents. Almost all of them look to love to repair their lives, and when love isn’t really there, they attempt to make do with relationships that substitute for love.Like Jhumpa Lahiri and ZZ Packer, two writers whose fully-realized characters drive their fiction, Sana Krasikov is an exhilarating talent whose first collection puts her on the map with today's most talented young authors.

Ein junger Forscher wird von zwei Auftragskillern in den Tod gehetzt. Er hinterlässt nichts, außer einem Umschlag - adressiert an Max Gordon. Darin steckt ein Brief in der Knotenschrift der alten Maya-Völker. Max ist klar, dass der Tote ihm auf diese Weise etwas Hochbrisantes mitteilen wollte. Um die geheime Botschaft zu entschlüsseln, muss er sich in die Tiefen des zentralamerikanischen Dschungels wagen. Dort lauern nicht nur wilde Bestien auf ihn.

Nový autorův román o zelenooké židovské dívce Hance Kaudersové, která dala přednost polnímu bordelu před plynovou komorou, je svědectvím o lidskosti uprostřed nelidského světa. Dívka se vydává za českou árijku, v bordelu je konfrontována s jedním "zlým " a jedním "hodným" Němcem, a s řadou běžných zákazníků z řad vojáků. Přežije a po válce se snaží své hrůzné zážitky sdělit rabínovi, aby vůbec byla schopna znovu žít. Příběh patnáctileté židovské dívky, která se stane vojenskou prostitutkou, aby přežila holocaust.

Průvodce dívek lovem a sváděním. Živá a veselá studie současných vztahů. Lehce sarkastická, s moudrým humorem líčí ''srdeční'' problémy Jane od první nezralé lásky až po vztahy blížícího se středního věku.

Professor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately this is not the least of his problems. Harry's wife has turned his study into a sufi shrine where she sits cross-legged and chants for hours on end, 'I am not the body'. And Harry doesn't know it yet but the Drug Squad has taken up residence in his kitchen so as to observe the movements of his neighbours and their visitors. Among these visitors, photographed by the Drug Quad, is one of his oldest friends. And living next door is a woman Harry may have had an encounter with in Singapore. The university is no escape from these complications on the domestic front: Harry's relationship with a student is causing concern among the Philosophy Department Women's Collective. Some of his colleagues also suspect him of going astray academically. The story takes place in Auckland New Zealand. But who is telling the story? Why is he in Europe? Why does he keep moving from one city to another, and why does he seem to require the presence of a certain Uta Haverstrom in order to write it?

In the swinging culture of sixties' London, Canadian Mortimer Griffin is a beleaguered editor adrift in a sea of hypocrisy and deceit. Alone in a world where nobody shares his values but everyone wants the same things, Mortimer must navigate the currents of these changing times. Richler's eccentric cast of characters include the gorgeous Polly, who conducts her life as though it were a movie, complete with censor-type cuts at all the climactic moments; Rachel Coleman, slinky Black Panther of the boudoir; Star Maker, the narcissistic Hollywood tycoon who has discovered the secret of eternal life; and a precocious group of school children with a taste for the teachings of the Marquis de Sade. "Cocksure" is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment industry.""This is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best. "From the Hardcover edition."