Sophie Mackintosh Knihy

Jaké by bylo žít ve světě, kde láska dokáže zabíjet… Představte si svět, kde je nebezpečné být ženou, kde vychovat dceru vyžaduje drastická opatření. Sledujte příběh tří sester, jež rodiče pro jejich vlastní dobro drží v izolaci a učí je o lásce všechny ty strašlivé věci, které musí znát každá žena. Co se však stane, když jim do života vstoupí tři muži – tři cizinci vyplavení mořem, s hladovýma a úpěnlivýma očima – a začnou kolem sebe šířit touhu a zároveň za sebou zanechávat zkázu? Voda mrtvá a živá je hypnotický a návykový román, oslňující fantazie na téma utrpení, sesterství a transformace.

In 1951, still reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest war the world had ever seen, the small French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit succumbed to a mass poisoning. The poison induced hysteria, violent and euphoric hallucinations, and many deaths. In the years before the disaster, there lived in the town a woman named Elodie. She was the baker's wife- a plain, unremarkable person who yearned to transcend her dull existence. So when a charismatic new couple arrived in town, Elodie quickly fell under their glamorous spell. Thus began a dangerous game of cat and mouse, the intoxication of the chase slowly seeping into everything - but who was the predator and on whom did they prey? Audacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a darkly gleaming tale of a town gripped by madness, envy like poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes.

Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space of motherhood. Bold and chilling, it pushes beneath the skin of female identity and patriarchal violence, to the point where human longing meets our animal bodies.