Tento autor proslul svým mistrovským vyprávěním, které zasazuje do velkolepých historických kulis. Jeho díla pohlcují čtenáře do minulosti a zkoumají komplexní lidské vztahy v bouřlivých dobách. Faulks vyniká schopností oživit historii prostřednictvím poutavých postav a pronikavých postřehů o lidské povaze. Jeho próza je zároveň lyrická i přesná, zanechávající trvalý dojem.
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1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton feels himself blessed. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena, life with a drunken mother in a small town has been impoverished and cold. She is convinced she can amount to nothing until a young lawyer, Rudolf Plischke, spirits her away to Vienna. But the capital proves unforgiving. Lena leaves her metropolitan dream behind to take a menial job at the snow-bound sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick. 1933: Still struggling to come terms with the loss of so many friends on the Eastern Front, Anton, now an established writer, is commissioned by a magazine to visit the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place of healing, on the banks of a silvery lake, where the depths of human suffering and the chances of redemption are explored, two people will see each other as if for the first time.
'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial Times Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation; in her desire to understand their lives and through them her own, she finds a city bursting with clues and connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. For him in his innocence each boulevard, Metro station and street corner is a source of surprise. In this urgent and deeply moving novel, Faulks deals with questions of empire, grievance and identity. With great originality and a dark humour, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know if we are to live a valuable life. 'Faulks captures the voice of a century' Sunday Times 'The most impressive novelist of his generation' Sunday Telegraph
A collection of fanciful, satirical and surprising parodies, squibs and pastiches inspired by The Write Stuff on BBC Radio 4.Pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.] From the writer of such brilliant parodies as Thomas Hardy's football report and Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser comes another collection of witty pastiches.
On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally – unforgettably – back into the trenches of the Western Front. The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks’s fiction are here brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks’s most remarkable book yet.
A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front. His love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart, he experiences the unprecedented horrors of that conflict - from which neither he nor any reader of this book can emerge unchanged.
In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have collected the best fiction about war in the twentieth century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life.
Podobně jako detektiv Hercule Poirot Agathy Christieové, i sluha Jeeves nyní ožívá dávno po smrti svého tvůrce, anglického humoristy P. G. Wodehouse. Má nového autora, jímž je Sebastian Faulks, a ten se s jeevesovskou tradicí vyrovnal na výbornou. Bertie Wooster, Jeevesův pán, se na Azurovém pobřeží zakoukal do krásné Georginy, ale milostný vztah se samozřejmě zamotá a najednou je to Jeeves, a ne Bertie, kdo je vydáván za jejího nastávajícího; sluha mění role rychleji než Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese.
Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull. Soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in search of connection - some key to understanding what makes us the people we become. Provocative and profound, Sebastian Faulks's dazzling novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities. From the pain and drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone else's life.
pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. Possibly a cross between pastiche and pstake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so- great is here sent up with little hope of coming down.
Bond returns with a vengeance in this electrifying new chapter celebrating Ian Fleming's legacy. An Algerian drug runner is brutally executed on the outskirts of Paris, prompting MI6 to recall Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome. The head of MI6, M, assigns Bond to shadow the enigmatic Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-hungry pharmaceutical magnate with a troubling interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal. To navigate this dangerous mission, Bond teams up with the glamorous Parisian Scarlett Papava. Together, they confront a life-and-death struggle against a formidable adversary, as a series of events threaten global catastrophe. A British airliner disappears over Iraq, and the specter of war looms in the Middle East, while a flood of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf Britain amid the social upheavals of the late sixties. Picking up where Fleming left off, Sebastian Faulks immerses Bond in the height of the Cold War, delivering a tale of relentless pace and tension. This narrative not only captures the essence of Fleming's original novels but also resonates with contemporary issues, showcasing Bond's resilience against modern dangers.
Sebastian Faulks, jeden z nejuznávanějších britských spisovatelů, přichází s novým příběhem neohroženého Jamese Bonda u příležitosti stého výročí narození Iana Fleminga, autora všech předešlých bondovek. Dlouho očekávaný román, napsaný zcela ve Flemingově stylu, zastihuje agenta 007 v období studené války a tradičně nabízí specifický humor, dramatickou zápletku i dobrodružné scény odehrávající se na dvou kontinentech.
Dvě ústřední postavy, Thomas Midwinter a Jacques Rebiere, se po náhodném setkání vydávají na složitou cestu odhalování lidské mysli. Na pařížské klinice a v vlastním psychiatrickém sanatoriu se snaží vyřešit otázku, na níž se zavázali nalézt odpověď. Jejich vztah se však komplikuje a do jejich životů zasahuje válka. Děj se odehrává na přelomu 19. a 20. století, v době počátků moderní psychiatrie, k jejímuž rozvoji se oba hrdinové snaží přispět. Náhodné setkání na francouzském pobřeží vede k celoživotnímu přátelství a partnerství, ať už během studií v Paříži, v sanatoriu v rakousko-uherské Carinthii, nebo v poválečném Londýně. Každý z nich má jiný přístup k práci; Jacques se inspiruje psychoanalýzou a terapeutickými postupy, zatímco Thomas se zaměřuje na neurologické a vývojové mechanismy psychotických poruch. Dramatičnost příběhu umocňují životní osudy Sonii, Thomasovy sestry a Jacquesovy manželky, a duševně nemocného Oliviera, Jacquesova bratra, kterému se hrdinové snaží pomoci. Válka zasahuje do jejich osudů a přináší další otázky o smyslu bytí a podstatě člověka.
Mike Engleby je podivínský student anglické univerzity ze sedmdesátých let, který se rád napije a experimentuje s drogami. Když jeho tajná láska Jennifer beze stopy zmizí, Mikův život pokračuje, ale vzpomínky na ni se stále vracejí. Skrze jeho deník sledujeme jeho kariéru novináře v Londýně a jeho komické potíže v nově prosperující společnosti, přičemž se ukazuje, že s ním není něco v pořádku. Záhada Jennifeřina zmizení ho pronásleduje a příběh směřuje k nečekanému rozuzlení, které vyvolává otázky o pravdivosti jeho vyprávění. Děj se odehrává v Anglii druhé poloviny 20. století a nabízí originální portrét generace dospívající v době, kdy hnutí hippies ztrácí na síle. Země čelí stávkám a problémům ve školství, zatímco přichází thatcherovská éra s prosperitou a novými výzvami. Mike se pohybuje ve světě novinářů, kde satiricky komentuje nepokryté výmysly bulvárního tisku a zjednodušování informací. Jeho otázky o lidské psychice a paměti překračují čas a místo, a příběh se stává strhujícím vyprávěním, které kombinuje prvky detektivky, společenské satiry a psychologicko-filozofického románu.
Život Pietra Russella je vyprávěn ve 26 kapitolách od A až do Z; každá se odehrává na jiném místě a odhaluje jeden střípek jeho příběhu. Ve snaze o vyřešení svých životních konfliktů putuje Pietro ve vzpomínkách napříč časem a postupně nám tak před očima vyvstává celý jeho životní příběh. Avšak i přes tento náznak literární komplikovanosti má čtenář uklidňující pocit, že autor přesně ví, co dělá. Tento inteligentní, filozofický román je zároveň překvapivě napínavý a čtivý. Faulks se jím nepochybně řadí mezi přední současné spisovatele: jeho dílo je svým způsobem stejně náročné jako tvorba velkých modernistů, ovšem s tou vzácnou výhodou, že je zároveň skvělým vypravěčem a dovede čtenáře vtáhnout do děje
Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. Their search is made urgent by the case of Jacques's brother Olivier, for whose severe illness no name has yet been found. Thomas's sister Sonia becomes the pivotal figure in the volatile relationship between the two men, which threatens to explode with the arrival in their Austrian sanatorium of an enigmatic patient, Fräulein Katharina von A, whose illness epitomises all that divides them. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the novel rises to a climax in which the value of what it means to be alive seems to hang in the balance. This is Sebastian Faulks's most ambitious novel yet, with scenes of emotional power recalling his most celebrated work, yet set here on an even larger scale. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.
Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country ' An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening StandardAs young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.
Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, this collection of stories investigates the nature of military experience: from call-ups, the field of battle and comradeship, to leave, hospitalisation and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, it includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Böll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O`Brian, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernières. Together they form a uniquely powerful evocation of the horrors of war.
With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary vander Linden. But when Frank, an American newspaper reporter, enters their lives, Mary embarks on a passionate affair.
Included in this collection of war fiction, from the First World War to the Gulf War, are stories by Erich Maria Remarque, Pat Barker, Isaac Babel, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Böll, Norman Mailer, J.G. Ballard, Tim O’Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernières.
An undercover courier for England goes behind enemy lines to track down her lover, who is an RAF pilot downed over France.
Na een verboden liefdesverhouding blijft een jonge Brit in Frankrijk, waar hij tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog in de hel van de loopgraven terechtkomt.
Christopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. He went to Paris in 1921. By day he studied, by night he attended the parties of the beau monde. He knew Picasso, worked for Diaghilev and was a friend of Cocteau. In the last months of his 29-year life, he fought a ravening opium addiction to succeed in claiming a place in history of English painting. Richard Hilary, confident, handsome and unprincipled, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain before being shot down and horribly burned. He underwent several operations by the legendary plastic surgeon, A H McIndoe. His account of his experiences, The Last Enemy , made him famous, but not happy. He begged to be allowed to return to flying, and died mysteriously in a night training operation, aged 23. Jeremy Wolfenden was born in 1936, the son of Jack, later Lord Wolfenden. Charming, generous and witty, he was the cleverest Englishman of his generation, but left All Souls to become a hack reporter. At the height of the Cold War, he was sent to Moscow where his louche private life made him the plaything of the intelligence services. A terrifying sequence of events ended in Washington where he died at the age of 31.
Romanzo: Quando la vita è più forte dell'amore. Storia di Anne
Životy zasažené válkou. Román zasazený do období první světové války vypráví osudy mladého Angličana Stephena, který v severní Francii prožívá nejprve vášnivou lásku a posléze nelítostnou krutost bojů. Obojí natrvalo změní jeho život. Nejslavnější Faulksovo dílo, které se v Anglii řadí mezi literární klasiku, nabízí strhující vyprávění o životech zasažených válkou a mistrnou variaci na téma lásky a smrti. Faulksův úsporný styl popisuje děsivé detaily zákopové války i emocionálně vypjaté momenty tak působivě a přesvědčivě, že nám události nedávné historie doslova ožívají před očima. Hluboce osobní pohled na příběhy a pocity jednotlivých postav kontrastuje s anonymitou války, v níž se postupně zcela vytrácí smysl pro hodnotu lidského života. Úspěšný román Ptačí píseň byl nominován na cenu Booker Prize.
The events of Pietro Russell's life are told in 26 chapters. From A-Z each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his life, his story gradually unfolds.
A mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930's
