Geertje Lammers Knihy

Een soldaat-kok in het Franse leger verliest zijn hart aan Napoleon en vervolgens aan een Venetiaanse gondeliersdochter.

The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. 'The Four-Gated City' finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history of the time: the Cold War, the anti-nuclear Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social anarchy. Daring to go a step further - as Lessing so often has in her career - the novel ends with the century in the throes of World War Three. In the four previous novels of the 'Children of Violence' series, Lessing explored the end of an epoch. Here she trains her gaze on the present - and the future. The disquieting power of her vision revealed across this series finds its culmination in this brave and visionary work.

The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul–himself a native of Trinidad–shows how that delusion drew a small island into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries. Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of slavery. An accumulation of casual, awful detail takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the slave colony, where, in spite of various titles of nobility, only an opportunistic, near-lawless community exists, always fearful of slave suicide or poison, of African sorcery and revolt. Naipaul tells this labyrinthine story with assurance, withering irony, and lively sympathy. The result is historical writing at its highest level.

Dějiny oblasti již od počátků křesťanství přes byzantskou a sasánovskou říši až po současnost nám přibližují fascinující spojení křesťanství a islámu. Přední anglický znalec nám tak zprostředkovává téma v současné době nanejvýš aktuální.

Een jonge man neemt wraak op zijn familie wanneer hij zijn ware afkomst ontdekt en gaat vervolgens pornografische verhalen schrijven om de kost te verdienen.

Een vrouw en jongen in het 17e-eeuwse Engeland blijken zich in bizarre 20e-eeuwse fantasieën te bevinden.

Problemen van een jonge vrouw, die buiten huwelijk en moederschap om, hunkert naar zuiver fysieke liefde.