Irene Abigail Piccinini Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, "Abraham!" to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, "Here I am." Later, when Isaac calls out, "My father!" to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, "Here I am." How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in eleven years - a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy. Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks, in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake isthe very meaning of home - and the fundamental question of how much life one can bear.

In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone's Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home.Chronologically, it goes backwards - London in 1909, then Paris in 1890, and finally Venice in 1867 - and Stone's character and motivation deepen as the book progresses; in the first part he is almost an abstraction, existing only in the memory of those who knew him; in the second he is a character, but only a secondary one; in the third he is the narrator of the story. A quest, then, but also a love story and a murder mystery, set against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.Like Fingerpost, Stone's Fall is an intricate and richly satisfying puzzle, completely engaging on many levels, a triumphant return for one of the world's great storytellers.

Autor se sám celý život potácel mezi vegetariánstvím a konzumním způsobem stravování. Po narození syna rozhodl vypátrat co nejvíce o tom, jak to chodí v americkém masném průmyslu, aby se mohl zodpovědně rozhodnout, čím bude svoje dítě krmit. V této knize popisuje, co během svého čtyřletého výzkumu zjistil, viděl a zažil. Neagituje, pouze předkládá fakta, se kterými se každý musí vypořádat sám. Pečlivě shromažďované údaje prokládá různými úvahami, příběhy a reportážemi, autentickými výpověďmi velko- i malochovatelů a pracovníků na jatkách. Vážné téma dokázal zpracovat citlivě a s nadhledem, kterému nechybí ani jeho typický smysl pro humor. Jonathanu Safranu Foerovi se podařilo napsat odbornou esej, u které bude čtenář chvílemi trnout hrůzou a chvílemi se nahlas smát. Kniha však není levnou propagandou proti konzumaci masa, ale unikátní sondou do fungování naší společnosti.