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Jim Crace

    1. březen 1946

    James Crace je britský autor, jehož díla se vyznačují pronikavým stylem a zkoumáním lidské povahy. Jeho romány se často zabývají tématy společenských změn a dopadů civilizace na jednotlivce i společnost. Crace mistrně používá jazyk k vytváření živých obrazů a hlubokých psychologických portrétů, čímž čtenářům nabízí podnětné a nezapomenutelné literární zážitky. Jeho jedinečný autorský hlas a hloubka jeho děl z něj činí významnou postavu současné britské literatury.

    Quarantine. Die Versuchung in der Wüste, englische Ausgabe
    Signals of Distress
    The Pesthouse
    The Devil's Larder
    The Gift of Stones
    Kontinent
    • 2022

      From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of &i;>Harvest &/i>and &i;>Quarantine&/i>, a spellbinding fable about love, fear and where authority lies.

      eden
    • 2019
    • 2018

      The Melody

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      3,1(69)Ohodnotit

      From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest, a novel about love and grief, music and myth, and about the way society treats its least fortunate.

      The Melody
    • 2015

      So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and camels any more, of being Miri without shame or hesitation, of letting drop her headscarf for a change so that nothing intervened between her and the sky. Five travellers venture into the Judean wilderness in search of redemption. Instead, amidst the barren rocks, they are met by a dangerous man, Musa, and fall under his dark influence. As the unforgiving days and bitter nights erode their resolve, it becomes clear that one among them will go further than the rest: a fervent, solitary figure, he denies the temptations of his neighbours, and, ultimately, the needs of his own body

      Quarantine. Die Versuchung in der Wüste, englische Ausgabe
    • 2013

      The Pesthouse

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      3,8(24)Ohodnotit

      From the Booker-shortlisted author of Quarantine.

      The Pesthouse
    • 2013

      Harvest

      • 280 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení
      3,7(417)Ohodnotit

      As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it ...

      Harvest
    • 2011

      All That Follows

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      3,2(19)Ohodnotit

      From the masterful author of Being Dead and Quarantine, a hypnotic novel about what it means to be a hero.

      All That Follows
    • 2008

      Arcadia

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      3,5(22)Ohodnotit

      `A celebration of the modern city . . . in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the sun-ripened oranges and smell the coffee at the market traders' stalls' Sunday Times

      Arcadia
    • 2007

      The stoneworkers remain oblivious to the winds of change in the outside world--until a storyteller returns with a strange, angry woman whose death foretells the coming of metal and the end of stone.

      The Gift of Stones
    • 2007

      A literary feast of sheer imagination and indulgence, from the Booker- shortlisted author of Quarantine

      The Devil's Larder