When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. M…
The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and…
Paris, 1918: Amidst the cries of fanatic patriots bent on war, a tender relationship slowly develops between two young Parisians, beginning with a first shy encounter and growing into a passionate lov…
“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a …
Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then was subsequently banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the c…
Dialóg Zuzany Čaputovej a šéfredaktora týždenníka Respekt Erika Taberyho trval viac ako dva roky. Aké je byť ženou vo vrcholnej politike a matkou dcér, na ktoré útočia politici? S čím sa musí vyrovnať…
داستان زندگی کودکی است که خانواده اش او را به رود نیل سپرده اند و حال، خانوادهای دیگر در آن سوی رود او را مییابند و پرورش میدهند. نام این کودک، سینوهه است که در سالهای جوانی پزشک مخصوص فرعون و همچن…
Sally und Liss: zwei Frauen, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Sally, kurz vor dem Abitur, will einfach in Ruhe gelassen werden. Sie ist wütend auf alles, hasst alles: Angebote, Vorschrift…
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South American coast. “It is a s…
