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(P/B) Vladivostok Circus
Εκδότης: DAUNT BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5735-0007
Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent?when I think of all those little bodies suspended between earth and sky, it makes me smile to remind myself that for some of them, their first flight begins with a fall. Nathalie arrives at the circus in Vladivostok, Russia, fresh out of art college in Geneva. She is there to design the costumes for a trio of artists who are due to perform one of the most dangerous acts of all: the Russian Bar. As ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE LITTLE VIRTUES
Εκδότης: DAUNT BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5735-0004
'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones.' Between 1944 and 1960, Natalia Ginzburg wrote The Little Virtues, a collection of eleven vivid portraits of life that are central to her legacy as one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century. From the Italian countryside, where she and her husband lived in exile under fascist rule, to the melancholy streets of 1960s London, Ginzburg explores loneliness and belonging against the backdrop of post-war Eu... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) CASSANDRA AT THE WEDDING
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'I am not, at heart, a jumper. I think I knew all the time I was sizing up the bridge that the strong possibility was I'd attend my sister's wedding.' Cassandra Edwards is driving home to her family's Californian ranch to attend the wedding of her beloved identical twin, Judith. A graduate student at Berkeley, Cassandra is gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable - and hell-bent on making sure her sister's wedding doesn't go ahead. Armed with a clutch bag full of pills and an unquenchable thirst for brandy, Cassandra arrives determined to m... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THINGS I DIDN'T THROW OUT
Εκδότης: DAUNT BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5735-0006
A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history. Lamps, penknives, paperbacks, mechanical pencils, inflatable headrests. Marcin Wicha's mother Joanna was a collector of everyday objects. When she dies and leaves her apartment intact, Wicha is left to sort through her things. Through them, he begins to construct an image of Joanna as a Jewish woman, a mother, and a citizen. As Poland emerged from the Second World War into the material meanness of the Communist regime, sho... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) MENDELSSOHN IS ON THE ROOF
Εκδότης: DAUNT BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5735-0000
'A brilliant novel... Jir? Weil was a writer who witnessed the worst of this century and testified to his experience in works of unflinching and astonishing literary vision.' - New York Times Full of dark humour and bitter irony, Weil's novel traces the transformation of ordinary lives during the Nazi occupation of Prague. This is the story of the struggle to survive in the labyrinthine Nazi regime, and the courage required to retain hope and humanity. As Philip Roth - recent recipient of the 2011 Man Booker International Prize - writes i... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE OPPOSITE OF A PERSON
Εκδότης: DAUNT BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5735-0003
If people were evil, and I wished to be good, then I had to make sure that I was the opposite of a person. When Ida, a Dutch climatologist, accepts an internship at a climate research institute in the Italian Alps, it means leaving her girlfriend Robin behind in Amsterdam. As she and her new colleagues prepare to demolish a decommissioned hydropower dam, Ida finds herself grappling with love, loneliness and her place in a society unwilling to confront global warming. An unflinchingly honest narrative of vulnerability, longing and introspe... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) LIFE WITH A STAR
Εκδότης: DAUNT BOOKS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5735-0001
Life With A Star can be read almost as a companion novel to Mendelssohn is on the Roof, a biting satire of the bureaucratic machinery of tyranny. In Life With A Star we are exposed to the mind-numbing tedium of terror. Josef Roubicek, a former bank clerk, struggles against the daily impossibilities of life under a regime which has rendered him unemployed and undesirable. Like the resistance mounted in Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin, the steps taken to undermine the stranglehold of the system are tiny but not insignificant, and heroism is d... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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