The memoir recounts Salman Rushdie's harrowing experience of surviving a violent attack on August 12, 2022, while advocating for writer safety. Through his vivid and honest narrative, Rushdie explores the profound impact of love and support from his wife, family, and community during his recovery. Blending elements of a thriller and a love story, the book reflects on themes of resilience, the healing power of art, and the importance of standing up against hatred. It serves as a poignant testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't.
Thronged with vividly drawn characters, some of them with famous names, others recovered from obscurity, Author, Author presents a fascinating panorama of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England, which in many ways foreshadowed today's cultural mix of art, commerce and publicity.
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where 'Anything-Can-Happen'. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.
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544 pages
20 hours of reading
Długo wyczekiwana powieść finalisty National Book Award Hamburg, Terminal nr 1. O umówionej porze kilkuletni Janis wychodzi z toalety i rozgląda się za tatą. Chłopiec nie ma przy sobie nic – żadnych dokumentów czy bagażu, jedynie zwitek amerykańskich dolarów. Obsługa lotniska próbuje zidentyfikować małego pasażera, ale Janis nie zamierza odpowiadać na pytania. Kim jest chłopiec? Kim jest człowiek, który go zostawił? I co kryje się za tą historią? Najbardziej wyczekiwana powieść 2019 roku w USA. Intensywna, elektryzująca opowieść o każdym z nas – o marzeniach, emocjach i skrywanych pragnieniach, w mistrzowskim przekładzie Jerzego Kozłowskiego.
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. With the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, and his cook's son hopscotching from one New York restaurant to another, trying to stay ahead of the US immigration services, this is far from easy.
