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Jerzy Kozłowski

    The inheritance of loss
    Każdy
    Quichotte
    Normal People
    Knife
    • Knife

      Meditations After an Attempted Murder

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      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.

      Knife2024
      4.0
    • 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.

      Normal People2022
      3.8
    • Każdy

      Nie ma takiej osoby, której nie można by pokochać, jeśli się ją wybierze.

      • 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.

      Każdy2020
      3.4
    • Quichotte

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixotefor the modern age. 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. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixoteto satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse, with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work. The fully realised lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

      Quichotte2020
      3.8
    • 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.

      The inheritance of loss2007
      3.5