Set in South Africa, this broad, brutal farce begins when AfrikaansKommandant van Heerden, chief of police in the little town of Piemburg, takes a short vacation. While he indulges his Anglophile tendencies by trying to ingratiate himself with some would-be upper-class Britons, Liutenantthis is Afrikaans spelling Verkramp decides to make his part of South Africa safe from the communist threat once and for all. This he undertakes by blowing up the town's main facilities and by arresting and torturing the main citizens. Then, upon the suggestion of libidinous psychiatrist Dr. von Blimenstein, Verkramp subjects all police officers to aversion therapy to keep them away from black women. The experiment goes awry, and the police force becomes homosexual. Called back from his vacation after cuckolding his host on a fox hunt, van Heerden finds Piemburg a shambles and a raving mad Verkramp about to marry Dr. von Blimenstein. In the apocalyptic climax, van Heerden saves face with his superiors while exacting revenge on his snobbish former hosts. This timely satire will strike readers either as hilarious or beside the point. --Publisher's Weekly
Martina Kotrbová Books





Bluebeard's egg and other stories
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds... In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.
Pokračování Ságy rodu Forsytů J.Galsworthyho. Nové osudy anglického šlechtického rodu Forsytů se začínají odvíjet v roce 1939, kdy nad Evropou visí Damoklův meč druhé světové války. Soames Forsyte, známý advokát a milovník umění je třináct let mrtev a jeho dcera Fleur, nyní Lady Montová, je ženou prominentního poslance Směnovny a známé politické osobnosti. Ale život krásné a vitální Fleur je jiný, než po jakém toužila. Ačkoli žije obklopena rodinou a hýčkána milujícím manželem, neustále prahne po jediné věci, která ji zůstala navždy odepřena - po své jediné velké lásce, bratranci Jonu Forsytovi. Když Jonova žena nešťastnou náhodou zahyne, Fleur se rozhodne chopit šance. Už má vítězství na dosah ruky, když její syn Kit potkává Jonovu dceru Annu... A starý spor mezi oběma větvemi rodu, vyhlášený v roce 1887, se znovu rozhořívá.
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- 48 pages
- 2 hours of reading