Saša Drach Books

A literary calendar containing quotations from the diaries of famous historical and cultural figures.

The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the "First Abstract Watercolour" of 1910. In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of colour through the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colours". Kandinsky was the first to realise this and thus to influence a whole range of artists. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2014.

From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's A Perfect Spy. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide: who is telling the truth, his mother or his father? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

A vast number of people have become enthralled with the story of the nineteenth-century French priest who, in his mountain village at the foot of the Pyrenees, discovered something which enabled him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. Based on more than ten years of research, this book presents an inquiry into this enigma.

Ulomci iz Dalai Laminih predavanja i privatnih razgovora kojima se publici potekloj sa Zapada nastoji predstaviti njegov pristup pojedinim pitanjima. Prikupljeni su dijelovi primjenjivi u svakodnevnom životu, dok su uglavnom izostavljeni filozofski aspekti tibetanskog budizma. Tako on ovdje govori o svrsi života i pravu na sreću, ljudskoj toplini i suosjećanju, o patnji, nadrastanju prepreka te o osnovnim duhovnim vrijednostima. Sve su Dalai Lamine misli prožete vjerom u prirođenu blagost i dobrotu svih ljudskih bića, u vrijednost suosjećanja kao i u učinak dobra i osjećaj zajedništva svih živih bića.

Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer is trapped in a coma and finds himself in a surreal world that reflects the skewed priorities of the life he's lived on earth where he meets a stranger who turns out to be Jesus and a grandmother who is the Holy Spirit. Pleading for a second chance, he is sent back to earth to redeem himself. There he must fight to put right the mess he's created, experiencing events through others' eyes before deciding how to use the miraculous gift he's been given. Before his illness he had set events in motion that he now needs to undo - but will he have the courage to make the right choice? THE SHACK is an international phenomenon, surpassing 1 million copies sold before being picked up by a mainstream publisher: its combination of radical spirituality with a heart-wrenching story made it a word-of-mouth hit, and CROSS ROADS has all the ingredients to repeat its impact.

Uštogljenoj majci i neuštogljenoj kćeri svidi se isti, neodoljivi muškarac. Idealan početak šarmantne, romantične komedije. Samohranoj mladoj majci Ally Hughes život nije lak: nastoji se izboriti za stalno mjesto na sveučilištu, ima previše studenata, šefica je maltretira, a ni privatna situacija nije išta bolja: kuća u kojoj živi raspada se, majka je kritizira za svaku sitnicu... U kaosu u kojem živi Ally nema vremena za ljubav, barem dok ne upozna Jakea, studenta koji je natjera da zastane i otvori svoj život i svoje srce - za ljubav. Deset godina kasnije Ally i dalje nije u vezi, a Jake se vraća u njezin život, kao pratnja njezine sada odrasle kćeri. Postoji li i dalje šansa za ljubav?

Dvojjazyčné vydání pěti povídek. Titulní povídka vypráví o království, jež zasáhla morová nákaza. Princ Prospero se chtěl před nákazou zachránit, a tak vybral ze svého panství tisíc mužů a žen a společně odešli do odlehlého kláštera. Vchod zapečetili, aby se nikdo nedostal dovnitř, ale ani ven. Ale Červená smrt si cestu najde...

As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it ...

To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted, dangerous climax

The first global history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the present day Comics, manga, bandes dessinées, fumetti, tebeo, historietas… no matter the name, they have been a powerful medium across four continents for decades. This is the history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the dawn of the 21st century. Comics is a richly illustrated narrative of extraordinary scope. Examples from all over the world include everything from Crumb and Kirby to RAW; from Metal Hurlant to Marjane Satrapi to nouvelle manga; from both the American mainstream and underground to the evolving and influential British scene. The images here are bright and colorful, dark and brooding, arresting and pleasant, all at the same time. An unprecedented collection includes around 260 expertly chosen illustrations, many reproduced in full-page format for more sophisticated analysis. The authors, two uniquely positioned and knowledgeable authorities, are the first to write a broadly comprehensive history of this most accessible, democratic, and occasionally subversive modern popular art form, displaying an intimate familiarity with schools and styles, writers, artists, and companies across countries and generations. In showing us both post-apocalyptic dreamscapes and portraits of the everyday, Comics looks at this thirty-plus year period through a very unique lens.