Barbara Kopeć-Umiastowska Books

Jak przystało na prawdziwą ikonę kultury, sławna malarka meksykańska Frida Kahlo wiodła życie pełne skrajności. Okaleczona przez polio w dzieciństwie, bezpłodna wskutek straszliwego wypadku w wieku lat osiemnastu, poślubiła innego tytan sztuki nowoczesnej, wielkiego malarza fresków Diego Riverę, a związek tych dwojga niezwykłych ludzi, pełen namiętności, miłości, zazdrości i kłamstwa, zawładnął wyobraźnią świata. Historia owego burzliwego małżeństwa, porywająco opowiedziana przez Cristinę, siostrę Fridy, stanowi również wyrazisty portret wyjątkowej, nieodparcie fascynującej kobiety.

A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, this final volume travels beyond the Three Countries, to the outside influences that threaten to intrude upon this isolated realm.

The second book in the Tales of the Otori trilogy continues the epic story of Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, the young lovers whose fate is played out in an ancient Oriental world, where ritualised codes of high honour counter the cruelty of savage blood-feuds. Takeo has pledged his life to the Tribe, a secret clan of spies and assassins who claim his legendary supernatural skills for their own ruthless purposes, in doing so he must deny his birthright as an Otori lord - and his love for Kaede. If he does not serve them, the Tribe will kill him. Kaede, separated from Takeo, must use her intelligence, beauty and cunning to assert her place in a world of all-powerful men - who must never know that she is carrying Takeo's child. In growing from boy to man, Takeo must make a choice - and the dangerous path he undertakes is a journey of high adventure, treachery and passion that establishes this extraordinary trilogy as one of the most brilliant and enduring works of modern fiction. GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW, the sequel to ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, is one of the most eagerly-awaited novels of 2003. Lian Hearn has created a brilliantly imagined culture. Here is epic storytelling whose appeal crosses genres, genders and generations.

Set in the Jewish homeland of ... Alaska, this is a brilliantly original novel from Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'.