Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.
Michał Kłobukowski Books
In the Country of Last Things
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Chinese edition of In the country of last things. This is Paul Auster's "1984," The Guardian includes it in the "1000 novels to read before you die." In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Lolita
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? ...Or is he all of these?
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'.
Diary of a Bad Year
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? How should the citizen of a modern democracy react to the state's willingness to set aside moral considerations and civil liberties in its war on terror, a war that includes the use of torture?