"Злото" е сборник от 13 луди разказа с неповторимо постмодерно сатирично звучене, в които няма и намек за библейското изкупление или пословичната поука. ... В този невероятен и безпощаден сборник разкази, написани изцяло в първо лице и почти винаги от женска гледна точка, Спаркс надига своя силен литературен глас към неизбежното в личния свят на героите си и комбинира това с достатъчно количество особен хумор, необходим да избягаме от настъпващия ужас. С теми, вариращи от мръсни опипвания със съмнителни типове до нездравословна храна, наркотици, болести, алкохол, убийства и психологически проблеми, "Злото& ... |
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Книгата е част от "Индийската поредица" на издателство "Жанет - 45". ... Една зимна сутрин Рей Бхуллар пристига в Индия. Тук е, за да снима филм, но историята ще бъде необикновена, защото и мястото е необикновено. Селото е затвор със свободен режим, обитаван от убийци. Колкото повече напредва престоят на снимачния екип, толкова по-драматични и разтърсващи събития се разгръщат. Крехкото равновесие в селото е нарушено и въпреки наглед добрите намерения на посетителите, животът на затворниците ще бъде изложен на показ безмилостно и унизително, истинският облик на всички участници ще бъде разкрит, а ... |
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Историята от "Хрониките Уордстоун" е вдъхновението за създаването на филма "Седмият син". ... Прогонващия духове и неговият чирак, Томас Уорд, се борят с мрака. Избавят графството от вещици, призраци и богърти. Сега имат някои недовършени дела в Прийстаун. Дълбоко в катакомбите на катедралата дебне създание, което Прогонващия духове така и не е успял да победи; сила, толкова зла, че цялото графство е заплашено да бъде покварено от него. Изчадието! Докато Томас и Прогонващия духове се готвят за битката на живота си, става ясно, че Изчадието не е единственият им враг. Инквизиторът е пристигнал, търсейки ... |
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Аравинд Адига, който от дете мечтае за стане писател, е роден в Мадрас през 1974 г. Учи в университетите Колумбия и Окфорд. Бивш кореспондент на Time Magazine за Индия. Публикувал е статии също в издания като Financial Times, The Independent и Sunday Times. В момента живее в Мумбай."Белият тигър" е първият му роман и четвъртият дебютен роман, спечелил "Букър" в 40-годишната история на наградата. Адига стана петият индийски автор, носител на "Букър", нареждайки се сред автори като В. С. Найпол, Салман Рушди, Арундати Рой и Киран Десаи. Романът показва и двете страни на най-населената държава в ... |
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"Language Learner Literature Award - Winner", awarded in 2004 year. ... "I was nearly dark in the small room near the Stoddard University campus. The two people in the room that Sunday evening were both second-year students at the college. They were looking at each in silence. The handsome young man was angry. His plans had been working man was angry. His plans had been working so well. And now this news had come! But he wasn't going to show his anger. He turned, and he smiled at the young woman sitting on the bed." From the Book This book is in American English. Here you can find: extra ... |
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"A Cook's Book" is the story of Nigel Slater's life in the kitchen. From the first jam tart Nigel made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the Aga, through to what he is cooking now, this is the ultimate Nigel Slater collection brimming with over 200 recipes. He writes about how his cooking has changed from discovering the best way to roast a chicken to the trick to smoky, smooth aubergine mash. He gives the tales behind the recipes and recalls the first time he ate a baguette in Paris, his love of jewel-bright Japanese pickled radishes and his initial slice of buttercream-topped ... |
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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021. In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night. These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the twenty-first century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and - more crucially - to treat them. What unites them is that they are all examples of a particular ... |
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The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar "Japanese Breakfast", an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity in the wake of her loss, which brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of ... |
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Pack your suitcase for the final magical adventure at the Strangeworlds Travel Agency! Flick and Jonathan have faced countless dangers in their roles as part of the Strangeworlds Society and come out alive on the other side. But what do they really know about the Society they are risking their lives for? Why does it exist? Who is Strangeworlds there to protect? And what in the worlds is happening to the multiverse now? With worlds everywhere under threat of collapse and mysteries abounding, it's up to Flick and Jonathan to discover the answers to these questions. And only if they can uncover the secrets of ... |
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"Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" is a guide to the biggest issue we all face. Ageing - not cancer, not heart disease - is the world's leading cause of death and suffering. What would the world be like if we could cure it? Living disease - free until the age of 100 is achievable within our lifetimes. In prose that is lucid and full of fascinating facts, "Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" introduces us to the cutting edge research that is paving the way for this revolution. Computational biologist Andrew Steele explains what occurs ... |
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In an age Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the west stand in sharp contrast to events in the east, where ties are being streighthend and mutural cooperation established."No reader will leave "The New Silk Roads" with her sense of the world unchanged." Times Literary Supplement "Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita." Sunday Times "Frankopan has the gift to perspective - the capacity to see the wood for the trees - which he combines with a Talstoyan knack for weaving little details into the broader sweep of human affairs." Daily ... |
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An interview with the last speaker of a language. A chronicle of the final seven days of a town that is about to be razed to the ground by an invading army. The lonely voyage of an elephant from Kerala to a princess's palace in Morocco. A coterie of international diplomats trapped in near-Earth orbit. Kanishk Tharoor's collection of dazzling stories is furiously inventive, beautifully crafted and remarkably assured. "Swimmer Among the Stars"achieves a hypnotic power. Tharoor's writing has the clarity and imaginative expansiveness of fable.""Sunday Times" "I greatly admired the ... |
