Knihy beletrie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Elena Ferrante, anglické
- Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun
- beletrie
- 2022
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 352
- anglické
'The Sun always has ways to reach us.' From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of...
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- beletrie
- 2006
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 304
- anglické
This book deals with a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her...
- My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend
- beletrie
- 2020
- Elena Ferrante
- 332
- anglické
The International Bestseller now in paperback. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough...
- NEVER LET ME GO
NEVER LET ME GO
- beletrie
- 2010
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 282
- anglické
In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England....
- My Brilliant Friend - E. Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend - E. Ferrante
- Penguin Books
- beletrie
- 2012
- Elena Ferrante
- 335
- anglické
Soon to be an HBO series, book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted...
- The Days of Abandonment - E. Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment - E. Ferrante
- beletrie
- 2006
- Elena Ferrante
- 192
- anglické
From the New York Times-bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife's descent into despair--and rage--is "a masterpiece" (The Philadelphia...
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- beletrie
- 2010
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 304
- anglické
One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning authorKazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed...
- The Remains of the Day - K. Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day - K. Ishiguro
- beletrie
- 2023
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 258
- anglické
'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens,...
- Nocturnes
Nocturnes
- beletrie
- 2010
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 240
- anglické
'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch...' In a sublime short story collection, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time....
- Lost Daughter
Lost Daughter
- beletrie
- 2008
- Elena Ferrante
- 126
- anglické
Leda is a middle-aged divorcée devoted to her work as an English teacher and to her two children. When her daughters leave home to be with their father in Canada, Leda...
- Remains of the day
Remains of the day
- beletrie
- 2001
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 272
- anglické
After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens,...
- The Unconsoled - K. Ishiguro
The Unconsoled - K. Ishiguro
- beletrie
- 2013
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 538
- anglické
"Almost certainly a masterpiece." (Anita Brookner). Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing...
- The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante
The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante
- beletrie
- 2020
- Elena Ferrante
- 322
- anglické
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to...
- Artist of the Floating World
Artist of the Floating World
- beletrie
- 2018
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 208
- anglické
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat...
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
- beletrie
- 2014
- Elena Ferrante
- 425
- anglické
Soon to be an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by...
- Troubling Love
Troubling Love
- beletrie
- 2006
- Elena Ferrante
- 139
- anglické
A woman goes home to Naples after her mother's mysterious death in a "tour de force" by the New York Times-bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend (Seattle Times)....
- Story of a New Name
Story of a New Name
- Penguin Books
- beletrie
- 2013
- Elena Ferrante
- 475
- anglické
Soon to be an HBO series, the follow-up to My Brilliant Friend in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich,...
- Story of the Lost Child, The - Elena Ferrante
Story of the Lost Child, The - Elena Ferrante
- Europa Corp.
- beletrie
- 2015
- Elena Ferrante
- 4764
- anglické
Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by...
- Buried Giant
Buried Giant
- beletrie
- 2016
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 384
- anglické
The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily...
- Pale view of Hills
Pale view of Hills
- beletrie
- 2010
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 183
- anglické
Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent suicide of her daughter. A visit from her other daughter Niki sends Etsuko retreating into the...
- When We Were Orphans Ishiguro Kazuo
When We Were Orphans Ishiguro Kazuo
- beletrie
- 2000
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 368
- anglické
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the...
- My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
- beletrie
- 2018
- Elena Ferrante
- 311
- anglické
Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning...
- Story of a New Name
Story of a New Name
- beletrie
- 2020
- Elena Ferrante
- 472
- anglické
The international bestseller, now in B-format paperback with a brand new cover. The Story of a New Name, the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story where My...
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
- beletrie
- 2020
- Elena Ferrante
- 400
- anglické
Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish...