Netherland - Joseph O’Neill
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck…
FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING‘Bittersweet … dazzling’ Guardian‘Deeply pleasurable … the ending made me cry’ The Times‘Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity’ Penelope LivelyViolet is 38.The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiancé – and her future. She is now considered a ‘surplus woman’.But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life –a change that will require courage, resilience and acts of quiet rebellion. And when whispers of another world war surface, she must live with a secret that could change everything…
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck…
V kraji, kde narazíte na soby i rosomáky, se ještě dá věřit na kouzla. Eliška má tatínka, maminku a spoustu plyšáků. Táta je novinář a pořád jezdí po světě. Máma je veterinářka a nedávno se rozhodla, že odjede na rok do…
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Jill se nikdy nehodlala vrtat ve vraždě své nejlepší kamarádky – proč taky? Shailin přítel Graham se k činu přiznal, policie případ uzavřela a tím to skončilo. Když jí však o tři roky později začnou…
V ten den, kdy jsem zastavila před rozlehlým domem Daxe Moodyho, jsem vůbec netušila, co přijde. Jako masérka na objednání jsem byla zvyklá docházet k cizím lidem, ale nikdy se mi nestalo, že by mým…
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Luang Paw Tien, the abbot of Praeknamdang Temple, is ninety-three years old and a treasure trove of stories. Most nights he entertains the children of his village with tales from his long and extraordinary life,…