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Fleur Jaeggy urodziła się w Zurichu, lecz od 1968 roku mieszka w Mediolanie; swoje książki pisze po włosku. O Szczęśliwych latach skazania (I beati anni del castigo), uhonorowanych w 1989 r. Premio Bagutta, Josif Brodski powiedział: lektura trwa około czterech godzin; pamięć o książce pozostaje na resztę życia. Siedem opowiadań z tomu Gniew Niebios...

"The Free World" is the rapturously reviewed comic-tragic first novel from David Bezmozgis, a "New Yorker" '20 under 40' writer and author of "Natasha and Other Stories", whose work has been shortlisted for the "Guardian" First Book Award and the Giller Prize. "Terrific...Combines comic brilliance with a poignant portrait of a family trapped...

Doesn't everything sound sexier when said in a foreign language? Even 'A casa tua o a casa mia?' sounds more seductive than, 'Your place or mine?' Here are 150 lines and sexy phrases to use when either making the first move or indulging in bedroom banter with a hot foreigner. Whether you're traveling in a different country or trying to seduce the...

This novel revolves around two central characters: Lennie and George. Lennie is a man with the strength of two, but with the mind of a child, whose whole world centres around George, who steers him through life and protects him....

Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. 'Climate change' is less threatening than 'Global Warming'; we say ethnic cleansing when we mean mass murder. As we absorb and repeat Unspeak we are accepting the messages that politicians, businessmen...

If Life Begins at Forty, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman. But only when Charlotte has faced up to some uncomfortable truths about her past can...