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Wyspy obiecane to zbiór dwudziestu siedmiu opowiadań o osobach korzystających z usług jednej z firm taksówkarskich w niewielkim mieście pod Londynem. Kierowcą jest polski emigrant, który wraz z wrodzoną ciekawością i chęcią poznawania świata, stara się balansować pomiędzy kulturalnymi, dobrze wychowanymi, a niekiedy chamskimi i nawet...

This title is presented with a new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others,...

Two soldiers travel across Italy at the height of summer, passing through Genoa, Rome and Naples. One of the soldiers is blind, graceful, gleefully vicious and wears a prosthetic arm; the other, twenty years his junior, is his guide. But as these men drink their way through bars, brothels and train carriages, who is guiding who? Only as they...

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass...

Najnowszą powieść Mo Yana, najbardziej znanego na świecie chińskiego pisarza i laureata zeszłorocznej Nagrody Nobla, krytycy porównywali do dzieł europejskich mistrzów mrocznego i absurdalnego humoru - Güntera Grassa czy Witolda Gombrowicza. Luo Xiaotong, główny bohater, jest nowicjuszem w klasztorze. Opowiada staremu mnichowi o swoim...

A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce`s Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from the cinema, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque range of characters from dockside crapshooters to...