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Danko Ješić

    Princ Valijant. Tom 1, 1937-1938
    Cockroach
    Happiness
    • Happiness

      • 320 stron
      • 12 godzin czytania

      Forna's voice is relentlessly compelling, her ability to summon atmosphere extraordinary ... A thing of lasting beauty' ObserverWaterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends, his 'niece', Ama, who hasn't called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown - and now her young son Tano is missing. When, by chance, Attila bumps into Jean again, she joins him in his search for Tano, mobilizing into action the network she has built up, mainly from the many West African immigrants working London's myriad streets, of volunteer security guards, hotel doormen, traffic wardens. All unite to help and as the search continues, a deepening friendship between Attila and Jean unfolds.In this delicate yet powerful novel of loves lost and new, of past griefs and of the hidden side of a teeming metropolis, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the values of the society we live in, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures - and the true nature of happiness.

      Happiness
      3,8
    • Cockroach

      • 320 stron
      • 12 godzin czytania

      Cockroach is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage's bestselling and critically acclaimed first book, De Niro's Game. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant community, where a self-described thief has just tried but failed to commit suicide. Rescued against his will, the narrator is obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned but naive therapist. This sets the story in motion, leading us back to the narrator's violent childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky emigre cafes where everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen night-time streets of Montreal, where the thief survives on the edge, imagining himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but wilfully blind, citizens who surround him. In 2008, Cockroach was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. It won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, presented by the Quebec Writers' Federation.

      Cockroach
      3,6
    • Princ Valijant. Tom 1, 1937-1938

      • 111 stron
      • 4 godziny czytania

      Tri i po decenije je Harold Foster pisao i crtao nedeljno izdanje u boji Princa Valijanta, koji se smatra najvećim avanturističkim stripom svih vremena. Iako su stripovi o princu Valijantu mnogo puta objavljivani u obliku knjige, u ovom novom izdanju, koje je priredio čuveni američki izdavač stripova Fantagrafiks, prvi put se pojavljuje originalni kolorit koji je lično odabrao Foster, onako kako je strip premijerno izlazio u nedeljnim izdanjima novina, kao i malo poznat intervju s Fosterom, retke fotografije, ilustracije i biografski esej koji je o autoru napisao Brajan M. Kejn.

      Princ Valijant. Tom 1, 1937-1938