Norman Gobetti Książki

It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war.One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their own agenda to pursue. Among them is Kesri Singh, a sepoy in the East India Company who leads a company of Indian sepoys; Zachary Reid, an impoverished young sailor searching for his lost love, and Shireen Modi, a determined widow en route to China to reclaim her opium-trader husband's wealth and reputation. Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War and China's devastating defeat, to Britain's seizure of Hong Kong.

The sequel to the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted, Sea of Poppies.

Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into a line of red rock, and why some museums and churches might be the last human creations left standing.

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along.

Traditonal Chinese version of Exit West, a novel about migration and mutation, full of wormholes and rips in reality, begins as it mostly doesn't go on.

What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad--mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.--From publisher's description.

„W moim pokoju jest świat”, mówi Judyta McPherson, osierocona przez matkę 10-letnia narratorka powieści. „Zrobiony jest z rzeczy, których nikt nie chciał, i z rzeczy, które należały do mojej mamy, i które mi zostawiła”. Świat jest miniaturową repliką krainy mlekiem i miodem płynącej, w której nastanie po Armagedonie Judyta wierzy. Dziewczynka spędza w swoim pokoju całe dnie, ograniczona przez religijny fundamentalizm ojca, który zakazuje jej uczestniczyć w szkolnych imprezach i spędzać czas w niezbyt dobranym towarzystwie członków jej kościelnej grupy. Dla Judyty wszystko to mieści się w granicach normalności. Dopiero kiedy staje się celem ataków klasowego tyrana, nadciągający nieuchronnie Koniec zaczyna traktować osobiście i lękać się go naprawdę.

A spellbinding, globe-trotting novel by the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy