Upon its publication in Germany in 1983, this author's book stirred both critical acclaim and consternation, attracting a wide readership. He finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal and institutional settings; his book is both a history of the impulse and an investigation of its role today, among those whose earlier hopes for social change have crumbled and faded away.
Precyzyjnie udokumentowana książka ukazuje historię rozbudowanej sieci obozów pracy rozrzuconych po całym obszarze Związku Sowieckiego. Dla Polaków słowo 'gułag' ma szczególne znaczenie - byliśmy wśród narodów, które najdotkliwiej poznały sowiecki system represji i ludobójstwa. Bogata jest także polska literatura łagrowa, z której szeroko korzystała autorka książki.
Byen North Fork er hårdt ramt af nedgangen i træindustrien, men en spinkel teenager, Ann Holmes, der bl.a. plukker svampe, har set jomfru Maria i skoven og snart invaderes byen af pilgrimme
This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia's fiancé is fighting the Italian army ...
An exploration of the overwhelming complexity of Afghan politics, this title explains how it came in to being, how it is sustained and how Osama bin Laden has risen to such a figure of absolute power.
George Orwell (1903-1950) był angielskim pisarzem, dziennikarzem i uczestnikiem wojny hiszpańskiej po stronie republikańskiej, co opisał w reporterskiej oraz socjologiczno-filozoficznej książce „W hołdzie Katalonii”. Był socjalistą, ale jednocześnie zdecydowanym przeciwnikiem totalitaryzmu. Uznawany jest za autora najwybitniejszych dystopii XX wieku, w tym „Folwarku zwierzęcego” i „1984”. Ta ponura antyutopia rozgrywa się w Londynie rządzonym przez totalitarny reżim Wielkiego Brata, a świat podzielony jest na trzy walczące supermocarstwa. W rzeczywistości „1984” słowa straciły znaczenie, a prawda jest manipulowana. Główny bohater, Winston Smith, pracuje w Ministerstwie Prawdy, które zajmuje się dezinformacją, podczas gdy Ministerstwo Pokoju prowadzi wojnę, a Ministerstwo Miłości prześladuje obywateli. Ministerstwo Obfitości rozdaje głodowe racje. Choć nie wszystkie cechy tego systemu są widoczne w naszej rzeczywistości, wiele z nich wciąż się objawia. To nie tylko problem Północnej Korei! Warto sięgnąć po tę książkę, zanim stanie się zakazana, jak miało to miejsce w czasach PRL.
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992.
Vertaald naar het Nederlands door / Translated into Dutch by Tinke Davids / 9789029508896 / Literature translated into Dutch / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / paperback / 13 x 21 cm / 251 .pp /
America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June
1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found
strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged
husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer
was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent
his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only
later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's
murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication
of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles
and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the
38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non-
fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip
to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul.
Reisverslag van de 5 jaar durende zeereis die de Britse wetenschapper Charles Darwin vanaf 1831 maakte naar Zuid-Amerika, Afrika, Australië en eilanden in de Stille en Indische Oceaan.
Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.
Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, Paul Theroux travelled the length of North and South America, to his destination in Patagonia. In this book he vividly evokes the contrasts of his journey.
Van de Rio Negro naar Buenos Aires - Charles Darwin Goedenavond, mrs. Thys - Jan Brokken Drie maanden in de West - W. Wijnaendts Francken-Syserinck Paaseiland: voorbij de branding van Rapa Nui - Paul Theroux Kongo - Redmond O'Hanlon Filfla - Boudewijn Büch Het dorp van Ratu Dinges - Johnny Frisbie Bot Pippel - Linda Polman De Kakaanse seismograaf - Benno Barnard
One of the world's premier travel writers launches his most exotic and tantalizing adventure yet, as he kayaks the shimmering Pacific, exploring the islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these happy isles.
Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and, said the Sunday Times, 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure . . . 'After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is absolutely riveting reading. 'Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly' - Anthony Burgess in the Observer. 'Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments' - The New York Times.
Waarom zou een Israëlische jood zich voordoen als een Arabier? Het was volgens mij (de schrijver) de beste manier om in de huid van een Palestijn te kruipen.` Joram Binoer stak zijn licht op in de Gazastrook, in de vluchtelingenkampen op de Westoever en in het centrum van Tel Aviv. Een gewaagde onderneming.
The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany” (The New York Times Book Review). In this wonderfully provocative novel, Barnes follows Jean Serjeant from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, confronting readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed). Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.