Iris Menéndez Książki

Słynna powieść o średniowiecznym balwierzu, kt�ry został wielkim lekarzem. Anglia, XI wiek. Rob J. Cole, syn cieśli i hafciarki, po śmierci rodzic�w zostaje pomocnikiem wędrownego balwierza parającego się r�wnież leczeniem. Wykazuje nie tylko zapał do nauki, ale też ową szczeg�lną wrażliwość, kt�ra pozwala czytać w chorym organizmie, dostrzegać w nim wolę walki lub chęć poddania się. Punktem zwrotnym w jego życiu staje się spotkanie z żydowskim lekarzem, kt�rego kunszt przewyższa nikłe umiejętności średniowiecznych medyk�w. Odtąd każdym krokiem Roba kieruje jedno tylko pragnienie: dotrzeć do Isfahanu i zostać uczniem sławnego perskiego lekarza, Ibn Siny, w świecie zachodnim zwanego Awicenną.

'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.' So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they 'dream on' in this funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.

"A riveting history of South Africa and a penetrating portrait of a courageous woman." -- The New Yorker A must read fiction of South Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature This is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger, a young woman from South Africa cast in the mold of a revolutionary tradition. Rosa tries to uphold her heritage handed on by martyred parents while still carving out a sense of self. Although it is wholly of today, Burger's Daughter can be compared to those 19th century Russian classics that make a certain time and place come alive, and yet stand as universal celebrations of the human spirit. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lives in South Africa.

This work contains two novellas which are a dark trip down that obscure cul-de-sac of desire, where gender isn't so much bent as snapped in two. Other work by the author includes The Quantity Theory of Insanity.