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Alice Munro - The ​Love of a Good Woman
Alice ​Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems: as in her title story it can be needy and murderous. here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unsuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts.

Alice Munro - The ​Progress of Love
A ​divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents' confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.

Alice Munro - Friend ​of My Youth
In ​Friend of my Youth, Alice Munro once again dazzles with her finely nuanced depictions of the human heart. These ten stories bring to life characters in a remarkable variety of times and places. As always, Alice Munro's people are as real and recognizable as ourselves.

Alice Munro - Alice ​Munro's Best
In ​her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time... Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.” This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting old favourites, where their new setting in this book may reveal new sides to what once seemed a familiar story; devoted followers may even dispute the exclusion of a specially-beloved story. Readers lucky enough to have found her recently will be delighted, as one masterpiece succeeds another. The 17 stories are carefully arranged in the order in which she wrote them, which allows us to follow the development of her range. “A Wilderness Station,” for example, breaks “short story rules” by taking us right back to the 1830s then jumping forward more than 100 years. “The Albanian Virgin” destroys the idea that her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario’s “Alice Munro Country.” And “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” the story behind the film Away From Her, takes us far from the world of young girls learning about sex into unflinching old age. This is a book to read slowly, savouring each story. It deserves a place in every Canadian book-lover’s library.

Alice Munro - Szeret, ​nem szeret...
Kilenc ​nő, kilenc sors, kilenc történet. A látszólag hétköznapi, ártalmatlan történetek egy életre rabul ejtik az olvasót, de ennél szebb rabságot senki sem kívánhatna magának. Alice Munro kitűnő novellista. Rengeteget tud az emberekről, ironikus és megbocsátó, stílusa áttetsző, a szerző szinte eltűnik mögötte. Nagyszerű olvasmány.

Sherman Alexie - Rick Bass - Ha ​azt mondjuk: Phoenix, Arizona / A Disznószemű legendája
Sorozatunk ​olyan vállalkozás, amely két nyelven szól, angolul és magyarul - és kettős célt is szolgál: az egyre többet használt angol nyelv szépirodalmi szintű bemutatása mellett tőlünk távolabb eső, izgalmas, sokszínű kultúrákkal is szeretné megismertetni a magyar olvasót - angol nyelven írt kortárs szerzők novelláin keresztül, egyszerre szolgálva a tanulást és az olvasás örömét. Sherman Alexie a legígéretesebb fiatal indián írók egyike. 1966-ban született, Spokane, illetve Coeur d'Alene indián szülőktől egy rezervátumban. Egész gyerekkorát végigbetegeskedte, ennek köszönhette korai olvasási szenvedélyét. Tanulmányait a Washington State University-n fejezte be, 1991-ben és 1992-ben költészetéért ösztöndíjat kapott. Addigra mintegy 300 verset, esszét, prózai írást publikált. Számos antológiában szerepelt, díjakat nyert, zenével és filmmel is foglalkozik. Egy novelláskötet és két regény áll mögötte. Írásaiban a mai Amerika rezervátumon élő indiánjainak életébe pillanthatunk be. Rick Bass 1958-as, texasi születésű szerző, eredetileg olajkutató mérnök. Jelenleg Montanában él családjával egy farmon, szinte teljesen elzárva a világtól. Tizenkét könyv szerzője, részint prózai írások, részint esszégyűjtemények kerültek ki a keze alól. Számos prominens folyóiratban publikál, és jónéhány mérvadó antológiába válogatták be, köztük a Best American Short Stories-ba. Első, 1998-ba kiadott regényét (Where the Sea Used to Be) tizenkét éven át írta, egyébként vérbeli novellaíró, aki előszerettel ír a természetről.

Alice Munro - The ​Beggar Maid
Born ​into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd step-mother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her...

Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen ​(angol)
BANANAMANIA ​IS HERE! Discover why America is in love with KITCHEN "Love, death, mourning and the gradual recovery of the will to live are staple themes in fiction. But they receive a delightfully fresh expression in Kitchen... (a) beautifully understated work." - New York Newsday "A twenty-eight-year-old writer of wit and delicacy, Yoshimoto has indeed penned a book worth reading." - Boston Globe "Offbeat tales with a zany, blunt wit." - Time

Alice Munro - Csend, ​vétkek, szenvedély
Alice ​Munro novellái gyakran egy-egy regényt sűrítenek magukba, prizmásan mondják el történetüket, amelyek időben egymástól távol eső (sorsfordító) epizódokból, a novella különböző szereplőinek nézőpontjából, a napló- vagy levélforma és a narráció váltogatásából rajzolódnak ki. Többnyire határterületen játszódnak: a lázadás és a biztonság, a szabadság és a boldogság, a józan unalom és az életveszélyes szenvedély, a bizalom és a naiv hiszékenység, az igazság és a hazugság, a sors és a véletlen, a lehúzó környezet és a személyes döntés, a jelen és a múlt, a racionalizmus és a fanatizmus, a természet feletti képességek és az olcsó csalások határán. A valóságban pedig valamilyen kisvárosban, ahol hőseiket a kitörés vágya, a lázadás, vagy visszatekintve a megérteni vágyás motiválja. Néha nem is tudjuk, melyik szereplőre figyeljünk, ki a hőse az írásnak, de az igazi főszereplő általában az, akinek a tudatában, lelkében összeáll a mások vagy akár a maga sorsa. A főhős egy-egy idős asszony, egykori későn érő, a környezetéből kiemelkedni vágyó lány, aki valamilyen véletlen hatására vagy tudatosan tér vissza a múltjához – gyakran a konkrét földrajzi térbe is –, hogy felidézze, megértse, feldolgozza, ami vele vagy a körülötte élőkkel történt.

Alice Munro - Egy ​jóravaló nő szerelme
A ​szerelem áll Alice Munro nyolc történetének középpontjában: az, hogy mi mindent meg nem tesznek érte az emberek, hogyan viselkednek, ha megszerzik, akire vágytak, hogyan hagyják, hogy elsodorja őket a szenvedély, és milyen árat kell fizetniük érte. Ahogy már megszoktuk tőle, aprólékosan boncolja az emberi kapcsolatokat, finoman érezteti, milyen bonyolult, érdekes és kiszámíthatatlan az elme működése, és hogy igazabb és árnyaltabb képet kapunk mindarról, ami velünk történt, ha néhány évtized távlatából elemezzük az eseményeket. Hősei: a lányok, a nők és az asszonyok Kanada kisebb és nagyobb szigetein, városaiban titkok, hazugságok és elfojtások között élik mindennapjaikat, próbálják megérteni jelenüket, egykori döntéseiket, melyek következményeit egy életen át viselik. Személyiségük varázsa jórészt abból a bátorságból ered, amellyel képesek őszintén szembenézni a múltjukkal, képesek átélni a változás és az elmúlás érzését, hogy előbb vagy utóbb, így vagy úgy valamiféle derűs nyugalommal megbékéljenek sorsukkal. "Munro történetei a tekintetben is kivételesek, hogy a novella szűk terében teljes sorsokat követnek végig. A hétköznapok nagy krónikása: étkezésről, pénzzavarról, öltözködésről, öregedésről, szexről, gyerekszülésről és nevelésről senki más nem ír úgy, mint ő." A. S. Byatt forrás: www.parkkiado.hu

J. M. Coetzee - Foe ​(angol)
With ​the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians and The Master of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometime lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe - as by Coetzee himself - the stories we thought we know acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.

J. M. Coetzee - Age ​of Iron
In ​Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs. Curren recounts the strange events of her dying days. She witnesses the burning of a nearby black township and discovers the bullet-riddled body of her servant's son. A teenage black activist hiding in her house is killed by security forces. And through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man, an alcoholic, who one day appears on her doorstep. Brilliantly crafted and resonant with metaphor, Age of Iron is "a superbly realized novel whose truths cut to the bone." (The New York Times Book Review)

Doris Lessing - The ​Fifth Child
Four ​children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends; Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, "full of cold dislike", tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world...

Alice Munro - The ​Moons of Jupiter
In ​these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.

Alice Munro - Something ​I've Been Meaning to Tell You
In ​the thirteen rich stories that make up Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that have won her comparisons to Chekhov. Exploring the mysteries, dangers, joys, and bewilderment in the lives of ordinary girls and women, Munro tells of sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends who shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they contend with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future.

Alice Munro - Dear ​Life
With ​her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these stories (set in the world Munro has made her own: the countryside and towns around Lake Huron) about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a vivid and lasting portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be.

J. M. Coetzee - Elizabeth ​Costello (angol)
In ​1982, J. M. Coetzee dazzled the literary world with the now classic Waiting for the Barbarians. Five novels and two Booker prizes later, Coetzee is a writer of international stature and a novelist whose publication of a new work is heralded as a literary event. Now, in his first work of fiction since The New York Times bestselling Disgrace, he has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, Coetzee draws the reader inexorably toward its astonishing conclusion. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought in his unerring prose, Elizabeth Costello is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling that only a writer of Coetzee's caliber could accomplish.

Ismeretlen szerző - The ​Reign of Istar
Open ​the door to the magic and wonder of the Dragonlance world... Meet an irrepressible kender determined to become a Solamnic knight. A bounty-hunter of heretics. An unlikely ogre savior of the dwarven race. And a black-robed mage juggling the fate of the world in the Tower of High Sorcery. Poetry and short stories by well-known Dragonlance authors, topped by a Raistlin novella by original creators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. All set in the faraway time of the Kingpriest.

Alice Munro - Runaway
In ​Alice Munro's new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer." The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In "Passion," a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers in a single moment of stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories are about a woman named Juliet - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and irresistible love match; in the second she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose life and marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her child, caught, she mistakenly thinks, in the grip of a religious cult, vanishes into an unexplained and profound silence. In the final story, "Powers," a young woman with the ability to read the future sets off a chain of events that involves her husband-to-be and a friend in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who really has it.

J. M. Coetzee - In ​the Heart of the Country
A ​novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and executes a bloody revenge. From the author of DUSKLANDS and WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS.