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Barbara Kopeć-Umiastowska

    The Yiddish Policemen's Union
    Tales of the Otori 2. Grass for His Pillow
    Le Clan des Otori - 3: La Clarté de la lune
    Frida
    • Frida

      • 412pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Jak przystało na prawdziwą ikonę kultury, sławna malarka meksykańska Frida Kahlo wiodła życie pełne skrajności. Okaleczona przez polio w dzieciństwie, bezpłodna wskutek straszliwego wypadku w wieku lat osiemnastu, poślubiła innego tytan sztuki nowoczesnej, wielkiego malarza fresków Diego Riverę, a związek tych dwojga niezwykłych ludzi, pełen namiętności, miłości, zazdrości i kłamstwa, zawładnął wyobraźnią świata. Historia owego burzliwego małżeństwa, porywająco opowiedziana przez Cristinę, siostrę Fridy, stanowi również wyrazisty portret wyjątkowej, nieodparcie fascynującej kobiety.

      Frida
      4,5
    • « Tu conquerras la paix en cinq batailles : quatre victoires et une défaite. » Takeo parviendra-t-il à apporter la paix sur les Trois Pays comme l'annonce la prophétie ? Après leur union secrète au temple de Terayama, Takeo et Kaede sont plus résolus que jamais à prendre possession de leur héritage et venger sire Shigeru. Tandis que le jeune homme tente de rallier à sa cause le pirate Fumio Terada, Kaede est victime d'un chantage diabolique... Lorsque enfin la lune se lève sur la dernière et terrible bataille, l'issue est plus que jamais incertaine...

      Le Clan des Otori - 3: La Clarté de la lune
      4,1
    • Tales of the Otori 2. Grass for His Pillow

      • 306pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      The second book in the Tales of the Otori trilogy continues the epic story of Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, the young lovers whose fate is played out in an ancient Oriental world, where ritualised codes of high honour counter the cruelty of savage blood-feuds. Takeo has pledged his life to the Tribe, a secret clan of spies and assassins who claim his legendary supernatural skills for their own ruthless purposes, in doing so he must deny his birthright as an Otori lord - and his love for Kaede. If he does not serve them, the Tribe will kill him. Kaede, separated from Takeo, must use her intelligence, beauty and cunning to assert her place in a world of all-powerful men - who must never know that she is carrying Takeo's child. In growing from boy to man, Takeo must make a choice - and the dangerous path he undertakes is a journey of high adventure, treachery and passion that establishes this extraordinary trilogy as one of the most brilliant and enduring works of modern fiction. GRASS FOR HIS PILLOW, the sequel to ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, is one of the most eagerly-awaited novels of 2003. Lian Hearn has created a brilliantly imagined culture. Here is epic storytelling whose appeal crosses genres, genders and generations.

      Tales of the Otori 2. Grass for His Pillow
      4,1
    • Set in the Jewish homeland of ... Alaska, this is a brilliantly original novel from Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'.

      The Yiddish Policemen's Union
      3,7