Julia Sherwood Livres

It's 1954 and nine-year-old Mira's life is about to change forever. After a typhoid outbreak rages through her town, robbing her of her parents and siblings, the orphaned child is forced to live with her mysterious, depressive Aunt Hana, a figure both frightening and fragile. Gradually, Mira uncovers the secrets of their troubled family history and begins to understand why her aunt is so incapable of trusting herself and the world around her. Deftly weaving two separate timelines, the harrowing reasons behind Hana's reclusive way of life, the guilt she wears as palpably as a cloak, and the tattoo on her wrist, are revealed to Mira. Alena Mornstajnová's gripping novel, which is based on real events, has won numerous awards and been translated into over a dozen languages across the world.

'Freshta' is a deeply moving story that will make you laugh and cry at the same time, a universal tale of husbands and wives, lovers and friends, who all seek happiness and acceptance against the backdrop of the unexpected events playing around them.

Though Into the Spotlight is drawn from the work of writers from one of Europe's smallest countries, this source reveals itself to be something like a magic lamp out of which comes a multitude of subjects, themes, and styles well out of proportion to its size. Like the best writers, this anthology brilliantly balances the specific and the universal. There are stories that could have taken place anywhere-of love and hate, beauty and ugliness, illness and music-stories distinctly and intriguingly Slovak-of a devout Slovak's imprisonment in the Russian Gulag, the rough and tumble world of the country's Roma-stories from other countries and continents, and stories that seem to come from other worlds entirely-of real or imaginary doubles and surreal nocturnal circuses. -Michael Stein, Literalab, editor at BOD V

Korešpondencia medzi Albertom Einsteinom a Sigmundom Freudom z tridsiatych rokov 20.storočia rovnako ako ich ďalšie texty venované otázkam vojny a mieru nadobúdajú vo svetle aktuálnych udalostí až obludnú platnosť. Neschopnosť medzinárodných inštitúcií vynútiť si dodržiavanie pravidiel, priveľká moc sústredená do rúk narcistických osôb, úloha kultúry, či otázka prečo sa ľudstvo aj napriek tragickým skúsenostiam znovu a znovu uchyľuje k deštrukcii, to všetko sú témy, ktoré títo myslitelia zahrnuli do svojho jedinečného a nadčasového interdisciplinárneho skúmania. Kniha ponúka výber z korešpondencie dvoch veľkých osobností a ich ďalšie texty, v ktorých reagujú na spúšť, ktorú po sebe zanechala prvá svetová vojna, netušiac, že tá ďalšia a ešte ničivejšia ešte len prichádza. Albert Einstein sa na Sigmunda Freuda obracia s otázkou, či existuje spôsob, ako odvrátiť od ľudstva hrozbu vojny - s nádejou, že ju osvetlí z perspektívy jeho hlbokých znalostí ľudského pudového života. Freud sa k tejto otázke vracia aj v ďalších textoch a skúma sklamanie, ktoré vojna vyvolala, a zmenu postoja k smrti, ku ktorej nás – ako každá iná vojna – núti.