A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond.
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Starting in the summer of 1939, this is a sequel to Galsworthy's Forsyte saga, which ended in 1926 with the death of Soames. When Jon's wife is accidentally killed, Fleur secretly sets out to regain him as her lover. Then, five years later, her son meets Jon's daughter, and the family feud reopens.
The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré led a life entirely constructed of secrets. First as a British 'spook' during the Cold War, then as a world-renowned writer of espionage fiction, but also in his personal involvements. He guarded his private life with fierce determination, so that even when he finally permitted his life story to be written, there was still one element he insisted be excluded: the women. Married with children for virtually all his adult life, le Carré - David Cornwell - had a number of secret affairs, usually conducted abroad with women encountered by chance on his travels. These relationships were always intense, dramatic, even tragic, yet each was destined to last no more than a few months. But there was one love affair that withstood the test of time; just one woman in all his life whom he took into the innermost sanctum of his writing and his heart. The Secret Heart is the account of Suleika Dawson's unique and enduring love affair with John le Carré. Written with fearless honesty and insight, the book sheds a bold new light on one of the foremost British writers of the 20th century and offers an alternative measure of the man over the literary legend.
A unique and compelling story of an attack helicopter battalion at war in Iraq. Set during the beginning of the Surge in 2006-07.
Tracing the emergence of literary history, Alexander Jabbari shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared literary heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using both Urdu and Persian-language sources, Jabbari examines how intellectual... číst celé
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Pokračování Ságy rodu Forsytů J.Galsworthyho. Nové osudy anglického šlechtického rodu Forsytů se začínají odvíjet v roce 1939, kdy nad Evropou visí Damoklův meč druhé světové války. Soames Forsyte, známý advokát a milovník umění je třináct let mrtev a jeho dcera Fleur, nyní Lady Montová, je ženou prominentního poslance Směnovny a známé politické osobnosti. Ale život krásné a vitální Fleur je jiný, než po jakém toužila. Ačkoli žije obklopena rodinou a hýčkána milujícím manželem, neustále prahne po jediné věci, která ji zůstala navždy odepřena - po své jediné velké lásce, bratranci Jonu Forsytovi. Když Jonova žena nešťastnou náhodou zahyne, Fleur se rozhodne chopit šance. Už má vítězství na dosah ruky, když její syn Kit potkává Jonovu dceru Annu... A starý spor mezi oběma větvemi rodu, vyhlášený v roce 1887, se znovu rozhořívá.
