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The Flower of My Secret / Pedro Almodovar ; Translated by Peter Bush. - London : Faber and Faber, 1996. - 153 stron : fotografie ; 22 cm.

Author

Almodóvar Pedro (1949- ) Autor Bush Peter Tłumaczenie

Form of Work

Książki Dramat (rodzaj)

Demographic Group

Literatura hiszpańska

Subject

Kobieta Małżeństwo Problemy małżeńskie Pisarze

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Scenariusz

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Faber and Faber

"The Flower of My Secret" is a deeply moving portrait of a woman who is brought to the abyss of her own loneliness and despair.

Leo, a writer of popular romantic fiction, is forced to remove the rose-tinted spectacles with which she views her relationship with her husband and face the reality of the lies and evasions on which her life is based.

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The Lock-up / John Banville. - London : Faber & Faber, 2023. - 338, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

(Quirke ; 9)

Author

Banville John (1945- ) Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura irlandzka

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John Strafford (postać fikcyjna) Zabójstwo Śledztwo i dochodzenie Patolodzy Tajemnica Policja Dziennikarze i dziennikarki II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Irlandia Dublin (Irlandia) Włochy Bawaria (Niemcy ; kraina historyczna) Niemcy

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Powieść Kryminał

Tytuł serii

Quirke

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Faber and Faber

Dopisek na okładce: A Strafford & Quirke mystery.

In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it’s the victim’s older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.

One of Rosa’s friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II.

But as Quirke and Strafford close in, their personal lives may put the case, and the lives of everyone involved, in peril, including Quirke’s own daughter.

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Old God's Time / Sebastian Barry. - London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2024. - 261, [5] stron; 20 cm.

Author

Barry Sebastian (1955- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura irlandzka

Subject

Tajemnica Policjanci Rodzina Miłość Irlandia

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Powieść Kryminał

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Faber and Faber

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, grief, and long-buried secrets.

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea.

When two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past.

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On Canaan's side : a novel / Sebastian Barry. - London : Faber and Faber Limited, 2012. - 256 stron ; 18 cm.

(Dunne Family / Sebastian Barry ; [3])

Author

Barry Sebastian (1955- ) Autor Barry Sebastian (1955- ). Dunne Family ;

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura irlandzka

Subject

Dziadkowie i wnuki Emigranci Katastrofy Śmierć bliskiej osoby Wojna partyzancka w Irlandii (1919-1921) Irlandia Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Powieść historyczna

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Faber and Faber

U góry okładki : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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Waiting for Godot : A tragicomedy in two Acts / Samuel Beckett. - London : Faber and Faber, 2006. - 87 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Beckett Samuel (1906-1989).

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Książki Dramat (rodzaj)

Demographic Group

Literatura irlandzka Literatura francuska

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Dramat francuski Teatr absurdu Bezdomność Włóczędzy Filozofia

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Dramat (gatunek literacki) Dramat irlandzki Dramat francuski

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Faber and Faber

Waiting for Godot is a play that prompts many questions, and answers none of them. As the title suggests, it is a play about waiting: two men waiting for a third, who never appears. ‘And if he comes?’ one of Beckett’s tramps asks the other near the end of the play. ‘We’ll be saved’, the other replies, although the nature of that salvation, along with so much else, remains undefined: for both characters and audience, Waiting for Godot enforces a wait for its own meaning.

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Boy parts / Eliza Clark. - London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2023. - 297, [6] stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Clark Eliza (1994- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Seksualność Rola społeczna Płeć Kobieta Mężczyzna Fotografowie Autodestruktywność Czarny humor Newcastle upon Tyne (Wielka Brytania) Londyn (Wielka Brytania)

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Powieść Komedia Horror

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Faber and Faber

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle.

Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema.

The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best-friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention ...

"Boy parts" is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century...

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The Faber Book of the Sea : An Anthology / Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Captain John Coote, Royal Navy ; [ Introduction by Hammond Innes]. - London : Faber and Faber, 1989. - 408 stron ; 20 cm.

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Coote John Autor Innes Hammond (1913-1998) Wstęp Coote John. Captains and Crews (eng.) Coote John. Dark Side (eng.) Coote John. Lighter Side (eng.) Coote John. Sweethearts and wives (eng.) Coote John. Trade in Peacetime (eng.) Coote John. War at Sea (eng.)

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Morza Transport wodny Statki Nawigatorzy morscy

Genre/Form

Antologia Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Faber and Faber

Zawiera: Captains and Crews ; The dark Side ; The Lighter Side ; Sweethearts and wives ;Trade in Peacetime ; War at Sea.

This is an anthology of writings which aims to reflect all the various moods of the sea. It covers many aspects of seafaring over hundreds of years including accounts of and by sailors of all kinds and dealing with the exploits of great captains like Anson, Drake, Nelson and Vian as well as Robin Knox Johnston, Bill King and David Lewis. Also well represented is the Golden Age of sail, with its clippers which often covered 2500 miles a week, while their much larger successors sometimes took two months weathering Cape Horn.;The author has had a lifelong passion for the sea and is chairman of the panel of judges for the Best Book of the Sea Award. He has written "The Shell Guide to Yacht Navigation" and "The Shell Pilot to the English Channel".

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Kudos / Rachel Cusk. - London : Faber & Faber, 2019. - 232 strony ; 20 cm.

(Outline / Rachel Cusk ; [3])

Author

Cusk Rachel (1967- ) Autor Cusk Rachel (1967- ). Outline

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura kanadyjska

Subject

Podróże lotnicze Rozmowa Pisarze Relacje międzyludzkie Interakcje społeczne Sens życia

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Powieść Powieść psychologiczna

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Faber and Faber

Stanowi cz.3 cyklu Outline. Cz.1 "Outline", cz.2 "Transit".

A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog.

That woman is Faye, who is now on her way to Europe to promote the book she has just published.

Once she reaches her destination, the conversations she has with the people she meets – about art, about family, about politics, about love, about sorrow and joy, about justice and injustice – are the most far-reaching questions human beings ask.

These conversations, the last of them with her son, rise dramatically and majestically to a beautiful conclusion.

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Outline / Rachel Cusk. - London : Faber & Faber, 2018. - 249 stron ; 20 cm.

(Outline / Rachel Cusk ; [1])

Author

Cusk Rachel (1967- ) Autor Cusk Rachel (1967- ). Outline

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura kanadyjska

Subject

Pisarze Rozmowa Poczucie straty Sens życia Żal Tęsknota Kobieta Relacje międzyludzkie Twórczość Kreatywne pisanie Grecja Ateny (Grecja) Morze Jońskie

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Powieść Powieść psychologiczna

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Faber and Faber

Stanowi cz.1 cyklu Outline. Cz.2 "Transit", cz.3 "Kudos".

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course.

Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.

Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives.

In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry.

The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.

Outline is a novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.

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Transit / Rachel Cusk. - London : Faber & Faber, 2018. - 259, [1] strona ; 20cm.

(Outline / Rachel Cusk ; [2])

Author

Cusk Rachel (1967- ) Autor Cusk Rachel (1967- ). Outline

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura kanadyjska

Subject

Przeprowadzka Rodzina Wybory życiowe Sens życia Dzieciństwo Przeznaczenie Odpowiedzialność Londyn (Wielka Brytania)

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Powieść Powieść psychologiczna

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Faber and Faber

Stanowi cz.2 cyklu Outline. Cz.1 "Outline", cz.3 "Kudos".

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London.

The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, practical - as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children.

In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.

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The Alexandria Quartet : Justine : Balthazar : Mountolive : Clea / Lawrence Durrell ; [Introduction by Jan Morris]. - London : Faber and Faber, 2012. - 884 strony ; 20 cm.

(The Alexandria Quartet / Lawrence Durrell)

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Durrell Lawrence (1912-1990) Autor Durrell Lawrence (1912-1990). Justine (eng.) Durrell Lawrence (1912-1990). Balthazar (eng.) Durrell Lawrence (1912-1990). Mountolive (eng.) Durrell Lawrence (1912-1990). Clea (eng.) Morris Jan (1926-2020) Przedmowa Durrell Lawrence (1912-1990). Alexandria Quartet

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Książki Proza

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Literatura angielska

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Relacja romantyczna Zdrada małżeńska Zabójstwo Spisek Dyplomacja Polityka Podróże Kobieta Aleksandria (Egipt)

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Powieść

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Faber and Faber

Powieść składa się z czterech części, pierwotnie wydawanych osobno: Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), Clea (1960).

Zawiera: Justine ; Balthazar ; Mountolive ; Clea.

Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s.

The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960).

Justine, Balthazar, and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war.

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Justine / Lawrence Durrell. - London : Faber and Faber, 2000. - 222, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

Author

Durrell Lawrence (1912-1990). Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Miłość Polityka Tajemnica Kobieta Aleksandria (Egipt) Grecja

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Powieść

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Faber and Faber

Książka stanowi część I tetralogii "The Alexandria Quartet".

The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are dedicated to knowledge.

But for the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel, their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to know — and possess — the other.

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Erasure : a novel / Percival Everett ; [with a new foreword by Brandon Taylor]. - London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2021. - 294 strony ; 20 cm.

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Everett Percival L. (1956- ) Autor Taylor Brandon Wstęp

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Pisarze amerykańscy Literatura afroamerykańska Krytyka literacka Afroamerykanie

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Powieść

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Faber and Faber

Na dole okładki: American fiction. Now a major motion picture.

The novel reacts against the dominant strains of discussion related to the publication and criticism of African-American literature.

"A remarkable novel" - Wall Street Journal.

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The Secret of Golden Island / Natasha Farrant. - London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2024. - 328 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Farrant Natasha Autor

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Książki Proza

Audience Group

Dzieci 9-13 lat

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Dzieci Trudne sytuacje życiowe Przyjaźń Nagrody Wyspy

Genre/Form

Powieść Literatura dla dzieci Wydawnictwa dla dzieci i młodzieży

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Faber and Faber

Winner - Costa Book Award 2020

Skylar's old friends felt sorry for her but they were too afraid to talk to her. Yakov's old friends were far away, blown across continents by war...

When Skylar meets Yakov she is still reeling from the news of her grandfather's stroke. Yakov is just desperate to go home.

They recognise something in each a need for friendship, but something else fizzy beneath the surface.

A refusal to accept what life has dealt them; a reckless desire to change things up for the better.

So when there's a competition to own nearby Golden Island, it's no surprise they want it.

But how can two children possibly win an island? And what will they risk to call it their own?

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An Artist of the Floating World / Kazuo Ishiguro. - London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1986. - 206 stron ; 20 cm.

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Ishiguro Kazuo (1954- ). Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska Literatura japońska

Subject

Malarze Historia Strumień świadomości Rodzice Dzieci Nacjonalizm

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Powieść Powieść psychologiczna

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Faber and Faber

Na górze okładki: Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year.

Na dole okładki: By the author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year.

In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono's wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster.

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Klara and the sun / Kazuo Ishiguro. - Wydanie I. - London : Faber & Faber, 2022. - 340 stron ; 20 cm.

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Ishiguro Kazuo (1954- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Androidy Empatia Człowiek Przyjaźń Sztuczna inteligencja Uczucia

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Dystopia Powieść Science fiction

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Faber and Faber

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside.

She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.

In "Klara and the Sun", Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

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Never let me go / Kazuo Ishiguro. - London : Faber and Faber, 2005. - 282 strony ; 20 cm.

Author

Ishiguro Kazuo (1954- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura japońska

Subject

Internaty Klonowanie Dojrzewanie Dawcy narządów Wielka Brytania

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Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2005

As a child, Kathy - now thirty-one years old - lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter.

Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham.

She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed - even comforted - by their isolation.

But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade.

With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood - and about their lives now.

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A pale view of hills / Kazuo Ishiguro. - London : Faber and Faber, 2005. - 183 s. ; 20 cm.

Author

Ishiguro Kazuo (1954- ).

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Powieść angielska

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Faber and Faber

Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent suicide of her daughter, Keiko. A visit from her other daughter Niki sends Etsuko retreating into the depths of her memory. She finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the horrors of the bomb and World War Two. But when her thoughts turn to her strange friendship with Sachiko and Sachiko's daughter Mariko, the memories begin to take on a disturbing cast. As Etsuko examines her relationship with her daughters and struggles to cope with her guilt, the lines between the past and the present - between Etsuko's own daughter and Mariko, between reality and recollection - start to blur.

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The unconsoled / Kazuo Ishiguro. - London : Faber and Faber, 2005. - 535 s. ; 20 cm.

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Ishiguro Kazuo (1954- ).

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Powieść angielska

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Faber and Faber

Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's extraordinary study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification - and the highest praise.

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When we were orphans / Kazuo Ishiguro. - London : Faber and Faber, 2005. - 313 s. ; 20 cm.

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Ishiguro Kazuo (1954- ).

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Powieść angielska

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Faber and Faber

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

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