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The Blunt Affair

Official secrecy and treason in literature, television and film, 1980–89

de Jonathan Bolton ...

The case of the Cambridge spies has long captured the public’s attention, but perhaps never more so than in the wake of Anthony Blunt’s exposure as the fourth man in November 1979. With the Cold War intensifying, patriotism running high during the Falklands War and the AIDS crisis leading to widespread homophobia, these notorious traitors were more relevant than ever. This book explores how they ... Leer más

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The case of the Cambridge spies has long captured the public’s attention, but perhaps never more so than in the wake of Anthony Blunt’s exposure as the fourth man in November 1979. With the Cold War intensifying, patriotism running high during the Falklands War and the AIDS crisis leading to widespread homophobia, these notorious traitors were more relevant than ever. This book explores how they
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A Czech Dreambook

de Ludvík Vaculík, Jonathan Bolton ...

Traducido por Gerald Turner ...

Series series Modern Czech Classics
It’s 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his anti-regime manifesto, Two Thousand Words, which the Soviet Union used as a pretext for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of his friend, the ... Leer más

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It’s 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his anti-regime manifesto, Two Thousand Words, which the Soviet Union used as a pretext for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of his friend, the
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Chasing Stars

de Jonathan Bolton ...

Do you have a dream?Have you thought about what you want to be when you grow up?Do you think youll always have the same dream and goal?Chasing Stars, by author Jonathan Bolton, is the story of a boy who has a dream. But as much as he loves that dream, he gets sidetracked, like many of us do. Chasing Stars tells how he follows his dream, even after it gets lost for a season. Once he finds it again, ... Leer más

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Do you have a dream?Have you thought about what you want to be when you grow up?Do you think youll always have the same dream and goal?Chasing Stars, by author Jonathan Bolton, is the story of a boy who has a dream. But as much as he loves that dream, he gets sidetracked, like many of us do. Chasing Stars tells how he follows his dream, even after it gets lost for a season. Once he finds it again,
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Worlds of Dissent

Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism

de Jonathan Bolton ...

Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, ... Leer más

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Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights,
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Winter Journey

de Diane Armstrong ...

Diane Armstrong's bestselling fictional debutA mother's silence, a village with a terrible secret, and an Australian woman who travels to Poland to uncover the truth ... When forensic dentist Halina Shore arrives in Nowa Kalwaria to take part in a war crimes investigation, she finds herself at the centre of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. What she does not ... Leer más

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Cancer Ward

A powerful novel of fear, survival, and fragile hope in post-Stalin Russia

de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...

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One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world. As Robert Service wrote of its ... Leer más

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One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world. As Robert Service wrote of its
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The Tin Ring

Love and Survival in the Holocaust

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Review Zdenka Fantlová and her story made a lasting impression. She survived six concentration camps, endured horrors the like of which most of us can't begin to comprehend, yet never lost the will to live or her optimism for a better future. During her time in the camps she kept a little tin ring, made for her by her boyfriend. She risked her life to keep this humble object that meant so much to ... Leer más

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Review Zdenka Fantlová and her story made a lasting impression. She survived six concentration camps, endured horrors the like of which most of us can't begin to comprehend, yet never lost the will to live or her optimism for a better future. During her time in the camps she kept a little tin ring, made for her by her boyfriend. She risked her life to keep this humble object that meant so much to
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The Incorrigible Optimists Club

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Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini—amateur photographer and compulsive reader—is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world—of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on ... Leer más

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Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini—amateur photographer and compulsive reader—is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world—of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on
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Soviet Milk

de Nora Ikstena ...

Traducido por Margita Gailitis ...

The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English.This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. But then the state steps in. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter. ... Leer más

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The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English.This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. But then the state steps in. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter.
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The Suitcase

A Novel

de Sergei Dovlatov ...

Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired ... Leer más

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Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired
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Lucky Breaks

de Yevgenia Belorusets ...

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Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in UkraineOut of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets’s captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since ... Leer más

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Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in UkraineOut of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets’s captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since
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The Zone of Interest

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NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life—and love—among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz."A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can achieve." —San ... Leer más

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NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life—and love—among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz."A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can achieve." —San
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