Student vídeňské univerzity a rituální krmič ptactva Siggy Javotnik se poznají v motocyklové dílně na periferii města: narychlo kupují motorku a vyrážejí na trip, kde čas a nějaké plány nehrají žádnou roli. Už první zastavení ve vídeňské... Zobraziť viac
Román plný absurdít, nečakaných situácií a náhod, ako aj obyčajnej ľudskosti a koncov, ktoré napriek všetkému úsiliu nemôže človek odvrátiť... Zobraziť viac
Desiaty román známeho amerického spisovateľa rozvíja nezvyčajnú tému. Mladý reportér z New Yorku, ktorý príde do Indie urobiť reportáž, kurióznym spôsobom príde o ľavú ruku – milióny televíznych divákov vidia, ako mu ju zožerie lev... Zobraziť viac
Príbeh o Homerovi Wellsovi začína uprostred jabloňových sadov v štáte Maine v Novom Anglicku. V sirotinci v mestečku St. Cloud je Homer najstarší zverenec, nikto si ho neadoptoval, a tak tam zostal a priúča sa u zakladateľa sirotinca Wilbura Larcha ... Zobraziť viac
Príbeh o Homerovi Wellsovi začína uprostred jabloňových sadov v štáte Maine v Novom Anglicku. V sirotinci v mestečku St. Cloud je Homer najstarší zverenec, nikto si ho neadoptoval, a tak tam zostal a priúča sa u zakladateľa sirotinca Wilbura Larcha ... Zobraziť viac
Komika či absurdní situace jsou pro Irvinga prostředkem, jak poukazovat na vážnější témata. Fred Trumper je dalším z plejády jeho svérázných hrdinů. Má problémy doma, nejen finanční, a řeší je útěkem z rodiny... Zobraziť viac
Irving má slabost pro medvědy, Vídeň, cirkusáky, bizarní jedince a dickensovsky laděné příběhy – s tím vším se setkají čtenáři tohoto populárního románu. Zobraziť viac
'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom... Zobraziť viac
Severin Einter is not a man to take things ligthy. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight...a fact not lost on Utch, a lovely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin's underweight wife. Zobraziť viac
So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered... Zobraziť viac
Like all extraordinary books, The World According to Garp defies synopsis…' wrote the Chicago Sun-Times when Garp was first published in 1978... Zobraziť viac
Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder ... Zobraziť viac
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable... Zobraziť viac
Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe... Zobraziť viac
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author. A worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times ... Zobraziť viac
The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with... Zobraziť viac
Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe... Zobraziť viac
'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom... Zobraziť viac
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love tormented, funny, and affecting and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences... Zobraziť viac