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od 321 Kč
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the…
od 100 Kč
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his fathers dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of…
od 210 Kč
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his…
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od 163 Kč
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy…
od 541 Kč
Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. `A modern masterpiece' Andrew…
od 245 Kč
This book contains an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its…
od 383 Kč
'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times 'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's…
od 196 Kč
A narrative particle-accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and…
![Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami [EN] (2003, brožovaná)](https://d25-a.sdn.cz/d_25/c_img_gW_g/xmd7v2.jpeg?fl=res%2C350%2C350%2C1%2Cfff%7Cwebp%2C80)
od 182 Kč
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this…
od 100 Kč
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to…
od 240 Kč
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, …
![Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder [EN] (2011, brožovaná)](https://d25-a.sdn.cz/d_25/c_img_E_HK/E8eBfdK.jpeg?fl=res%2C350%2C350%2C1%2Cfff%7Cwebp%2C80)
od 259 Kč
Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western…
od 174 Kč
Inspector Konrad Sejer is called to investigate the double murder of a mother and her young son. They have been found, knifed repeatedly, in a worn-out caravan on a remote piece of land. A…
od 397 Kč
In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor…
od 217 Kč
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months…
od 211 Kč
This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republics best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, …
od 238 Kč
Across seven tales, the author brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. He tells the stories of vanishing cats and smoky bars, …
![Orwell on Truth - George Orwell [EN] (2017, pevná)](https://d25-a.sdn.cz/d_25/c_img_H_G6/7py4G5.jpeg?fl=res%2C350%2C350%2C1%2Cfff%7Cwebp%2C80)
od 307 Kč
A selection of George Orwell's prescient, clear-eyed and stimulating writing on the subjects of truth and lies. With an introduction by Alan Johnson. 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus…
od 239 Kč
Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to…
od 329 Kč
Spanning the globe and several centuries, this is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. It is also an intimate…
![South of the border, West of the Sun - Murakami Haruki [EN] (2000, brožovaná)](https://d25-a.sdn.cz/d_25/c_img_G_Hk/5MaENi.jpeg?fl=res%2C350%2C350%2C1%2Cfff%7Cwebp%2C80)
od 240 Kč
Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long…
od 282 Kč
On the track, his running made him a legend; off it, his charisma and humanity made him a hero. No runner has generated myth like Emil Zátopek, the Czechoslovakian soldier who revolutionised…
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od 246 Kč
Diego Armando Maradona: hero or villain? One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of his generation - and perhaps of all time. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius…
od 179 Kč
Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois…
od 218 Kč
Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it…
od 195 Kč
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal…
od 235 Kč
His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the more so…
od 194 Kč
Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to…
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od 366 Kč
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one…
od 599 Kč
With 100 recipes that use wholesome grains from oats to amaranth this delicious cookbook spans classic breakfast porridges, through lunchtime salad bowls, to nourishing dinners. The inspiration…
od 598 Kč
Over a hundred relaxed, achievable and delicious recipes; enjoy the food that Nigella shares day-to-day at her table. Nigella Lawson is a champion of the home cook and her new book celebrates…
od 230 Kč
This book is selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York Times. Shortly before his death at the age of…
od 139 Kč
Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice…
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od 224 Kč
It isn`t running away they`re afraid of. We wouldn`t get far. It`s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge` Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function:…
od 245 Kč
Breaking Bad meets City of God Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah Husband. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and…
od 340 Kč
The prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism in contemporary American life–updated for the era of Trump, Twitter, Breitbart and fake news controversies. The…
od 237 Kč
Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with…
od 213 Kč
Not all angels are heaven sent. I am one such angel, and I have come to pass judgement on the living, and the dead. Harry Hole, drunkard, loner and brilliant detective is reassigned to…
![Peak: How All of Us Can Achieve Extraordinary Things - Andrew Ericsson, Robert Pool [EN] (2017)](https://d25-a.sdn.cz/d_25/c_img_H_Gg/BtCBLCC.jpeg?fl=res%2C350%2C350%2C1%2Cfff%7Cwebp%2C80)
od 264 Kč
Nemusíte být génius, abyste dosáhli mimořádných věcí. V této fascinující knize vysvětlují Anders Ericsson a Robert Pool, že učení nových dovedností nemusí být skličující. Hudební zázraky, …
od 605 Kč
How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State have in common with Donald Trump? This book…
od 311 Kč
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour…
od 300 Kč
A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western…
![To the Castle and Back - Václav Havel [EN] (2008, brožovaná)](https://d25-a.sdn.cz/d_25/c_img_gS_8/yoB0yN.jpeg?fl=res%2C350%2C350%2C1%2Cfff%7Cwebp%2C80)
od 332 Kč
This is the paperback edition of the intimate final memoirs from the great dissident-turned-politician who, along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the magnificent, bloodless…
od 639 Kč
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It is the most ambitious…
od 336 Kč
In 1946, a 20 year old medical school student called Joshua Lederberg decided to find out whether microbes make love. Lederbeter was motivated not by a displaced libido, but by scientific…
od 221 Kč
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a…
od 311 Kč
With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty…
od 278 Kč
"Broch performs with an impeccable virtuosity." Aldous Huxley With his epic trilogy, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary…
