1984

Jedna z najsłynniejszych powieści XX wieku! Nowe tłumaczenie, obnażające współczesne formy zniewolenia. Okrutna i sugestywna wizja świata, w którym rządzi przemoc i strach, a władza panuje nie tylko nad losem człowieka, ale też nad jego myślami i uczuciami. Boleśnie aktualna opowieść o pragnieniu władzy i konsekwencjach jej nadużywania. Zarazem to przejmująca, głęboko ludzka opowieść o samotności, o tęsknocie do miłości, wolności, prawdy. Historia tragicznej pary kochanków, Winstona i Julii, czytana na całym świecie, często w podziemnych lub przemycanych wydaniach, była głosem ostrzeżenia przed zniewoleniem umysłu. Użyte w niej pojęcia – „nowomowa”, „Policja Myśli”, „dwójmyślenie” czy „Wielki Brat” – weszły do języka potocznego wielu narodów. Literackie mistrzostwo świata! Pozycja obowiązkowa!

Adieu Varsovie to wspomnienie o utraconej tożsamości autorstwa córki ocalałych z Zagłady. Opowieść o tajemniczej Irenie Gelblum – bohaterce Powstania Warszawskiego lub włoskiej poetce oraz o Ignacym Waniewiczu – uwiedzionym komunizmem dziennikarzu prasowym i telewizyjnym lub statecznym pobożnym Żydzie. Przepełniona empatią autobiograficzna historia o tym, jak antysemityzm w komunistycznej Polsce pokierował życiem jednostek. Niezwykle osobista introspekcja w głąb rodziny, której bieg dziejów nie stworzył warunków do prawdziwej bliskości. 
Surowe świadectwo wystawione Polsce oparte na intymnej rodzinnej opowieści, która staje się kolejną - współczesną - wersją mitu Żyda wiecznego tułacza.
To historia o tym, jak z dnia na dzień można stać się Innym.

The unforgettable novel of love, loss and family that launched Maggie O'Farrell on her extraordinary literary career. A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London. After You'd Gone follows Alice's mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family's heart.

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life.

One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps.

She doesn't scream or break something or cry. She simply abandons her car and walks away.

But not from her life - towards it. To the daughter who won't live with her anymore and has banned her from the party. To the husband divorcing her. Towards the terrible thing that has blown their family apart . . .

Today she'll show her daughter that no matter how far we fall we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams was amazing. Her husband and daughter once thought so. They and the world might have forgotten.

But Grace is about to remind them . . .

His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream.

Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel...

Don DeLillo (b.1936) was born and raised in New York City. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, Underworld (1997), hailed by Martin Amis as 'the ascension of a great writer', Cosmopolis (2003), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, due to be released later this year, and Falling Man (2007), a novel about the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

If you enjoyed Americana, you might like DeLillo's Libra, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'He's a writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he's done'
Martin Amis, Sunday Times

'Witty, clever and incisive ... a marvellously realized plot'
Time Out

'Nearly every sentence of Americana rings true ... DeLillo is a man of frightening perception'
Joyce Carol Oates

As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.