Siłaczka

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic – charming, erratic, repellent – exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him.

A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry – and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he’s been summoned to this performance.

Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.

BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE

'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian

'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.

Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security – and the love of the beautiful Afiya.

As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away…

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AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. However, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order and bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.

In this provocative, utterly original work of "scientific fiction," Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our AI world in 2041 in ten gripping short stories.

Gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future and reminds us that we are the authors of our own destiny.

Trzech genialnych amerykańskich pisarzy i trzy wielkie powieści:
James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans. Ostatni Mohikanin
Jack London White Fang. Biały Kieł
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Przygody Tomka Sawyera

Seria wydawnicza „czytamy w oryginale“ zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacje zostały przygotowane z myślą o czytelnikach na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym, jednak dzięki obecności polskiego tłumaczenia z książki korzystać mogą również początkujący w nauce języka angielskiego.

Baśniowo – surrealistyczny świat Andzi powstał dzięki wyjątkowej współpracy dwóch artystów, oddalonych w czasie o 100 lat. Jednak spotkali się, czego owocem jest ten album. Zachwyca ilustracjami, w których czuć ducha współczesności, mimo, że interpretują one słowa napisane w ubiegłym stuleciu! Mocny, baśniowy charakter grafik wprowadza nas w atmosferę sennego marzenia, w którym wszystko jest możliwe, a jedynymi granicami są granice naszej wyobraźni.

No a kimże jest główna bohaterka? Według autora słów to dziewczynka niegrzeczna, którą spotykają nieszczęścia bo nie słucha dorosłych, mimo to artysta darzy ją niezwykłą sympatią. Według autora ilustracji Andzia to współczesna buntowniczka, dziewczynka ciekawa świata, mająca swoje zdanie, odważna, będąca sobą, a nie taką, jaką chcą ją widzieć dorośli.

Jaka zatem jest Andzia? Jakie są jej przygody? Przekonajcie się sami wyruszając w niesamowitą przygodę z odważną i niezbyt grzeczną Andzią.

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Publikacja została przygotowana na podstawie rękopisu b. Piotra Mańkowskiego (1866-1933) zachowanego w rzymskim archiwum rodzinnym Stanisława Augusta Morawskiego.

Partnerem wydania jest Fundacja Andrzeja Mańkowskiego.