Barbara Kingsolver (7 kníh)
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Barbara Kingsolver Flight Behaviour ENThe flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. Twisters of brightness against grey sky. On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the…
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Barbara Kingsolver Lakuna CZRomán Lakuna vypráví o dramatických letech první poloviny 20. století, o obrovských proměnách, které zasáhly celý svět, a o tom, jak se dějiny mohou podepsat na osudu jednoho konkrétního člověka, který je do tohoto pohnutého děje zatažen a jemuž nezbývá než se s tím nějak vyrovnat. Protagonistou je fiktivní americký umělec Harrison Shepherd, který se vydává na obtížnou cestu za hledáním vlastní identity. Útočištěm…
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Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna ENThe Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev…
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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible ENThe Poisonwood Bible tells the story of an American family in the Congo during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo More... in 1959. They carry with them all they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to…
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Barbara Kingsolver UnshelteredMeet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa's two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild, and her ailing father-in-la
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Barbara Kingsolver UnshelteredMeet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against an upended world that seems to hold no mercy for her shattered life and family - or the crumbling house that contains her...
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Barbara Kingsolver Unsheltered2016 Vineland. Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against an upended world that seems to hold no mercy for her shattered life and family - or the crumbling house that contains her...
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