Monica Ali (8 kníh)
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Monica Ali Alentejo Blue ENFor some, Mamarrosa is a place you merely pass through. For others it is somewhere from which you want to escape. Some people come here to disappear. A small town in rural Portugal, it is on the way to other places, but you rarely stop there.And those who do usually have a reason. Men and women, children and old people all tell their stories, piece by piece, locals, expatriates, tourists alike, and in so doing…
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Monica Ali Alentejo Blue ENAlentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - children and old men, expatriates of all ages, tourists and locals. For some, such as Teresa, a beautiful, dreamy village girl, it is a place from which to escape; for others - the dysfunctional Potts family - it is a way of running from trouble (but not eluding it).…
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Monica Ali Brick Lane ENAt the tender age of nineteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence - and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely…
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Monica Ali Brick LaneStill in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud and heat of her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a ...
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Monica Ali In the Kitchen EN'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?' 'Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.' In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a smart, cosmopolitan hotel and over the course of the ensuing pages, peels back the layers of polyglot London to reveal the melting pot which exists below. Once again it…
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Monica Ali V kuchyni CZRomán je ódou na pomíjivost. A nikde není pocit pomíjivosti intenzivnější než v prostředí velkoměstského hotelu, v tomto případě hotelu Imperial na londýnském náměstí Picadilly Circus. Ústřední postavou je Gabriel Lightfood, hotelový šéfkuchař. Ve svých dvaačtyřiceti se ocitá na přelomu života. Sponzoři jsou připraveni financovat naplnění jeho snu o vlastním restaurantu, a právě požádal o ruku svou přítelkyni…
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