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"Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria - but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she's learned from her grandparents' tiny flat in a crumbling French sink estate: the food cooked for her, the few precious things they brought with them when they fled. On the past, her family is silent. Why was her grandfather Ali forced to leave? Was he a harki - an Algerian who worked for and supported the French during the Algerian War of Independence? Once a wealthy landowner, how did he become an immigrant scratching a living in France? Naïma's father, Hamid, says he remembers nothing. A child when the family left, in France he re-made himself: education was his ticket out of the family home, the key to acceptance into French society. But now, for the first time since they left, one of Ali's family is going back. Naïma will see Algeria for herself, will ask the questions about her family's history that, till now, have had no answers."--Publisher.

Kimia Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five, with a new life and the prospect of a child, Kimia is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which reach her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them. In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Yet it is Kimia herself-punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own "disorientalisation"-who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel.

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism #1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub A dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving from Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks to Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules, from Henry Darger’s hoarding to David Wojnarowicz’s AIDS activism, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed. Humane, provocative, and moving, The Lonely City is a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.

Cesta ku kráse a životu cez 52 majstrovských diel Päťdesiatdva týždňov – toľko času má Mona na to, aby objavila všetku krásu sveta. Toľko času si určil jej starý otec, vzdelaný a trochu výstredný muž, aby ju každú stredu po škole zasväcoval do tajomstiev umenia, skôr než Mona možno navždy stratí zrak. Spolu navštevujú Louvre, Musée d‘Orsay aj Beaubourg. Žasnú, dojímavo sa pýtajú a nechajú sa unášať podmanivým svetom obrazov a sôch. Vďaka pohľadom Botticelliho, Vermeera, Goyu, Courbeta, Camille Claudel, Fridy Kahlo či Basquiata Mona objavuje silu umenia a s ňou dar, pochybnosť, melanchóliu i vzdor, vzácny poklad, ktorý jej starý otec túži navždy zapísať do srdca. Všetkých 52 majstrovských diel nájdete na vnútornej strane rozkladacieho prebalu. Veľký iniciačný román o umení a živote, príbeh puta medzi dievčatkom a jeho starým otcom. Kniha Monine oči zožala mimoriadny úspech. Bola preložená do viac ako dvadsiatich jazykov ešte pred vydaním vo Francúzsku a stala samedzinárodným fenoménom.

Kniha Smutný tiger je založená na skutočných udalostiach. Neige Sinno mala sedem rokov, keď ju jej nevlastný otec začal sexuálne zneužívať. V devätnástich sa rozhodla prelomiť mlčanie, ktoré je v súvislosti so sexuálnym násilím prítomné vo všetkých kultúrach. To viedlo k verejnému súdu a uväzneniu jej nevlastného otca a autorka začala nový život v Mexiku. Prostredníctvom fragmentárne vystavaného rozprávania Sinno skúma rôzne podoby pamäti – vlastnej, matkinej aj pamäti svojho násilného nevlastného otca – a tiež samotného zneužívania v celej jeho obludnosti aj banalite. Jej výpoveď je pretkaná úryvkami literárnych diel autorov ako Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Christine Angot či Virginie Despentes. Smutný tiger – názov je inšpirovaný básňou Williama Blaka Tiger – je literárnym skúmaním toho, ako hovoriť o nevysloviteľnom. V tejto výnimočnej knihe sa neustále opakuje jedna zásadná otázka: Ako ochrániť iných pred tým, čím si prešla samotná autorka? Uprostred temnoty zaznieva jasná odpoveď: Hovoriť a klásť otázky. „Najsilnejšia, najhlbšia kniha o zničení niečieho detstva od dospelej autorky, akú som čítala.“ Annie Ernaux