Alice Hyrmanová-McElveen Bücher

Kniha vydána v anglickém jazyce s následující anotací: There is no doubt that Thomas J. Bata (1914 –2008), the 'Shoemaker to the World', who built the largest shoe empire of all time, was a man of global significance. But something strange happened when he returned to Czechoslovakia in 1989. When welcoming Thomas J. Bata back home, the Czechs were in fact celebrating the return of his father, and had no real interest in his own work. This book is an attempt to right that wrong. It comes in two parts. In the first part, thirty-two different people from all walks of life paint thirty-two different pictures of this extraordinary man. The second part offers a quick overview of his vast achievements in business and enterprise The story of the life and work of Thomas J. Bata is further illustrated by a number of fascinating personal photographs.

From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns

Die Geschichte thematisiert das Sichverlieren und Finden im Lauf der Jahrhunderte, wobei sie einen besonderen Fokus auf weibliche Perspektiven legt. Der Text wird als essenziell beschrieben, um die Stimmen und Erfahrungen von Frauen in den Vordergrund zu rücken. Die Autorin Mareike Fallwickl hebt die Bedeutung dieses Werkes hervor und betont, dass es in der heutigen Zeit besonders relevant ist.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017 'When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agility, its beauty, its invention. Baume is a writer of outstanding grace and style. She writes beyond the time we live in.' Colum McCann Struggling to cope with urban life - and with life in general - Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to the rural bungalow on 'turbine hill' that has been vacant since her grandmother's death three years earlier. It is in this space, surrounded by nature, that she hopes to regain her footing in art and life. She spends her days pretending to read, half-listening to the radio, failing to muster the energy needed to leave the safety of her haven. Her family come and go, until they don't and she is left alone to contemplate the path that led her here, and the smell of the carpet that started it all. Finding little comfort in human interaction, Frankie turns her camera lens on the natural world and its reassuring cycle of life and death. What emerges is a profound meditation on the interconnectedness of wilderness, art and individual experience, and a powerful exploration of human frailty.

Es begann mit Wohlstand und satter Zufriedenheit und endet mit Entführung und Mord. Was dazwischen liegt, sind einundzwanzig Leben, einundzwanzigmal Hoffen und Träumen, Lieben und Leiden – einundzwanzig Menschen, die im Strudel der irischen Finanzkrise ihre Wahrheit erzählen – und das Geschick eines ganzen Landes.

Als Melodys Mann sich nach zwei Fehlgeburten heimlich sterilisieren lässt, beantwortet sie diesen Vertrauensbruch mit einer Affäre und wird schwanger – von einem ihrer Schüler. Das hat Konsequenzen im erzkatholischen Irland. Melody schwankt zwischen dem stillen Glück, das das werdende Leben in ihr auslöst, und der Schuld, die sie mit seiner Entstehung auf sich geladen hat. Doch die Entscheidung, die sie letztlich trifft, ist so unkonventionell wie mutig.