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Ühel hilisõhtul ristuvad kolmeteistkümne rännumehe teed salapärases trahteris nimega «13 Rändurit». Järgneval kolmeteistkümnel ööl jutustab igaüke neist ühe õpetliku loo. Imelistest juhtumistest ja tarkuseteradest osa saamiseks on vaja vaid raamat avada ja sukelduda nende lugude imedemaale …
| Автор | Olev Muutra |
Meelika on idamaise välimusega otsustavalt tegutsev naine. Algul pole kerge märgata, et selles suurepärases koosluses peitub väga õrn hing. See asjaolu saab mitmele tema suhtele saatuslikuks.
| Автор | Lea Jaanimaa |
Raamat annab sissevaate 1980. aastate Eesti külaellu ääremaal. Kool on seal üks eriskummaline asutus, kus mitmed õpetajad nõnda värvikad isiksused, et nende areenile ilmumine ongi võimalik vaid tolles üksildases paigas. Külaelanikud parajad veidrikud ning rebased enamasti marutaudis. Ja aeg-ajalt juhtub asju, mis panevad võpatama. Raamatut loeb Tambet Tuisk.
| Автор | Ott Kilusk |
“I imagined a dying person’s last breath as something resembling an exclamation mark, distinct and hanging mid-air like an interrupted thought. My older sister Fikile’s last breath before she dies is nothing of the sort. There is no rattling noise at the back of her throat. No relentless twitching. No clinging to life. Fikile dies with no more fuss than a switch of a light bulb.” With her sister, Fikile, dead from breast cancer, her father long gone, her mother emerging from years of slumber,...
| Автор | Nozizwe Cynthia Jele |
Milano Kaliempie is Mieta en Hennerik se enigste vlaktekuiken op die plaas Spookwerwe in die dorre Bo-Karoo. Hul buurman, Geelsuiker, leer Milano die geheime van die veld, ook jakkalsjag, en op die werf is dit Mieta wat soggens douvoordag brood inknie en die hartklop van hul bestaan is. Dis wanneer juffrou Meintjies die dag met haar wit karretjie by die huis aankom, dat die hol kol op Mieta se maag kom sit. Dis ’n roman wat soos die vaal stof van die Bo-Karoo diep in jou hart kom lê.
| Автор | Lize Albertyn-du Toit |
Henry van Eeden is op ’n sewe-dag-besoek aan Welgevonden waar hy sy toekomstige bruid, Salome, gaan ontmoet. Maar voordat die ware gesig van die liefde vir hom ontbloot kan word moet hy sy insisiasieproses voltooi. Elke dag lewer bisarre ervarings op en saans moet Henry deur 'n doolhof vreemde partytjies stoei – sy onskuld laat gaan en die goeie en bose in homself versoen, voordat hy sy beminde tegemoet kan gaan. Sewe dae by die Silbersteins word in 1964 met die Hertzogprys bekroon.
| Автор | Etienne Leroux |
Hertzogprys vir prosa (1976), WA Hofmeyr-prys (1977), CNA-prys (1977). Anna M. Louw se indrukwekkendste werk is die groots opgesette familieroman Kroniek van Perdepoort (1975), wat die lotgevalle van die Lotriets deur verskillende dekades volg. Die Bolander Koos Lotriet vestig hom aan die begin van die twintigste eeu aan die voet van die Swartberge en bou met die jare 'n spogplaas op, al word hy en sy vrou as gevolg van sy hoogmoed – wat aan hom die bynaam Koos Nek besorg – nooit volledig...
| Автор | Anna M. Louw |
Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and Other Stories documents the unique dialect and lives of the Gansbaai fishing community. Phillips’ stories reflect the natural disorder of daily life and explores how the impact of love and loss defines – and divides – families and communities. An award-winning collection of short stories and sketches set in the Overberg district. In the author’s own words: “This book is a collection of my soul, who I am as a human being, and how I connect to the people I come from.” “An...
| Автор | Jolyn Phillips |
Luuleraamat heidab pilgu koolielu erinevatele tahkudele, püüdes vaadata läbi õpilase silmade. Raamat sai 2014. a Kultuurkapitali aastapreemia laste- ja noorsookirjanduse kategoorias. Loeb Ingrid Margus.
| Автор | Contra |
Raaiselkind is ´n verhaal wat die kruis van outisme genadeloos oopvlek. Sentraal in hierdie aangrypende gegewe staan twee onvergeetlike vrouekarakters: Ingrid Dorfling, ma van Alexander, wat die grense van wanhoop versit in haar verbete stryd om die kind wat hulle hele gesinlewe ontwrig “mens” te laat word. En in die proses omtrent alles wat kosbaar is, verloor. Parallel met Ingrid staan Miriam – oppasma – wat met haar kinderlike godsvertroue en aardse wysheid die enigste is wat tot...
| Автор | Annelie Botes |
The coastal settlement of Slangkop, near Cape Town, comes alive over weekends when mercurial Chas Fawkes holds court at Midden House. Invited to one of his legendary parties, shy, plump librarian Nina Browne is smitten and becomes first his secretary, then his lover. But things are not as they seem on the glittering surface, as Nina in turn is loved and watched over by Chas’s childhood playmate, the hermit-like environmentalist William. When Chas’s estranged alcoholic wife Dolly briefly returns,...
| Автор | Finuala Dowling |
CNA-prys (1992), M-Net-prys (1992), Helgaard Steyn-prys. Kroniek uit die doofpot (1991) is die aangrypende en onthutsende verhaal van ’n swart polisieman se soeke na geregtigheid en dis gebaseer op die werklikheid. Ten spyte van sy armoedige kinderlewe op ’n plaas in die Vrystaat, verwesenlik Tumelo John Moleko sy droom om by die polisie aan te sluit. En uiteindelik kan hy ’n huis en motor vir sy gesin bekostig en in sy eie tuin werk: Dus, die lewe van ’n gewone, eerbare man. Op ’n dag word...
| Автор | John Miles |
Een Sondagmiddag in die herfs van 1918 kom ’n driejarige uit Vredenhoek se wingerd die Erasmus-familie se binnekring ingestap. Niemand herken hom nie. Die kind kan self nie sê waar hy vandaan kom nie. En dié wat weet, wil nie praat nie. So bly dit vir twintig jaar lank. Altyddeur smag Laurens Erasmus om te weet wie hy werklik is. Want hoe kan mens iemand wees as jy nie weet waar jy vandaan kom nie? Nie eers die buurdogter Carijn den Hagen, wat daardie eerste dag in die wingerd haar hand na hom...
| Автор | Helene de Kock |
Having fled his family's farm at eighteen with a promise never to return, Guy Pehrsson is drawn back into his past when he receives his grandfather's ominous letter, "Trouble here. Come home when you can." He returns to discover a place both wholly familiar and barely recognizable and is cast into the center of an interracial land dispute with the exigencies of war.<br /><br />Widely acclaimed when first published in the eighties, the timeless novel...
| Автор | Will Weaver |
Romaan on suur ajastuüldistus, eesti kirjanduse üks esimesi sügavalt kosmopoliitseid teoseid. Põhiosa tegevusest toimub Riias, taustaks on 1968. aasta sündmused Prahas. Viivi Luigele omaselt on raamat kirjutatud intensiivses ja samas aistitavalt poeetilises keeles. Teos tõusis juba oma esmailmumisel kitsast eesti kultuuriruumist kõrgemale, tabas ajastunärvi, tegi võimsaid üldistusi lähtudes Euroopa ajaloost ja on tänaseks tõlgitud 14 keelde. Loeb Tiina Mälberg.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Kuhu unistused meid viivad? Milline on suurim lähedus ja eraldatus? Kas inimese elu määravad aeg ja tavad või miski muu? Seto kylaravitseja Darja, varalahkunud trubaduur Nick Drake ja vaimuvägilane Uku Masing – hetked ja lood sulavad nende kyismustega tegelevaks kolmainsuseks. Loevad Tambet Tuisk ja Helena Kesonen.
| Автор | Lauri Sommer |
This book is for everyone who is struggling or suffering along life’s path. Everyone has a life’s journey. This journey can be frightening and lonely. It may seem that this part of the journey will never end. This story is about a boy’s journey in life. He is alone and frightened by the jungle of life. He works his way out of the swampy jungle. The next part of his journey is a hill that he must climb. He must put in the hard work, time, and effort to put the past behind him and be able...
| Автор | Robin Caulkins Tanguay |
By turns terrifying and humorous, clear-eyed and deep-hearted, Twister brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern town mourns the death of a young soldier. Rose, the soldier's fiercely independent mother, may or may not be losing her grip on reality, and we seek answers along with the constellation of family, friends, neighbors, and townspeople whose lives intertwine with hers. Each new viewpoint calls up singular memories and intrigue, raising stakes while the twister...
| Автор | Genanne Walsh |
Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In the title story, immigrant workers with varying ambitions work at a Wendy’s in wintry Cape Cod. Sharing one house, they must also share, or rather compete for, bicycles—crucial transportation—which are in short supply. In other stories, a...
| Автор | Billy Kahora |