Tijana's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:50:12 -0700 60 Tijana's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Kaviareň bez mena 232047804
Do kaviarne prichádza pestrá zmeska ľudí a prinášajú so sebou i svoje príbehy � o túžbe, strate, nádeji. Najnovší Seethalerov román je o nielen o jednej kaviarni a jej štamgastoch, ale i o vzniku nového sveta, ktorý v sebe zákonite nesie aj zárodok svojho konca.

Robert Seethaler čerpá inšpiráciu z miesta, kde sa narodil: jeho opisy Viedne vynárajúcej sa z trosiek, v tieni obrieho ruského kolesa v Prátri, dodávajú postavám Kaviarne bez mena veľmi zvláštnu príchuť a nehu.]]> 160 Robert Seethaler 8082422823 Tijana 0 currently-reading 0.0 2023 Kaviareň bez mena
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]]> <![CDATA[Nothing Grows by Moonlight (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> 228261146 202 Torborg Nedreaas 0241729661 Tijana 3 3.78 1947 Nothing Grows by Moonlight (Penguin Modern Classics)
author: Torborg Nedreaas
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> The Rattle Bag 44576454
Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order allows the contents [of this book] to discover themselves as we ourselves gradually discovered them--each poem full of its singular appeal, transmitting its own signals, taking its chances in a big, voluble world."

With undisputed masterpieces and rare discoveries, with both classics and surprises galore, "The Rattle Bag" includes the work of such key poets as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath among its hundreds of poems. A helpful Glossary as well as an Index of Poets and Works are offered at the conclusion of this hefty, unorthodox, diverse, inspired, and inspiring collection of poetry.]]> 498 Seamus Heaney Tijana 5 3.79 1982 The Rattle Bag
author: Seamus Heaney
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> The Tempest 12985
Each edition includes:
� Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

� Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

� Scene-by-scene plot summaries

� A key to famous lines and phrases

� An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

� An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

� Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books]]> 218 William Shakespeare Tijana 0 3.79 1611 The Tempest
author: William Shakespeare
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]]> Šekspir: svet kao pozornica 12692051
Vilijam Šekspir, najslavniji pesnik koji je ikad pisao na engleskom jeziku, ostavio je za sobom gotovo milion reči teksta ali je njegova biografija dugo ličila na šikaru neverovatnih pretpostavki iždžikljalu oko retkih činjenica. Čvrstom rukom i sa sebi svojstvenom duhovitošću, Bil Brajson se probija kroz ovu živopisnu džunglu otkrivajući Šekspirov ljudski lik.]]> 202 Bill Bryson 8652106126 Tijana 0 currently-reading 3.58 2007 Šekspir: svet kao pozornica
author: Bill Bryson
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]]> Teorija književnosti 231096097
'But this characterization can be accomplished only in universal terms, on the basis of a literary theory.' How to explore the assumptions on which literary study is based and to create such a literary theory is the subject or René Wellek and Austin Warren's ground-breaking and now classic study.

In developing their arguments the authors consider both extrinsic and intrinsic factors in their search for 'an organum of method'. Thus there are chapters on literature as studied through the lens of biography, psychology, society, ideas and other arts. A substantial section is devoted to the formal nature of literature, style: metre, imagery and metaphor, narrative and literary genres. The result is an indispensable handbook for every student.]]> 432 René Wellek Tijana 0 currently-reading 0.0 1949 Teorija književnosti
author: René Wellek
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]]> Besmisleni poslovi 56781662 'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones
'Thought-provoking and funny' The Times

Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.

In the early twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it.

This book is for anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes 'workshops' should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there might be a better way to run our world.]]> 325 David Graeber 9532229272 Tijana 0 to-read 3.67 2018 Besmisleni poslovi
author: David Graeber
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]]> Nefando 32793599
Seis jóvenes comparten un piso en Barcelona y sus habitaciones vibran como colmenas. En cada una de ellas se cuecen actividades tan inquietantes y turbias como la escritura de una novela pornográfica, el deseo frustrado de autocastración o el desarrollo de diseños para la demoscene, subcultura informática artística. Sus espacios privados son arquitecturas blancas donde se explora el territorio de los cuerpos, de la mente y de la infancia. Mirillas hacia lo abyecto y hacia el decir, que los conecta al proceso de creación de un videojuego de culto.]]> 208 Mónica Ojeda 8415934238 Tijana 0 to-read 3.67 2016 Nefando
author: Mónica Ojeda
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]]> Pájaros en la boca 6560594
Heredera de la más prestigiosa tradición literaria, en la línea de Raymond Carver y Flannery O'Connor, Schweblin maneja el lenguaje de una forma extraordinaria, con una prosa sobria y eficaz al servicio de historias que se mueven en el límite entre lo real y lo fantástico. Los cuentos de Schweblin, perturbadores y desconcertantes, plantean un enigma que provoca y atrapa profundamente al lector.]]> 180 Samanta Schweblin Tijana 0 to-read 3.94 2009 Pájaros en la boca
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]]> Temporada de huracanes 34847511
Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedará envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atmósfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad.

Un grupo de niños encuentra un cadáver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la ranchería de La Matosa. El cuerpo resulta ser de la Bruja, una mujer que heredó dicho oficio de su madre fallecida, y a quienes los pobladores de esa zona rural respetaban y temían.

Tras el macabro hallazgo, las sospechas y habladurías recaerán sobre un grupo de muchachos del pueblo, a quienes días antes una vecina vio mientras huían de casa de la hechicera, cargando lo que parecía ser un cuerpo inerte.

A partir de ahí, los personajes involucrados en el crimen nos contarán su historia mientras los lectores nos sumergimos en la vida de este lugar acosado por la miseria y el abandono, y donde convergen la violencia del erotismo más oscuro y las sórdidas relaciones de poder.

Otros autores han opinado:

"Un viaje nocturno a las profundidades del alma humana con el estilo más radical de su generación." -Martín Solares-

"Fernanda Melchor no sólo escribe con la potencia rabiosa que le reclaman los temas que ha decidido investigar, sino que en cada página muestra un oído y una agudeza pocas veces vista en nuestra literatura." -Yuri Herrera-]]> 224 Fernanda Melchor 6073152736 Tijana 0 to-read 4.19 2017 Temporada de huracanes
author: Fernanda Melchor
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]]> Zašto se dete kuva u palenti 56262943
"Mogla sam da pišem jedino ovako, nikako drugačije. Samo iz perspektive deteta sam bila sposobna da pišem o svemu strašnom i nemoralnom što ova priča sadrži".
Aglaja Veteranji

"Otud i inicijalna metafora deteta koje se kuva u palenti, a to kuvanje je, kako radnja romana odmiče, opisano kao proces sve mučniji i odvratniji, tačno onako kako odrastanje protagonistkinje izgleda."
Srđan Srdić

"Iza lažnog sjaja cirkuske pozornice, krije se život straha, siromaštva, nestabilnosti, alkoholizma i pedofilije. Život od koga je na kraju bolje pobeći, zato što 'mrtvi žive bolje nego živi'. ... Naratorka knjige je devojčica, koja kratkim i pronicljivim, a opet dečijim rečenicama, priča o svom životu. Čitati ovakvu knjigu, knjigu o jednom užasnom detinjstvu, a imati na umu da je ona autofikcija, neizrecivo je bolno iskustvo. Ali ne ono koje oduška nalazi u suzama, već ono koje bol stvrdne u grudima i preti da prekine dotok vazduha."
Lidija Nikolić IG: @bgcrtice]]> 182 Aglaja Veteranyi 8664770581 Tijana 3 4.44 1999 Zašto se dete kuva u palenti
author: Aglaja Veteranyi
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average rating: 4.44
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]]> Gorski vijenac 6747126
Knjiga je u celosti dostupna u docx formatu na sledecoj adresi:
]]> 205 Petar II Petrović Njegoš 863791070X Tijana 0 3.88 1847 Gorski vijenac
author: Petar II Petrović Njegoš
name: Tijana
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]]> <![CDATA[The Journals of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962]]> 17846932 The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life � covering her marriage to Ted Hughes and her struggle with depression � are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel and The Colossus.

‘Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity � 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.� John Carey, Sunday Times]]> 768 Sylvia Plath 0571301630 Tijana 0 currently-reading 4.43 2000 The Journals of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962
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]]> Women Who Run With the Wolves 241823
In "Women Who Run With the Wolves," Dr Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.]]> 537 Clarissa Pinkola Estés 0345409876 Tijana 3 currently-reading 4.12 1992 Women Who Run With the Wolves
author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
name: Tijana
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1992
rating: 3
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]]> Birthday Letters 952901 Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year.]]> 198 Ted Hughes 0571194737 Tijana 0 currently-reading 3.80 1998 Birthday Letters
author: Ted Hughes
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]]> á԰첹 219823357 192 Johan Harstad 8082860243 Tijana 0 DNF 4.54 2002 á԰첹
author: Johan Harstad
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DNF
]]> Poezija 77266745 463 Fernando Pessoa 8664071411 Tijana 0 currently-reading 4.75 Poezija
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]]> Autobiography of Red 183932746 Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.

"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." -- The New York Times Book Review

"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." -- The Village Voice

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

National book Critics Circle Award Finalist]]> 160 Anne Carson 1784879029 Tijana 5 4.00 1998 Autobiography of Red
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Helenski vidici 33185032 256 Anica Savić-Rebac Tijana 0 to-read 4.33 Helenski vidici
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]]> Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Tijana 0 to-read 3.87 2024 Intermezzo
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]]> Laterna magika 222796865 Laterna magika
Mesto
Maľba na dreve
Persona
ѱčԾ
Zo života bábok

Bergmanovo divadlo sveta snov a bábok
Život a dielo]]> 528 Ingmar Bergman 8022002267 Tijana 0 to-read 0.0 1973 Laterna magika
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]]> Črna mati zemla 17969057 Črna mati zemla roman je o uspješnom mladom piscu, Matiji Dolenčecu, koji stvaralačku i ljubavnu blokadu pokušava otkloniti dosežući vlastitu, do amnezije potisnutu priču, onu koju je kompenzirao izmišljanjem svih drugih priča. Potisnuto u Dolenčecovu životu traumatična je priča o njegovu djetinjstvu u međimurskom selu, o smrti oca, o osam samoubojstava, dva demona, gubitku prijatelja, o velikim mitovima i lokalnim legendama, o otvorenom povijesnom prijelomu 1991., svakodnevnim lažima i složenim osjećajima - ubojicama života.]]> 299 Kristian Novak 9533166525 Tijana 4 4.61 2013 Črna mati zemla
author: Kristian Novak
name: Tijana
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> Dom 18050424
Dirljiv roman o naizgled poraženom čoveku koji uspeva da pronađe izgubljenu ljudskost � i dom.]]> 136 Toni Morrison 8652110646 Tijana 3 3.73 2012 Dom
author: Toni Morrison
name: Tijana
average rating: 3.73
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rating: 3
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]]> Milkman 36047860
Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.]]> 352 Anna Burns 0571338763 Tijana 0 to-read 3.51 2018 Milkman
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]]> In Praise of Love 13611056
Liberal and libertine reductions of love to instant pleasure and non-commitment bite the dust as Badiou invokes a supporting cast of thinkers from Plato to Lacan via Karl Marx to create a new narrative of romance, relationships and sex - one that does not fear love.]]> 104 Alain Badiou 1846687799 Tijana 0 to-read 3.85 2009 In Praise of Love
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]]> Yellowface 62047984
So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 319 R.F. Kuang 000853277X Tijana 0 to-read 3.69 2023 Yellowface
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name: Tijana
average rating: 3.69
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]]> <![CDATA[If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho]]> 150253 416 Sappho 1844080811 Tijana 0 to-read 4.44 -550 If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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]]> <![CDATA[Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories]]> 2282 162 Truman Capote 067960085X Tijana 5 3.87 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
author: Truman Capote
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> Wuthering Heights 52538947 Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through the slave-trading port of Liverpool. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff and Catherine find refuge in each other when the household falls into the hands of Catherine's dissolute older brother. Their bond deepens as they escape together from the violence and stern religion of their home to the Yorkshire moors.

But the story of Catherine and Heathcliff's attachment transforms from intimacy to strife when Catherine marries the refined Edgar Linton. The ensuing story of violence and thwarted passion is one of the most powerful tales of the gothic tradition, a literary mode from which Emily Brontë wrings all of its terrifying potential. A regional novel with a global reach, a work of sensational effects with a startling ethical core, Wuthering Heights is both a romantic melodrama and wrenching study of the difficulty of escaping from the legacies of violence.

This new edition features a revised version of the 1976 Clarendon text, along with updated annotations, and a new introduction that situates Brontë's novel within the broader context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and brings fresh attention to how Heathcliff's ambiguous ethnicity impacts familiar novelistic discourses of sympathy.]]> 355 Emily Brontë 0198834780 Tijana 0 currently-reading 4.02 1847 Wuthering Heights
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]]> The Book of Longings 52698452 “I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.�

Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, Ana is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. She yearns for a pursuit worthy of her life, but finds no outlet for her considerable talents. Defying the expectations placed on women, she engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes secret narratives about neglected and silenced women. When she meets the eighteen-year-old Jesus, each is drawn to and enriched by the other’s spiritual and philosophical ideas. He becomes a floodgate for her intellect, but also the awakener of her heart.

Their marriage unfolds with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, James and Simon, and their mother, Mary. Here, Ana’s pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to the Roman occupation of Israel, partially led by her charismatic adopted brother, Judas. She is sustained by her indomitable aunt Yaltha, who is searching for her long-lost daughter, as well as by other women, including her friend Tabitha, who is sold into slavery after she was raped, and Phasaelis, the shrewd wife of Herod Antipas. Ana’s impetuous streak occasionally invites danger. When one such foray forces her to flee Nazareth for her safety shortly before Jesus’s public ministry begins, she makes her way with Yaltha to Alexandria, where she eventually finds refuge and purpose in unexpected surroundings.

Grounded in meticulous historical research and written with a reverential approach to Jesus’s life that focuses on his humanity, The Book of Longings is an inspiring account of one woman’s bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place, and culture devised to silence her.]]> 416 Sue Monk Kidd 052542976X Tijana 0 to-read 4.21 2020 The Book of Longings
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]]> Black Cake 57926137 We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?

In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.

Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right�? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?

Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.]]> 385 Charmaine Wilkerson Tijana 0 to-read 4.06 2022 Black Cake
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]]> <![CDATA[The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]]> 65678550
Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which served the neighborhood's quirky collection of blacks and European immigrants, helped by her husband, Moshe, a Romanian-born theater owner who integrated the town's first dance hall. When the state came looking for a deaf black child, claiming that the boy needed to be institutionalized, Chicken Hill's residents—roused by Chona's kindess and the courage of a local black worker named Nate Timblin—banded together to keep the boy safe.

As the novel unfolds, it becomes clear how much the people of Chicken Hill have to struggle to survive at the margins of white Christian America and how damaging bigotry, hypocrisy, and deceit can be to a community. When the truth is revealed about the skeleton, the boy, and the part the town’s establishment played in both, McBride shows that it is love and community—heaven and earth—that ultimately sustain us.]]> 385 James McBride 0593422945 Tijana 0 to-read 3.83 2023 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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]]> <![CDATA[Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers]]> 106744
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL PARENTING PUBLICATIONS GOLD AWARD •“A worthy book that brings us genuinely new ideas and fresh perspectives on parenting.”—Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia

Children take their lead from their Being “cool� matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity, and codes of behavior, peer groups are often far more influential than parents. But this situation is far from natural, and it can be dangerous—it undermines family cohesion, interferes with healthy development, and fosters a hostile and sexualized youth culture. Children end up becoming conformist, anxious, and alienated.

In Hold On to Your Kids, acclaimedphysician and bestselling author Gabor Maté joins forces with psychologist Gordon Neufeld to pinpoint the causes of this breakdown and offer practical advice on how to “reattach� to your children and earn back their loyalty and love.

By helping to reawaken our instincts, Neufeld and Maté empower parents to be what nature a true source of enrichment, security, and warmth for their children.]]> 369 Gordon Neufeld 0375760288 Tijana 3 4.17 2004 Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
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name: Tijana
average rating: 4.17
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Averno (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> 56227533
'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Glück's masterpiece' The New York Times Book Review


An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet

This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abducted girl's equivocal memories, a farmer's lament for a lost harvest. This chorus offers neither comfort nor solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow textured by the poet's luminous wit. Together, the poems of Averno swell to a staggeringly powerful lamentation, through which the reader glimpses the ecstasy of the inevitable, only to find it resisted by the insistent, impersonal presence of the Earth.]]> 96 Louise Glück 0241526000 Tijana 4 4.21 2006 Averno (Penguin Modern Classics)
author: Louise Glück
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average rating: 4.21
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rating: 4
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]]> Elmet 35711376 Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction, Elmet is an unforgettable novel about family, as well as a beautiful meditation on landscape.

Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. When they were younger, Daniel and Cathy had gone to school. But they were not like the other children then, and they were even less like them now. Sometimes Daddy disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.

Atmospheric and unsettling, Elmet is a lyrical commentary on contemporary society and one family's precarious place in it, as well as an exploration of how deep the bond between father and child can go.

]]> 311 Fiona Mozley 1473660548 Tijana 0 to-read 3.77 2017 Elmet
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]]> <![CDATA[Tichá hudba jemne padajúceho snehu]]> 50516486 112 Jackie Morris 8089956815 Tijana 3 3.92 2016 Tichá hudba jemne padajúceho snehu
author: Jackie Morris
name: Tijana
average rating: 3.92
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]]> Cartas 20622928 93 Alejandra Pizarnik 9871868383 Tijana 0 4.36 2013 Cartas
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]]> The Power of Myth 18272760 The national bestseller, now available in a non-illustrated, standard format paperback edition

The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people--including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the “song of the universe, the music of the spheres.� With Bill Moyers, one of America’s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit.

This extraordinary book reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war. From stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome to traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, a broad array of themes are considered that together identify the universality of human experience across time and culture. An impeccable match of interviewer and subject, a timeless distillation of Campbell’s work, The Power of Myth continues to exert a profound influence on our culture.




From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 317 Joseph Campbell 0307794725 Tijana 5 4.31 1988 The Power of Myth
author: Joseph Campbell
name: Tijana
average rating: 4.31
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]]> Normalni ljudi 53046276
S nestrpljenjem očekivani drugi roman autorke o čijem se debitantskom romanu iz 2017. godine mnogo govorilo. Sali Runi je svojim prvim romanom Razgovori s prijateljima postala glavna tema u književnom svetu. Njen novi roman Normalni ljudi ljubavnu priču o momku koji sreće devojku� priča na drugačiji način, baveći se pitanjem mogućnosti iskrene komunikacije u komplikovanom, postironijskom svetu. Njen novi roman još je neobičniji i samosvojniji od njenog prvenca.

"Budući klasik... U emotivnom i seksualnom pogledu roman je zapanjujuće iskren, istovremeno nežan i mudar, duhovit i topao. Na kraju, donekle kao i u prvom romanu Sali Runi, to je jezgrovita i saosećajna studija o nebrojenim načinima na koje muškarci i žene pokušavaju da se međusobno razumeju i u tome prečesto ne uspevaju." - Guardian

"Udahnite duboko i spremite se. Sali Runi je napisala drugi roman. Normalni ljudi su čudesna knjiga izvanredan roman, pronicljiv i nežan. - En Enrajt

"Prvi veliki romanopisac generacije milenijalaca." - Newyorker

"Jedan od najboljih romana koje sam pročitala godinama unazad� Pametan, jednostavan i opčinjavajući. - Šila Heti

"Nisam mogla da prekinem s čitanjem Normalnih ljudi. Sali Runi je pravo blago. Jedva čekam da vidim šta će sledeće da napiše." - Elif Batuman

"Fantastično� Sali Runi je najbolji mladi romanopisac, u stvari jedan od najboljih romanopisaca uopšte, koje sam čitala proteklih godina." - Olivija Lajng]]> 256 Sally Rooney 8661453259 Tijana 3 3.95 2018 Normalni ljudi
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name: Tijana
average rating: 3.95
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]]> ʴDZí 65155 304 John of the Cross 8437604109 Tijana 0 4.24 1591 ʴDZí
author: John of the Cross
name: Tijana
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]]> Drugi album 205738514 171 Nada Kaurin Knežević 9997653467 Tijana 0 to-read 3.98 Drugi album
author: Nada Kaurin Knežević
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]]> Sedma funkcija jezika 36551317
Sedma funkcija jezika iznimno je duhovit, izazovan i pametan roman u kojem Laurent Binet ponovno spaja stvarne povijesne događaje i fikciju. Prava književna poslastica čita se i kao triler i kao parodija detektivskog romana, a u njemu se u kameo-ulozi pojavljuje ni više ni manje nego Umberto Eco.

“Neodoljivi triler.�

Telerama

“Ovo zabavno, katkada škakljivo i satirično portretiranje slavnih likova izaziva nemali užitak.�

Nicholas Dames,The New York Times Book Review�

Binetov drugi roman istodobno je misterij i satira o misterijima... Mudar i iznenađujuće akcijski pokušaj da se spoje zakučasta teorija i krimidrama.�

Kirkus Reviews

“Ovaj je roman živ i prepun potencijalnih označitelja koji vrebaju iz pozadine jezika. Šarmantni roman s ključem kojem nema sličnog. Briljantna ilustracija mogućnosti koje se pružaju modernom romanu.�

Publishers Weekly

“Poput Nabokovljeve Lolite, u ovom divno pametnom romanu možemo uživati na različitim razinama.�

Heller McAlpin, NPR (SAD)]]> 384 Laurent Binet 9532669027 Tijana 0 to-read 3.86 2015 Sedma funkcija jezika
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]]> A Tale for the Time Being 17237030 422 Ruth Ozeki 0857867970 Tijana 0 to-read 4.10 2013 A Tale for the Time Being
author: Ruth Ozeki
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]]> Kuća u Ulici Mango 60235825
Ponekad dirljiva, ponekad duhovita, ova bolna i snažna priča govori nam o jednoj godini u životu mlade devojke koja izrasta u snažnu ženu.

Ubrzo po objavljivanju Kuća u Ulici Mango dobila je brojne pohvalne kritike i postala omiljena širom sveta. Sandra Sisneros je svojim poetičnim pisanjem otvorila prozor duše bez ijedne suvišne reči.

„Jezgrovita, duhovita i lepa Kuća u Ulici Mango spada u bezvremene knjige. U njoj odzvanja poezija ljubavi i žudnje u kojoj se svi prepoznajemo. I kad je jednom pročitate poželećete da je ponovo uzmete u ruke i uživate iznova u njoj. �
� Edviž Dantikat

„Svaka mlada žena treba da pročita ovaj roman i dopusti mu da je ispuni snažnim emocijama, melodijom i otrežnjujućim saznanjem �
� Gvendolin Bruks

„Čudesno ispripovedana priča o odrastanju u savremenom svetu, prožeta zanosom i buntom mladih generacija.�
� San Francisco Chronicle

„Duboko dirljiv, divan i potresan roman.�
� Miami Herald]]> 135 Sandra Cisneros 8652143951 Tijana 4 3.12 1984 Kuća u Ulici Mango
author: Sandra Cisneros
name: Tijana
average rating: 3.12
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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]]> The Anthropologists 208623549 "Like Walter Benjamin, Aysegül Savas uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. The Anthropologists is mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell

“Savas is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows.� -Bryan Washington

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family?

As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,� chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you're filming a park.�

Back in their home countries parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up-all just slightly out of reach. But Asya and Manu's new world is growing, too, they hope. As they open the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?

Unfolding over a series of apartment viewings, late-night conversations, last rounds of drinks and lazy breakfasts, The Anthropologists is a soulful examination of homebuilding and modern love, written with Aysegül Savas' distinctive elegance, warmth, and humor]]> 186 Aysegül Savas 1639733078 Tijana 0 to-read 4.00 2024 The Anthropologists
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]]> Bílá Voda 60066099
Bílá Voda. Takto poeticky se jmenuje pustá vesnice skrytá ve stínu pohraničních hor, kam kdysi přicházely zástupy poutníků vyprosit si pomoc u zázračné sošky Panny Marie. Právě sem o několik století později přijíždí Lena Lagnerová, aby se tu skryla před svou minulostí, která ji přivedla na pokraj sebevraždy. Namísto kláštera s početnou řeholní komunitou tu však najde pouze několik řádových sester, vedených svéráznou řeholnicí Evaristou. Ta přišla do Bílé Vody o poslední zářijové noci roku 1950, kdy komunistický režim zosobněný démonickým páterem Plojharem odvlekl v rámci Akce Ř všechny řádové sestry do sběrných klášterů. Mladičká Evarista tehdy dostala na výběr: vrátit se do civilního života, nebo s ostatními sdílet jejich příští osud. Nezaváhala ani na okamžik. Stejně jako všechny řeholnice byla nasazena na nucené práce a vystavena ponižování v komunistickém kriminálu i mučení, aby se vzdala víry v Boha. Marně. Lena však zjistí, že tím Evaristin dramatický příběh pouze začíná, a brzy pochopí, že démoni obcházející minulost bělovodských řeholnic nezmizeli, a navíc jsou součástí i jejího vlastního osudu.]]> 688 Kateřina Tučková 8027510570 Tijana 0 to-read 4.32 2022 Bílá Voda
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]]> North Woods 71872930
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants . An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine, only to succumb to envy and desire.A crime reporter unearths a mass grave, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods, they come to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.

Traversing cycles of history, nature, and even literature, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless how do we live on, even after we’re gone?]]> 372 Daniel Mason 0593597036 Tijana 0 to-read 4.11 2023 North Woods
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]]> Непочин-поље [Nepočin-polje] 13449019
Збирка почива на актуелизацији устаљених фраза из свакодневног говора. Лапидарност и сажетост, основне карактеристике Попиног песничког идиома, овде као да мењају знак, мењају квалитет. Оне се остварују у микроцелини, у покрету једне реченице или фрагмента - док је укупни исказ изведен у једном једином, непрекидном, контолисаном дугом даху.

Збирка Непочин-поље се увек штампа са специфичним знамењем које стоји на почетку књиге.У питању је круг у коме се налази змија која држи свој реп у устима, грчки уроборос. Змија затвара поље које је хоризонталном линијом подељено на горњи и доњи ниво. У доњем делу поља смештено је око. Збирка је награђена Змајевом наградом.]]> 72 Vasko Popa Tijana 0 4.60 1956 Непочин-поље [Nepočin-polje]
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average rating: 4.60
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]]> <![CDATA[Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery]]> 56660256 Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.

Connecticut, 1666.

An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector.

The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil.

To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help.

Together, they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan � one that threatens to destroy the entire village, leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake.]]> 312 Brom Tijana 5 4.26 2021 Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
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]]> <![CDATA[Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)]]> 36849107 have defined the international agenda of literature. But what is comparative literature? Ambitious readers looking to stretch themselves are usually intrigued by the concept, but uncertain of its implications. And rightly so, in many ways: even the professionals cannot agree on a single term,
calling it comparative in English, compared in French, and comparing in German. The very term itself, when approached comparatively, opens up a Pandora's box of cultural differences.

Yet this, in a nutshell, is the whole point of comparative literature. To look at literature comparatively is to realize just how much can be learned by looking over the horizon of one's own culture. In an age that is paradoxically defined by migration and border crossing on the one hand, and by a
retreat into monolingualism and monoculturalism on the other, the cross-cultural agenda of comparative literature has become increasingly central to the future of the Humanities. We are all, in fact, comparatists, constantly making connections across languages, cultures, and genres as we read. The
question is whether we realize it.

Outlining the complex history and competing theories of comparative literature, Ben Hutchinson offers an accessible means of entry into a notoriously slippery subject. Ultimately, he places comparative literature at the very heart of literary criticism, for as George Steiner once noted, to read is
to compare.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
]]> 139 Ben Hutchinson 0198807279 Tijana 0 3.44 2018 Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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]]> Buntovnice s razlogom 212031349
Ako vas je prodrmao hispanoamerički bum (Borhes, Kortasar, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, Garsija Markes, itd.) posle pola veka to će opet učiniti hispanoamerički beng (Šveblin, Enrikes, Netel, Portela, Oheda, Kolansi�)! To su spisateljice XXI veka, ikonoklastične buntovnice koje pomeraju granice novog pisma. Ne idu na sigurno i osvajaju čitaoce nokautom, a ne na poene. Ne podležu ni pamfletskoj politizaciji ni političkoj korektnosti niti čarima angažovane književnosti. One su slobodne žene, i po temama i po u stilu, a naročito po svojoj poetici koja osvaja čitaoce širom sveta. Njihov kosmopolitizam je suštinski a ne mondenski. Svet je za njih kao maramica, možda čak i tanana tanga, ali uvek komotna otadžbina.

Ko su beng buntovnice?

Marijana Enrikes * Samanta Šveblin * Klaudija Ernandes * Monika Oheda * Lilijana Blum * Gvadalupe Netel * Paulina Flores * Margarita Garsija Robajo * Jolanda Arojo Pisaro * Đovana Rivero * Ena Lusija Portela * Lilijana Kolansi * Dženifer Torndajk * Marija Fernanda Ampuero * Lina Meruane * Alehandra Kostamagna * Andrea Ćapela * Džesika Klark * Marija del Karmen Peres Kuadra * Arijana Harviks * Andrea Jeftanović * Solanž Beotegi * Gabrijela Majer * Valerija Korea Fic]]> 294 Branko Anđić 8652151814 Tijana 4 4.57 Buntovnice s razlogom
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]]> <![CDATA[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]> 57313223 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves.]]> James Joyce Tijana 5 3.50 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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]]> <![CDATA[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]> 25745430 The novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence and youth of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19th century Ireland.
Written with a light touch, this is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works.]]> 221 James Joyce Tijana 4 4.00 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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]]> Kuća na pilećim nogama 54571191 353 Sophie Anderson 8680802425 Tijana 5 4.41 2018 Kuća na pilećim nogama
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]]> Gospođa Bovari 218272045
Sve što je bilo u njenoj neposrednoj blizini, dosadno selo, ograničeni varošani, prostota, činilo joj se izuzetak u svetu, puki slučaj u koji je zapala, dok se van tog kruga pružila unedogled ogromna zemlja blaženstva i strasti.

Kada se udala za Šarla Bovarija, Ema je mislila da će joj brak doneti luksuz i strast o kojima je čitala u sentimentalnim romanima i ženskim časopisima. Međutim, Šarl je bio samo običan seoski lekar i njihov život u provinciji nije imao nimalo od onog romantičnog uzbuđenja za kojim je Ema žudela. Želeći da ostvari svoje snove, Ema će se prepustiti svakodnevnom fantaziranju, upadljivom trošenju i, konačno, vanbračnoj ljubavi.

Romantična heroina ili neurotična malograđanka, loša supruga ili strastvena buntovnica protiv konvencija buržoaskog društva, Ema Bovari je istovremeno bila predmet autorovog divljenja i njegove oštre ironije.

Zahvaljujući Floberovom preciznom jeziku, njegovoj minucioznosti u prikazivanju stvarnosti i nezaboravnim likovima, Gospođa Bovari je jedan od stožera moderne svetske književnosti.]]> 467 Gustave Flaubert Tijana 0 0.0 1856 Gospođa Bovari
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]]> Gospođa Dalovej 7201218
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and is on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present, and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.]]> 176 Virginia Woolf Tijana 0 3.94 1925 Gospođa Dalovej
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]]> <![CDATA[Useless Magic: Lyrics, Poetry and Sermons]]> 51058138 335 Florence Welch 0241983827 Tijana 5 4.43 2018 Useless Magic: Lyrics, Poetry and Sermons
author: Florence Welch
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]]> Talking of Joyce 837960 86 Umberto Eco 1900621134 Tijana 0 3.78 1966 Talking of Joyce
author: Umberto Eco
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness]]> 171681821
A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.� —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood� began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood� in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood� has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems� that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]> 400 Jonathan Haidt 0593655036 Tijana 0 to-read 4.36 2024 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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]]> Moj muž 36304919
Sve ovo je ispisano u najboljem duhu američke kratke priče, najzahtevnijim načinom, jezikom običnih ljudi, mimo svake patetike, razorno i istinito.]]> 149 Rumena Bužarovska Tijana 4 4.03 Moj muž
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]]> Úě 36628629
Osm povídek přední kanadské prozaičky se důvěrně známým, a přece pokaždé fascinujícím způsobem věnuje především tématu lásky a vášně a s nimi spojených radostných i tragických životních zvratů. Tak jako v předchozích knihách, i v nové sbírce nepřestává Munroová uchvacovat schopností citlivě vylíčit složitý vnitřní svět svých hrdinek a jejich příběhy, jež svou živostí tolik přípomínají naše vlastní osudy.]]> 317 Alice Munro 8074324370 Tijana 5 4.00 2004 Úě
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]]> Faust 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Tijana 0 to-read 3.90 1808 Faust
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]]> <![CDATA[Гилгамеш : сумерско-вавилонски еп]]> 221466565 118 Vladeta Janković 8683583619 Tijana 0 to-read 0.0 Гилгамеш : сумерско-вавилонски еп
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]]> Light a Penny Candle 1094776 608 Maeve Binchy 0099196514 Tijana 4 3.82 1982 Light a Penny Candle
author: Maeve Binchy
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book published: 1982
rating: 4
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]]> Oscar et la dame rose 120461 100 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2226135022 Tijana 4 4.16 2002 Oscar et la dame rose
author: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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]]> <![CDATA[Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia (The Backwoods Library)]]> 41805300 211 Jake Richards 1578636531 Tijana 5 4.04 2019 Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia (The Backwoods Library)
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]]> New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 34875585 332 Ted Hughes Tijana 0 currently-reading 3.36 1982 New Selected Poems, 1957-1994
author: Ted Hughes
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]]> Jane Eyre 3102516
Unabashedly romantic and utterly enthralling, Jane Eyre endures as one of the greatest love stories of all time.]]> 447 Charlotte Brontë 0140623256 Tijana 5 4.14 1847 Jane Eyre
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]]> Smrt u Veneciji 12535467 Uma paixão que se arrasta pelo Lido e depois pelas ruas de uma Veneza ameaçada e através da qual se questiona a situação moral do artista.
Trata­-se de uma novela em que Thomas Mann, sob a influência filosófica de Platão, aborda a relação com o belo e fala da nostalgia e das suas emoções.

«E entre palavras delicadas e graças espirituosas, Sócrates ensinava a Fedro o desejo e a virtude. Falou­-lhe do temor ardente que acomete o homem sensível quando os seus olhos vislumbram uma semelhança do belo eterno: falou­-lhe da avidez do homem ímpio e vil, incapaz de pensar o belo ao ver a sua imagem, incapaz de veneração; falou do medo sagrado que invade o homem nobre quando contempla uma face divina, um corpo perfeito � como então estremece e sai fora de si, mal ousando olhar, e como venera aquele que é belo, sim, como se ofereceria em sacrifício a este ídolo, se não receasse parecer ridículo aos olhos dos homens.»]]> 108 Thomas Mann Tijana 0 4.18 1911 Smrt u Veneciji
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma]]> 18693771 A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing.

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.]]> 464 Bessel van der Kolk 0670785938 Tijana 0 to-read 4.36 2014 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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]]> <![CDATA[Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism]]> 55338982
What makes “cults� so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . .

Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.� But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day.

Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,� revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish� everywhere.]]> 309 Amanda Montell 0062993151 Tijana 0 to-read 3.82 2021 Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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]]> <![CDATA[What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)]]> 58724626
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.]]> 165 T. Kingfisher 1250830753 Tijana 0 to-read 3.86 2022 What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
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]]> Bunny (Bunny, #1) 53285047 We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library]]> 305 Mona Awad 0525559752 Tijana 0 to-read 3.43 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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]]> The Covenant of Water 180357146 From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.]]> 715 Abraham Verghese 0802162177 Tijana 0 to-read 4.34 2023 The Covenant of Water
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]]> Normal People 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 Tijana 0 to-read 3.81 2018 Normal People
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]]> <![CDATA[The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)]]> 776407 180 A.A. Milne 0525444440 Tijana 4 4.37 1928 The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
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]]> Tres tristes tigres 35531884
Ciertas novelas de horror y de intriga llevan la indicación de que no deben escucharse de noche. Tres tristes tigres tendría que llevar una banda sobre la cubierta que diga "Debe escucharse de noche", porque el audio libro es una celebración de la noche.

Esa noche insular, urbana, y habanera, es la protagonista de la audio novela y todas las noches quieren fundirse o se funden en la sola y larga noche del audio libro, donde al final comienza a amanecer, lenta y reveladora. Y aunque Tres tristes tigres (el título viene de un trabalenguas infantil cubano) semeja una colección de camafeos (no de retratos) de Dorian Gray, sus personajes no son estos hombres y mujeres. Sus héroes son la melancolía, las letras, la ciudad, la música y, a veces, esa forma actual de arte que parece reunirlas en una sola cosa: el cine. El único villano es la traición, pero no el delito humano, comprendido y perdonado, sino ese fatal crimen de lesa literatura que es la traducción, y el audio libro termina en realidad con una inscripción doblemente destacada: la palabra "tradittori" escrita en el sueño.]]> 0 Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1543641474 Tijana 0 to-read 4.06 2008 Tres tristes tigres
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]]> <![CDATA[The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)]]> 57421889
This book charts the rise of the short story from its original appearance in magazines and newspapers, largely in the United States and Great Britain. For much of the nineteenth century, tales were written for the press, and the form's history is marked by engagement with popular fiction. From the later nineteenth century, the short story earned a reputation for its skillful use of plot design and character study distinct from the novel. After the First World War it found outlets in high-brow publications, and single-author collections, as well as anthologies, were regularly published. Exploring the form's techniques and themes, Andrew Kahn considers the continuity and variation in key structures and techniques such as the beginning, the creation of voice, the ironic turn or plot twist, and how writers manage endings. Throughout he draws on examples from an international and flourishing corpus of work, with close analysis of classic and lesser-known stories by American, Canadian,
Irish, Australian, Russian, and French masters such as James Baldwin, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Taylor, William Trevor, Helen Garner, Chekhov, and Guy de Maupassant.

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

ABOUT THE The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.]]> 192 Andrew Kahn 0198754639 Tijana 2 3.07 The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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]]> <![CDATA[Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)]]> 55398275 Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, games, and other forms of entertainment designed to do exactly that.

As Darryl Jones shows, the horror genre is huge. Ranging from vampires, ghosts, and werewolves to mad scientists, Satanists, and deranged serial killers, the cathartic release of scaring ourselves has made its appearance in everything from Shakespearean tragedies to internet memes. Exploring the key tropes of the genre, including its monsters, its psychological chills, and its love affair with the macabre, this Very Short Introduction discusses why horror stories disturb us, and how society responds to literary and film representations of the gruesome and taboo. Should the enjoyment of horror be regarded with suspicion? Are there different levels of the horrific, and should we distinguish between the commonly reviled carnage of contemporary torture porn and the culturally acceptable bloodbaths of ancient Greek tragedies?

Analysing the way in which horror manifests multiple personalities, and has been used throughout history to articulate the fears and taboos of the current generation, Darryl Jones considers the continuing evolution of the genre today. As horror is mass marketed to mainstream society in the form of romantic vampires and blockbuster hits, it also continues to maintain its former shadowy presence on the edges of respectability, as banned films and violent internet phenomena push us to question both our own preconceptions and the terrifying capacity of human nature.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

First published in hardback as Sleeping with the Lights On.
]]> 176 Darryl Jones 0198755562 Tijana 5 3.98 2021 Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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]]> Oceán mimo zákon 210715361 Romantické představy o pirátech hoďte přes palubu. Nelidské zacházení s pracovníky rybářských lodí, drancování přírodního bohatství nebo pašování zbraní � zdá se, že nekonečný prostor mezinárodních vod schová všechno.

ǰé The New York Times Ian Urbina se rozhodl trochu víc prozkoumat území, které tvoří tři čtvrtiny zemského povrchu. Výsledkem jeho pětiletého cestování křížem krážem po světě je nejen kniha reportáží The Outlaw Ocean, ale i stejnojmenná nezisková organizace rozkrývající bezpráví v mořích a oceánech. Investigativní novinář strávil týdny na lodích ekologických organizací, které stíhají lovce velryb. Zažil bezčasí dlouhých plaveb i nebezpečné střety s piráty. Mluvil s lidmi nasazujícími vlastní život při vysvobozování novodobých otroků v rybářském průmyslu. Upozorňoval na luxusní mnohapatrové jachty s bazény vypouštějící všechny odpady přímo do oceánu. Přesto se v jeho reportážích objevují i okamžiky okouzlení divokou krásou živlu, který lidé nikdy nedokáží zkrotit � a bohužel ani ochránit.]]> 672 Ian Urbina 8082034726 Tijana 0 to-read 4.67 2019 Oceán mimo zákon
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]]> <![CDATA[Novembar tela i kalendara: izabrane pesme]]> 43447316
Vladimir Stojnić]]> 222 Anne Sexton 8679316121 Tijana 4 4.52 1988 Novembar tela i kalendara: izabrane pesme
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average rating: 4.52
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Los renglones torcidos de Dios]]> 67006 512 Torcuato Luca de Tena 9681311884 Tijana 0 to-read 4.24 1979 Los renglones torcidos de Dios
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]]> La hija única 55152903
Poco después de cumplir los ocho meses de embarazo, a Alina le anuncian que su hija no podrá sobrevivir al nacimiento. Ella y su compañero emprenden entonces un doloroso pero también sorprendente proceso de aceptación y duelo. Ese último mes de gestación se convierte para ellos en una extraña oportunidad para conocer a esa hija a la que tanto trabajo les cuesta renunciar. Laura, la gran amiga de Alina, refiere el conflicto de esta pareja, mientras reflexiona sobre el amor y su lógica a veces incomprensible, pero también sobre las estrategias que los seres humanos inventamos para superar la frustración. Laura nos cuenta igualmente la historia de su vecina Doris, madre soltera de un niño encantador con problemas de comportamiento.

Escrita con una sencillez solo aparente, La hija única es una novela profunda y llena de sabiduría sobre la maternidad, sobre su negación o su asunción; sobre las dudas, incertidumbres e incluso sentimientos de culpa que la envuelven; sobre las alegrías y las angustias que la acompañan. Es también una novela sobre tres mujeres –Laura, Alina, Doris� y los vínculos –de amistad, de amor� que establecen entre ellas. Una novela sobre las formas diversas que puede tomar la familia en el mundo actual.]]> 240 Guadalupe Nettel 8433999060 Tijana 0 to-read 4.12 2020 La hija única
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]]> Julio Cortázar 12169258 56 Guadalupe Nettel 9685447977 Tijana 0 to-read 4.03 Julio Cortázar
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]]> Después del invierno 23588880
Guadalupe Nettel ha escrito una novela rotunda, de una ambición e intensidad poco usuales, que ahonda con maestría en su reconocible universo, el de los seres que habitan los márgenes, el extrañamiento, la anomalía. Con ella se consagra definitivamente como una de las voces imprescindibles de la actual narrativa latinoamericana.]]> 272 Guadalupe Nettel 843399784X Tijana 0 to-read 3.73 2014 Después del invierno
author: Guadalupe Nettel
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]]> <![CDATA[El matrimonio de los peces rojos]]> 18040526
Los cuentos de El matrimonio de los peces rojos son espacios magistralmente construidos en los que nos preguntamos cómo y en qué momento se fraguan en nosotros las decisiones más íntimas y soterradas, aquellas que, sin sospecharlo, marcarán de manera definitiva nuestra existencia.]]> 128 Guadalupe Nettel 8483931443 Tijana 0 to-read 4.09 2013 El matrimonio de los peces rojos
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]]> Kentukis 41442139
Los personajes de esta novela encarnan el costado más real —y a la vez imprevisible� de la compleja relación que tenemos con la tecnología, renovando la noción del vouyerismo y exponiendo al lector a los límites del prejuicio, el cuidado de los otros, la intimidad, el deseo y las buenas intenciones. Kentukis es una novela deslumbrante, que potencia su sentido mucho más allá de la atracción que genera desde sus páginas. Una idea insólita y oscura, tan sensata en sus reflejos que, una vez que se entra en ella, ya no se puede salir.]]> 224 Samanta Schweblin 9877690241 Tijana 0 to-read 3.58 2018 Kentukis
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]]> El núcleo del disturbio 6399462
Nombrar lo kafkiano es ya en sí mismo un guiño cómplice, una contraseña inmediata arrojada a la inocencia de quien se dispone a leer; pues bien, la verdad que se abisma en esta escritura refuerza aquel adjetivo paradigmático: su condición de ser está anclada en la categoría de la espera, como en las pesadillas de Kafka, como en el lenguaje de Beckett.

Descarnados, violentos, esperanzados, onirícos, desesperados, absurdos hasta la comicidad nerviosa del involuntario testigo de una verdad feroz, los cuentos de Samanta Schweblin perturban poéticamente la comprensión del mundo.]]> 196 Samanta Schweblin Tijana 0 to-read 3.87 2002 El núcleo del disturbio
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]]> Siete casas vacías 25624832
Samanta Schweblin nos arrastra hacia "Siete casas vacías" y, en torno a ellas, empuja a sus personajes a explorar terrores cotidianos, a diseccionar los miedos propios y ajenos, y a poner sobre la mesa los prejuicios de quienes, entre el extrañamiento y una "normalidad" enrarecida, contemplan a los demás y se contemplan.

La prosa afilada y precisa de Schweblin, su capacidad para crear atmósferas densas e inquietantes, y la estremecedora gama de sensaciones que recorren sus cuentos han hecho a este libro merecedor del IV Premio Internacional de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero.]]> 128 Samanta Schweblin 8483931850 Tijana 0 to-read 3.86 2015 Siete casas vacías
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]]> <![CDATA[Los peligros de fumar en la cama]]> 13121960 221 Mariana Enríquez 9500432129 Tijana 0 to-read 3.94 2009 Los peligros de fumar en la cama
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]]> Pandora 25164096 242 Liliana Blum Tijana 0 to-read 3.89 2015 Pandora
author: Liliana Blum
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]]> <![CDATA[La ridícula idea de no volver a verte]]> 17567272
Una narración a medio camino entre el recuerdo personal y la memoria de todos, entre el análisis de nuestra época y la evocación íntima. Son páginas que hablan de la superación del dolor, de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres, del esplendor del sexo, de la buena muerte y de la bella vida, de la ciencia y de la ignorancia, de la fuerza salvadora de la literatura y de la sabiduría de quienes aprenden a disfrutar de la existencia con plenitud y con ligereza. Vivo y original, este libro inclasificable incluye fotos, remembranzas, amistades y anécdotas que transmiten el primitivo placer de escuchar buenas historias. Sentirás que ha sido escrito sólo para ti.]]> 240 Rosa Montero 8432215481 Tijana 0 to-read 4.11 2013 La ridícula idea de no volver a verte
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]]> ѲԻíܱ 39391224
"ѲԻíܱ" es una novela sobre el miedo y su relación con la familia, la sexualidad y la violencia. Narrada con una prosa llena de destellos líricos, símbolos desconcertantes y saltos en el tiempo, toma rasgos del "thriller" psicológico para desarrollar el juego mental que se produce entre alumnas y maestras, y escarbar en las relaciones pasionales entre madres e hijas, hermanas y "mejores amigas", recreando un mundo de lo femenino-monstruoso que se conecta con la tradición del cine de terror y la literatura de género.]]> 288 Mónica Ojeda 8415934491 Tijana 0 to-read 3.80 2023 ѲԻíܱ
author: Mónica Ojeda
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> Novo groblje 60857446 класично образовање и свакодневицу, критичност грађанке и готово дечје језичке и мисаоне рефлексе; самосвест ангажоване жене и заиграност, хумор и исповедност („Ј� сам страшна жена/ Вечно уплашена); потребу да се буде у свету и свет интиме, отвореност ка конфузном шуму постмодерног света и национални осећај... Управо онако како се та summa многобројних противречја обзнањује једним тростихом песникиње: И ауторефлексија/ Несигурност/И вера у стварност.

Ђорђе Матић


Милица Шпадијер се са овом књигом уврстила у ред пјесника свештеника, пророка, оних који кроз своје ја говоре и наш живот. На трагу савремене хеленске поезије, Ускрс је у „Ново� гробљу� стални мотив и никада тема већ перспектива. И чека нас „Аутобиографија� � антологијска пјесма
савремене српске поезије чија језгровита семантика, рима која је од оних за које знамо да одувијек почива у дубини језика и аутобиографска способност метафизичког крокија зову да прочитамо нову збирку поезије жене коју прсти пеку кад се крсти.

Дарко Ристов Ђого]]> 86 Milica Špadijer Tijana 0 to-read 4.23 2022 Novo groblje
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]]> <![CDATA[So You Want to Talk About Race]]> 35099718 In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.

Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned, and crystalize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor's seminal essay "The Meaning of a Word."]]> 248 Ijeoma Oluo 1580056776 Tijana 0 4.48 2018 So You Want to Talk About Race
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]]> Din cer au căzut trei mere 58612458 256 Narine Abgaryan Tijana 4 4.32 2015 Din cer au căzut trei mere
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average rating: 4.32
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Three Apples Fell from the Sky]]> 51551602 An unforgettable story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village

In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate.

As they go about their daily lives � harvesting crops, making baklava, tidying houses � the villagers sustain one another through good times and bad. But sometimes all it takes is a spark of romance to turn life on its head, and a plot to bring two of Maran's most stubbornly single residents together soon gives the village something new to gossip about...

Three Apples Fell from the Sky is an enchanting fable that brilliantly captures the idiosyncrasy of a small community. Sparkling with sumptuous imagery and warm humour, this is a vibrant tale of resilience, bravery and the miracle of everyday friendship.]]> 231 Narine Abgaryan 1786077310 Tijana 4 4.06 2015 Three Apples Fell from the Sky
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]]> <![CDATA[Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”]]> 74864231 WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
Named One of The New York Times� 100 Notable Books of 2023
One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 | A Top Ten Book of 2023 at Chicago Public Library

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize�winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.

In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now.

“Latino� is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States, and also one of the most rapidly growing. Composed as a direct address to the young people who identify or have been classified as “Latino,� Our Migrant Souls is the first account of the historical and social forces that define Latino identity.

Taking on the impacts of colonialism, public policy, immigration, media, and pop culture, Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of “Latino� as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States, and gives voice to the anger and the hopes of young Latino people who have seen Latinidad transformed into hateful tropes and who have faced insult and division—a story as old as this country itself.

Tobar translates his experience as not only a journalist and novelist but also a mentor, a leader, and an educator. He interweaves his own story, and that of his parents� migration to the United States from Guatemala, into his account of his journey across the country to uncover something expansive, inspiring, true, and alive about the meaning of “Latino� in the twenty-first century.

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize�winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.

In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now.

“Latino� is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States, and also one of the most rapidly growing. Composed as a direct address to the young people who identify or have been classified as “Latino,� Our Migrant Souls is the first account of the historical and social forces that define Latino identity.

Taking on the impacts of colonialism, public policy, immigration, media, and pop culture, Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of “Latino� as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States, and gives voice to the anger and the hopes of young Latino people who have seen Latinidad transformed into hateful tropes and who have faced insult and division—a story as old as this country itself.

Tobar translates his experience as not only a journalist and novelist but also a mentor, a leader, and an educator. He interweaves his own story, and that of his parents� migration to the United States from Guatemala, into his account of his journey across the country to uncover something expansive, inspiring, true, and alive about the meaning of “Latino� in the twenty-first century.]]> 258 Héctor Tobar 0374609918 Tijana 0 to-read 4.26 Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
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]]> The Soul of a Woman 54075385 From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman.

"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without "resources or voice." Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn't have.

As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists, she for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin, as they wrote "with a knife between their teeth" about women's issues. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three passionate marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one's sexuality.

So what do women want? To be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. On all these fronts, there is much work to be done, and this book, Allende hopes, will "light the torch of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us, as we lived for our mothers, and carry on with the work still left to be finished."]]> 174 Isabel Allende 0593355628 Tijana 0 to-read 3.99 2020 The Soul of a Woman
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