Louis de Bernières

Na začátku dvacátého století vyrůstá Rosie McCoshová se svými třemi sestrami, veskrze konzervativní matkou a dobromyslným otcem v idylické domácnosti v Kentu. S chlapci ze dvou sousedních rodin, Pittovými a Pendennisovými, prožívají všichni bezstarostná l

Příběh o lásce, cti a pomstě, jenž je neobyčejně vtipný a zároveň hluboce tragický, zdařile absurdní ve stylu Hellerovy HLAVY XXII, uměřeně sentimentální a laskavý, ale v popisech italského tažení až bezděčně naturalistický...

Louis de Bernières sa narodil v Londýne. Spočiatku pracoval ako záhradný architekt, mechanik, učiteľ a dôstojník na vojenskej škole. Mandolína kapitána Corelliho je jeho najznámejší román...

V roce 1941 idylický řecký ostrov Kefallénie okupovali Italové. Mezi nimi je i kapitán Antonio Corelli, člověk kultivovaný a vtipný, navíc skvělý mandolinista. Shodou okolností je nakvartýrován do rodiny doktora Jannise, jehož dcera Pelagia je sice od...

In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner...

Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history...

Louis de Bernières sa vo svojich spomienkach vracia do malej anglickej dedinky, kde v šesťdesiatych a sedemdesiatych rokoch vyrastal, a sprevádza nás Anglickom, ktoré sa pomaly vytráca, prostredníctvom pôvabných príbehov...

A return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of characters that made Captain Correli's Mandolin such an extraordinary hit (2.5 million copies sold). In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, ...

Louis de Bernières je autorom slávneho románu Mandolína kapitána Corelliho. V roku 1993 ho Granta Magazine označil za jedného z dvadsiatich najlepších britských autorov. Sestry McCoshové vyrastajú počas krátkych ...

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides'. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces...

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, ...

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, unfrocked priests and reformed – though by no means inactive – whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment...

Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door...

Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Bernières, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms – from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion...

When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle station is a tough place for a child, where nature is brutal and the men must work hard in the heat and dust...

In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other...

Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire...

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia ...

When the Axis powers reach the Greek island of Cephallonia, a young Italian captain is billeted in the doctor's house...