Hamish Hamilton – Knjiga.hr

White Teeth

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:56:01 +0000

Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith.

The Happy Isles of Oceania

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 11:48:58 +0000

The Happy Isles of Oceania – Paddling the Pacific. In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand’s rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:16:32 +0000

We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully exploring what other people wake up to do each day—and night—to make our frenzied world function. With a philosophical eye and his signature combination of wit and wisdom, Alain de Botton leads us on a journey around an eclectic range of occupations, from rocket scientist to biscuit manufacturer, from accountant to artist—in search of what makes jobs either soul-destroying or fulfilling.

Adrian Boult

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 23:14:27 +0000

Hardcover, Condition Very Good. The Making of a Musician, RCM and Birmingham, At the BBC, and Freelance. 1889-1983. U polici: Glazba. This biography of the major English conductor Adrian Boult offers a searching account of his long and complex life. The author had access to Boult’s private papers, letters and diaries to research this portrait which traces the composer’s life from his school days through to his friendships with Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams. There are also lesser known and surprising aspects – his unpredictable temper, his distrust and dislike of Beecham and the mutual bitternesss between Boult and Britten. Michael Kennedy has been a music critic of the Daily Telegraph for over 35 years and has written biographical studies of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Mahler, Strauss and Barbirolli and is editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Music. He was awarded the OBE for services to music in 1981.

Advanced Use of English

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 10:47:41 +0000