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Enigma – Diary 2008
By Paulo Coelho
Ft 5,190
Harper Collins
Journey through the year with a selection of quotes from one of the world’s most successful living authors, Paulo Coelho, regarded by millions as the “alchemist of words” and one of this century’s most influential writers. His books not only make it to the top of the bestseller lists, they also provoke social and cultural debate. He deals with subjects, ideas and philosophies that touch the aspirations of those many readers in search of their own path and of new ways of understanding the world.
Journey through the year with a selection of quotes from one of the world’s most successful living authors, Paulo Coelho, regarded by millions as the “alchemist of words” and one of this century’s most influential writers. His books not only make it to the top of the bestseller lists, they also provoke social and cultural debate. He deals with subjects, ideas and philosophies that touch the aspirations of those many readers in search of their own path and of new ways of understanding the world.
The Shoe Queen
By Anna Davis
Ft 2,790
Black Swan
ŰŰEnglish society beauty Genevieve Shelby King parties to the utmost with the Anglo-American artists and writers of Montparnasse. She has a rich husband, a glamorous apartment and an enormous shoe collection. But there is something hollow at the center of Genevieve’s charmed life.
The Gathering
By Anne Enright
Ft 2,490
Random House
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn’t the drink that killed him – although that certainly helped – it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother’s house, in the winter of 1968. His sister Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just for another little while.
Embers
By Sándor Márai
Ft 3,190
Penguin Books Ltd.
As darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered – and each of them alone.
