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Set in the Jewish homeland of ... Alaska, this is a brilliantly original novel from Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'.

A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, this final volume travels beyond the Three Countries, to the outside influences that threaten to intrude upon this isolated realm.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Book II of the internationally best-selling Tales of the Otori trilogy, a sweeping saga set in a mythical, medieval Japan. In Book I of the Otori trilogy, Across the Nightingale Floor , Lian Hearn created a wholly original, fully-realized fantasy world where great powers clashed and young love dawned against a dazzling and mystical landscape. Nightingale was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one of Book magazine's best novels of the year, and one of School Library Journal's Best Adult Books for High School Readers. In this second tale, we return to the story of Takeo—the young orphan taken up by the Otori Lord and now a closely held member of the Tribe—and his beloved Shirakawa Kaede, heir to the Maruyama, who must find a way to unify the domain she has inherited. In a complex social hierarchy, amid dissembling clans and fractured alliances, there is no place for passionate love. Yet Takeo and Kaede, drawing on their unusual talents and hidden strengths, find ways both to nurture their intense personal bond and to honor the best interests of their people. Like its predecessor, Grass for His Pillow is a transcendent work of storytelling—epic in scope, shimmering with imagination, and graced in equal measure with rapturous writing and exhilarating action.

Jak przystało na prawdziwą ikonę kultury, sławna malarka meksykańska Frida Kahlo wiodła życie pełne skrajności. Okaleczona przez polio w dzieciństwie, bezpłodna wskutek straszliwego wypadku w wieku lat osiemnastu, poślubiła innego tytan sztuki nowoczesnej, wielkiego malarza fresków Diego Riverę, a związek tych dwojga niezwykłych ludzi, pełen namiętności, miłości, zazdrości i kłamstwa, zawładnął wyobraźnią świata. Historia owego burzliwego małżeństwa, porywająco opowiedziana przez Cristinę, siostrę Fridy, stanowi również wyrazisty portret wyjątkowej, nieodparcie fascynującej kobiety.