Portobello Books

"The day after I turned fifteen, I finally discovered what I'd always known..."Growing up in post-war Paris the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe brother - older, stronger, and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the...

Mark Slouka's novel begins with the child of Czech immigrants to the US, now living in New York, who has been brought up on the folklore of his parents' homeland. As he grows up he becomes aware that he has never been told what his parents did during the Nazi occupation of Prague. As an adult he...

Gerince megtört, deformált. Borítói erősen repedezettek. Lapélein enyhe foltokkal. Mark Slouka's novel begins with the child of Czech immigrants to the US, now living in New York, who has been brought up on the folklore of his parents' homeland. As he grows up he becomes aware that he has...

Mark Slouka's novel begins with the child of Czech immigrants to the US, now living in New York, who has been brought up on the folklore of his parents' homeland. As he grows up he becomes aware that he has never been told what his parents did during the Nazi occupation of Prague. As an adult he...

Preface by Sir Martin GilbertROman Halter is an artist, with a gift not only for painting but for words. His memoirs reflect a deep sensitivity to his life and times, which during the Second World War were perilous in the extreme. His memoirs show just how implacable the Nazi enemy could be. It is...

Fedlapjai megtörtek, előzéklapjai és címlapja hullámos. A startlingly entertaining English comic-surrealist debut novel - imagine an episode of "The Office" scripted by "The League of Gentlemen".

A fedlap belső oldalára ragasztott utazókönyv-cetlivel, tulajdonosi névbejegyzéssel. A tremendously acclaimed and exquisitely realized novel of literary suspense, Harbor recounts the adventures of Aziz Arkoun who, at twenty-four, makes his way to America via the hold of an Algerian tanker and...