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This is a novel with catchy locations and characters. A man in a midlife crisis travels to a remote Kornish village with his wife. The strange happy village, where drunkenness is widespread and people are very open, begins to influence the actions of visitors – up to a change in their character. The very strangeness of history guarantees that it will remain in memory for a long time.

Young beauty Eustace Way, passionate, self-willed, selfish and ambitious, eager to break out of the hateful rural outback into a “different life”, full of splendor, fun and pleasure. Meanwhile, after several years of service as a manager in a Paris jewelry salon, Clime Ibright returns to his Blooms End estate, who also wants to live a different life - to settle in his native land and open a school...

Publikacja stanowi analizę i rekonstrukcję tego, jak wyobrażał sobie naród kaszubski Jan Rompski (1913-1969) – pisarz, działacz narodowy, etnograf. Ten współzałożyciel grupy polityczno-literackiej Zrzeszińców narodową tożsamość kaszubską interpretował jako zespół cech z otwartego zbioru, obejmującego w szczególności: terytorium, język, kulturę, poczucie obywatelstwa. W tekst poświęconej mu publikacji...

Luxor, 1946. When young nurse Aida El Masri returns from war-torn London to her family’s estate in Egypt she steels herself against the challenges ahead. Eight years have passed since her father, Ayoub, was framed for a crime he did not commit, and died as a tragic result. Yet Aida has not forgotten, and now she wants revenge against the man she believes betrayed her father – his best friend, Kamel...