Author: Robert

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Tri-tovaricsha_Top-knig.ruThe plot of the book “Three Comrades” is set in the late 20’s. Germany’s economy has still not recovered from World War I, and the memory of the many soldiers of that war, keeps the memory of it. One of these are the main characters in Remarque’s Three Comrades, Robert Locamp, Otto Kester and Gottfried Lenz.

The narration of “Three Comrades” of the book is done from the person of Robbie. He falls in love with Patricia Holman, who is from a different social class. Pat responds in kind, but the crisis of the era does not allow them to be fully together. At the same time Pat is hopelessly ill and all Robby’s efforts don’t allow him to save her. Besides the friends get into the millstone of the nascent fascism that takes the life of one of the friends. But despite the large amount of tragedy in the novel, those who have read “Three Comrades” know what energy and drive to live the novel is filled with.

In creating the novel, the author took much from his own life. In addition to his own memories of the war, the novel features his first wife, Ilse Jutta Zambona. It was she who became the prototype for Pat, and their relationship with Remarque, even after their divorce, resembles that of Pat and Robbie in many ways.

“The Three Comrades is in many ways a telling book. It is one of the clearest examples of the “lost generation.” This trend brings together writers who lived through the war, but saw it differently from their fellow citizens. By the way, another striking example of works of this trend is the novel The Great Gatsby, which is also represented in our ratings.

Cost: 80$

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“Luna: New Moon” has been called a “Game of Thrones” in outer space (the novel takes place on a moon in the near future, colonized and inhabited by people from Earth), and in part this is true: Macdonald’s world is just as multiverse and detailed, and the author is just as unceremonious with his characters. However, if the fuel that drives George Martin’s novel machinery is lust and lust for power, the world of New Moon lives primarily by the laws of big business: the lunar currency pulsates in its veins, and the family clan remains the ultimate value. All this together makes Macdonald’s epic a hybrid of Ayn Rand’s “Atlanta,” science fiction, cyberpunk, and the classic family saga outlandish and utterly irresistible.

Cost: 54$

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What to do if you toss and turn all night without sleep because you have nightmares? What to do if you want to snuggle up to your mother, but it is strictly forbidden to climb into your parents’ bed? Why are adults allowed to watch TV even until morning, but all children hear is: “march to bed-slowly-and-don’t-forget-to-brush-good-teeth”?
To these and other questions, relevant to any child, the heroine of the book – an ordinary girl with an unusual name – is looking for an answer.
Tuve Appelgren lives in Finland, but she writes in Swedish. This is the first book in a series about a girl with the strange name Vesta-Linnea and her extended family. “Goodnight, Vesta-Linnea!” – is the second book in the series.

Cost: 51$