Beautiful Ruins

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originální anglická četba - okouzlující román Jesse Waltera "Beautiful Ruins", příběh začíná v Itálii v roce 1962, kdy se na italském pobřeží setkává mladý hostinský s krásnou ženou, americkou herečkou, jak se později dovídá. Pak se příběh posune o padesát let dále, kdy postarší pán hledá v Hollywoodu ženu, která ho kdysi tak oslnila... Jess Walter´s "Beautiful Ruins" is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio´s back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, "Beautiful Ruins" is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. "Magic... A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart." -- New York Times "A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor." -- Booklist "Hilarious and compelling." -- Esquire "'Beautiful Ruins´ is a novel unlike any other you´re likely to read this year." -- Nick Hornby, The Believer