Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is simply seeking knowledge; ‘it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath’. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar’s observations render the world afresh.
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is simply seeking knowledge; ‘it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath’. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar’s observations render the world afresh.
Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.
नारायण वाग्ले २०४७ सालपछिको फराकिलो परिवेशमा पत्रकार बने । समाचारका लागि देशका धेरै भेग घुमे, समाजका सङ्कटहरू नियाले । कान्तिपुर दैनिकमा स्थापनाकालदेखि संलग्न उनले पुनः सक्रिय राजतन्त्रदेखि गणतन्त्र स्थापनासम्मको घटनापूर्ण अवधिमा सम्पादकीय नेतृत्व गरे ।
श्रीसितै जोडिएर आउने अरु मानिसको पनि कथा हो । सबैका केही न केही सपना छन् ।
सहरको यो भागदौडमा श्री कहीं पुग्न चाहन्छ । तर हिँड्न जान्दैन । ऊ केही बन्न चाहन्छ । तर कसरी बन्ने पत्तो पाउँदैन ।
एक मानिसको उतारचढावमा अनेक मानिस जोडिन्छन् । एक्लो – यो सहरमा अनेक सपना बोकेर रिङरोडभित्र फनफनी घुमिरहने पात्रहरूको कथा पनि हो । जो होहल्लामा त छन् तर आफूभित्र विराट् एक्लोपन बोकेर हिँडिरहेका छन् ।
This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely.
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the ‘Cemetery of Lost Books’, a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ by Julian Carax.
As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change the course of his life. Now a young man in the Barcelona of the late 1950s, Daniel runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop and enjoys a seemingly fulfilling life with his loving wife and son. Yet the mystery surrounding the death of his mother continues to plague his soul.
In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man – David Martin – makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love.
Jiyara is a collection of 13 stories by renowned writer Nayanraj Pandey. The stories have combined reality and myth to tell the tales of political corruption, patriarchy and social injustice in Western Terai region of Nepal.
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement—and a great gift for its readers.
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