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Po stuleciach uśpienia bogowie znów toczą bitwy, a krucha równowaga między światami wydaje się zagrożona. Trwa wojna, od której zależą losy ludzkości, a w niej najlepszym orężem może okazać się… miłość. Dla osiemnastoletniej Iris Winnow liczy się tylko rodzina, zrobi więc wszystko, by ją chronić. Ukochany brat niedawno zaginął na froncie - na wojnie toczącej się między dwojgiem bogów - a bezrobotna...

Two different riddles, three villains, one of which was really the darkest paint, three murders, one suicide, the abduction of a child, three strong Victorian women – one of them is unusually tragic, the other is quite a deceiver, like Becky Sharp, and divine retribution. Suffice it to say that one of the main characters is a young woman who lives with a man who claims to be a father, but exploits...

The Ambassador’s office was indeed a very thankless one, while my own position as second secretary of the Paris Embassy was a post not to be envied, even though it is popularly supposed to be one of the plums of the diplomatic service. With Paris full of spies endeavouring to discover our secrets and divine our instructions from Downing Street, and the cabinet noir ever at work upon our correspondence,...

The essays collected in this book were written over a period of more than a decade. They are arranged chronologically in order to create a complete sequence. The first essay in the collection, "Sensitivity of Matter", is dedicated to Edward Stachura, an exceptional Polish poet who became a national hero among young people after his suicide in 1979. The essay was inspired by my conversations and debates...