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Author
Publisher
CORPUS
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Russian
Description
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving,...
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"Ruti Midone dvadt︠s︡atʹ chetyre, a po ee oshchushchenii︠a︡m -- vse sto dvadt︠s︡atʹ chetyre. Ona rabotaet menedzherom v spet︠s︡ialʹnom poselke dli︠a︡ prestarelykh li︠u︡deĭ. Zabota ob ėkst︠s︡entrichnykh postoi︠a︡lʹt︠s︡akh pozvoli︠a︡et eĭ polnostʹi︠u︡ ignorirovatʹ otsutstvie lichnoĭ zhizni. U Teddi Preskotta, malʹchika-mazhora i li︠u︡biteli︠a︡ tatuirovok, allergii︠a︡ na li︠u︡bui︠u︡...
Author
Series
Notebook volume 1, 2
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned...
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