Гевин Экстенс

Это книга о необычном герое, удивительной дружбе и невероятном путешествии. Семнадцатилетнего Алекса Вудса задерживают на британской таможне: в его машине находят пакет с марихуаной и урну с прахом ветерана вьетнамской войны мистера Питерсона… Далее следует чрезвычайно оригинальное, захватывающее повествование о весьма примечательной жизни Алекса и череде странных событий, которые привели к этой с...

A tale of an unlikely friendship and an improbable journey, Alex's story might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you'll read this year. Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him to the local" bullies. He also knows that even the most i...

Fenomenalny debiut sprzedany do 16 krajow, doceniony zarowno przez krytykow, jak i czytelnikow. Pokochaliscie bohaterow "Sekretnego dziennika Adriana Mole?a", "Lotu nad kukulczym gniazdem", "Buszujacego w zbozu" oraz "Zycia Pi"? Poszukujecie jedynych w swoim rodzaju ksiazek, tryskajacych dowcipem, ale i prowokujacych do myslenia? Z pewnoscia pochlonie was powiesc Gavina Extence?a - wschodzacej gwi...

Eine Geschichte, die erzahlt, wie besonders Freundschaft sein kann Alex Woods ist zehn Jahre alt, und er wei?, dass er nicht den konventionellsten Start ins Leben hatte. Er wei? auch, dass man sich mit einer hellseherisch begabten Mutter bei den Mitschulern nicht beliebt macht. Und Alex wei?, dass die unwahrscheinlichsten Ereignisse eintreten konnen - er tragt Narben, die das beweisen. Was A...

A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn't had the easiest childhood. But when he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to...

Beneath the stars, on a stony beach, stand two brothers. They are wearing lifejackets that are too big for them and their most precious belongings are sealed in waterproof bags tucked inside the rucksacks on their backs. Turkey is behind them. Two or three kilometres' swim away is the Greek island of Samos, now only a smudge in the moonlight. Their feet are blistered from walking, th...

It all starts, as these things sometimes do, with a dead man. He was a neighbour, not someone Abby knew well, but still, finding a body when you only came over to borrow a tin of tomatoes, that comes as a bit of a shock. At least, it should. And now she can't shake the feeling that if she hadn't gone into Simon's flat, if she'd had her normal Wednesday night instead, t...

Это книга о необычном герое, удивительной дружбе и невероятном путешествии. Семнадцатилетнего Алекса Вудса задерживают на британской таможне: в его машине находят пакет с марихуаной и урну с прахом ветерана вьетнамской войны мистера Питерсона… Далее следует чрезвычайно оригинальное, захватывающее повествование о весьма примечательной жизни Алекса и череде странных событий, которые привели к этой с...

A tale of an unlikely friendship and an improbable journey, Alex's story might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you'll read this year. Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him to the local" bullies. He also knows that even the most i...

Fenomenalny debiut sprzedany do 16 krajow, doceniony zarowno przez krytykow, jak i czytelnikow. Pokochaliscie bohaterow "Sekretnego dziennika Adriana Mole?a", "Lotu nad kukulczym gniazdem", "Buszujacego w zbozu" oraz "Zycia Pi"? Poszukujecie jedynych w swoim rodzaju ksiazek, tryskajacych dowcipem, ale i prowokujacych do myslenia? Z pewnoscia pochlonie was powiesc Gavina Extence?a - wschodzacej gwi...

Eine Geschichte, die erzahlt, wie besonders Freundschaft sein kann Alex Woods ist zehn Jahre alt, und er wei?, dass er nicht den konventionellsten Start ins Leben hatte. Er wei? auch, dass man sich mit einer hellseherisch begabten Mutter bei den Mitschulern nicht beliebt macht. Und Alex wei?, dass die unwahrscheinlichsten Ereignisse eintreten konnen - er tragt Narben, die das beweisen. Was A...

A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn't had the easiest childhood. But when he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that you only get one shot at life. That you have to...