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Polish
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"Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching...
Author
Language
Polish
Description
The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his...
Author
Language
Polish
Description
"Magda znowu zbliża się do życiowej krawędzi - nadchodzą kolejne urodziny, do których tak panicznie bała się dobić. Jednak nie daje się zwariować, wszelkie wątpliwości właściwe dla kryzysu wieku rozwiewa po swojemu, w różny sposób udowadniając sobie i światu, że wigor i radość życia jeszcze jej całkiem nie opuściły ... Tym razem nie zamierza lecieć na ukochaną Majorkę, bo z najbliższymi - mężem, pieszczotliwie zwanym...