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A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada’s prison system. Born and raised in Toronto’s Regent Park, Edward Hertrich left high school in grade eleven to start working. A year later, he started dealing drugs in earnest, beginning a criminal career that resulted in him being incarcerated for thirty-five of his next forty years. In Wasted Time, Hertrich describes his time behind bars....

"'Harry, this is Leonard. I just wanted you to know I watched your film on me and it struck me I never thanked you enough at the time for the magnificent gift you gave with that film. Call me.' Then he left his personal number.' – Harry Rasky, April 2000. No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his friends, his background, and the many original influences...

  Pierwszą częścią wielkiego tryptyku powieściowego Alejo Carpentiera jest jego debiut, Królestwo z tego świata (1949), zainspirowany pobytem na Haiti. Duszna i senna atmosfera wyspy doskonale współgra tu z barokowym stylem Carpentiera, twórcy teorii lo real maraviloso (rzeczywistości cudownej), która pozwala mu mieszać nadprzyrodzone z realnym, historię z mitem. Epizody z dziejów Haiti – przyjazd...