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For six months, the island of Cebu was not a destination but a whole world. Max, a wandering Australian engineer and photographer, arrived expecting postcard sunsets and temporary bliss. What he found was a woman, an island, and a self he never planned to meet. The Cebu Hours is an intimate, sensuous, and piercingly honest memoir of a love story built against the clock.

This is the tale of Luna: brilliant, wealthy, and trapped by the gilded expectations of her powerful family. And of Max: a backpacker living month-to-month, his right to stay hanging on the fragile, bureaucratic thread of a tourist visa. From the frantic, sweaty queues at the immigration bureau to the silent, weightless flight of ancient sea turtles, their connection deepens in the space between freedom and duty. They chart their own map of Cebu-rating pancake breakfasts in hidden cafés, belting out truths in crowded karaoke bars, and seeking grace amidst the ornate, miraculous spectacle of the Simala Shrine.

But as the stamps in Max's passport run out, so does the borrowed time. The Cebu Hours is more than a travelogue or a romance; it is a profound exploration of what it means to love a place and a person you know you cannot keep. It's about the moments that change you forever, the bittersweet taste of lechón shared in luxury, the raw thrill of a 'fast car' dream, and the quiet understanding that some journeys end not because love fails, but because life insists on its own, more complicated design. A story for anyone who has ever left a piece of their heart in a place they had to leave behind.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v němčině Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Plný název: The Cebu Hours
• Autor: Max Nabati
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 56
• EAN: 9798233025808
• ID: 50263365
• Nakladatelství: Max Nabati
• Hmotnost: 85 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 140 × 3 mm
• Datum vydání: 16. December 2025

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