wyszukanych pozycji: 27
The Doll
ISBN: 9781784709327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, GuardianYoung Ismail's world centres around his mother.
'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, GuardianYoung Ismail's world centres around his mother.
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46,42 zł |
The Ghost Rider
ISBN: 9781847673411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in t...
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51,58 zł |
The Palace Of Dreams
ISBN: 9780099518273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the tradition of George Orwell's 1984, Albania's leading writer creates a disturbing vision of unrestraned totalitarianism and the impact it has on those who exist under its shadow.
In the tradition of George Orwell's 1984, Albania's leading writer creates a disturbing vision of unrestraned totalitarianism and the impact it has on...
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51,58 zł |
Chronik in Stein : Roman
ISBN: 9783596191789 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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68,83 zł |
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
ISBN: 9780099449836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. As Spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers, unknown under the tyrannical ancient regime, strike up the National Bank. The ghastly Kanun, regulator of medieval Albania's blood vendettas, is dr
As Spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Bank robbers, unknown under the tyrannical ancient regi...
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51,58 zł |
The Pyramid
ISBN: 9780099560920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control - they must be kept under the whip.
When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace ...
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51,58 zł |
Broken April
ISBN: 9780099449874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the Kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the Albanian mountains, requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn to become an outcast to be hunted down by the new victim's family.
From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the Kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the...
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51,58 zł |
Chronicle In Stone
ISBN: 9781786894496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An early masterpiece from the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize, introduced by James Wood
An early masterpiece from the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize, introduced by James Wood
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51,58 zł |
The Accident
ISBN: 9781847673404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set against the tumultuous backdrop and aftermath of the war in the Balkans, 'The Accident' intimately documents an affair between two people caught in each other's webs. The investigation into their deaths uncovers a mutually destructive obsession that mirrors the conflicts of the region.
Set against the tumultuous backdrop and aftermath of the war in the Balkans, 'The Accident' intimately documents an affair between two people caught i...
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77,30 zł |
General Of The Dead Army
ISBN: 9780099518266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An Italian general, sent by his government to Albania to repatriate the remains of Italian troops, meets a German general engaged on an identical mission, and their conversations bring into the open their horror and guilt
An Italian general, sent by his government to Albania to repatriate the remains of Italian troops, meets a German general engaged on an identical miss...
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53,50 zł |
Three Elegies For Kosovo
ISBN: 9780099560951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 600 years ago a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. Part fiction, part history, this book comprises three short narratives focusing on the original Battle of Kosovo.
600 years ago a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. Part fiction, part history, this b...
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46,42 zł |
Kronika w kamieniu
ISBN: 9788379631742 / Polski / broszurowa / 2023 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Bohaterem powieści Ismaila Kadarego, Kronika w kamieniu, jest Gjirokastra, gdzie albański pisarz spędził młodzieńcze lata. Miasto, nienazwane wprost w powieści, pozostaje wierne swoim prastarym zwyczajom, uosabia swoiście herbertowski kamienny sens, a Kadare staje się tego miasta doskonałym kronikarzem.Opisane w książce wydarzenia dzieją się w latach 1940-1943, w mieście okupowanym kolejno przez wojska włoskie, greckie i niemieckie. Historia miasta widziana oczami kilkuletniego chłopca, alter ego autora, daleka jest od klasycznej wspomnieniowej powieści...
Bohaterem powieści Ismaila Kadarego, Kronika w kamieniu, jest Gjirokastra, gdzie albański pisarz spędził młodzieńcze lata. Miasto, nienazwane wp...
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42,75 zł |
The Traitor's Niche
ISBN: 9781784873202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged with transporting heads to the capital - a task he relishes and performs with fervour.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAt the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into...
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51,58 zł |
Der Schandkasten : Roman
ISBN: 9783596191833 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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45,84 zł |
The Concert
ISBN: 9780099560890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth.
It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of...
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69,56 zł |
Ślepy ferman
ISBN: 9788361388012 / Polski / Twarda / 2010 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Coś znajomego, od paru lat trochę zapomnianego, zaczęło krążyć w powietrzu: strach. Strach szczególny, zupełnie inny od tego, jaki wywołują choroby, rozbójnicy, duchy albo śmierć. To był strach przed państwem. Lodowaty, bezkształtny, zasiewający pustkę w sercu, lecz mimo to wypełniający sobą wszystko, z godziny na godzinę, z dnia na dzień począł chwytać swoimi mackami setki i tysiące ludzi. Ismail Kadare
Coś znajomego, od paru lat trochę zapomnianego, zaczęło krążyć w powietrzu: strach. Strach szczególny, zupełnie inny od tego, jaki wywołują...
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28,20 zł |
The Siege
ISBN: 9781786893949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A vivid historical novel set in the fifteenth century, by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize
A vivid historical novel set in the fifteenth century, by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize
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51,58 zł |
A Girl in Exile
ISBN: 9780099593072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book.
When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by th...
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The Fall of the Stone City
ISBN: 9780857860125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night, rumours circulate of a childhood friendship between a local dignitary and the invading Nazi Colonel.
In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the tow...
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77,30 zł |
The File on H
ISBN: 9780099497196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. The two dedicated scholars realise only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest.
Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers....
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51,58 zł |