wyszukanych pozycji: 36
Something to Declare: Essays
ISBN: 9781616205584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom." --Los Angeles Times
From the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling novels In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes a rich and revealing work of nonfiction capturing the life and mind of an artist as she knits together the dual themes of coming to America and becoming a writer. The twenty-four confessional,... "Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, ...
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68,17 zł |
de Como Tia Lola Vino (de Visita) a Quedarse (How Aunt Lola Came to (Visit) Stay Spanish Edition)
ISBN: 9780307930408 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Julia Alvarez's heartwarming novel--now in Spanish. De como tia Lola vino de visita a quedarse, una novela juvenil de Julia Alvarez, cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso magica tia Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, panuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor par alas fiestas, cafe, hierbabuena, oregano, anis, hojas de guanabana, ajies..., su alegria invade la casa y--poco a poco--a todo el pueblo. Un relato rico, calido y...
Julia Alvarez's heartwarming novel--now in Spanish. De como tia Lola vino de visita a quedarse, una novela juvenil de Julia Alvarez, cuenta...
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34,15 zł |
In the Time of the Butterflies
ISBN: 9781565129764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--"The Butterflies." In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and the survivor,...
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of t...
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81,15 zł |
Homecoming: New and Collected Poems
ISBN: 9780452275676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez was writing poetry that gave a distinctive voice to the Latina woman-and helped give to American letters a vibrant new literary form. Homecoming, was Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic.Now this revised and expanded edition adds thirteen new poems. These more recent writings are still deeply...
Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez ...
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102,56 zł |
En El Tiempo de Las Mariposas = In the Time of the Butterflies
ISBN: 9780452286863 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1960 in the Dominican Republic, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Alvarez brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in an extraordinary novel. "Un libro importante... emocionalmente sobrecogedor. Alvarez nos hace un regalo cargado de rara generosidad y coraje."--The San Diego Union-Tribune
Ellas eran las cuatro hermanas... In 1960 in the Dominican Republic, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed ...
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76,92 zł |
The Woman I Kept to Myself
ISBN: 9781616200725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The works of Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. In these 75 autobiographical poems, Alvarez's clear voice sings out in every line.
The works of Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her y...
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85,43 zł |
The Writer on Her Work
ISBN: 9780393320558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Seventeen novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they have become writers, why they write, and what it means to be a woman and a writer.
Seventeen novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they have become writers, why they write, and what it means to be a woman and a writ...
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102,35 zł |
El Mejor Regalo del Mundo: La Leyenda de La Vieja Belen (Bilingual Edition) / The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belen
ISBN: 9781631138690 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,89 zł |
Antes de Ser Libres
ISBN: 9780525579779 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Anita de la Torre nunca cuestiono su libertad viviendo en la Republica Dominicana. Pero al cumplir doce anos de edad en 1960, la mayoria de sus familiares han emigrado a Estados Unidos, su tio Toni ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro y la policia secreta del gobierno aterroriza a su familia restante dada su presunta oposicion a la dictadura de Trujillo. Utilizando la fuerza y el valor de su familia, Anita debe vencer sus miedos y volar hacia la libertad, dejando atras todo lo que alguna vez habia conocido. De la renombrada autora Julia Alvarez llega una historia inolvidable sobre la...
Anita de la Torre nunca cuestiono su libertad viviendo en la Republica Dominicana. Pero al cumplir doce anos de edad en 1960, la mayoria de sus famili...
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51,24 zł |
The Teeny Tiny Amargasaurus
ISBN: 9798364316981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,80 zł |
Mi Alma Te Pertenece
ISBN: 9798463638885 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2021 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,88 zł |
Speeches for the Ages
ISBN: 9781425778149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of writings and speeches was delivered and written over the course of the twenty-three years in which I represented my country at the United Nations. It reflects my efforts to bring to public attention the potential as well as the needs of older people, particularly older women, in our Third World. My aim was and is to replace the stereotype of helpless, pitiful elders with a truer picture - of people who could contribute to, and enrich society. Given the worldwide aging of populations and limits on available resources to deal with it, our recognition of that potential is...
This collection of writings and speeches was delivered and written over the course of the twenty-three years in which I represented my country at the ...
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89,70 zł |
In the Time of the Butterflies
ISBN: 9780143136545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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119,66 zł |
Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women
ISBN: 9780820349251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This new Latino literary collection brings together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, "Daring to Write" s insightful works offer readers a wide array of topics."
This new Latino literary collection brings together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living i...
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729,93 zł |
Hilos De Plata
ISBN: 9798841276289 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2022 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,82 zł |
What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
ISBN: 9780810140776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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136,23 zł |