wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Balthasar's Odyssey
ISBN: 9780099452089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the Koran, there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of the apocalyptic year of the beast, 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant embarks on a quest to find the answer. He sets out on a journey that will take him across the breadth of the civilized world.
In the Koran, there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of the apocalyptic year of the beast, 1666, Balthasar Embriaco,...
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51,35 zł |
The Rock Of Tanios
ISBN: 9780349106625 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon's troubled past, by tracing the life of Tanios, a child of the mountains, who one day in 1840 disappeared from the rock that now bears his name.
The 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt. It is an historical novel which explores myth, passion and loyalty from Lebanon's troubled past, by tracing the ...
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51,35 zł |
Zbloudění
ISBN: 9788088411147 / Czeski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jedné noci v Paříži zazvoní telefon. Adam se dozví, že jeho nejbližší přítel z mládí umírá. Rozhodne se okamžitě odjet do své domoviny, které se po dlouhých dvacet pět let vyhýbal. Jako exulant žil ve Francii pohodlný život respektovaného historika - sice v cizině, ale v bezpečí. V jeho rodném Libanonu zatím zuřila občanská válka a škody, které napáchala na místní společnosti, Adama při návratu domů rychle doženou.
Každý z jeho školních přátel si v dramatické době zvolil vlastní cestu; někteří žili se zavřenýma očima, jiní... Jedné noci v Paříži zazvoní telefon. Adam se dozví, že jeho nejbližší přítel z mládí umírá. Rozhodne se okamžitě odjet do své domov...
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87,31 zł |
Die Reisen des Herrn Baldassare : Roman
ISBN: 9783458360056 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2014 / 483 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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54,81 zł |
Leo The African
ISBN: 9780349106007 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. This is a story of pirates, slave-girls and princesses, in a world in a state of religious flux."
'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or ...
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51,35 zł |
Der Geograph des Papstes : Leo Africanus. Historischer Roman
ISBN: 9783458358299 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2012 / 471 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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54,81 zł |
Ports of Call
ISBN: 9781860468902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Ossyane, a young Lebanese man and his Jewish wife Clara return to live in Haifa after World War II. Just as war breaks out in the new-born state of Israel, Ossayne is forced to go to Beirut. The border with Israel closes behind him and he becomes separated from his wife with tragic consequences.
Ossyane, a young Lebanese man and his Jewish wife Clara return to live in Haifa after World War II. Just as war breaks out in the new-born state of Is...
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51,35 zł |
The Disoriented
ISBN: 9781912987061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Having fled his homeland 25 years ago for France, Adam returns to the East for the first time to see a dying friend. Among the milk-white mountains of his homeland, the past soon catches up with him. His childhood friends have all taken different paths in life - and some now have blood on their hands. Loyalty, identity, and the clash of cultures and beliefs form the heart of this big and bold novel.
Having fled his homeland 25 years ago for France, Adam returns to the East for the first time to see a dying friend. Among the milk-white mountains of...
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66,76 zł |
On Identity
ISBN: 9781860467295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Maalouf's lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of identity, that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual, explores how we define ourselves and what identity has meant and continues to mean in different cultures.
Maalouf's lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of identity, that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual, explores how ...
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51,35 zł |
The First Century After Beatrice
ISBN: 9780349105994 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains a few of these beans, he worries that the world has entered a critical phase of its history.
Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. Wh...
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51,35 zł |
On The Isle of Antioch
ISBN: 9781642861341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,15 zł |
Samarkand : Roman
ISBN: 9783458360872 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2015 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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63,95 zł |
Samarkand
ISBN: 9780349106168 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, Persian poet Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alledged crime. He is spared, and thus begins the blend of fact and fiction that is 'Samarkand'.
Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, Persian poet Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alledged ...
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56,48 zł |
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
ISBN: 9780863560231 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts and shaken by traumatic encounter with an alien culture.
Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He rete...
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87,31 zł |
Leo Africanus
ISBN: 9781561310227 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in...
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am n...
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73,32 zł |
Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way
ISBN: 9781642860757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,15 zł |
The Gardens Of Light
ISBN: 9780349108711 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Mani is born into a time of war - 3rd-century Mesopotamia. Despite being the son of a warrior, he becomes a painter, physician, mystic and prophet, preaching in the battlefields, a doctrine of humility, tolerance and love that becomes known as Manicheanism.
Mani is born into a time of war - 3rd-century Mesopotamia. Despite being the son of a warrior, he becomes a painter, physician, mystic and prophet, pr...
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Mörderische Identitäten : Essay
ISBN: 9783518121597 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2008 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Amin Maalouf, in Frankreich lebender arabischer Christ, beobachtet die mrderischen Auswirkungen von Fundamentalismus und ngstlicher, reflexhafterAusgrenzung des Anderen. Sein Essay ist ein Appell an Toleranz, Integration und Pluralitt.
Amin Maalouf, in Frankreich lebender arabischer Christ, beobachtet die mrderischen Auswirkungen von Fundamentalismus und ngstlicher, reflexhafterAusgr...
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Origins: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780374531768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth, in the mountains of Lebanon and in Havana, Cuba, origins recounts the family history of the generation of Maalouf's paternal grandfather, Boutros Maalouf: Why did Boutros, a poet and educator in Lebanon, travel across the globe to rescue his younger brother, Gebrayel, who had settled in Havana? Maalouf is an energetic and amiable narrator, illuminating the more obscure... Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter ... |
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116,80 zł |
Samarkand
ISBN: 9781566562935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.
This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not reco...
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64,67 zł |