wyszukanych pozycji: 10
The Liberated Bride
ISBN: 9780156030168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naive curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband's faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well-adjusted couple with two grown sons.
When one of Rivlin's students-a young Arab bride from a village in the Galilee-is assigned to help with his research in recent Algerian history, a two-pronged mystery develops. As they probe the causes of the bloody Algerian civil war, Rivlin also becomes obsessed with his son's failed marriage.... Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naive curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of a...
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116,87 zł |
A Late Divorce
ISBN: 9780156494472 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua s A Late Divorce. London Review of Books
A powerful story about a family and a country in crisis. The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family member husband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandson the drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering... Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the me...
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86,51 zł |
Five Seasons
ISBN: 9780156010894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies and his years of loving attention are ended. But his newfound freedom is filled with the erotic fantasies of a man who must fall in love. Winter sees him away to the operas of Berlin and a comic tryst with a legal advisor who has a sprained ankle. Spring takes him to Galilee and an underage Indian girl. Jerusalem in the summer presents him with an offer from an old classmate to seduce his infertile wife. And the next autumn it is Nina (if only they spoke the same language ), whose yearning for her Russian home leads Molkho back to life.
Five... In the autumn, Molkho's wife dies and his years of loving attention are ended. But his newfound freedom is filled with the erotic fantasies of a man w...
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86,51 zł |
Retrospective
ISBN: 9780544157989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The greatest Hebrew novelist. Jewish Review of Books An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses arrives, a painting over his bed triggers a distant memory from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter. Upon his return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose... A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
Winner, 2012 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The greatest Hebrew novelist. Jewis... |
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86,69 zł |
The Lover
ISBN: 9780156539128 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Elusive, haunting. New York Times Book Review
A husband s search for his wife s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and Arabs. A] profound study of personal and political trauma. Daily Telegraph "Has the symmetry of an elegantly cut gem. The New Yorker" Elusive, haunting. New York Times Book Review
A husband s search for his wife s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is t... |
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86,51 zł |
Open Heart
ISBN: 9780156004848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart. Philadelphia Inquirer
A young Israeli intern vying for the position of surgeon learns that his internship has been terminated and he has been chosen to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife on a trip to India. There, the couple intend to retrieve their ailing daughter and bring her back to Israel. The long journey awakens urges in the young doctor that will threaten his carefully contained world. Juxtaposing Western realism and Eastern mysticism, Open Heart is an astonishing work... Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart. Philadelphia Inquirer
A young Israeli intern vying fo... |
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108,19 zł |
Friendly Fire: A Duet
ISBN: 9780547247854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniela, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn the death of her older sister. There she confronts her anguished brother-in-law, Yirmiyahu, whose soldier son was killed six years earlier in the West Bank by friendly fire." Yirmiyahu is now managing a team of African researchers digging for the bones of man s primate ancestors as he desperately strives to detach himself from every shred of his...
A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Ya'ari, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his...
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95,18 zł |
The Extra
ISBN: 9780544944428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Engaging . . . Yehoshua is a master in his visual sketches of scenes." --New York Times Book Review "Engaging . . . Yehoshua is a master in his visual sketches of scenes." --New York Times Book Review |
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65,01 zł |
Mr. Mani
ISBN: 9780156627696 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family. It ends in Athens in 1848 with Avraham Mani s powerful tale about the death of his young son in Jerusalem. A profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and wit."
Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to...
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86,51 zł |
A Journey to the End of the Millennium
ISBN: 9780156011167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with both his first wife and his new wife. The trip is the beginning of a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate with those of our time. Yehoshua renders the medieval world of Jewish and Christian culture and trade with...
In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter h...
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86,51 zł |