wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Budapest
ISBN: 9780747573708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jose Costa has just attended the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul and is on his way back to Rio when a bomb scare on his flight forces him to spend a night in Budapest. Fascinated by the Hungarian language - he is after all a ghost writer by trade and a man who lives by language - he spends the night watching television, trying to pick out words in this tongue, 'the only one the devil respects'. In charting Jose's life we enter a storytelling labyrinth, as his myth-making, love-making and essays into another culture become mired in the world where celebrities make reputations and...
Jose Costa has just attended the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul and is on his way back to Rio when a bomb scare on his flight forces him to sp...
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71,75 zł |
City of God
ISBN: 9780747576808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. The original novel of the hugely acclaimed film, based on a true story
A sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. The original novel of the hugely acclaimed film, based on a tru...
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93,84 zł |
My German Brother
ISBN: 9781250214898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,05 zł |
Blood-Drenched Beard
ISBN: 9780241146156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. His father shoots himself, and all he's left with is the old cattle dog and a vague desire for explanation. He drifts south to Garopaba, a quiet little town on the Brazilian coast, where his grandfather disappeared in mysterious circumstances decades before. There, in the midst of romantic flings and occasional trips, he comes to discover more than he could ever have imagined - not just about his grandfather, but also about himself.
His father shoots himself, and all he's left with is the old cattle dog and a vague desire for explanation. He drifts south to Garopaba, a quiet littl...
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93,84 zł |
Near to the Wild Heart
ISBN: 9780811220026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice" a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: "He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life." The book was an unprecedented sensation -- the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: "I shall arise as... Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice" a twenty-three-year-ol... |
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67,83 zł |
My Sweet Orange Tree
ISBN: 9781782692454 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Meet Zeze - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a 'poet with a bow-tie' but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his family's poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood and inventing friends to play with. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change... My Sweet Orange Tree is a worldwide classic of children's literature - never out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968, it has also been translated into an astonishing number of...
Meet Zeze - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a '...
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51,82 zł |