wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Kensington Quartet
ISBN: 9781628972894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,60 zł |
I'm an Old Commie!
ISBN: 9781628971484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim post-communist present when her daughter, now living in Canada, telephones urging her not to vote for the former communists in upcoming elections. Determined to discover in her own mind why things were better back then, she explores her memories of growing up in an impoverished village and of her life as a factory worker in the town. But ironic tension grows as the reader glimpses between the lines how nothing was what it seemed in Ceau escu s Romania. Interspersed...
Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim post-communist present w...
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68,71 zł |
Best European Fiction 2019
ISBN: 9781628972863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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75,44 zł |
The Encounter
ISBN: 9781564789532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pushed around by ticket takers who demand his ticket in several languages, a middle aged man goes through a nightmare of hiding and getting away until he manages to cross a frontier guarded by soldiers and dogs. He s made it back to his native village. There he finds his whole family gathered around a big table, as if for a wedding, a baptism or a wake, but no one recognizes him, not even his mother."
Pushed around by ticket takers who demand his ticket in several languages, a middle aged man goes through a nightmare of hiding and getting away until...
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73,01 zł |
La Belle Roumaine
ISBN: 9781943150304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe, the novel follows Ana as she seduces cafe owners, philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a different version of her life story. To some, she's a former nurse, to others, a former spy. To some she's French and to others, Romanian. As each new layer of fabrication is added, the mystery of Ana and of what she's running from grow apace.
La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe, the novel ...
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68,71 zł |
Before Brezhnev Died
ISBN: 9781628973495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,80 zł |
Living Tissue, 10x10
ISBN: 9781628973389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,09 zł |
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape
ISBN: 9781350511507 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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75,36 zł |
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism
ISBN: 9780691152196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to systematically examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such wide-ranging issues as vegetarianism and the right to... The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting... |
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147,91 zł |
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape
ISBN: 9781350321298 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,69 zł |
Bulgarian Truck: A Building Site Beneath the Open Sky
ISBN: 9781564786982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The writer-narrator of "The Bulgarian Truck" has hit upon a new technique for constructing a novel, which he calls "a building site beneath the open sky," but he can't seem to persuade his more widely read wife, Marianne, a character from an earlier novel of his, that it's any good. She is in New York, receiving treatment for a mysterious condition hitherto unknown to medical science, and her sardonic advice, imparted over the telephone, only hinders the novel's progress. Meanwhile, the narrator's extra-marital affair with Milena, a young Slovak novelist who writes in French, is turning sour,...
The writer-narrator of "The Bulgarian Truck" has hit upon a new technique for constructing a novel, which he calls "a building site beneath the open s...
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64,42 zł |