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Der Fluch der Muskatnuss
ISBN: 9783751820011 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Auf einer indonesischen Insel fällt eine Öllampe zu Boden, kurz danach begehen niederländische Soldaten ein Massaker an den Inselbewohnern.Wie hängen diese beiden Geschehnisse zusammen und was geschah danach? Mit dieser Frage beginnt Amitav Ghosh seine Recherche auf den Spuren der Muskatnuss. Heute alltägliches Gewürz, galt sie im 17. Jahrhundert als Luxusgut - allein eine Handvoll davon reichte aus, um einen Palast zu erbauen -, denn die seltene Frucht wuchs nur auf jener Insel, die niederländische Truppen vornehmlich deshalb in Besitz nahmen, um das Handelsmonopol für die...
Auf einer indonesischen Insel fällt eine Öllampe zu Boden, kurz danach begehen niederländische Soldaten ein Massaker an den Inselbewohnern.Wie hän...
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126,71 zł |
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Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
ISBN: 9781529349269 / Miękka / 17-01-2025 Książka dostępna od: 17-01-2025 |
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53,17 zł |
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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
ISBN: 9781529369465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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55,97 zł |
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The Calcutta Chromosome
ISBN: 9781848544154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. With a cast of extraordinary characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and evocative portraits of 20th century India and America, Ghosh's new book is a Victorian ghost story, a medical thriller and a scientific quest in one.
With a cast of extraordinary characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and evocative portraits of 20th century India and America, Ghosh's...
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55,97 zł |
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The Shadow Lines
ISBN: 9780618329960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed author of Sea of Poppies, a novel weaving history and memory together to create "a rare work that balances formal ingenuity, heart, and mind" (New Republic)
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one English, one Bengali--as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the... From the acclaimed author of Sea of Poppies, a novel weaving history and memory together to create "a rare work that balances formal inge... |
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82,75 zł |
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Flood of Fire: Ibis Trilogy Book 3
ISBN: 9780719569029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The final book in the bestselling Ibis trilogy from the author of Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.
The final book in the bestselling Ibis trilogy from the author of Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.
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55,97 zł |
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The Hungry Tide
ISBN: 9780007141784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal.
Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelag...
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50,87 zł |
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Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
ISBN: 9780618872213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An uncannily honest writer." --New York Times Book Review
The novelist and journalist Amitav Ghosh has offered extraordinary firsthand accounts of pivotal world events over the past twenty years. He is an essential voice in forums like The Nation, the New York Times, the New Republic, Granta, and The New Yorker. Incendiary Circumstances brings together the finest of these pieces for the first time--including many never before published in the States--in a compelling chronicle of the turmoil of our times. Incendiary... "An uncannily honest writer." --New York Times Book Review
The novelist and journalist Amitav Ghosh has offered extraordinary first... |
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82,75 zł |
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The Glass Palace
ISBN: 9780008683542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
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The Glass Palace
ISBN: 9780006514091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Rajkumar helps on a market stall outside the royal palace when the British force the royal family into exile. Rescued by a Chinese merchant they move to upper Burma but he is haunted by his vision of the royal family and journeys to find them.
Rajkumar helps on a market stall outside the royal palace when the British force the royal family into exile. Rescued by a Chinese merchant they move ...
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55,97 zł |
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The Circle of Reason
ISBN: 9780618329625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu flees his home, traveling through Bombay to the Persian Gulf to North Africa with a bird-watching policeman in pursuit.
Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, ...
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82,75 zł |
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The Circle of Reason
ISBN: 9781848544161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Eight-year-old weaver Alu, a child of preternatural talent, embarks on a series of adventures that takes him from his home in an Indian village through the slums of Calcutta to Goa and across the sea to Africa.
Eight-year-old weaver Alu, a child of preternatural talent, embarks on a series of adventures that takes him from his home in an Indian village throug...
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55,97 zł |
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The Hungry Tide
ISBN: 9780618711666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake.
In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people... The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions ...
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74,04 zł |
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
ISBN: 9780226526812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction:...
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative fail...
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78,44 zł |
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River of Smoke: Ibis Trilogy Book 2
ISBN: 9780719568893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The sequel to the bestselling,?Booker-shortlisted,?Sea of Poppies
The sequel to the bestselling,?Booker-shortlisted,?Sea of Poppies
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55,97 zł |
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The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
ISBN: 9780380813940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer... From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer progr... |
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65,32 zł |
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Sea of Poppies
ISBN: 9780312428594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure a la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed... The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure a la Dumas, but momen... |
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108,94 zł |
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Smoke and Ashes
ISBN: 9780374602925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,44 zł |
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Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
ISBN: 9781529349245 / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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112,00 zł |
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The Glass Palace
ISBN: 9780375758775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in...
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of p...
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78,44 zł |
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