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An Act of Terror
ISBN: 9780749399313 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A novel dealing with the dark undercurrents of South African politics. Thomas and Nina, deeply in love and the children of wealthy Afrikaners, are at the centre of a plot to assassinate the President. The author also wrote A Dry White Season and has twice been a runner-up for the Booker Prize.
A novel dealing with the dark undercurrents of South African politics. Thomas and Nina, deeply in love and the children of wealthy Afrikaners, are at ...
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The Other Side Of Silence
ISBN: 9780099442042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Hanna sees her chance to escape years of abuse in the orphanage by joining a shipload of young women to the colony of German South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers. This journey reveals suffering, revenge, companionship and love.
Hanna sees her chance to escape years of abuse in the orphanage by joining a shipload of young women to the colony of German South-West Africa to assu...
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81,76 |
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A Dry White Season
ISBN: 9780061138638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, Andre Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality. Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies--until the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school.... As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, Andre Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unfli... |
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53,17 |
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Dry White Season
ISBN: 9780749399894 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. His investigations cause him to be labelled as a rebel.
Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the han...
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51,08 |
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The Rights Of Desire
ISBN: 9781784707385 / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings. and his housekeeper, Magrieta, with whom he has a shared history that goes back more than half his life. When Tessa Butler comes out of the rain one night in response to an advertisement for a lodger, Ruben is captivated by her.
Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings. and his housekeeper, Magrieta, with whom he has a shared history that goes back more than half...
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81,76 |
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LOOKING ON DARKNESS
ISBN: 9780749399870 / Angielski / 1993 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, this novel tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. Andre Brink was twice nominated for the Booker Prize.
Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, this novel tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murde...
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81,76 |
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The First Life of Adamastor
ISBN: 9780099284550 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Andre Brink's novella has its origins in an act of rescue: what, he wondered, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mountains of the Cape? Adamastor is the Titan whose body, legend has it, formed the rocks.
Andre Brink's novella has its origins in an act of rescue: what, he wondered, lay behind fragments of myth that have been handed down about the mounta...
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71,54 |
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Rumours Of Rain
ISBN: 9780749399856 / Miękka / 1994 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Winter in South Africa - a time of drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of conflict in Angola cast across the scorched bush. A wealthy Afrikaner's weekend visit to his old family farm coincides with a time of personal crisis. The author has twice been runner-up for the Booker Prize.
Winter in South Africa - a time of drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of conflict in Angola cast across the scorched bush. A wealthy A...
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86,88 |
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Praying Mantis
ISBN: 9780099488941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure.
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of the soap-boiler Anna, and under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is made the first Khoi or 'Hottentot' missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all... A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure.
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interio... |
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81,76 |
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Imaginings Of Sand
ISBN: 9780749395872 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Kristien's grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to her native South Africa. Her grandmother is determined to hand down her treasury of family history, telling of magic, treachery, heroism and farce - the panorama of a nation's experience.
Kristien's grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to her native South Africa. Her grandmother is determined to hand dow...
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81,76 |
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Devil's Valley
ISBN: 9780156012089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for "the truth" first hinted at by a young student in Cape Town who was mysteriously killed. Lochner meets Lukas Death's clan, where righteousness prevails by day and depravity by night, where punishment for misdemeanors is summary, yet brutal murderers walk unscathed. Nothing in Devil's Valley is as it seems: the supernatural is an ingredient of every day,...
When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a m...
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68,38 |
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The Wall Of The Plague
ISBN: 9780099285397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, comes to Provence to research the background to her lover Paul's film on the Great Plague. Mandla, a fellow South African and black activist, travels with her; his intense convictions make her question her own life and beliefs.
Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, comes to Provence to research the background to her lover Paul's film on the Great Plague. Mandla, a fell...
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51,08 |
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Devil's Valley
ISBN: 9780099273127 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Flip Lochner is a weary and disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends into Devil's Valley where, like Dante's Virgil, he encounters a bewildering array of mysterious characters and events.
Flip Lochner is a weary and disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends i...
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81,76 |
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Before I Forget
ISBN: 9780099477525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From a world-class writer - a remarkable new novel about love in all its forms.
Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer; an old writer, a writer who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. It is on New Year's Eve, courtesy of his stalled car, that he meets Rachel, a young sculptress, who becomes the great love of his life, a love greater for being unfulfilled. Having believed that his remaining function should be to comfort his mother, more than a century old now, he finds himself captivated by Rachel and drawn into a close friendship with her photographer husband... From a world-class writer - a remarkable new novel about love in all its forms.
Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer; an old write... |
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81,76 |
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Chain Of Voices
ISBN: 9780749396367 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slaves stand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy Afrikaner farmer. Galant, the van der Merwe family's chief hand, is held leader of the murderous band.
It is 1825 and high in the mountains of South Africa a group of slaves stand accused of the murder of their owner, Nicolass van der Merwe, a wealthy A...
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86,88 |
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Imaginings of Sand
ISBN: 9780156006583 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Muller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections. Kristien's Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother's sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories...
When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Muller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the Sou...
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68,38 |
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A Fork in the Road
ISBN: 9780099527039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From an early age the South African writer Andre Brink found in storytelling the means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world between religion and play-acting, between the breathless discovery of a girl called Maureen and the merciless beating of a black boy. Here he tells the story of a life lived in tumultuous times."
From an early age the South African writer Andre Brink found in storytelling the means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world between religio...
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71,54 |
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'n Droë wit seisoen
ISBN: 9780798145206 / Afrikaans / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Hierdie roman oor die dood van 'n swart man in aanhouding is in 1979, kort na publikasie, vir 'n tyd lank verbied. Die hoofkarakter is 'n doodgewone man wie se sin vir regverdigheid geskok word deur die gebeure, en hy probeer om agter die waarheid te kom.
Hierdie roman oor die dood van 'n swart man in aanhouding is in 1979, kort na publikasie, vir 'n tyd lank verbied. Die hoofkarakter is 'n doodgewone m...
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62,37 |
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Philida
ISBN: 9780099578758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling Philida to owners in the harsh country in the north. Unwilling to accept this fate, Philida tests the limits of her freedom by setting off on a journey. She travels across the great wilderness to the far north of Cape Town -- determined to survive and be free. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN...The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the so... |
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81,76 |
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The Other Side of Silence
ISBN: 9780156029643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) With years of abuse behind her and a bleak future ahead, a young German woman dreams of her country's colony in South-West Africa. When she learns of the women being transported to the colony to attend to the needs of male settlers, Hanna X takes the leap.
In Africa she is confronted with the harsh realities of colonial life. For resisting the advances of a German officer, she is banished to Frauenstein, a phantasmagoric outpost that is at once a "prison, nunnery, brothel, and shithouse." When the drunken excesses of visiting soldiers threaten the young girl who has become her only... With years of abuse behind her and a bleak future ahead, a young German woman dreams of her country's colony in South-West Africa. When she learns of ...
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