wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Eugenie and Brutus: A Journey of a Truck & a Trailer
ISBN: 9781483662626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,16 zł |
The All Saints' Day Lovers
ISBN: 9781408860434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling 'The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page ... Terrific' Khaled Hosseini, Books of the Year 'One of the most original new writers of Latin American literature' Mario Vargas Llosa A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman’s bed twenty kilometres away....
An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things F...
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81,85 zł |
Outlaws: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016
ISBN: 9781408844205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generation of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be brief and violent...One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old Ignacio Canas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement arcade, when a charismatic teenager...
In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities ...
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66,14 zł |
Never Any End to Paris
ISBN: 9780811218139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The lecturer tells of his two-year stint living in Marguerite Duras s garret during the seventies, spending time with writers, intellectuals, and eccentrics, and trying to make it as a creator of literature: I went to Paris and was very poor and very unhappy. Encountering such luminaries as Duras, Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, Sergio Pitol, Samuel Beckett, and Juan Marse, our narrator...
This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delive...
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70,93 zł |
The Cave
ISBN: 9780446605090 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Burnt out psychologist Helen Myrer decides to take a vacation in the remote New Hampshire woods. Lying in wait for her is Kevin McCallum - a vicious killer who has targeted her as his next victim.
Burnt out psychologist Helen Myrer decides to take a vacation in the remote New Hampshire woods. Lying in wait for her is Kevin McCallum - a vicious k...
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120,74 zł |
Good Offices
ISBN: 9780811219303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the rites at the Catholic church where he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste Machado, his goddaughter Sabina Cruz, and three widows known collectively as the Lilias, who do the cooking and cleaning and provide charity meals for the local poor and needy. One Thursday, Father Almida and the sexton must rush off to meet the parish s principal benefactor, Don Justiniano. It will be the first time in forty years Father Almida has not said mass. Eventually they find a replacement: Father...
Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the rites at the Catholic church where he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in res...
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60,01 zł |
Stranger to the Moon
ISBN: 9780811228626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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60,01 zł |
Tono the Infallible
ISBN: 9780811228817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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76,39 zł |
The Illogic of Kassel
ISBN: 9780811221498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A puzzling phone call shatters a writer s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary exhibition of contemporary art held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer s mission will be to sit down to write every morning in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of town, transforming himself into a living art installation. Once in Kassel, the writer is surprised to find himself overcome by good cheer as he strolls through the city, spurred on by the endless supply of energy...
A puzzling phone call shatters a writer s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an in...
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70,93 zł |
A Brief History of Portable Literature
ISBN: 9780811223379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short history of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of portable literature. The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico Garcia Lorca, Man Ray, and Georgia O Keefe. The Shandies meet secretly in apartments, hotels, and cafes all over Europe to discuss what great literature really is: brief, not too serious, penetrating the depths of the mysterious. We witness...
An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short history of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of portable ...
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60,01 zł |
Dublinesque
ISBN: 9780811219617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he s never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if an unidentified character in his dream is the great author he always wanted to meet, or the ghostly angel who abandoned him during childhood. As the days go by, he will come to understand that his vision of the end of an era was prophetic. Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey that connects the worlds of Joyce and Beckett, revealing the... One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he s never visited. The central scene... |
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87,31 zł |
Even the Darkest Night: A Terra Alta Novel
ISBN: 9780593318805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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130,73 zł |
Oblivion: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780374533939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." --El Pais "An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." --El Pais |
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78,44 zł |
Framing Our Past: Constructing Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780773521728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With introductory essays by historians, Framing Our Past emphasizes the lived experiences of women: their participation in many areas of social life, such as social rituals with other women; organized sporting clubs; philanthropic, spiritual and aesthetic activities; study and reading groups. The authors then focus on women's roles as nurturers and keepers of the hearth B their experiences with family management, child care, and health concerns. They consider women's varied contributions within formal and informal educational systems as well as their instrumental political role in consumer...
With introductory essays by historians, Framing Our Past emphasizes the lived experiences of women: their participation in many areas of social life, ...
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534,26 zł |