wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Sweetness In The Belly
ISBN: 9780099499190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she herself once had in Africa and her heartbreaking search for her missing lover.
In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the hous...
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51,10 zł |
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The Petty Details of So-and-So's Life
ISBN: 9780099565260 / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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86,47 zł |
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Sweetness in the Belly
ISBN: 9780143038726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur'an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can't escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where...
Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the ste...
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90,32 zł |
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Mouthing The Words
ISBN: 9780099286585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the story of Thelma, from childhood to adulthood, and her return to England from Canada to study law at Oxford. Through sexual abuse, anorexia and borderline multiple personality disorder, Thelma retains her spirit, wit and imagination.
This is the story of Thelma, from childhood to adulthood, and her return to England from Canada to study law at Oxford. Through sexual abuse, anorexia...
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40,88 zł |
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The Beauty of Humanity Movement
ISBN: 9781848877948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "'Compelling... The most moving, romantic, funny book I have read in a long time.' Daily Mail Camilla Gibb returns to form with the stunningly evocative The Beauty of Humanity Movement, a novel of contemporary Vietnam, momentous change, and families defined not by blood, but by the heart. "
"'Compelling... The most moving, romantic, funny book I have read in a long time.' Daily Mail Camilla Gibb returns to form with the stunningly evocat...
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97,28 zł |
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Mouthing the Words
ISBN: 9780786709663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re-creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. It's a world in which she can escape some of her more painful childhood realities, like those games her father likes to make her play, where he's the boss and she the naughty secretary. And her mother so fiercely favors her younger brother, the cherubic Willy, that Thelma finds herself perpetually in emotional exile. No wonder Thelma asks practically every adult she meets to adopt her. Along Thelma's bumpy way from a rural English village to Canada to a...
By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re-creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. It's a wo...
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cena:
82,07 zł |