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Song for Night
ISBN: 9781846592041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Trained as a human mine detector, My Luck, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part in unspeakable brutality. At 12 his vocal cords are cut to prevent him from screaming and giving away his platoon's presence, should he be blown up.
Trained as a human mine detector, My Luck, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part in unspeakable brutality. At 12 his vocal cords are c...
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43,63 zł |
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The Secret History of Las Vegas
ISBN: 9780143124955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani
Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, he s sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help of Dr. Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who specializes in the study of psychopaths. As Sunil tries to crack the twins, the implications of his research grow darker. Haunted by his betrayal of... A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani
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95,87 zł |
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The Virgin of Flames
ISBN: 9780143038771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of Angels
Praised as singular (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and extraordinary (The New York Times Book Review), GraceLand stunned critics and instantly established Chris Abani as an exciting new voice in fiction. In his second novel, set against the uncompromising landscape of East L.A., Abani follows a struggling artist named Black, whose life and friendships reveal a world far removed from the mainstream. Through Black's journey of self-... From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City of Angels
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95,87 zł |
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Daphne's Lot
ISBN: 9781888996623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman the power of her ties to family, husband and her 'adopted' country, Nigeria as well as the illumination of her own soul and that of the narrator's) fills the reader with both sorrow and wonder. It is an instructive tale for our age its vision of the individual will and imagination resisting the madness of politics and the destruction of war is singular and profound." Carol Muske-Dukes ""The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a youn... |
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82,57 zł |
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Conduit
ISBN: 9781933354514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 75 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Khadijah Queen is a poet with stunning intellectual powers. It's a worthwhile experience to spend such quality time in an inaugural book of poems." --Eloise Klein Healy
Khadijah Queen was born near Detroit and raised in LA. A Cave Canem Fellow, navy veteran, and founding member of Red Thread Collective, she currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. "Khadijah Queen is a poet with stunning intellectual powers. It's a worthwhile experience to spend such quality time in an inaugural book of poems." -...
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82,13 zł |
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Nowhere to Arrive: Poems
ISBN: 9780810135086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct and the self as illusory. They look plainly at the startling strangeness of varied landscapes and mindscapes, and interrogate a state of unrootedness one thrown into relief by the speaker's years abroad in Southeast Asia.
At the chapbook's center are two long poems, titled "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season" and "Phnom Penh Diptych:... Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of ...
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67,00 zł |
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The Ravenous Audience
ISBN: 9781933354880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal tour de force."
--Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Half of the World in Light "Durbin's debut volume sizzles...Throughout this deeply feminist, groundbreaking collection, she employs both the elemental forces of her intellect and a vigorous intensity of startling imagery to implode or explode conventional notions of sexuality and womanhood." --Maurya Simon, author of Cartographies "Durbin... "Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to R...
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86,70 zł |
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Kumi: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
ISBN: 9781636141886 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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161,01 zł |
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Controlled Decay
ISBN: 9781933354521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Remarkable. . . . Gabriela Jauregui displays perfect pitch: Her lyrics are impressive in their scope, range, empathy--and especially their authentic passion."--Marjorie Perloff, author of "21st-Century Modernism"
Gabriela Jauregui was born in Mexico City. Her work has been published in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. She is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow and a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. "Remarkable. . . . Gabriela Jauregui displays perfect pitch: Her lyrics are impressive in their scope, range, empathy--and especially their authentic ...
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86,70 zł |
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There Where It's So Bright in Me
ISBN: 9781496230560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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72,57 zł |
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Lagos Noir
ISBN: 9781911115731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigeria's best loved writers. From the introduction by Chris Abani: The thirteen stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of "noir" fiction, but each one of them fully captures the essence of noir, the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city's streets, alleys, and waterways...Together, these stories create an unchartered path through the center of Lagos and out to its peripheries, revealing so much more...
An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from so...
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66,14 zł |
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