wyszukanych pozycji: 87
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House of Names
ISBN: 9781501140211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra--spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling--and her children. "I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after...
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra--spectacularly audacious, viol...
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101,56 |
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The South
ISBN: 9781035029518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 |
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Mothers and Sons
ISBN: 9781416534662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. With exquisite grace and eloquence, Toibin writes of men and women bound by convention, by unspoken emotions, by the stronghold of the past. Many are trapped in lives they would not choose again, if they ever chose at all. A man buries his mother and converts his grief to desire in one night. A famous singer captivates an audience, yet cannot beguile her own...
Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balanc...
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78,08 |
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
ISBN: 9780330419932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as the greatest living Irishwoman - Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both thought and deed, actively championing causes close to her heart.
This biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as the greatest living Irishwoman - Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celt...
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45,78 |
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The Heather Blazing
ISBN: 9781035029877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,87 |
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The Empty Family: Stories
ISBN: 9780141041773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the stories that make up this book, Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history."
In the stories that make up this book, Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of indivi...
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55,97 |
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A Guest at the Feast
ISBN: 9780241004630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
86,51 |
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Vinegar Hill
ISBN: 9783446282544 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der erste Lyrikband von Colm Tóibín - »bewegend, lebensklug und zutiefst weise.« Yorkshire TimesDer erste Gedichtband des gefeierten Romanautors: Colm Tóibíns feines poetisches Gespür zeigt sich auch in seiner Lyrik. Er blickt zurück auf seine Kindheit im irischen Enniscorthy, durchstreift die Straßen von Dublin und Barcelona, überquert venezianische Brücken und besucht das Weiße Haus. Und er widmet sich Themen wie Sterblichkeit, Religion und queerer Liebe. Die in »Vinegar Hill« versammelten Gedichte sind nun erstmals in der Übersetzung von Michael Krüger und Volker...
Der erste Lyrikband von Colm Tóibín - »bewegend, lebensklug und zutiefst weise.« Yorkshire TimesDer erste Gedichtband des gefeierten Romanautors: ...
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108,61 |
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
ISBN: 9781476785219 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
70,31 |
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The Testament of Mary
ISBN: 9781451692389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Toibin is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work" (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity--shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel, who are her keepers. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it"; nor that the...
"Toibin is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work" (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman...
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62,50 |
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Brooklyn
ISBN: 9781501106477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel--now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture--is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. "One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go,...
Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel--now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Award...
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70,31 |
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The Empty Family
ISBN: 9781439195963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, Colm Toibin returns with a stunning collection of stories--now available in paperback--"a book that's both a perfect introduction to Toibin and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure" ( The Seattle Times ). Critics praised Brooklyn as a "beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s." In The Empty Family, Toibin has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--"the unvarying...
On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, Colm Toibin returns with a stunning collection of stories--now available in p...
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cena:
70,27 |
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On James Baldwin
ISBN: 9781684582471 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
77,92 |
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Brooklyn
ISBN: 9780241972700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed.
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her ...
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50,87 |
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Long Island
ISBN: 9781035029457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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76,32 |
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The South
ISBN: 9781476704487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first highly acclaimed novel from an "immensely gifted and accomplished writer" (The Washington Post), about an Irishwoman who creates a new life in post-war Spain. In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish emigre in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought...
The first highly acclaimed novel from an "immensely gifted and accomplished writer" (The Washington Post), about an Irishwoman who creates a...
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70,27 |
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House of Names
ISBN: 9780241257692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
55,97 |