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The Seamstress and the Wind
ISBN: 9781908276841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chase in a taxi. Her husband finds out and takes off after her - to the end of the world, to the place where monsters are born, and where the southern wind falls hopelessly in love.
In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Pata...
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40,69 zł |
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Conversations
ISBN: 9780811221108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Daily conversations in outdoor cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera s goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, distress, and incipient madness. The two men s uneasiness soon becomes a nightmare as the TV adventure advances with a real-life plot involving a mutant strain of killer algae to take over the world The Conversations, a reality within a fiction within a parallel reality, is hilariously funny and...
Daily conversations in outdoor cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversat...
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60,01 zł |
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Das Abendessen
ISBN: 9783751800655 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2022 / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Alles beginnt mit einem Abendessen: Zusammen mit seiner Mutter ist der Erzähler bei einem Freund zu Gast. Doch der Abend gestaltet sich für ihn frustrierend, denn sofort beginnen Freund und Mutter mit ausuferndem Namedropping: Meisterlich beherrschen sie, was die kleinstädtische Welt zusammenhält und jedem seinen Ort zuweist, den Lebenden genauso wie den Toten. Der Erzähler, der all die Namen nicht kennt, sieht für sich daher hüben wie drüben keinen Platz, doch wohin mit sich? Zu Hause zappt er sich durchs Fernsehprogramm und landet beim örtlichen Reality-TV-Sender. Gerade geht es in...
Alles beginnt mit einem Abendessen: Zusammen mit seiner Mutter ist der Erzähler bei einem Freund zu Gast. Doch der Abend gestaltet sich für ihn frus...
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81,46 zł |
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En El Pensamiento / In Thought
ISBN: 9788439743293 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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86,93 zł |
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The Proof
ISBN: 9781908276964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Marcia is sixteen and unhappy. One day, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns and is confronted by punk girls Lenin and Mao. She's soon beguiled, but the two have little time for philosophical discussions of love: they need proof, and with their own savage logic the duo stage a hold-up in an unforgettable splatter-fest finale.
Marcia is sixteen and unhappy. One day, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns and is confronted by punk girls Lenin and Mao. She's soon ...
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55,97 zł |
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The Divorce
ISBN: 9781913505042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A divorce leads a man to Buenos Aires. In a trendy cafe he witnesses a minor accident involving Enrique, the owner of his guest house; this accident reunites Enrique with a childhood friend, with whom he had miraculously escaped from a raging fire in a miniature replica of a boarding school. So starts a true master-yarn from Booker finalist Aira.
A divorce leads a man to Buenos Aires. In a trendy cafe he witnesses a minor accident involving Enrique, the owner of his guest house; this accident r...
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45,78 zł |
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The Lime Tree
ISBN: 9781911508120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The elegant lime trees lining the main square of Colonel Pringles bring back memories of childhood in this charming fictional memoir by Man Booker International shortlisted Cesar Aira. A colourful mosaic of a small town, The Lime Tree is a playful portrait of the artist as a child and an invitation to visit the source of Aira's imagination.
The elegant lime trees lining the main square of Colonel Pringles bring back memories of childhood in this charming fictional memoir by Man Booker Int...
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55,97 zł |
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Weltflucht
ISBN: 9783751809498 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Wie haben sich das Schreiben und die Literatur im Wandel der Zeit verändert, geht es allen zu gut, um noch wirklich interessante Literatur zu schreiben? Sind Lesende die klügeren Menschen und sollten wir uns alle ein Beispiel an Dalí nehmen, der frei heraus bezeugte, er sei ein Genie? Diesen Fragen und vielen mehr folgt César Aira mit seinen fünf Essays, in denen er über die Literatur mit dem Zweck der Weltflucht reflektiert, darüber, was ihn an der Schreibmethode Roussels so fasziniert und weshalb es manchmal gut ist, nicht auf jede Frage direkt die Antwort im Internet zu finden....
Wie haben sich das Schreiben und die Literatur im Wandel der Zeit verändert, geht es allen zu gut, um noch wirklich interessante Literatur zu schreib...
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81,46 zł |
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The Little Buddhist Monk
ISBN: 9781908276988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In Korea, a little Buddhist monk dreams of the Western world. He meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and Jacqueline Bloodymary and offers to be their guide, in the hope they will take him to Europe. But though our monk seems the very spirit of tourism, nothing is natural in this tour de force of Aira's twisted imagination.
In Korea, a little Buddhist monk dreams of the Western world. He meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and Jacqueline Bloodymary and offe...
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55,97 zł |
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The Famous Magician
ISBN: 9780811228893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,14 zł |
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The Linden Tree
ISBN: 9780811219082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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60,01 zł |
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Birthday
ISBN: 9780811219099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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60,01 zł |
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The Little Buddhist Monk & the Proof
ISBN: 9780811221122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit (-Wannafuck?- is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. These two Aira works are as different as night and day. Nevertheless, sex, identity, and...
The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingl...
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65,47 zł |
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Shantytown
ISBN: 9780811219112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires s shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone including two innocent teenage girls to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how serious the subject matter, and despite Aira s fascination with urban violence and the sinister underside of Latin American politics (The Millions), Shantytown, like all of Aira s mesmerizing...
Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires s shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, t...
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65,47 zł |
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Ghosts
ISBN: 9780811217422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.
Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, bu...
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65,14 zł |
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Dinner
ISBN: 9780811221085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off his valuable antiques, the host shows his guests old windup toys and takes them to admire an enormous doll. Back at home, the bachelor decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the newscaster finds herself reporting about...
One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. The...
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60,01 zł |
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Ema the Captive
ISBN: 9780811219105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (deprivations and rapes prevail along the way), yet the real story commences once Ema arrives at the fort, where she takes on a succession of lovers among the soldiers and Indians, leading to a brave and grand entrepreneurial experiment. As is usual with Aira's work, the wonder of the book is in the details of customs, beauty, and language, and the...
In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn babe, ...
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65,47 zł |
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How I Became a Nun
ISBN: 9780811216319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun, ' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the point where I took the veil ." So starts Cesar Aira's astounding "autobiographical" novel. Intense and perfect, this invented narrative of childhood experience bristles with dramatic humor at each stage of growing up: a first ice cream,...
"My story, the story of 'how I became a nun, ' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, whic...
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65,14 zł |
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The Musical Brain: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780811220293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, Cesar Aira the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long The Musical Brain comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with his fuga hacia adelante or "flight forward" into the unknown, gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out-of-context plot lines, as well as thoughtful and passionate takes on everyday reality. The title story, first published in the New Yorker, is the creme de la creme of this exhilarating collection."
A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, Cesar Aira the author of at least eighty novels, most of them ...
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130,50 zł |
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The Literary Conference
ISBN: 9780811218788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Cesar is a translator who s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds a pirate s treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, Cesar s bid for world domination comes first and so he attends a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory: the world-renowned Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes. A comic science fiction fantasy of the first order, The Literary Conference is the perfect...
Cesar is a translator who s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on worl...
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60,01 zł |
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