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The Long Night of White Chickens
ISBN: 9780802144607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, "The Long Night of White Chickens" marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman s internationally acclaimed writing career.
The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of two worlds: It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by a patrician Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young Guatemalan orphan sent by his grandmother to live with his family as a maid. When, years later in the 1980s, Flor is murdered in Guatemala, Roger returns to... Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, "The Long Night of White Chickens" marked the brilliant d...
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Monkey Boy
ISBN: 9781611854428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Say Her Name
ISBN: 9780802145802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura s death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. Instead, he wrote" Say Her Name," a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain.
Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura... In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before th...
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The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
ISBN: 9780802123770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. RemarkableSentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful.Goldman brings something new to the chronicle] form. John Freeman, "Boston Globe"
"The Interior Circuit" is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City (the DF). When organized crime erupts in the city in an unprecedented way during the summer of 2013, Goldman sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the DF now... RemarkableSentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful.Goldman brings something new to the chronicle...
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?
ISBN: 9781848871953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'The Art of Political Murder' is a true detective story that traces the murder investigation of a human rights activist and Guatemalan bishop, with the plot twists and colourful characters of a Graham Greene novel.
'The Art of Political Murder' is a true detective story that traces the murder investigation of a human rights activist and Guatemalan bishop, with th...
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Clandestine In Chile
ISBN: 9781590173404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1973, the film director Miguel Littin fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Littin returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see the homeland he'd been exiled from for so many years; he also meant to pull off a very tricky stunt: with the help of three film crews from three...
In 1973, the film director Miguel Littin fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Sa...
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
ISBN: 9780811220668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Only a couple of days before the state visit of the President of the United States, Filiberto Garcia -- an impeccably groomed "gun for hire," ex-Mexican revolutionary, and classic anti-hero -- is recruited by the Mexican police to discover how much truth there might be to KGB and FBI reports of a Chinese-Mongolian plot to assassinate the Soviet and American presidents during the unveiling of a statue. Garcia kills various bad guys as he searches for clues in the opium dens, curio shops, and Cantonese restaurants of Mexico City's Chinatown -- clues that appear to point not to... Only a couple of days before the state visit of the President of the United States, Filiberto Garcia -- an impeccably groomed "gun for hire," ex-Me... |
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
ISBN: 9780940322912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. Alvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the...
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant a...
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