wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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A Preparation for Death
ISBN: 9780141048444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In his early 30s, Greg Baxter found himself in a strange place. He hated his job, he was drinking excessively, he was sabotaging his most important relationships, and he was no longer doing the thing he cared about the most: writing. In this book he reveals how he found redemption through reading, teaching and truth.
In his early 30s, Greg Baxter found himself in a strange place. He hated his job, he was drinking excessively, he was sabotaging his most important re...
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The Apartment
ISBN: 9781455548361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A powerful and elegant debut novel about love, memory, exile, and war."
One snowy December morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. THE APARTMENT follows the couple across a blurry, illogical, and frozen city into a past the man is hoping to forget, and leaves them at the doorstep of an uncertain future-their cityscape punctuated by the man's lingering memories of time spent in Iraq and the life he abandoned in the United States. Contained within the details of this day is a... "A powerful and elegant debut novel about love, memory, exile, and war."
One snowy December morning in an old European city, an American man leave... |
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Letiště Mnichov
ISBN: 9788025715789 / Czeski / 2015 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Co člověka přivede k sebevraždě? Je to jeden zlomový moment, nebo k ní nevyhnutelně směřuje celým svým životem? A jak si s ní mají poradit pozůstalí? Miriam zemřela v Mnichově na anorexii. Její bratr (z Londýna) a otec (z Ameriky) si přijeli vyzvednout její tělo, ale než jim ho úřady vydají, mají spoustu času na cestování - po Německu i po vlastních myšlenkách. Teď oba čekají, až se zvedne mlha a oni budou moci odletět. Podaří se jim ale Mnichov opravdu opustit?
Co člověka přivede k sebevraždě? Je to jeden zlomový moment, nebo k ní nevyhnutelně směřuje celým svým životem? A jak si s ní mají pora...
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The Apartment
ISBN: 9780241958025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A first novel from the author of the widely acclaimed memoir 'A Preparation for Death'. 'The Apartment' is a story about the costs of war and the mysteries of friendship.
A first novel from the author of the widely acclaimed memoir 'A Preparation for Death'. 'The Apartment' is a story about the costs of war and the myst...
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Munich Airport
ISBN: 9781455557967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A masterwork of minimalism." --"Entertainment Weekly "
"From the critically acclaimed author of "The Apartment" comes a powerful, poetic, and haunting exploration of loss, love, and isolation, now available in paperback." An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him the nearly inconceivable news that his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin apartment-from starvation. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport,... "A masterwork of minimalism." --"Entertainment Weekly "
"From the critically acclaimed author of "The Apartment" comes a powerful, poetic, and hau... |
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Munich Airport
ISBN: 9780241969984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An American expat in London takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman, and the news she has to convey to him is almost incomprehensible: his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvation. Three weeks later, the man, his elderly father, and an American consular official find themselves in a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is to be loaded onto a commercial jet. Greg Baxter's extraordinary novel tells the story of these three people over those three weeks of waiting for Miriam's body to be released. Munich Airport is a novel about the meaning...
An American expat in London takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman, and the news she has to convey to him is almost incomprehensible: ...
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82,44 |