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Notes of a Desolate Man
ISBN: 9780231116084 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to...
Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, l...
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268,63 |
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Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin
ISBN: 9780295994239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Back in print - Market Street Back in print - Market Street |
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128,89 |
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Strange Bedfellows
ISBN: 9781621967026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,14 |
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Remembering 1942
ISBN: 9781648210945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,82 |
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City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong
ISBN: 9780231134569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its present status as a gleaming city of commerce. Throughout its history, Hong Kong has been steeped in drama, intrigue, and seismic social shifts. Shih Shu-ching, an acclaimed Taiwanese writer, sets her epic tale of one beautiful and determined woman's family amid this rich and colorful history, capturing in vivid, panoramic detail the unique tensions and atmosphere that characterize the city. Critically praised and long popular in the...
From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its p...
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602,97 |
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A Platform with No Timetable
ISBN: 9781911221166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,20 |
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Raise the Bottles
ISBN: 9781911221159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,20 |
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Notes of a Desolate Man
ISBN: 9780231116091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to...
Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, l...
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100,55 |
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Black Snow
ISBN: 9780802133892 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Black Snow is the stunning portrait of a dissatisfied and emotionally illiterate young man s search for meaning and companionship in the gray world of totalitarianism. After serving a three-year sentence in a prison labor camp for his involvement in a juvenile street fight, Li Huiquan returns to Beijing and begins work as a street peddler. At night, he frequents a karaoke bar, where he enters into the shadowy world of the black market and meets a beautiful, naive young singer who becomes the object of his dangerous and overwhelming obsession. Riveting and relentless, Black Snow offers an...
Black Snow is the stunning portrait of a dissatisfied and emotionally illiterate young man s search for meaning and companionship in the gray world of...
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69,74 |
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The Taste of Apples
ISBN: 9780231122610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. "His Son's Big Doll" introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in "Xiaoqi's Cap" a dissatisfied pressure-cooker...
From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday lif...
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158,18 |
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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature
ISBN: 9780231138406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature has long been a definitive resource for Chinese literature in translation, offering a complete overview of twentieth-century writing from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and making inroads into the twenty-first century as well. In this new edition Joseph S. M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt have selected fresh works from familiar authors and have augmented the collection with poetry, stories from the colonial period in Taiwan, literature by Tibetan authors, samplings from the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution, stories...
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature has long been a definitive resource for Chinese literature in translation, offering a compl...
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1091,16 |
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Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
ISBN: 9781611457353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mo Yan, China's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country's contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing stories--the title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou--Mo Yan shows why he is also China's leading writer of short fiction. His passion for writing shaped by his own experience of almost unimaginable poverty as a child, Mo Yan uses his talent to expose the harsh abuses of an...
Mo Yan, China's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country's contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels a...
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77,45 |
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Rose, Rose, I Love You
ISBN: 9780231112024 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective--and common sense--at the prospect of fleecing a shipload of lusty and lonely American soldiers. A rotund, excitable high school English teacher receives word that 300 GIs are coming from Vietnam for a weekend of R and R. He persuades the owners of the Big 4 brothels that they will all take in more U.S. dollars if the pleasure girls can speak a little English; his plan is to train fifty specially selected prostitutes in a "Crash Course for Bar Girls." The teacher, Dong Siwen (his name...
In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective--and common sense--at the prospect of fleecing a...
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433,94 |
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