wyszukanych pozycji: 51
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Death at Intervals
ISBN: 9781784871789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local 'maphia' smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally.
In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine...
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50,28 |
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Raised from the Ground
ISBN: 9781784871819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents.
This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not unlike the author's own grandparents.
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50,28 |
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
ISBN: 9781860466847 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Saramago's narrative is a secular retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. By subverting the Gospels, Saramago has written a dark and provocative parable.
Saramago's narrative is a secular retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. By subverting the Gospe...
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50,28 |
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The Lizard
ISBN: 9781609809331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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70,41 |
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Baltasar & Blimunda
ISBN: 9781860469015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Set in early 18th-century Portugal, this novel tells the story of the love between Baltasar, a soldier who lost a hand in the wars, and Blimunda, whose mother died at the hands of the Inquisition.
Set in early 18th-century Portugal, this novel tells the story of the love between Baltasar, a soldier who lost a hand in the wars, and Blimunda, whos...
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51,50 |
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
ISBN: 9781860465024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ricardo Reis, a doctor, returns to his native Portugal after 16 year in Brazil. But what kind of doctor is he? Instead of treating patients, he spends hours walking in the rain reciting poetry with his few chosen companions.
Ricardo Reis, a doctor, returns to his native Portugal after 16 year in Brazil. But what kind of doctor is he? Instead of treating patients, he spends...
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Skylight
ISBN: 9781784871857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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An Unexpected Light
ISBN: 9781644213407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,03 |
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Skylight
ISBN: 9780099581826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Called 'the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English. Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes and jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music; and the beautiful typist whose boss can't keep his...
Called 'the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offi...
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Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera / Blindness
ISBN: 9788490628720 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2016 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Saramago, un escritor que se ha convertido en la conciencia lucida de una epoca cegada por los mecanismos del poder, lanza una llamada de alerta: Puede suceder que un dia tengamos que preguntarnos Quien ha firmado esto por mi. Ese dia puede ser hoy. Durante las elecciones municipales de una ciudad sin nombre, la mayoria de sus habitantes decide individualmente ejercer su derecho al voto de una manera inesperada. El gobierno teme que ese gesto revolucionario, capaz de socavar los cimientos de una democracia degenerada, sea producto de una conjura anarquista internacional o de grupos...
Saramago, un escritor que se ha convertido en la conciencia lucida de una epoca cegada por los mecanismos del poder, lanza una llamada de alerta: Pued...
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57,61 |
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Seeing
ISBN: 9781784871772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated but the result is even worse.
Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned o...
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50,28 |
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The Double: (Enemy)
ISBN: 9780099461654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. What happens when Deadline M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And what happens when each of these men attempt to investigate each other's lives?
What happens when Deadline M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical t...
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50,28 |
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Cain
ISBN: 9781784871802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever.Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain wittily tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, forming part of Saramago's long argument with God and recalling his provocative novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.
After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever.Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain wittily tackles many of the moral and log...
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50,28 |
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The Notebook
ISBN: 9781844677016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jose Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and meditates on his favorite authors. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are rendered with pointillist detail, and together demonstrate an acute understanding of our times. Characteristically critical and uncompromising, Saramago dissects the financial crisis, deplores Israel s punishment of Gaza, and reflects...
Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jose Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 200...
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103,06 |
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The History of the Siege of Lisbon
ISBN: 9781860467226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When Raimundo Silva, humble proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, takes it upon himself to insert a negative into the sentence of a history book, he rewrites history. The effect of this act of insubordination is to make his editor, the voluptuous Dr Maria Sara, fall in love with him.
When Raimundo Silva, humble proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, takes it upon himself to insert a negative into the sentence of a history book...
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50,28 |
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Journey to Portugal: A Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
ISBN: 9781784871826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. José Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.
From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate José Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land. Embarking in the autumn of 1979, Saramago resolves to travel to Portugal, as well as through it. As his country emerges from an authoritarian dictatorship, he traverses his beloved homeland, neglecting its grand sights in favour of Romanesque churches and cobweb-ridden chapels, determined to find belonging in... José Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.
From the misty mountains... |
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65,37 |
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The Silence of Water
ISBN: 9781644213124 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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75,44 |
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Das Todesjahr des Ricardo Reis : Roman
ISBN: 9783455650174 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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80,47 |
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Las Intermitencias de la Muerte / Death with Interruptions
ISBN: 9788490628775 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Y si la gente dejara de morirse?
En un pais cuyo nombre no sera mencionado, se produce algo nunca visto desde el principio del mundo: la muerte decide suspender su trabajo letal, la gente deja de morir. La euforia colectiva se desata, pero muy pronto dara paso a la desesperacion y al caos. Sobran los motivos. Si es cierto que las personas ya no mueren, eso no significa que el tiempo se haya detenido. El destino de los humanos sera una vejez eterna. Se buscaran maneras de forzar a la muerte a matar aunque no lo quiera, se corromperan las conciencias en los acuerdos de caballeros... Y si la gente dejara de morirse?
En un pais cuyo nombre no sera mencionado, se produce algo nunca visto desde el principio del mundo: la mu... |
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