wyszukanych pozycji: 20
The Concert
ISBN: 9780099560890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth.
It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of...
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70,25 zł |
Three Elegies For Kosovo
ISBN: 9780099560951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 600 years ago a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. Part fiction, part history, this book comprises three short narratives focusing on the original Battle of Kosovo.
600 years ago a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. Part fiction, part history, this b...
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46,32 zł |
The Fall of the Stone City
ISBN: 9780857860125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night, rumours circulate of a childhood friendship between a local dignitary and the invading Nazi Colonel.
In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the tow...
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76,73 zł |
The File on H
ISBN: 9780099497196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. The two dedicated scholars realise only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest.
Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers....
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The Doll
ISBN: 9781784709327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, GuardianYoung Ismail's world centres around his mother.
'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, GuardianYoung Ismail's world centres around his mother.
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46,32 zł |
The Ghost Rider
ISBN: 9781847673411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges a medieval village into fear and mistrust. Who is the ghost rider?
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in t...
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51,46 zł |
The Palace Of Dreams
ISBN: 9780099518273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the tradition of George Orwell's 1984, Albania's leading writer creates a disturbing vision of unrestraned totalitarianism and the impact it has on those who exist under its shadow.
In the tradition of George Orwell's 1984, Albania's leading writer creates a disturbing vision of unrestraned totalitarianism and the impact it has on...
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54,02 zł |
Kronika w kamieniu
ISBN: 9788379631742 / Polski / broszurowa / 2023 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Bohaterem powieści Ismaila Kadarego, Kronika w kamieniu, jest Gjirokastra, gdzie albański pisarz spędził młodzieńcze lata. Miasto, nienazwane wprost w powieści, pozostaje wierne swoim prastarym zwyczajom, uosabia swoiście herbertowski kamienny sens, a Kadare staje się tego miasta doskonałym kronikarzem.Opisane w książce wydarzenia dzieją się w latach 1940-1943, w mieście okupowanym kolejno przez wojska włoskie, greckie i niemieckie. Historia miasta widziana oczami kilkuletniego chłopca, alter ego autora, daleka jest od klasycznej wspomnieniowej powieści...
Bohaterem powieści Ismaila Kadarego, Kronika w kamieniu, jest Gjirokastra, gdzie albański pisarz spędził młodzieńcze lata. Miasto, nienazwane wp...
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45,00 zł |
The Pyramid
ISBN: 9780099560920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control - they must be kept under the whip.
When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace ...
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54,02 zł |
Broken April
ISBN: 9780099449874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the Kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the Albanian mountains, requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn to become an outcast to be hunted down by the new victim's family.
From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the Kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the...
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51,46 zł |
Most o trzech przęsłach
ISBN: 9788379632268 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Powieść Most o trzech przęsłach powstała w latach 19761978 w czasie wzmożonych represji reżimu komunistycznego w Albanii. Ismail Kadare został wtedy skazany na czasowe internowanie i reedukację w kołchozie na głębokiej prowincji. Swoje literackie zainteresowania skierował wówczas m. in. w stronę przedstawiania czytelnikom wielowiekowej historii kraju i jego tożsamości, zakorzenionej w tradycji przedosmańskiej, chrześcijańskiej, czerpiącej z trwających tysiąclecia związków z kulturą antyczną, tożsamości, która mogłaby się stać fundamentem odrodzenia...
Powieść Most o trzech przęsłach powstała w latach 19761978 w czasie wzmożonych represji reżimu komunistycznego w Albanii. Ismail Kadare został...
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35,00 zł |
Chronicle In Stone
ISBN: 9781786894496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An early masterpiece from the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize, introduced by James Wood
An early masterpiece from the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize, introduced by James Wood
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The Accident
ISBN: 9781847673404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set against the tumultuous backdrop and aftermath of the war in the Balkans, 'The Accident' intimately documents an affair between two people caught in each other's webs. The investigation into their deaths uncovers a mutually destructive obsession that mirrors the conflicts of the region.
Set against the tumultuous backdrop and aftermath of the war in the Balkans, 'The Accident' intimately documents an affair between two people caught i...
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76,73 zł |
General Of The Dead Army
ISBN: 9780099518266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An Italian general, sent by his government to Albania to repatriate the remains of Italian troops, meets a German general engaged on an identical mission, and their conversations bring into the open their horror and guilt
An Italian general, sent by his government to Albania to repatriate the remains of Italian troops, meets a German general engaged on an identical miss...
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54,02 zł |
A Dictator Calls
ISBN: 9781529920574 / Angielski / Miękka / 01-08-2024 Książka dostępna od: 01-08-2024 |
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48,89 zł |
A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B.
ISBN: 9781640091634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,26 zł |
The Siege
ISBN: 9780802144751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ismail Kadare s The Siege dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the fifteenth century. As the bloody and psychologically crushing struggle for control over the citadel unfolds, Kadare s newest work opens a window onto the eternal clash between religions and empires as well as the exhilaration, despair, and immediacy of the battlefield.
Kadare is a hugely respected novelist and a hero to his people, as well as an outspoken critic of all forms of totalitarianism. The Siege is a powerfully atmospheric .... Ismail Kadare s The Siege dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in th...
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63,95 zł |
A Dictator Calls
ISBN: 9781640096080 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,26 zł |
Essays on World Literature: Aeschylus - Dante - Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781632061744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature--Aeschylus, Dante, and Shakespeare--through the lens of resisting totalitarianism. In isolationist Albania, which suffered under a Communist dictatorship for nearly half a century, classic global literature reached Ismail Kadare across centuries and borders--and set him free. The struggles of Hamlet, Dante, and Aeschylus's tragic figures gave him an understanding of...
The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Priz...
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85,22 zł |
The Siege of Shkodra: Albania's Courageous Stand Against Ottoman Conquest, 1478
ISBN: 9781976342226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,05 zł |