wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Best of Friends: from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9781526647696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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84,36 zł |
Broken Verses
ISBN: 9780156030533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code--a letter that could only have been written recently.
Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile, she had assumed that her mother's disappearance was simply another abandonment. Then, while working at Pakistan's first independent TV... Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by...
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76,69 zł |
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors
ISBN: 9780349017167 / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,00 zł |
Duckling
ISBN: 9781784876319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, who struck out into the world on her own...'On the farm, some eggs are hatching. But one duckling looks different from all the others... Cast out and all alone, this odd duckling will need all her bravery and curiosity to survive.
A raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, who struck out into the world on her own...'On the farm, some eggs are hatching. But one duckling looks di...
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Kartography
ISBN: 9780156029735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners until they rematched in what they call "the fiancee swap." But as adolescence distances the friends, Karim takes refuge in maps while Raheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. What she uncovers reveals not just a family's but a country's turbulent history-and a grown-up Raheen and Karim are caught between strained friendship and fated love.
A love story with a family mystery at its heart, Kartography is a dazzling novel by a... Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners un...
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76,69 zł |
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors
ISBN: 9780349017143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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88,12 zł |
Burnt Shadows
ISBN: 9780312551872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India's cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel's astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over.... Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award |
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89,52 zł |
Kartography
ISBN: 9781526607812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Soul mates from birth, Karim and Raheen finish one another's sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. As the years go by they let a barrier of silence build between them until, finally, they are brought together during a dry summer of strikes and ethnic violence and their relationship is poised between strained...
Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Soul mates from birth, Karim and Rah...
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51,82 zł |
Home Fire: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
ISBN: 9781408886793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world'... LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FO... |
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51,82 zł |
Best of Friends: from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9781526647719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' MADELINE MILLER** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 ** CHOSEN AS A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR BY THE GUARDIAN, BBC, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, IRISH TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES **Maryam and Zahra. In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. 'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' MADELINE MILLER** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 ** CHOSEN AS A BOO... |
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46,63 zł |
Burnt Shadows
ISBN: 9789992142585 / Arabski / Miękka / 2012 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 9 August, 1945, Nagasaki: Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one and in love with Konrad Weiss, the man she is about to marry, steps out onto her veranda, minutes before a nuclear explosion shatters her world and everything in it. Travelling to Delhi two years later in search of new beginnings, she meets Konrad's half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf. As the years unravel, the shadows of history - personal and political - are cast over the entwined worlds these people inhabit as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, and in the novel's... 9 August, 1945, Nagasaki: Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one and in love with Konrad Weiss, the man she is about to marry, steps out onto her veranda, minut... |
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Home Fire
ISBN: 9780735217690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,73 zł |
Salt and Saffron
ISBN: 9781526607805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 The Dard-e-Dils are characterised by their prominent clavicles and love of stories. Aliya may not have inherited her family's patrician looks, but she is prey to their legends that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. There is a sting to most of these tales, for the Dard-e-Dils consider themselves cursed by their `not-quite' twins. Amidst her growing attraction to a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Aliya begins to believe that she is another `not-quite' twin, linked to her scandalous aunt Mariam in a way that hardly...
By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 The Dard-e-Dils are characterised by their prominent clavicles and love of stories. A...
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51,82 zł |
In the City by the Sea
ISBN: 9781526607836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Soon after, Hasan's idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with...
Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Hasan is eleven years old. He loves ...
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51,82 zł |
A God in Every Stone
ISBN: 9781526607782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. By the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives - one that...
By the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivia...
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51,82 zł |