wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Lives Other Than My Own
ISBN: 9781250013774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a woman dies from cancer, leaving her husband and small children bereft. What links these two catastrophes is the presence of Emmanuel Carrere, who manages to find consolation and even joy as he immerses himself in lives other than his own. The result is a heartrending narrative of endless love, a meditation on courage in the face of adversity, and an intimate look at the beauty of ordinary lives.
In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a woman dies from cancer, leaving ...
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80,80 zł |
Leaving Tangier
ISBN: 9780143114659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From one of the world's great writers, a novel that mirrors the journeys of millions who leave home for a better life In Leaving Tangier, award-winning, internationally bestselling author Tahar Ben Jelloun tells the story of a Moroccan brother and sister making new lives for themselves in Spain. Azel is a young man in Tangier who dreams of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. When he meets Miguel, a wealthy Spaniard, he leaves behind his girlfriend, his sister, Kenza, and his mother, and moves with him to Barcelona, where Kenza eventually joins them. What they find there forms...
From one of the world's great writers, a novel that mirrors the journeys of millions who leave home for a better life In Leaving Tangie...
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63,79 zł |
The Punishment
ISBN: 9780300243024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. An innocent man's gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot
An innocent man's gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century desp...
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104,88 zł |
A Palace in the Old Village
ISBN: 9780143118473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From "Morocco's greatest living author" (The Guardian), an internationally bestselling novel of universal appeal--about the powerful pull of home and the lengths to which a parent will go to bring his family together Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As he approaches retirement, he takes stock of his life--his devotion to Islam and to his assimilated children--and decides to return to Morocco, where he spends his life's savings building the biggest house in the village and waiting for his children and grandchildren to come be with him. A...
From "Morocco's greatest living author" (The Guardian), an internationally bestselling novel of universal appeal--about the powerful pull of...
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102,06 zł |
A Very Long Engagement
ISBN: 9780312424589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement tells the story of a young woman's search for her fiance, whom she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.
Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement tells the story of a young woman's search for her fiance, whom she believes mi...
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85,05 zł |
My Life as a Russian Novel
ISBN: 9780312569303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the master of psychological suspense and the author of The Adversary comes "a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion" (Le Monde). Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Novel traces Carrere's pursuit of two obsessions--the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. In prose that is elegant and passionate, Carrere weaves the strands of his story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, and erotic tour de... From the master of psychological suspense and the author of The Adversary comes "a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent p... |
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89,30 zł |
Literature or Life
ISBN: 9780140266245 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jorge Semprun was twenty years old - already an accomplished philosopher and poet - when arrested by Nazis for activites in the French Resistance. He was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Literature or Life, a bestseller in France, is a deeply personal account not only of Semprun's time at Buchenwald, but also of the years before and after, of his painful attempts to write this book...created out of obsessions that returned him again and again like themes in a nightmarish rhapsody.His long reverie on life-as-death, now translated with the mesmerizing power of fiction. It is a...
Jorge Semprun was twenty years old - already an accomplished philosopher and poet - when arrested by Nazis for activites in the French Resistance. He ...
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102,06 zł |
Children of Heroes
ISBN: 9780803294592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Their father's favorite saying, between drinks and blows, was, "Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death." And now, Colin observes of the man sprawled under all the broken furniture, their father was definitely and forever out of surprises. Children of Heroes is the story Colin tells of what happened-and what happened before that. Testimony, confession, a child's outpouring: this is his painfully matter-of-fact account of how he and his older sister, Mariela, killed the man who tyrannized them and their piously pathetic mother, who is now a "blank." As he describes their...
Their father's favorite saying, between drinks and blows, was, "Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death." And now, Colin observe...
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93,35 zł |
School Days
ISBN: 9780803263765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. School Days (Chemin-d'Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau's childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of the boy Chamoiseau, we meet his severe, Francophile teacher, a man intent upon banishing all remnants of Creole from his students' speech. This domineering man is succeeded by an equally autocratic teacher, an Africanist and proponent of "Negritude." Along the way we are also introduced to Big...
School Days (Chemin-d'Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau's childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory acco...
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89,15 zł |
The Hand
ISBN: 9780241284650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A new translation of George Simenon's taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new play by award-winning playwright David Hare. 'I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or less comfortable truth was falling to pieces' Confident and successful, New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snow storm in Connecticut one evening, his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties,...
A new translation of George Simenon's taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new play by award-winnin...
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46,63 zł |
Rider on the Rain
ISBN: 9781913547134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,63 zł |
A Frozen Woman
ISBN: 9781888363388 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This sequel to A Man's Place and prequel to Simple Passion is Ernaux's description of a transformation from girlhood into womanhood. A fictionalized account of the author's teenage awakening and of her later life as a 30-year-old married teacher and mother of two infant sons, A Frozen Woman mixes affection, rage, and bitterness to reveal Ernaux at her most harrowing, affecting, and inspiring.
This sequel to A Man's Place and prequel to Simple Passion is Ernaux's description of a transformation from girlhood into womanhood. A fictionalized a...
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67,83 zł |
Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning
ISBN: 9780312420451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A concentration camp survivor confronts one of the most heated and vexed questions of the Holocaust: what price survival? In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory alongside Primo Levi, who would later immortalize his fellow inmate as "Henri," the ultimate survivor, the paradigm of the prisoner who clung to life at the cost of his own humanity. "One seems to glimpse a human soul," Levi wrote in If This Is a Man, "but then Henri's sad smile freezes in a cold... A concentration camp survivor confronts one of the most heated and vexed questions of the Holocaust: what price survival? In 1943, sixteen-year-old... |
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80,80 zł |
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
ISBN: 9780312420604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome) Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrere, whose fiction John Updike described as "stunning" (The New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go. Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendo... |
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85,05 zł |
Creole Folktales
ISBN: 9781565843967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Patrick Chamoiseau first became known to the international literary world with "Texaco," the vast and demanding novel that won France s prestigious Goncourt Prize in 1992. Less well known is the fact that Chamoiseau has written a number of extraordinary books about his childhood in Martinique. One of these, "Creole Folktales," recreates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child. Folktales with a twist, fairy tales with attitude, these stories are told in a language as savory as the spicy food so lovingly evoked within these pages. The cheeky urchins, dowagers, ne... Patrick Chamoiseau first became known to the international literary world with "Texaco," the vast and demanding novel that won France s prestigious... |
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78,90 zł |
In the Name of Honor: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781416532293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala, was gang raped by a local clan known as the Mastoi -- punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman's brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, this time the survivor had bravely chosen to fight back. In doing so, Mai single-handedly changed the feminist movement in Pakistan, one of the world's most adverse climates for women. By July 2002, the Pakistani government awarded her the equivalent of 8,500 U.S. dollars in...
In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala, was gang raped by a local clan known as the Mastoi -- punishme...
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76,50 zł |
Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows
ISBN: 9780803264267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, "king of the wheelbarrow" at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical as the marketplace itself. In a Martinique where creatures from folklore walk the land and cultural traditions cling tenuously to life, Patrick Chamoiseau's characters confront the crippling heritage of colonialism and the overwhelming advance of modernization with touching dignity, hilarious resourcefulness, and truly courageous joie de vivre. Patrick Chamoiseau's novel Texaco won the Prix Goncourt in 1992. Linda...
Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, "king of the wheelbarrow" at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale...
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78,66 zł |