wyszukanych pozycji: 11
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The Sunday Tertulia
ISBN: 9780060953676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Claire is a young, struggling New Yorker whose understanding of life is enriched after a group of older and wiser Latina women bring her into a close-knit circle: their Upper West Side tertulia. Once a month, they come together for a Sunday afternoon of revelry, at which delicious food and strong opinions are served up in equal measure.Through their recollections and counsel, Claire comes to know the colorful, exotic, and sometimes contradictory attitudes that through a prism more poetic and worldly. Humorous and bittersweet, The Sunday Tertulia brings to life cherished... Claire is a young, struggling New Yorker whose understanding of life is enriched after a group of older and wiser Latina women bring her into a clo... |
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65,81 zł |
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A Path to the World: Becoming You
ISBN: 9781481419758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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78,16 zł |
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Betty the Bald Chicken: Lessons in How to Care
ISBN: 9781952976865 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,53 zł |
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Return Trip Tango and Other Stories from Abroad
ISBN: 9780231079938 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Return Trip Tango is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kobo Abe, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, and Samuel Beckett, as well as the work of lesser known talents such as He Liwei, Haroldo Conti, Bob den Uyl, and Yasunari Kawabata. This striking array of stories also showcases our very finest translators - Barbara Bray, William Weaver, Gregory Rabassa, and Miriam Cooke - operating at the peak of their powers. The result is a unique assortment of spectacular...
Return Trip Tango is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Cal...
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148,18 zł |
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Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
ISBN: 9780743276627 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2006 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works of some of the finest Cuban and Cuban American poets of the twentieth century. In Burnt Sugar, bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos have created an intimate collection of some of their favorite modern poems, all of which are informed by cubania -- the essence of what it means to be Cuban. "Cuban" in this sense refers neither to ideology nor to geography but rather to the distinguishing characteristics of Cuban poetry as it has developed over...
Here are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works of some of the finest Cuban and Cuban American poets of the twentiet...
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61,53 zł |
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The Flamboyant
ISBN: 9780060935603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Beryl Markham's West with the Night, The Flamboyant tells the story of Lenora Demarest, a strong-willed, soft-spoken American beauty intent on becoming the first aviatrix in her adopted country of Puerto Rico. Born in 1900, on the cusp of divergent eras, Lenora epitomises the glamorous, wealthy, adventurous women of the 1920s and 1930s who balanced romantic, Victorian sensibilities with decidedly modern forays into traditionally male arenas. When an affair with a dashing aviator and friendship with the spirited Amelia Earhart awaken... In the tradition of Beryl Markham's West with the Night, The Flamboyant tells the story of Lenora Demarest, a strong-willed, soft-... |
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53,30 zł |
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Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States
ISBN: 9781250016782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory and pain of being Latino American. Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents.... Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the t... |
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45,23 zł |
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A Path to the World: Becoming You
ISBN: 9781481419772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A chorus of essays from a variety of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, exploring what it means to be human and true to yourself. What does it mean to be yourself? To be born here or somewhere else? To be from one family instead of another? What does it mean to be human? Collected by Lori Carlson-Hijuelos, A Path to the World showcases essays by a vast variety of luminaries—from Gary Soto to Nawal Nasrallah to Ying Ying Yu, from chefs to artists to teens to philosophers to politicians (keep your eyes peeled for a surprise appearance by George Washington)—all of which speak to the...
A chorus of essays from a variety of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, exploring what it means to be human and true to yourself. What does it mea...
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45,23 zł |
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Beautiful Maria of My Soul
ISBN: 9781538740200 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,16 zł |
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Betty the Bald Chicken: Lessons in How to Care
ISBN: 9781952976872 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,46 zł |
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Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States
ISBN: 9780805076165 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 2005 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. i think in spanish i want to go back to puerto rico, tengo las venas aculturadas --from "My Graduation Speech," by Tato Laviera A new collection of bilingual poems from the bestselling editor of Cool Salsa Ten years after the publication of the acclaimed Cool Salsa, editor Lori Marie Carlson has brought together a stunning variety of... i think in spanish i want to go back to puerto rico, |
cena:
102,86 zł |