wyszukanych pozycji: 24
Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood
ISBN: 9781569473474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Honest, exquisitely measured . . . inspiring in its reminder of the human spirit's capacity to endure."--The New York Times Book Review " An] astute study of family and place."--Washington Post Book World In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Conde vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents' feelings of alienation; her first crush; a falling out with her best friend; the death of her beloved grandmother; her first encounter with racism. These gemlike vignettes capture the spirit of Conde's...
"Honest, exquisitely measured . . . inspiring in its reminder of the human spirit's capacity to endure."--The New York Times Book Review " ...
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83,99 zł |
L'Evangile du nouveau monde
ISBN: 9782266325707 / Francuski / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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71,05 zł |
The Wonderous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana
ISBN: 9781912987092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) the latest novel from the 2018 winner of the alternative nobel prize.
the latest novel from the 2018 winner of the alternative nobel prize.
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67,22 zł |
La Vie sans Fards
ISBN: 9782266238373 / Francuski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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55,19 zł |
Victoire, Ein Frauenleben im kolonialen Guadeloupe
ISBN: 9783940435088 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Maryse Condé, Bestsellerautorin der Achtzigerjahre, meldet sich mit der Geschichte ihrer Großmutter zurück. Victoire Quidal wächst Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in einer armen Familie auf Guadeloupe auf. Obwohl sie nie lesen und schreiben lernt und nur kreolisch spricht, legt sie als talentierte Köchin den Grundstein für den sozialen Aufstieg ihrer Nachkommen. Der faszinierende Lebensweg einer Frau in einer rassistischen und machistischen Gesellschaft und ein Sittengemälde der französischen Karibik zur Kolonialzeit.
Maryse Condé, Bestsellerautorin der Achtzigerjahre, meldet sich mit der Geschichte ihrer Großmutter zurück. Victoire Quidal wächst Ende des 19. Ja...
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72,66 zł |
Ewangelia Nowego Świata
ISBN: 9788308084717 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Garbaty posłaniec, niepełnoletnia matka, dziecię, któremu gwiazdy zwiastowały niezwykły los, przedsiębiorczy zdrajcaOpowieść laureatki Międzynarodowej Nagrody Bookera w zaskakujący sposób łączy odległe kontynenty i stulecia.Czy mieszaniec o oczach barwy antylskiego morza - jako niemowlę znaleziony w szopie między kopytami osła, a jako młody mężczyzna dokonujący cudów, gromadzący uczniów i rozkochujący w sobie kobiety - może być nowym Mesjaszem?Nazwany Pascalem zapragnie rozwikłać zagadkę swojego pochodzenia w długiej podróży poprzez tropikalne wyspy,...
Garbaty posłaniec, niepełnoletnia matka, dziecię, któremu gwiazdy zwiastowały niezwykły los, przedsiębiorczy zdrajcaOpowieść laureatki Międz...
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59,90 zł |
Crossing the Mangrove
ISBN: 9780241530054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,70 zł |
Victoire: My Mother's Mother
ISBN: 9781476786360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The critically acclaimed, award-winning author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Conde has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. Maryse Conde's personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles, in the French Antilles. Using her formidable skills as a storyteller, Conde describes her grandmother as having "Australian whiteness for the color of her skin...She jarred with...
The critically acclaimed, award-winning author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Conde has pieced together the life of her mater...
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66,27 zł |
Land of Many Colors and Nanna-YA
ISBN: 9780803263956 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Land of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in the French Caribbean. It opens with the deaths of a young liberation activist and his mother in 1984. The narrator, a doctor who handles both of these cases, attempts to reconstruct the history of the family through four generations. The doctor's account illuminates the political and social complexities of race and class distinctions, the legacy of French colonialism that has spawned the movement for independence. Set in Jamaica, Nanna-ya explores the relationships that develop between George, a well-to-do store-owner, his...
Land of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in the French Caribbean. It opens with the deaths of a young liberation activist and h...
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52,51 zł |
The Gospel According to the New World
ISBN: 9781912987368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami)
One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: 'A miracle!' Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with grey-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumour, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission.
Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the...
One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: 'A miracle!' Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in co...
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72,40 zł |
The Belle Créole
ISBN: 9780813944227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,03 zł |
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
ISBN: 9780813927671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Conde brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls -a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary 'Nanny of the maroons, '- who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that... This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, ... |
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145,55 zł |
Das Evangelium der neuen Welt
ISBN: 9783442773664 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein Findelkind auf einer Karibikinsel: Ist der Junge der neue, nicht-weiße Messias? Maryse Conde erzählt farbenprächtig und unvergesslich vom Traum einer toleranten, friedlichen Welt.
»Eine großartige Geschichtenerzählerin.« Bernardine Evaristo»Heiter und hoffnungsfroh ... ein bestechend schöner Roman voller Weisheit, Großherzigkeit und Versöhnlichkeit.« Leïla Slimani»Maryse Condé ist eine magische Erzählerin.« Jury des Alternativen LiteraturnobelpreisesAn einem Ostersonntag finden Monsieur und Madame Ballandra, ein... Ein Findelkind auf einer Karibikinsel: Ist der Junge der neue, nicht-weiße Messias? Maryse Conde erzählt farbenprächtig und unvergesslich vom Tr...
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73,58 zł |
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
ISBN: 9781912987153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now gone, as are the hopes and aspirations he's carried with him since his arrival in Guadeloupe. Until, one day, the child Anais comes into his life, forcing him to abandon his solitude. Anais's Haitian mother died in childbirth, leaving her daughter destitute - now Babakar is all she has, and he wants to offer this little girl a future. Together they fly to Haiti, a beautiful, mysterious island plagued by violence,...
Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his...
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67,22 zł |
Wie Spreu im Wind : Roman
ISBN: 9783293206298 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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77,95 zł |
Köstliches und Kostbares
ISBN: 9783940435415 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2022 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mit der von ihrer Großmutter Victoire geerbten Leidenschaft für die Kochkunst als rotem Faden setzt Maryse Condé die Reihe ihrer autobiografischen Werke fort und nimmt uns mit auf ihre Reisen nach Indien, Japan, Australien, Kuba und in andere Länder. Kulinarische Entdeckungen und Erinnerungen sind dabei stets Anknüpfungspunkte für Reflexionen über politische, soziale und kulturelle Probleme, bieten Anlass für die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit eigenen Ansichten, Hoffnungen und Enttäuschungen. Wie in Mein Lachen und Weinen oder Victoire erzählt Maryse Condé voll Humor und...
Mit der von ihrer Großmutter Victoire geerbten Leidenschaft für die Kochkunst als rotem Faden setzt Maryse Condé die Reihe ihrer autobiografischen ...
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110,38 zł |
The Belle Créole
ISBN: 9780813944210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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331,21 zł |
Segu
ISBN: 9780345353061 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A powerful novel of Africa's history and the men and women who determined its fate. From the East came Islam. From the West, the slave trade. The battle for Africa's soul had begun...
"A wondrous novel about a period of African history few other writers have addressed... Much of the novel's radiance comes from the lush descriptions of a traditional life that is both exotic and violent." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Segu is an overwhelming accomplishment. It injects into the density of history characters who are as alive as you and I. Passionate, lusty, greedy, they are in... A powerful novel of Africa's history and the men and women who determined its fate. From the East came Islam. From the West, the slave trade. The batt...
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119,35 zł |
Segu
ISBN: 9780140259490 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their griots and priests; their lives are ruled by the elements. But even their soothsayers can only hint at the changes to come, for the battle of the soul of Africa has begun. From the east comes a new religion, Islam, and from the West, the slave trade.
Segu follows the life of Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, and his four sons, whose fates embody the forces tearing at the fabric of the nation.... The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bam...
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75,15 zł |
Of Morsels and Marvels
ISBN: 9780857426932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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110,67 zł |