wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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All I Asking for Is My Body
ISBN: 9780824811723 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This novel, written in dialect, reveals the everyday elements and dimensions of life in Hawaii.
This novel, written in dialect, reveals the everyday elements and dimensions of life in Hawaii.
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61,81 |
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Plantation Boy
ISBN: 9780824819651 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. No other writer has attempted such a broad view of the nisei experience in Hawai'i as Milton Murayama. In Plantation Boy, the third novel in a planned tetralogy that includes the highly popular All I Asking for Is My Body and Five Years on a Rock, eldest son Toshio narrates the continuing story of the Oyama family. Outspoken, proud, determined, passionate: Tosh is the voice of the rebel that authority seeks to silence; he is the proverbial protruding nail that Japanese tradition seeks to flatten. His fight is against not only his family's poverty and the environment that... No other writer has attempted such a broad view of the nisei experience in Hawai'i as Milton Murayama. In Plantation Boy, the third novel i... |
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107,70 |
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Five Years on a Rock
ISBN: 9780824816773 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Milton Murayama returns to the places and people of his earlier fiction - to the sugar plantation company towns and sleepy villages of Maui, and to the resilient Oyama family. Five Years on a Rock is the story of Sawa Oyama, the mother who plays a major role in All I Asking for Is My Body. In a spirited voice full of courage and wit, Sawa tells of her arrival in Hawaii in 1915 as a seventeen-year-old picture bride. But her hope of returning to Japan after five years on a rock wanes as the five years stretch to twenty, during which six children are born, her husband's fishing business succeeds...
Milton Murayama returns to the places and people of his earlier fiction - to the sugar plantation company towns and sleepy villages of Maui, and to th...
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cena:
61,81 |
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Dying in a Strange Land
ISBN: 9780824831974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Milton Murayama's long-awaited Dying in a Strange Land brings to a close the saga of the Oyama family. Familiar faces from All I Asking For Is My Body, Five Years on a Rock, and Plantation Boy return to advance the story from the years immediately following World War II to the 1980s. After her husband sinks them deep in debt, strong-willed and pragmatic Sawa takes charge of the family. The war ends and her children leave the plantation camp for Honolulu and the Mainland, but Sawa has little time for loneliness or regret. When asked by her neighbors if she misses them, she replies, They... Milton Murayama's long-awaited Dying in a Strange Land brings to a close the saga of the Oyama family. Familiar faces from All I Asking For Is My B... |
cena:
97,90 |