wyszukanych pozycji: 44
Life Times: Stories
ISBN: 9780143119838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Superb...a series of masterly drawn glimpses into the storymaking art of one of Africa's great modern literary geniuses." -Alan Cheuse, NPR
A selection of short stories written to date by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, Life Times reveals her acute understanding of human nature and paints a fascinatingly original portrait of South Africa. Whether focusing on politics, sexuality, race, love, or loss, Gordimer maps out the terrain of human relationships with razor-sharp psychological insight and a stunning lack of sentimentality. Complex and multifaceted, her stories... "Superb...a series of masterly drawn glimpses into the storymaking art of one of Africa's great modern literary geniuses." -Alan Cheuse, NPR <...
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80,85 zł |
Keine Zeit wie diese : Roman
ISBN: 9783833309243 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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81,46 zł |
Telling Tales
ISBN: 9780312424046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war in different continents and cultures. They are not about HIV / AIDS. But all twenty-one writers have given their stories--chosen by themselves as representing some of the best of their lifetime work as storytellers--without any fee or royalty.
"Telling Tales" is being published in more than twelve countries. The publisher's profits from the... Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and sit...
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The Late Bourgeois World
ISBN: 9781408836002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for an act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take the risk?
Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for an act of violence against the government, he had betray...
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48,62 zł |
July's People
ISBN: 9780747578383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A terrifyingly plausible vision.
A terrifyingly plausible vision.
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55,97 zł |
A World of Strangers
ISBN: 9780747559986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A tale of bitterness and division in South Africa.
A tale of bitterness and division in South Africa.
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81,06 zł |
No Time Like the Present
ISBN: 9781250024039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot."--Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Steve and Jabulile, once clandestine lovers under a racist law forbidding sexual relations between black and white, are living in a newly free South Africa. Both were combatants in the struggle against apartheid, and now, he, a university lecturer, and she, a lawyer, are parents of children born in freedom. But as the ideals of this "better life for all" are challenged by the... "A perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot."--Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review <... |
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92,98 zł |
Niemand, der mit mir geht : Roman
ISBN: 9783518391501 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1995 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Nadine Gordimers Roman spielt in Südafrika nach Aufhebung der Apartheid. Vera Stark, die Hauptgestalt, engagiert sich als Juristin immer mehr beim Aufbau des neuen Staatswesens. Diese Arbeit für das Allgemeinwohl bringt ihr innere Befriedigung, stärkt ihr Selbstbewußtsein, führt aber gleichzeitig in die Einsamkeit.
Nadine Gordimers Roman spielt in Südafrika nach Aufhebung der Apartheid. Vera Stark, die Hauptgestalt, engagiert sich als Juristin immer mehr beim Au...
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76,93 zł |
Ein Mann von der Straße : Roman
ISBN: 9783492550345 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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67,88 zł |
A Sport of Nature
ISBN: 9781408840481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A bold, sweeping story of one girl's rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power Abandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga's she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pauline's she might have developed a social conscience. But Hillela's betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift. Swiftly and perilously, her life opens out. She lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in East...
A bold, sweeping story of one girl's rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power Abandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be ra...
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81,06 zł |
Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black
ISBN: 9780747593843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, this collection illustrates the showdowns, stand-offs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.
A collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, this collection illustrates the showdowns, stand-offs and hi...
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59,43 zł |
The Conservationist
ISBN: 9780140047165 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son...
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88,94 zł |
Loot
ISBN: 9780747565383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate.
A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate.
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70,25 zł |
Burger's Daughter
ISBN: 9780747549796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Presents the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of South Africa.
Presents the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of South Africa.
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66,14 zł |
Jump and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781250003768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging stories from the Nobel Prize Winner, with settings ranging from suburban London to Mozambique. Fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging stories from the Nobel Prize Winner, with settings ranging from suburban London to Mozambique.... |
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76,81 zł |
Living in Hope and History
ISBN: 9780747548232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Nadine Gordimer describes this collection of her non-fiction pieces as a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in. The collection of essays, articles and addresses encompass Gordimer's own evidence of the inequities of apartheid as she saw them in 1956, her account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a free country. Gordimer's canvas is global and her themes are wide-ranging. She examines the impact of technology on our expanding world-view, the convergence of the moral and the political in fiction and...
Nadine Gordimer describes this collection of her non-fiction pieces as a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in. The collection o...
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70,25 zł |
Chhalang: Nadine Gordimer Ki Kahaniyan
ISBN: 9789350297452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,90 zł |
July's People
ISBN: 9780140061406 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature For years, it had been what is called a "deteriorating situation." Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family--liberal whites--are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July--the shifts in character and relationships--gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites. "So flawlessly written that...
A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature For years, it had been what is called a "deteriorating situ...
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68,72 zł |
No Time Like the Present
ISBN: 9781408831267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. At the heart of this story is an interracial couple, Steven and Jabulile, living in a 'free' South Africa. He is a university lecturer and she is a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.
At the heart of this story is an interracial couple, Steven and Jabulile, living in a 'free' South Africa. He is a university lecturer and she is a la...
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66,14 zł |
The Conservationist
ISBN: 9780747578246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Nadine Gordimer's Booker Prize-winning story of the forces and relationships seething in the South Africa of the day
Nadine Gordimer's Booker Prize-winning story of the forces and relationships seething in the South Africa of the day
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66,14 zł |