wyszukanych pozycji: 45
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A Sport of Nature
ISBN: 9781408840481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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76,81 |
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Burger's Daughter
ISBN: 9780747549796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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65,53 |
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A Guest of Honour
ISBN: 9780747559887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country's independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factionalism and violence that erupt as revolutionary ideals are subverted by ambition and greed, Bray is once again forced to choose sides, a choice that becomes both his triumph and his undoing.
James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited...
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40,94 |
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Die Hauswaffe : Roman
ISBN: 9783492550130 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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89,67 |
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Loot
ISBN: 9780747565383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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66,56 |
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Living in Hope and History
ISBN: 9780747548232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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66,56 |
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The Conservationist
ISBN: 9780140047165 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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July's People
ISBN: 9780747578383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A terrifyingly plausible vision.
A terrifyingly plausible vision.
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Niemand, der mit mir geht : Roman
ISBN: 9783518391501 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1995 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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House Gun
ISBN: 9781250007728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past." --The Boston Sunday Globe "With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passio... |
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Loot and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780142004685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Loot" features ten new stories from Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer--"a diamond-sharp book" ("San Francisco Chronicle").
"Loot" features ten new stories from Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer--"a diamond-sharp book" ("San Francisco Chronicle").
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Life Times: Stories 1952-2007
ISBN: 9780747596189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. This title is a collection of her stories.
Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short storie...
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Jump and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780747511892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Features a collection of sixteen stories.
Features a collection of sixteen stories.
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Occasion for Loving
ISBN: 9781408836330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jessie and Tom Stilwell keep open house. The impact on their home of Boaz Davis and his wife Ann, arrived from England, and Giedon Shibalo, the Stillwells' black friend, with whom Ann starts a love affair as her adventure with Africa, is dramatically concurrent with events involving Jessie's strange relationship with her mother and stepfather and her son from a previous marriage. Telling their story against the background of South Africa in the sixties, Nadine Gordimer speaks with unsurpassed subtlety and poignancy of individuals and the society in which they live.
Jessie and Tom Stilwell keep open house. The impact on their home of Boaz Davis and his wife Ann, arrived from England, and Giedon Shibalo, the Stillw...
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87,06 |
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The Pickup
ISBN: 9780747557951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Stunning novel set in South Africa about forbidden love by the Nobel Prize-winning writer
Stunning novel set in South Africa about forbidden love by the Nobel Prize-winning writer
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76,81 |
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Keine Zeit wie diese : Roman
ISBN: 9783833309243 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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80,70 |
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My Son's Story
ISBN: 9780747562757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From South Africa's most pre-eminent writer comes a tense and intimate family drama about how we come to love.
From South Africa's most pre-eminent writer comes a tense and intimate family drama about how we come to love.
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76,81 |
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
ISBN: 9780143114239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Always exploring the boundaries of race, identity, politics, memory, sexuality, and love with fearless insight and deep compassion, Nadine Gordimer has produced another masterpiece of short fiction. From a former anti-apartheid activist s search for his own racial identity by tracing his great-grandfather s part in South Africa s diamond industry to a parrot that scandalizes people with repetitions of their quarrels and clandestine love-talk, this new collection of stories eloquently probes how people are never free from their past nor spared from loss."
Always exploring the boundaries of race, identity, politics, memory, sexuality, and love with fearless insight and deep compassion, Nadine Gordimer ha...
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Ein Mann von der Straße : Roman
ISBN: 9783492550345 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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67,25 |
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The Conservationist
ISBN: 9780747578246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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65,53 |