wyszukanych pozycji: 44
Get a Life
ISBN: 9780747582427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his fragile existence makes him question his life. Then when Paul moves in with his parents to protect his wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition leads his mother to face her own past.
When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his fragile existence makes...
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82,32 zł |
My Son's Story
ISBN: 9780747562757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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82,32 zł |
JUMP & OTHER STORIES
ISBN: 9780747511892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Features a collection of sixteen stories.
Features a collection of sixteen stories.
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56,62 zł |
My Son's Story
ISBN: 9781250003751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary mishap, but his father is no ordinary man. He is a "colored" and revered anti-apartheid hero, and his female companion is a white activist fiercely dedicated to the cause. As Will struggles with confusion and bitterness, My Son's Story unravels the consequences of one man's infidelity as a new South Africa violently emerges from the apartheid. "Captures with convincing detail the ecstatic rewards and terrifying costs of revolutionary politics...Delineates with... When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary mishap, but his father is no ... |
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80,20 zł |
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
ISBN: 9780143114239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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92,86 zł |
A Sport of Nature
ISBN: 9780140084702 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A moving, powerful book that, in a career rich with distinguished works, could well be considered her masterpiece." "Publishers Weekly"
Hillela is Nadine Gordimer's "sport of nature": a spontaneous mutation, a new type of untainted person, she is seductive and intuitively gifted for life. "A Sport of Nature "is the bold, sweeping story of her 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... "A moving, powerful book that, in a career rich with distinguished works, could well be considered her masterpiece." "Publishers Weekly"
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113,97 zł |
Burger's Daughter
ISBN: 9780140055931 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger, a young woman from South Africa cast in the mold of a revolutionary tradition. Rosa tries to uphold her heritage handed on by martyred parents while still carving out a sense of self. Although it is wholly of today, Burger's Daughter can be compared to those 19th century Russian classics that make a certain time and place come alive, and yet stand as universal celebrations of the human spirit. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lives in South Africa.
This is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger, a young woman from South Africa cast in the mold of a revolutionary tradition. Rosa tries t...
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87,56 zł |
Life Times: Stories 1952-2007
ISBN: 9780747596189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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77,22 zł |
Telling Tales
ISBN: 9780747574309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With five of the contributors who are Nobel Prize Winners in Literature, this work presents stories that 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. The contributors also include Margaret Atwood, and John Updike.
With five of the contributors who are Nobel Prize Winners in Literature, this work presents stories that capture the range of emotions and situations ...
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93,30 zł |
Selected Stories
ISBN: 9780747549840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In these stories, selected by Gordimer herself, characters from every corner of society come to life, along with the South African landscape they inhabit. The stories have a strong focus on racial issues, yet their implications are universal. The stories are National Curriculum recommended reading.
In these stories, selected by Gordimer herself, characters from every corner of society come to life, along with the South African landscape they inha...
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104,29 zł |
House Gun
ISBN: 9781250007728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "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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84,42 zł |
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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84,42 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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82,40 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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84,42 zł |
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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49,37 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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56,62 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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82,32 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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97,08 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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77,83 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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68,67 zł |