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Wizard of the Crow
ISBN: 9781400033843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic. A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan noveli... |
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80,40 zł |
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Petals of Blood
ISBN: 9781784873363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take' Sunday Times
'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and col...
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56,62 zł |
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Devil on the Cross
ISBN: 9780143107361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful fictional critique of capitalism One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's fame, Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper, while Ngũgĩ was in prison. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later by a corrupt businessman. As she struggles to survive, Wariinga begins to realize that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal...
The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful fictional critique of capitalism One of the c...
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56,62 zł |
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A Grain of Wheat
ISBN: 9780141186993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A grain of wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. The action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, making this novel one of stories within stories - a narrative interwoven with myth as well as allusions to real-life leaders of the nationalist struggle, including Jomo Kenyatta.
A grain of wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. The action foll...
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51,46 zł |
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The River Between
ISBN: 9780141187037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and magical customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some follow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity, while others proudly pursue tribal independence.
The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion a...
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54,97 zł |
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Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
ISBN: 9780852555309 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race and gender Between nations the need is to move the centre from its assumed location in the West to a multiplicity of spheres in all the cultures of the world. Within nations the move should be away from all minority class establishments to the real creative centre among working people in conditions of racial, religious and gender equality. Kenya: EAEP
In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freein...
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130,62 zł |
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Rwĩmbo rwa Njũkĩ
ISBN: 9789966259653 / Kikuyu;gikuyu / Miękka / 2015 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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98,53 zł |
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Wizard of the Crow
ISBN: 9781784873356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Mythological but also cheerfully disenchanted; political and playful; cartoonish but also epical... the African novel may well have delivered its greatest masterpiece' Sunday Herald
'Mythological but also cheerfully disenchanted; political and playful; cartoonish but also epical... the African novel may well have delivered its gre...
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66,92 zł |
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Verborgene Schicksale
ISBN: 9783518111116 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1982 / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Kaum ein Schriftsteller hat in den letzten Jahren die intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung in Afrika so beeinflußt wie dier Kenianer Ng g wa Thiang'o. Von den Machthabern seines Landes gefürchtet und von breiten Schichten seines Volkes verehrt und geachtet, wird alles, was er schreibt, in ganz Afrika mit großer Spannung erwartet, jedes seiner Werke erlebt ohne Ausnahme höchste Auflagen. Die vorliegenden Kurzgeschichten wurden in der Zeit von 1963 bis 1975 geschrieben und behandeln Themen wie den erfolgreichen Freiheitskampf Kenias (Mau-Mau-Aufstand), den Konflikt zwischen G k y -Tradition...
Kaum ein Schriftsteller hat in den letzten Jahren die intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung in Afrika so beeinflußt wie dier Kenianer Ng g wa Thiang'o. ...
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73,25 zł |
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Devil on the Cross
ISBN: 9780435908447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a competition organized by the devil.
This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in he...
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71,43 zł |
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Kenda Mũiyũru: Rũgano rwa Gĩkũyũ na Mũmbi
ISBN: 9789966563828 / Kikuyu;gikuyu / Miękka / 2018 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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125,93 zł |
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Weep Not Child
ISBN: 9780435908300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging war against the white government, and two brothers, Kamau and Njoroge, and the rest of the family must decide where their loyalties lie.
Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. In the forests, the Mau Mau are waging wa...
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71,43 zł |
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
ISBN: 9780852555019 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature.' East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda): EAEP
Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in f...
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104,49 zł |
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Kunje Nee Karayathe
ISBN: 9789387357570 / Malayalam / Miękka / 2019 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,78 zł |
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Secret Lives & Other Stories
ISBN: 9781784873370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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60,47 zł |
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Shetani Msalabani
ISBN: 9789966461674 / Swahili / Miękka / 1982 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Devil on the Cross, first published in Gikuyu as Caitaani Mutharabaini (1980) and here in Swahili as Shetani Msalabani, is a portrayal of corruption and how it has entrenched itself into the society. The celebration of corruption in all its forms, forces Wariinga, whom despair has driven out of Nairobi back to her home town of llmorog, to acknowledge that her life has been nothing more than passive acceptance of corruption itself. In this novel, the ancient rhythms of traditional story-telling are used in counterpoint to written styles. Ngugi provokes with the forces of Brecht, Bunyan, Swift...
Devil on the Cross, first published in Gikuyu as Caitaani Mutharabaini (1980) and here in Swahili as Shetani Msalabani, is a portrayal of corruption a...
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104,02 zł |
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Petals of Blood
ISBN: 9780143039174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The definitive African book of the twentieth century" (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose...
"The definitive African book of the twentieth century" (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer...
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71,94 zł |
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781101910511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for independence and Kenyan sovereignty gripped his country. While he enjoyed scouting trips and chess tournaments, his family home was razed to the ground and his brother, a member of the insurgency, was captured by the British and taken to a concentration camp. But Ngũgĩ could not escape history, and eventually found himself jailed after a run in with the forces of colonialism....
Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near ...
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84,63 zł |
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The River Between
ISBN: 9780435905484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and magical customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.
Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and magical customs...
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71,43 zł |
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Der gekreuzigte Teufel
ISBN: 9783518111994 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der gekreuzigte Teufel wurde von Ng g heimlich im Gefängnis - er wurde wegen eines Theaterstücks in G k y verhaftet, aber nie vor Gericht gestellt - auf Toilettenpapier niedergeschrieben. Erst kurz vor seiner Entlassung wurde das Manuskript entdeckt und beschlagnahmt, ihm jedoch wieder zurückgegeben. Die Publikation dieses Romans auf G k y war ein (nicht nur literarisches) Ereignis. Wariinga verläßt aufgrund einer verzweifelten Situation Nairobi und will in ihrem Heimatdorf Ilmorog Zuflucht suchen. Sie fährt mit einem Matatu-Taxi zu einer Einladung - einer Einladung... Der gekreuzigte Teufel wurde von Ng g heimlich im Gefängnis - er wurde wegen eines Theaterstücks in G k y verhaftet, aber nie vor Geri... |
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91,56 zł |
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