wyszukanych pozycji: 28
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The Icarus Girl
ISBN: 9780747578864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. She spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone w
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. She spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-hal...
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64,46 zł |
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Parasol against the Axe
ISBN: 9780571366644 / Miękka / 2025 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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49,57 zł |
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Perník
ISBN: 9788025736845 / Czeski / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Příběh anglické učitelky Harriet Leeové a její šestnáctileté dcery Perdity se zprvu zdá být zcela všední. Čtenář se však brzy ocitne uprostřed surreálného víru vyprávění, jež jej ze současného Londýna unese do (možná imaginární) země Harrietina dětství, kde její rodina peče neobyčejný perník. Nejraději ze všech jej má Harrietina přítelkyně Gretel, mysteriózní figura, jež Harriet zasahuje do života zcela nepředvídatelným způsobem a kvůli níž začne o dlouhá léta později Harrietina dcera pátrat po tajemství svého původu – a onen...
Příběh anglické učitelky Harriet Leeové a její šestnáctileté dcery Perdity se zprvu zdá být zcela všední. Čtenář se však brzy ocitne...
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58,83 zł |
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Dívka jménem Boy
ISBN: 9788025718742 / Czeski / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pátý román Helen Oyeyemi je dosavadním vrcholem autorčiny tvorby. Obsahuje vše, co se stalo pro autorku charakteristické a co jí vyneslo zařazení na prestižní seznam nejlepších mladých prozaiků, který zveřejňuje vlivný britský časopis Granta. Práce s pohádkami, mýty, kulturními aluzemi, neustálé prostupování skutečnosti a fikce i náhlé zvraty, to vše najdeme v příběhu dívky jménem Boy. Ta vyrůstá bez matky v rodině krysaře, který na rozdíl od mytického krysaře z německé legendy lidi nepřitahuje, ale odpuzuje. I Boy od něj prchá a protlouká...
Pátý román Helen Oyeyemi je dosavadním vrcholem autorčiny tvorby. Obsahuje vše, co se stalo pro autorku charakteristické a co jí vyneslo zařa...
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58,83 zł |
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Boy, Snow, Bird
ISBN: 9781447237143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, who was named in 2013 as one of Granta's best of young British novelists. A retelling of the Snow White myth, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about an unbreakable bond ...BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower, and father of Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished -...
The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, who was named in 2013 as one of Granta's best of young British novelists. A retelling of the ...
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49,57 zł |
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White is for Witching
ISBN: 9780330458153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The mazy house on the cliffs near Dover has been home to generations of Silver women - and it never lets them go. Reeling from the sudden death of her mother Lily, Miranda Silver is newly resident. As slowly she too begins to disappear, her twin brother Eliot and her best friend Ore are left asking 'Where is Miranda?'.
The mazy house on the cliffs near Dover has been home to generations of Silver women - and it never lets them go. Reeling from the sudden death of her...
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54,54 zł |
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Peaces
ISBN: 9780571366590 / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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44,61 zł |
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Gingerbread
ISBN: 9781594634666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,60 zł |
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
ISBN: 9781594634642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the PEN Open Book Award
An NPR Best Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Pick A PBS NewsHour Best Book of 2016 A Slate Best Book of the Year One of Esquire Magazine's Best Books of 2016 One of Oprah.com's 10 Favorite Books of 2016 "Transcendent." --The New York Times Book Review "Flawless. . . another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant." --NPR From the award-winning author of... Winner of the PEN Open Book Award
An NPR Best Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Pick A PBS NewsHo... |
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71,40 zł |
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The Opposite House
ISBN: 9780747593102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A stunning new novel about a young jazz singer from the acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl
A stunning new novel about a young jazz singer from the acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl
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49,57 zł |
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The Opposite House
ISBN: 9781400078769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emissary who lives in a mysterious somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. She is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them. Interweaving these two tales. Helen...
Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young wom...
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84,00 zł |
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Parasol Against the Axe: Export Edition
ISBN: 9780571366637 / Miękka / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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74,38 zł |
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Gingerbread
ISBN: 9781489488404 / CD-Audio / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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82,59 zł |
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Mr. Fox
ISBN: 9781594486180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
One ofGranta s Best Young British Novelists From the prizewinning young writer ofWhat Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration. Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his... Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
One ofGranta s Best Young British Novelists From the prizewinning young ... |
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75,60 zł |
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Parasol Against the Axe
ISBN: 9780593192368 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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117,60 zł |
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Peaces
ISBN: 9780593192344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,40 zł |
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Was du nicht hast, das brauchst du nicht : Storys. Winner of the PEN Open Book Award 2017
ISBN: 9783959881036 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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88,20 zł |
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Boy, Snow, Bird
ISBN: 9781594633409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling... evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson," and already one of the year's most widely acclaimed novels: "Helen Oyeyemi has fully transformed from a literary prodigy into a powerful, distinctive storyteller...Transfixing and surprising."--Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A) "I don't care what the magic mirror says; Oyeyemi is the cleverest in the land...daring...
As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling... evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki...
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cena:
75,60 zł |