wyszukanych pozycji: 3
The Good Life Elsewhere
ISBN: 9781939931016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Vladimir Lorchenkov tells the story of a group of villagers and their tragicomic efforts, against all odds and at any cost, to emigrate from Moldova, Europe's most impoverished nation, to Italy for work. In this uproarious tale, an Orthodox priest is deserted by his wife for an art-dealing atheist; a mechanic redesigns his tractor for travel by air and sea; thousands of villagers take to the road on a modern-day religious crusade to make it to the promised land of Italy; meanwhile, politicians remain politicians. "Outstanding ... darkly hilarious." -- The Wall Street Journal...Vladimir Lorchenkov tells the story of a group of villagers and their tragicomic efforts, against all odds and at any cost, to emigrate from Moldov... |
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64,85 zł |
Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories
ISBN: 9781646052578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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86,30 zł |
Beautiful Twentysomethings
ISBN: 9780875806976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Available for the first time in English, Hlasko's explosive memoir will marvel Western readers; it is a portrait of a literary renegade who ran afoul of the Polish authorities in 1958 when he traveled to Paris and published an anticommunist novel in the emigre journal "Kultura." Stripped of his Polish citizenship, he became an itinerant traveler from that point on, living the life of a vagabond in various places including Israel, the United States, and Germany, where he was mysteriously found dead in 1969 at the age of 35.
Told in a voice suffused with grit and black humor, Hlasko's... Available for the first time in English, Hlasko's explosive memoir will marvel Western readers; it is a portrait of a literary renegade who ran afoul ...
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145,74 zł |