wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Das Jahr ohne Schlaf
ISBN: 9783446273863 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Originell, tiefgründig und mit Humor erkundet Samantha Harvey das Mysterium des Schlafs und die fatalen Folgen von Schlaflosigkeit. "Ein Meisterwerk, so gut, dass es mir den Atem verschlägt." (Helen Macdonald)
Von einem Tag auf den anderen verliert die Schriftstellerin Samantha Harvey die Fähigkeit zu schlafen. Sie gerät in Panik und versucht alles, um ihre Schlaflosigkeit zu überwinden: Akupunktur, Sanskrit-Gesänge und Ernährungsumstellung, Dankestagebücher und Schlafapparaturen - nichts scheint zu helfen. Das Jahr ohne Schlaf ist ein eindringlicher innerer Monolog über ein... Originell, tiefgründig und mit Humor erkundet Samantha Harvey das Mysterium des Schlafs und die fatalen Folgen von Schlaflosigkeit. "Ein Meisterwerk,...
|
|
cena:
104,09 zł |
Dear Thief
ISBN: 9780062415844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From acclaimed Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Award finalist Samantha Harvey, a stunning novel of female friendship, betrayal, and revenge "You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy," writes the unnamed narrator of Dear Thief. The thief is Nina, or Butterfly, who disappeared eighteen years earlier and who is being summoned by this letter, this bomb, these recollections, revisions, accusations, and confessions. "Sometimes I imagine, out of sheer playfulness, that I am writing this as a... From acclaimed Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Award finalist Samantha Harvey, a stunning novel of female friendship, betrayal, and r... |
|
cena:
81,75 zł |
The Western Wind
ISBN: 9781784708030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. And what will happen if he can't?Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman's death, the story is related by Reve - an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep.
And what will happen if he can't?Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman's death, the story is related by Reve - an extraordinary crea...
|
|
cena:
50,87 zł |
The Wilderness
ISBN: 9780307454775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An Orange Prize Finalist
A Man Booker Prize Nominee Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask Prize A Guardian First Book Award Nominee Jake is in the tailspin of old age. His wife has passed away, his son is in prison, and now he is about to lose his past to Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake's memories become increasingly unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? Why is his son imprisoned? And why can't he shake the memory of a yellow dress and one lonely, echoing gunshot? Like Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead, The Wilderness "holds us in its... An Orange Prize Finalist
A Man Booker Prize Nominee Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask Prize A Guardian First Book Award Nominee Jake is in ... |
|
cena:
81,80 zł |
All is Song
ISBN: 9780099566069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Set against the backdrop of tabloid frenzies and an escalating national crisis, 'All is Song' is a novel about filial and moral duty, and about the choice of questioning above conforming. It is a work of remarkable perception, intensity and resonance from one of Britain's most promising young writers.
Set against the backdrop of tabloid frenzies and an escalating national crisis, 'All is Song' is a novel about filial and moral duty, and about the ch...
|
|
cena:
54,76 zł |
Orbital
ISBN: 9781529922936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) |
|
cena:
54,76 zł |
Dear Thief
ISBN: 9780099597667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In the middle of a winter's night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that calls up a shared past both women have preferred to forget.
In the middle of a winter's night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend. In answer to a questi...
|
|
cena:
50,87 zł |
Orbital WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024
ISBN: 9780802163622 / Angielski / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family,... A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towar... |
|
cena:
73,19 zł |
The Shapeless Unease: ‘A small miracle of a book’ – Nathan Flier
ISBN: 9781529112092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'Easily one of the truest and best books I've read about what it's like to be alive now, in this country' Max PorterSleep. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. For Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself.
'Easily one of the truest and best books I've read about what it's like to be alive now, in this country' Max PorterSleep. Then you think about it all...
|
|
cena:
50,87 zł |
The Wilderness
ISBN: 9780099526537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life. Now he is in his early 60s, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's.
It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life. Now he is in his early 60...
|
|
cena:
50,87 zł |
Westwind
ISBN: 9783038821281 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Ein historischer Spannungsroman von höchster literarischer Qualität und Aktualität.1491. In dem kleinen Dorf Oakham, ein Ort in dem es Ziegen gibt, die reicher sind als die Bewohner, bereitet man sich gerade auf die bevorstehende Fastenzeit vor, als eines Nachts ein Unglück geschieht: Thomas Newman, der wohlhabendste und einflussreichste Mann im Dorf, wurde von der tödlichen Strömung des Flusses mitgerissen. War es ein Unfall, Selbstmord oder gar Mord? Dies herauszufinden, obliegt dem örtlichen Priester John Reve, einem geduldigen Hirten seiner eigensinnigen Herde. Während sich durch...
Ein historischer Spannungsroman von höchster literarischer Qualität und Aktualität.1491. In dem kleinen Dorf Oakham, ein Ort in dem es Ziegen gibt,...
|
|
cena:
54,31 zł |
Tonks' Wild Adventures: Cats got your back!
ISBN: 9781738856039 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
76,80 zł |
Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson, and Nature
ISBN: 9780748681365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As Samantha C. Harvey demonstrates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in the years 1826-1836, giving him new ways to harmonize the Romantic triad of nature, spirit, and humanity. Emerson did not think about Coleridge: he thought with Coleridge, resulting in a unique case of assimilative influence. In addition to examining his specific literary, philosophical, and theological influences on Emerson, this book reveals Coleridge's centrality for Boston Transcendentalism and Vermont Transcendentalism, a movement which...
As Samantha C. Harvey demonstrates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in the ye...
|
|
cena:
468,63 zł |