wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Exposure
ISBN: 9780701187071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Jerusalem, two very different men are on the hunt for the same identity. The first is a wealthy Arab, a lawyer with a thriving practice, a large house, a Mercedes, and a beautiful wife and children. One evening he buys a second-hand Tolstoy novel recommended by his wife; on opening it he finds a love letter, in Arabic, in his wife's handwriting.Published as Second person singular, in the United States of America, by Grove Press 2012.
In Jerusalem, two very different men are on the hunt for the same identity. The first is a wealthy Arab, a lawyer with a thriving practice, a large ho...
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Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life
ISBN: 9780802126290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society." An Israeli-Palestinian who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing in Hebrew with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to exploring the contradictions of modern Israel while also capturing the nuances of family life in all its tenderness and chaos.
Over the last... Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society." An Israeli-Pal...
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Native: Dispatches from a Palestinian-Israeli Life 2016
ISBN: 9780863561962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. From the events of his everyday life, Kashua brings forth a series of brilliant, caustic, wry, and earless reflections on social and cultural dynamics as experienced by someone who straddles two societies. Amusing and sincere, Native - a selection of his popular columns - is comprised of unrestrained, profoundly thoughtful personal dispatches.
From the events of his everyday life, Kashua brings forth a series of brilliant, caustic, wry, and earless reflections on social and cultural dynamic...
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Dancing Arabs
ISBN: 9780802141262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A bildungsroman suffused with humor and irony, Dancing Arabs centers on a young boy from a poor Arab village, his haphazard receipt of a scholarship to a Jewish boarding school, and the dislocation and alienation that ensues when he finds himself faced with the impossible: the imperative to straddle two famously incompatible worlds.
As a child, our nameless narrator/antihero lives with his family in his grandmother's house. His grandmother and father constantly impress upon him the significance of their land: when so many people fled or sold theirs away, they held strong. "Better to die... A bildungsroman suffused with humor and irony, Dancing Arabs centers on a young boy from a poor Arab village, his haphazard receipt of a scholarship t...
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Second Person Singular
ISBN: 9780802121202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Part comedy of manners, part psychological mystery . . . Issues of nationalism, religion, and passing collide with quickly changing social and sexual mores." "Boston Globe"
From one of the most important contemporary voices to emerge from the Middle East comes a gripping tale of love and betrayal, honesty and artifice, which asks whether it is possible to truly reinvent ourselves, to shed our old skin and start anew. "Second Person Singular" follows two men, a successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist, whose lives intersect under the most curious of... "Part comedy of manners, part psychological mystery . . . Issues of nationalism, religion, and passing collide with quickly changing social and sexual...
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Let It Be Morning
ISBN: 9780802170217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his debut, Dancing Arabs, Sayed Kashua established himself as one of the most daring voices of the Middle East. In his searing new novel, a young Arab journalist returns to his hometown -- an Arab village within Israel -- where his already vexed sense of belonging is forced to crisis when the village becomes a pawn in the never-ending power struggle that is the Middle East. Hoping to reclaim the simplicity of life among kin, the prodigal son returns home to find that nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people are petty and provincial. But when Israeli tanks...
In his debut, Dancing Arabs, Sayed Kashua established himself as one of the most daring voices of the Middle East. In his searing new novel, a...
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68,61 |