wyszukanych pozycji: 15
A Life of Adventure and Delight
ISBN: 9780571326310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The author, skilfully reveals the obstacles we face in making meaningful relationships. This title is unflinching in exposing the burdens of trauma, infidelity, and mortality. Whether in New York or Delhi, the author's protagonists are always discovering what it really means to be mothers and daughters, sons and lovers, husbands and wives.
The author, skilfully reveals the obstacles we face in making meaningful relationships. This title is unflinching in exposing the burdens of trauma, i...
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77,65 zł |
Family Life
ISBN: 9780393060058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Known for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. Growing up in Delhi in 1978, eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju play cricket on the streets, eagerly waiting for the day they can join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more--until tragedy strikes. Young Ajay prays to a God he envisions as Superman, searching for direction amid the ruins of his family's new life.... Known for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intens... |
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104,29 zł |
I am A failure
ISBN: 9781981810413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,82 zł |
Cosmopolitan: Faber Stories
ISBN: 9780571351787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused by Mrs Shaw's large breasts, boy's haircut, and little-girl sneakers. Gopal wanted to put his hands on her waist and pull her toward him. But when his neighbour comes to borrow his lawnmower, Gopal thinks he might find something similar right here in New Jersey.
As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused by Mrs Shaw's large breasts, boy's haircut, and little-girl sneakers. Gopal wanted to put his hands on her wa...
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18,01 zł |
A Life of Adventure and Delight
ISBN: 9780393285345 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In A Life of Adventure and Delight, Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and that plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorce tries to become the... Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as... |
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109,78 zł |
An Obedient Father
ISBN: 9781946022387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,87 zł |
A Life of Adventure and Delight
ISBN: 9780393355895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,00 zł |
An Obedient Father
ISBN: 9780393337815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ram Karan, a corrupt official in New Delhi, lives with his widowed daughter and his little granddaughter. Bumbling, sad, ironic, Ram is also a man corroded by a terrible secret. Taking the reader down into a world of feuding families and politics, An Obedient Father is a work of rare sensibilities that presents a character as formulated, funny, and morally ambiguous as any of Dostoevsky s antiheroes."
Ram Karan, a corrupt official in New Delhi, lives with his widowed daughter and his little granddaughter. Bumbling, sad, ironic, Ram is also a man cor...
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65,85 zł |
A Life of Adventure and Delight
ISBN: 9780571326327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Whether describing the tensions of an arranged marriage, the trauma of having an alcoholic mother, or the petty corruption of an Indian neighbourhood, Akhil Sharma's stories always expose the cultural collisions - the paradoxes, ironies, and harmonies - that characterise modern life. In these elegant, unsparing and unusually intimate stories, Sharma explores these questions with disarming honesty.
Whether describing the tensions of an arranged marriage, the trauma of having an alcoholic mother, or the petty corruption of an Indian neighbourhood,...
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46,20 zł |
An Obedient Father
ISBN: 9780571313594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man tortured by a terrible guilty secret. When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram, as his department's resident bribe-collector, is trapped in a series of escalating, potentially deadly political betrayals. While he tries to protect himself and his family, his daughter reveals a crime that he had hoped would be buried forever. An...
Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaugh...
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51,35 zł |
Rust for Blockchain Application Development: Learn to build decentralized applications on popular blockchain technologies using Rust
ISBN: 9781837634644 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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179,22 zł |
Family Life
ISBN: 9780393350609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the... We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day ... |
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64,67 zł |
English, August: An Indian Story
ISBN: 9781590171790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, "the hottest town in India," deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be a lot easier for August than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary...
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just ...
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99,28 zł |
Intelligent Communication and Automation Systems
ISBN: 9780367612016 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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239,93 zł |
Intelligent Communication and Automation Systems
ISBN: 9780367609283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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756,45 zł |