wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories
ISBN: 9781529110746 / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
The Hungry Ghosts
ISBN: 9781846592003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Hungry Ghosts is an exquisite tale of differences and how they can tear apart both a country and the heart - not just once, but many times, until the ghosts are freed. This a haunting and captivating story of longing, family ties and forgiveness from award winning author Shyam Selvadurai.
The Hungry Ghosts is an exquisite tale of differences and how they can tear apart both a country and the heart - not just once, but many times, until ...
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49,09 zł |
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
ISBN: 9781774880333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
ISBN: 9780618576807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, -The stories jostle up against each other . . . The effect is a marvelous cacophony that reminds me of . . . one of those South Asian bazaars, a bargaining, carnival-like milieu. The goods on sale in this instance being stories hawked by story-traders: story-wallahs.- In this book, some of the world's best fiction writers hawk their wares from...
Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices i...
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104,36 zł |
Funny Boy
ISBN: 9780062392985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict--one of the country's most turbulent and deadly periods. Arjie is "funny." The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese... An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict--one of the country's most turbulent and dea... |
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82,75 zł |
Cinnamon Gardens
ISBN: 9780786864737 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set among the upper classes in the gracious, repressive world of 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Cinnamon Gardens tells the brilliantly intertwined stories of two extraordinary characters. Annalukshmi is a strong-willed young woman whose family is intent upon arranging a proper marriage for her, forcing her to question whether the independence she craves will doom her to a life without love and companionship. Her uncle Balendran, respectably married, struggles to suppress his secret desire for men. The sudden arrival of a former lover, however, threatens to destroy his...
Set among the upper classes in the gracious, repressive world of 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Cinnamon Gardens tells the brilliantly intertw...
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126,37 zł |