wyszukanych pozycji: 85
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Beloved: Introduction by A. S. Byatt
ISBN: 9780307264886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe's house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word:... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. |
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107,90 |
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Jazz
ISBN: 9781400076215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe s wife, Violet, attacks the girl s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life."
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty ...
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60,39 |
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Song of Solomon
ISBN: 9781784876456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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Beloved
ISBN: 9780099273936 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH.
A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughte...
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50,28 |
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Song of Solomon: Introduction by Reynolds Price
ISBN: 9780679445043 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych.
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction.
Song of Solomon begins with one of the most arresting scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air, while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as...
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life i... |
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115,61 |
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Remember: The Journey to School Integration
ISBN: 9780618397402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.
The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.
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77,03 |
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Home
ISBN: 9780307740915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book |
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61,66 |
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Love
ISBN: 9781784878535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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The Bluest Eye
ISBN: 9781784879105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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A Mercy
ISBN: 9780099502548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in America in the 1680s, 'A Mercy' reveals what lies under the surface of slavery. At its heart, this is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter - a mother who cuts off her daughter, to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
Set in America in the 1680s, 'A Mercy' reveals what lies under the surface of slavery. At its heart, this is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mot...
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50,28 |
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Sula
ISBN: 9783499013614 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Zwei Mädchen, die zu Frauen heranwachsen. Zwei Freundinnen, die zu schlimmsten Feindinnen werden: Die fügsame Nel und die Rebellin Sula sind als junge Mädchen unzertrennlich, als sie in ärmlichen Verhältnissen in einer Kleinstadt in Ohio aufwachsen, die ausgerechnet «Bottom» heißt. Während Nel dort eine Familie gründet, flieht Sula zu den fortschrittlichen Idealen der Großstadt. Als sie nach zehn Jahren zurückkehrt, hat sich zwischen den beiden alles verändert. Nel und Sula müssen sich mit den Folgen ihres Handelns und dem schrecklichen Geheimnis aus ihrer Kindheit... Zwei Mädchen, die zu Frauen heranwachsen. Zwei Freundinnen, die zu schlimmsten Feindinnen werden: Die fügsame Nel und die Rebellin Sula sind als ... |
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80,51 |
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Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement
ISBN: 9780061774010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union, or the Middle East. But recent political developments--including the passage of the Patriot Act--have shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Burn This Book features a sterling... Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censo... |
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65,47 |
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Tar Baby
ISBN: 9781400033447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fa...
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65,51 |
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Tar Baby
ISBN: 9781784877279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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The Bluest Eye
ISBN: 9780099759911 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.
The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of...
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50,28 |
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Song of Solomon
ISBN: 9781857152166 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the story of Macon Milkman Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spiritually. Through the enlightenment of one man, the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation.
This is the story of Macon Milkman Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southw...
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85,50 |
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Beloved
ISBN: 9781400033416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering...
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lu...
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69,36 |
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Tar Baby
ISBN: 9780099760214 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jadine is a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian, American black living in Paris and Rome. Son is a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous, an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom: she is a threat to his identity.
Jadine is a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian, American black living in Paris and Rome. Son is a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, conte...
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50,28 |
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Heimkehr
ISBN: 9783499018046 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Frank Money hat den Koreakrieg überlebt - als Einziger von drei Freiwilligen aus Lotus, Georgia. Nun findet er sich im segregierten, rassistischen Amerika der 1950er-Jahre wieder: getrennte Restaurants, Hotels, Waschräume und Drangsalierungen durch die Polizei. Dann erreicht ihn die Nachricht, dass seine geliebte kleine Schwester Cee sich in großer Gefahr befindet. Obwohl er nie mehr nach Lotus zurückwollte, muss er in seinen Heimatort reisen, zu seinem Elternhaus, wo bittere Geheimnisse ans Tageslicht kommen und wo er lernen wird, was es braucht, um zu heilen. Und was es bedeutet,... Frank Money hat den Koreakrieg überlebt - als Einziger von drei Freiwilligen aus Lotus, Georgia. Nun findet er sich im segregierten, rassistischen... |
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95,55 |
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Gnade
ISBN: 9783499018060 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Nordamerikanische Kolonien, Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts: Die kleine Florens, nicht älter als sieben oder acht Jahre, wird zur Begleichung einer Schuld an den Farmer und Geldverleiher Jacob Vaark verkauft. In Florens' Leben ändert sich dadurch alles. Sie gehört nun zu Vaarks Haushalt, zusammen mit seiner Frau Rebekka, die nicht freiwillig in die Neue Welt gekommen ist, mit der indigenen Hausangestellten Lina, die als eine der wenigen ihres Dorfes die Pocken überlebt hat, und mit der geheimnisvollen Sorrow, die nach einem Schiffbruch gerettet wurde. Als Vaark stirbt, kämpfen die vier... Nordamerikanische Kolonien, Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts: Die kleine Florens, nicht älter als sieben oder acht Jahre, wird zur Begleichung einer Schu... |
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107,35 |