wyszukanych pozycji: 90
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Beloved
ISBN: 9780099540977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless.
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new...
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55,97 zł |
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Beloved
ISBN: 9780525659273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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127,34 zł |
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Sehr blaue Augen
ISBN: 9783499012518 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In ihrem eindrücklichen Debütroman erzählt Nobelpreisträgerin Toni Morrison von zwei kleinen Mädchen, die in der Kleinstadt Lorain, Ohio, gemeinsam aufwachsen. Claudia hasst blonde Puppen, zerstört sie sogar. Pecola vergöttert Shirley Temple und wünscht sich selbst nichts so sehr wie blaue Augen. Doch in diesem Herbst 1941 wird Pecolas Wunsch nicht in Erfüllung gehen, ihr Leben wird sich auf andere, auf sehr schmerzhafte Weise verändern. «An der kühnen Komposition der verschiedenen Episoden und an der Musikalität der Sprache - die Tanja Handels' Neuübersetzung sehr... In ihrem eindrücklichen Debütroman erzählt Nobelpreisträgerin Toni Morrison von zwei kleinen Mädchen, die in der Kleinstadt Lorain, Ohio, geme... |
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81,46 zł |
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Home
ISBN: 9780307740915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book |
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63,66 zł |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9781784877255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
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A Mercy
ISBN: 9780307264237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part... A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that stor...
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103,27 zł |
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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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67,65 zł |
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Jazz
ISBN: 9781784878115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9780804169882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. -They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.- So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair... -They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.- So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a hor... |
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71,63 zł |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9780099768210 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma.
The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays a...
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50,87 zł |
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Jazz
ISBN: 9780099750918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is 1926 and winter grips Harlem. Joe Trace shoots to death his lover, the impetuous 18-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Their story captures the complex humanity of black American urban life at that time.
It is 1926 and winter grips Harlem. Joe Trace shoots to death his lover, the impetuous 18-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral his determined, hardworking ...
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50,87 zł |
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Bluest Eye
ISBN: 9780307278449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized...
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her ...
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67,65 zł |
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Paradies
ISBN: 9783499015571 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Toni Morrisons großes Epos über eine von Rassismus und Bigotterie bedrohte Gruppe von Frauen und die Folgen der Versklavung - mit einem erstmals Oklahoma, Mitte der siebziger Jahre: In einem verlassenen Kloster suchen Frauen, Schwarze und weiße, Zuflucht. Sie sind Ausgestoßene aus der amerikanischen Gesellschaft, die sich im Umbruch befindet, voller Gegensätze wie Rassismus und Bürgerrechtsbewegung, Misogynie und Feminismus, Individualismus und der Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit. Das friedliche Leben im Kloster findet bald ein brutales Ende: Die Einwohner der benachbarten Stadt... Toni Morrisons großes Epos über eine von Rassismus und Bigotterie bedrohte Gruppe von Frauen und die Folgen der Versklavung - mit einem erstmals ... |
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117,66 zł |
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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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67,61 zł |
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Umiłowana
ISBN: 9788367891585 / Polski / twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Najsłynniejsze dzieło noblistki Toni Morrison w nowym tłumaczeniu Kai Gucio. Nagrodzona Pulitzerem powieść arcydzieło, która zmieniła amerykańską literaturę.
Osiemnaście lat temu Sethe udało się uciec i od tego czasu nie jest już niewolnicą. Mieszka w Ohio wraz z córką Denver oraz teściową. Nie czuje się jednak wolna. Wciąż dręczą ją wspomnienia z poprzedniego życia, a jej dom nawiedza duch utraconego dziecka. To bezimienna córka Sethe, na której grobie wyryto tylko jedno słowo: Umiłowana. Toni Morrison w mistrzowski sposób utrwaliła w literaturze... Najsłynniejsze dzieło noblistki Toni Morrison w nowym tłumaczeniu Kai Gucio. Nagrodzona Pulitzerem powieść arcydzieło, która zmieniła ameryka�...
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59,90 zł |
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Beloved
ISBN: 9780099511656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghos
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new li...
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50,87 zł |
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Song of Solomon
ISBN: 9781784879129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
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Love
ISBN: 9781400078479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town.
In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison s protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey s memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to outright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd,... Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class tha...
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63,67 zł |
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God Help the Child
ISBN: 9780307740922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself,... A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ... |
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63,67 zł |
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Rezitativ
ISBN: 9783498003647 / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die Wiederentdeckung von Toni Morrisons einziger Erzählung, erstmals 1983 erschienen und nie zuvor ins Deutsche übersetzt, ist eine literarische Sensation und enthält die Quintessenz ihres Schaffens. Die Nobelpreisträgerin spielt darin mit unserer Wahrnehmung: Von Beginn an wissen wir, dass eine der beiden Hauptfiguren schwarz ist und die andere weiß - doch welche ist welche? Twyla und Roberta begegnen sich als Achtjährige im Kinderheim. Sie werden Vertraute, geben einander Halt und Trost. Sie sind unzertrennlich, doch später verlieren sie sich aus den Augen. Zufällig... Die Wiederentdeckung von Toni Morrisons einziger Erzählung, erstmals 1983 erschienen und nie zuvor ins Deutsche übersetzt, ist eine literarische ... |
cena:
90,51 zł |