wyszukanych pozycji: 77
The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Colonial Societies
ISBN: 9780330522953 / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the author's account of his journey in 1960 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He has recorded his impressions of Trinidad and former colonies in the West Indies and South America.
This is the author's account of his journey in 1960 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He has recorded his impressions o...
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Half a Life
ISBN: 9780330522854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Willy Chandran's father married a low caste woman, and soon came to loathe the sight of her. From this unhappy union, Willy and his sister were born. It is from here that 'Half A Life' takes off as we follow Willy's journey to find a place in the world.
Willy Chandran's father married a low caste woman, and soon came to loathe the sight of her. From this unhappy union, Willy and his sister were born. ...
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50,87 zł |
Magic Seeds
ISBN: 9780330522878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Willie Chandran - whom we first meet in 'Half a Life' - succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister and joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. After several years in prison, he returns to England where he comes to see himself as a man.
Willie Chandran - whom we first meet in 'Half a Life' - succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister and joins an underground movement in Ind...
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59,43 zł |
The Writer and the World: Essays
ISBN: 9780330523691 / Miękka / 2011 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This collection of V.S. Naipul's essays, the first of two volumes, features pieces taken from his earlier books - 'The Overcrowded Barracoon', 'The Return of Eva Peron' and 'Finding the Centre' and other essays. It concentrates on his writings about India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora.
This collection of V.S. Naipul's essays, the first of two volumes, features pieces taken from his earlier books - 'The Overcrowded Barracoon', 'The Re...
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66,14 zł |
A Writer's People : Ways of Looking and Feeling
ISBN: 9780330522984 / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.
In 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.
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70,25 zł |
Sangam: The Jhansi Legacy
ISBN: 9781491862223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. SANGAM: The Jhansi Legacy, captures the struggles of exiled peoples of the Indian subcontinent in the Caribbean known hitherto as "indentured coolies" but who are revealed in the novel as representative classes of Indians of differing socio-economic backgrounds who had created a strong opposition to British rule of the Indian subcontinent. It is a moving story that captures the struggles of these people in the hostile environment of sugar plantations where injustice, lack of decency, and oppression of the worst kind prevailed. At first, there seemed little that could be done to alleviate the...
SANGAM: The Jhansi Legacy, captures the struggles of exiled peoples of the Indian subcontinent in the Caribbean known hitherto as "indentured coolies"...
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173,13 zł |
The Chip-Chip Gatherers
ISBN: 9780141197227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At the centre of this story of a crowded, ramshackle community in Trinidad stands Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company. Sheer bloody-minded strength of will has made Egbert the richest man in the Settlement."
At the centre of this story of a crowded, ramshackle community in Trinidad stands Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company. ...
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70,25 zł |
Dancing Moon Under the Peepal Tree: A Novel Set in Trinidad at Fifty
ISBN: 9781465308719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 zł |
North of South
ISBN: 9781982151140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,89 zł |
The Mansion
ISBN: 9781450015097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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178,23 zł |
Sangam: The Jhansi Legacy
ISBN: 9781491862247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. SANGAM: The Jhansi Legacy, captures the struggles of exiled peoples of the Indian subcontinent in the Caribbean known hitherto as "indentured coolies" but who are revealed in the novel as representative classes of Indians of differing socio-economic backgrounds who had created a strong opposition to British rule of the Indian subcontinent. It is a moving story that captures the struggles of these people in the hostile environment of sugar plantations where injustice, lack of decency, and oppression of the worst kind prevailed. At first, there seemed little that could be done to alleviate the...
SANGAM: The Jhansi Legacy, captures the struggles of exiled peoples of the Indian subcontinent in the Caribbean known hitherto as "indentured coolies"...
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129,64 zł |
Suwan and the Circle of Seven
ISBN: 9781436367097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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Fireflies
ISBN: 9780141197234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Vimla Lutchman is a member of the powerful and wealthy Khoja family. As her disastrous marriage to a local bus driver unravels, she scrapes a living by running a roadside vegetable stall and finds compensation in trading, in her children, in fortune-tellers and finally in solitude.
Vimla Lutchman is a member of the powerful and wealthy Khoja family. As her disastrous marriage to a local bus driver unravels, she scrapes a living b...
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70,25 zł |
Dancing Moon Under the Peepal Tree: A Novel Set in Trinidad at Fifty
ISBN: 9781469145532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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178,23 zł |
The Mansion
ISBN: 9781450015080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 zł |
The Mystic Masseur
ISBN: 9780375707148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel his first V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. To understand a little better, one has to realize that in the 1940s masseurs were the island s medical practitioners of choice. As one character observes, I know the sort of doctors they have in Trinidad. They think nothing of killing two, three people before breakfast.
Ganesh s ascent is variously aided and... In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel his first V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and im...
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76,81 zł |
In a Free State
ISBN: 9781529013030 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
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55,97 zł |
A House For Mr Biswas
ISBN: 9781857152135 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him.
Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally ...
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86,51 zł |
A Way in the World
ISBN: 9780679761662 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."--New York Times.
In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to...
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72,77 zł |
Miguel Street
ISBN: 9780375713873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say Slum because he could see no more. But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build the thing without a name. There s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. There s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders...
A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say Slum because he could see no more. But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad s ...
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64,68 zł |