wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Weinstock Among the Dying
ISBN: 9781929355433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Blumenthal creates a moving portrait of the human struggle for psychological growth, as well as a witty satire of life at the top of the academic world. The work won the 1994 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Best Work of Jewish Fiction.
Blumenthal creates a moving portrait of the human struggle for psychological growth, as well as a witty satire of life at the top of the academic worl...
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79,57 zł |
All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781943665266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother. As fate would have it, his adoptive father, a German-Jewish refugee raised by a loveless and embittered stepmother, has inflicted on his stepson a fate uncannily similar to his own. With these revelations, the "mysteries" that seem to have permeated Michael's childhood are laid bare, triggering a quest for belonging that will infiltrate the author's entire adult life.
Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother. As fate would have it, his adopti...
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75,11 zł |
Fahjem: clear blue sky
ISBN: 9781985082144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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37,09 zł |
Don't Die
ISBN: 9781735172798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,31 zł |
No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012
ISBN: 9780983294474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. -The finest collection of poetry I've read in a very long time.- I took my melancholy disposition and from my father the ability to get through life with a bullet in one arm. --from -Genetics- No Hurry is a book of poems for the aging in body but youthful in spirit, for those interested in continuing to ask most meaningful questions as they head -downhill- What does it mean to be alive? What shall we make of this journey from birth to death? How can we find meaning and joy amid our mortality and... -The finest collection of poetry I've read in a very long time.- I took my melancholy disposition ... |
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70,73 zł |
Just Three Minutes, Please: Thinking Out Loud on Public Radio
ISBN: 9781938228773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these brief essays, Blumenthal provides unconventional insights into our contemporary political, educational, and social systems, challenging us to look beyond the headlines to the psychological and sociological realities that underlie our conventional thinking.
In these brief essays, Blumenthal provides unconventional insights into our contemporary political, educational, and social systems, challenging us to...
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75,11 zł |
Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa
ISBN: 9780912887388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo. Rita was a Lithuanian-born childhood member of the Hitler Youth who had gone on to have a life as adventure-filled as Beryl Markham's in West With the Night. "A lot of people have asked me whether they could write 'my book, ' Rita wrote to Michael shortly thereafter, "and I said no, because I was envisaging a story both sad and happy, but certainly... In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a ... |
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123,77 zł |
The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration
ISBN: 9781582430126 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This text is one man's quest to understand the failure of the German-Jewish relationship to explain the character and attitudes of Germany's assimilated Jews over a 300-year period. Juxtaposing the broad picture of history and politics in Germany against the stories of six of his own ancestors, Blumental explores the triumphs and tragedies of Jews of succesive generations, seeking the sources and outcomes of the prejudices that separated them from other Germans.
This text is one man's quest to understand the failure of the German-Jewish relationship to explain the character and attitudes of Germany's assimilat...
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101,45 zł |