Los empe?os de una casa
ISBN: 9788411269827 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,36 zł |
The Lonely Londoners
ISBN: 9781350496576 / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,36 zł |
Comedia nueva del apostolado en las Indias y martirio de un cacique
ISBN: 9788490078631 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,10 zł |
Be Pretty, Get Married, and Always Drink Tab: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780060563707 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to her colorful Mami Dearest, the life of young Gigi Anders will be simple if she can remember three maxims--be pretty, get married, and always drink TaB. Thus begins her instruction in the art of being a lady and the side effects of falling in love. As the granddaughter of Eastern European and Russian shtetl-reared grandparents who immigrated as teenagers in the early 1920s to the fierce tropical beauty of Cuba, Anders is heir apparent to a legacy of transatlantic alienation. With dazzling wit and hilarity mined from the depths of loss and yearning, Anders chronicles her... According to her colorful Mami Dearest, the life of young Gigi Anders will be simple if she can remember three maxims--be pretty, get married, and ... |
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86,06 zł |
Death and the Maiden
ISBN: 9780140246841 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before."
Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has jus...
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64,58 zł |
Adoration of the Old Woman
ISBN: 9780881454307 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set against the backdrop of Puerto Rico's struggle with the issue of statehood, a young woman, who speaks no Spanish, moves in with her 105-year-old great grandmother who speaks no English. Both women deal with problems of love - the younger with two new suitors and the older with the ghost of her husband's mistress. ..". There is more - much, much more - to Jose Rivera's new play, ADORATION OF THE OLD WOMAN. But the play's internal engine - its life and humor and earthiness - is driven by the shockingly profane, deeply poetic words of this spiritual old woman. Dona Belen may be the most...
Set against the backdrop of Puerto Rico's struggle with the issue of statehood, a young woman, who speaks no Spanish, moves in with her 105-year-old g...
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76,90 zł |
The Odyssey: A Stage Version
ISBN: 9780374523879 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros. Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca are pungently interspersed with a commentary by the blind singer Billy Blue. Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, the giant Cyclops, Circe and her revellers, ghosts, and mermaids are among the cast. With its vast sweep and richly figurative language, The Odyssey... With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, s... |
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64,58 zł |
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and the Haytian Earth
ISBN: 9780374528133 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first time In the history plays that comprise The Haitian Trilogy--Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours and The Haytian Earth--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and rebellion. In Henri Christophe and The Haytian Earth, Walcott re-casts the legacy of Haiti's violent revolutionaries--led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines and Henri... Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first time In the history plays that comprise The Haitian Trilogy--Hen... |
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120,54 zł |
Walker and the Ghost Dance
ISBN: 9780374528140 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion -- Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents -- into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history. In Walker, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised... Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a ca... |
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81,80 zł |
The Tempest
ISBN: 9780451527127 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's fantastical play that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. Prospero, sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, along with his daughter Miranda, has lived on an island for many years since his position was usurped by his brother Antonio. Then, as Antonio's ship passes near the island one day, Prospero conjures up a terrible storm... This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such as: - An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater
- A special introduction to the play by the editor, Robert... The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's fantastical play that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. Prospero, sorcerer and ...
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25,62 zł |
Letters from Cuba and Other Plays
ISBN: 9781555540760 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -You would be taxed to find a show with a sweeter temper.---The New York Times Based on three decades of letters Maria Irene Fornes received from her brother in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves back and forth in time and place and spirit, linking a young dancer and her relatives in Cuba. Also includes Terra Incognita and Manual for a Desperate Crossing. -You would be taxed to find a show with a sweeter temper.---The New York Times Based on three decades of letters Maria Irene Fornes re... |
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81,71 zł |
The Floating Island Plays
ISBN: 9781559360340 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Though his work is intimate in scale, the tale it implicitly tells is of epic historical dimensions, involving sweeping political, economic, social and religious change.- -Frank Rich, New York Times
In the Floating Island Plays Cuban-American dramatist Eduardo Machado explores the meaning of his homeland's history. This tragi-comic quartet tells the twentieth-century story of several extended families, linked by marriage and then by exile in the United States. The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa shows one family's climb to wealth in the Cuba of 1928-31. Castro's... -Though his work is intimate in scale, the tale it implicitly tells is of epic historical dimensions, involving sweeping political, economic, social a...
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90,20 zł |
Tejas Verdes
ISBN: 9781840025378 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tejas Verdes (-Green Gables-), once a seaside hotel, was an infamous Chilean torture and detention center during the early Pinochet years. One of the leading Spanish playwrights of his generation, Fermin Cabal's evocative play traces the life of a young woman who vanished one night in Santiago. Tejas Verdes (-Green Gables-), once a seaside hotel, was an infamous Chilean torture and detention center during the early Pinochet years. O... |
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60,40 zł |
Trade & Generations
ISBN: 9781854599124 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Trade, Debbie Tucker Green puts an intriguing spin on the unease we feel as tourists in a country poorer than our own. She focuses on three black women on a Caribbean island: a hip young Londoner with a loud mouth and plenty of attitude, an older professional seemingly sensitive to her surroundings, and a resident native. In Trade, Debbie Tucker Green puts an intriguing spin on the unease we feel as tourists in a country poorer than our own. She focuses on t... |
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52,97 zł |
Beautiful Cosmos: Performance And Belonging In The Caribbean Diaspora
ISBN: 9780745317663 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the musical sounds that people remember in the diaspora? What are the sounds they create? Recognising the importance that people attach to musical performances, this book explores the significance of widespread Caribbean genres in diaspora politics. Ramnarine uses ethnographic approaches to unravel creative processes of memory, innovation and production and to interrogate geographies of musical canons, hybridity discourses and culture theory. She challenges us to rethink diaspora as only being about displacement, to move beyond the limits of marginalisation and otherness, and to...
What are the musical sounds that people remember in the diaspora? What are the sounds they create? Recognising the importance that people attach to mu...
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159,02 zł |
The Novels and Plays of Eduardo Manet: An Adventure in Multiculturalism
ISBN: 9780271028286 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite Eduardo Manet's impressive accomplishments extending over half a century, this extraordinarily talented Cuban-French author remains relatively unknown in the United States. Phyllis Zatlin's book is the first to examine the multifaceted career of this dynamic bilingual writer. Playwright and novelist, theater and film director, Eduardo Manet (b. 1930) has been a major participant in the cultural worlds of both Cuba and France. His works have been internationally acclaimed: he has been nominated for the Prix Goncourt and was awarded a special Goncourt youth prize, and his... Despite Eduardo Manet's impressive accomplishments extending over half a century, this extraordinarily talented Cuban-French author remains relativ... |
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192,83 zł |
The Floating Island Plays
ISBN: 9781559360357 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,82 zł |
Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment
ISBN: 9780252076558 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama.... Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, thi... |
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115,80 zł |
Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment
ISBN: 9780252034640 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama. An...
Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this a...
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450,71 zł |