African Stories
ISBN: 9781476767154 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories--a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer--is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life. This is Doris Lessing's Africa--where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa. First published in 1965, and out of...
Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories--a central book in the work of a truly bel...
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85,47 zł |
Tales from the Holy Land
ISBN: 9780986059407 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,98 zł |
The Lowland
ISBN: 9780307278265 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - A Time Top Fiction Book - An NPR "Great Read" - A Chicago Tribune Best Book - A USA Today Best Book - A People magazine Top 10 Book - A Barnes and Noble Best New Book - A Good Reads Best Book - A Kirkus Best Fiction Book - A Slate Favorite Book - A Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book - An Apple Top 10 Book National Book Award Finalist and shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize The Lowland is an engrossing family saga steeped in history: the story of...A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - A Time Top Fiction Book - An NPR "Great Read" - A Chicago Tribune Best Book - A... |
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76,92 zł |
The Full Circle
ISBN: 9781900355803 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Full Circle takes to a conclusion the story of Conrad, the son of Harry Bridgeman and his Armenian wife Olga, the two principal characters in Haig Tahta's Constantinople trilogy. The novel refers to events and characters not only in the trilogy but also in the novel that immediately precedes it - Brothers. However, The Full Circle stands entirely on its own and is a great read even without having explored the earlier books. As is the case in many of Tahta's novels, the issue of personal identity looms large. The Full Circle, written from the point of view of several different characters,...
The Full Circle takes to a conclusion the story of Conrad, the son of Harry Bridgeman and his Armenian wife Olga, the two principal characters in Haig...
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96,93 zł |
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
ISBN: 9781478307419 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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62,60 zł |
Bouvard et Pécuchet
ISBN: 9781479316625 / Francuski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gustave Flaubert BOUVARD ET PECUCHET Oeuvre posthume (parution 1881)"
Gustave Flaubert BOUVARD ET PECUCHET Oeuvre posthume (parution 1881)"
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71,57 zł |
Yuletide Angels
ISBN: 9780615933375 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dina is searching for a special angel to top her Christmas tree, one that looks like her Japanese, Irish, German, and Mexican sons. Her husband Julio struggles with his disdain of holiday hype. Can this family and their friends come to rediscover what makes the Christmas season a time worth treasuring? And will a fruitcake nobody wants find a home?
Dina is searching for a special angel to top her Christmas tree, one that looks like her Japanese, Irish, German, and Mexican sons. Her husband Julio ...
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53,84 zł |
Night in Shanghai
ISBN: 9780544334458 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical fiction at its best. Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
Sailing to Shanghai in 1936, Thomas Greene goes from playing classical piano for pennies in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with his own servants, the leader of a black jazz orchestra. Song Yuhua has been bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai s toughest crime boss, but risks her life spying on him for the Communist Party. With Shanghai shattered by the Japanese invasion, Thomas and Song find one another and forge a bond neither can deny. Torn between music and survival, freedom and... Historical fiction at its best. Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
Sailing to Shanghai in 1936, Thomas Greene goes from pla... |
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63,89 zł |
Aliens of Affection: Stories
ISBN: 9781480464117 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idiosyncratic genius of Padgett Powell shines through in nine stories that bend the conventions of short fiction
Padgett Powell's literary stage is a blurred vision of the American South. His characters are bored, sad, assured, confused, deluded, and often just one step away from madness. The stories they populate are madder still, delivered by a voice enthralling and distinctive. Whether he's chronicling a housewife's encouragement of adolescent lust, following two good ol' boys on their search for a Chinese healer, or delving into the mind of an unstable moped accident... The idiosyncratic genius of Padgett Powell shines through in nine stories that bend the conventions of short fiction
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72,61 zł |
Edisto Revisited
ISBN: 9781480464155 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the sequel to Powell's acclaimed debut, Edisto, Simons Manigault is older-if not particularly wiser-and searching for the cure to his restlessness in memory, travel, and forbidden love Fourteen years after we first met Simons Manigault, our protagonist is newly graduated from Clemson University, bored, unfocused, and idling his summer away at his mother's home in Edisto, South Carolina. Not yet ready to fully embrace adulthood, Simons finds himself surrendering to cynicism, as well as to the temptations of his "turned-out-well" first cousin, Patricia. To avoid sinking further into his rut,...
In the sequel to Powell's acclaimed debut, Edisto, Simons Manigault is older-if not particularly wiser-and searching for the cure to his restlessness ...
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72,61 zł |
A Woman Named Drown
ISBN: 9781480464216 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed by Time as an "extravagantly comic" novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America's South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum-pool shark
On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a "woman named Drown."... Hailed by Time as an "extravagantly comic" novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America's South that foll...
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72,61 zł |
Her Father's Daughter
ISBN: 9781494837648 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,23 zł |
Brooklyn Boy
ISBN: 9781491719619 / Angielski / Miękka / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1945 in Long Beach, New York, when three-year-old Brian Farley receives the scare of a lifetime. As little Brian bounces on his father's stomach in a second-floor bedroom of their summer house, his father suddenly loses his grip, sending Brian out through the screen window and onto the sand below. As the summer house, normally a place of peace and respite, disrupts into chaos, little Brian has no idea that this particular event is just one of the many escapades he will experience growing up as an Irish Catholic boy in Brooklyn and Long Beach. Brian embarks on a memorable coming-of-age...
It is 1945 in Long Beach, New York, when three-year-old Brian Farley receives the scare of a lifetime. As little Brian bounces on his father's stomach...
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110,90 zł |
The Story Hour
ISBN: 9780062344120 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a "perceptive and . . . piercing writer," comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances. An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely... From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book ... |
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111,07 zł |
Brooklyn Boy
ISBN: 9781491719657 / Angielski / Twarda / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1945 in Long Beach, New York, when three-year-old Brian Farley receives the scare of a lifetime. As little Brian bounces on his father's stomach in a second-floor bedroom of their summer house, his father suddenly loses his grip, sending Brian out through the screen window and onto the sand below. As the summer house, normally a place of peace and respite, disrupts into chaos, little Brian has no idea that this particular event is just one of the many escapades he will experience growing up as an Irish Catholic boy in Brooklyn and Long Beach. Brian embarks on a memorable coming-of-age...
It is 1945 in Long Beach, New York, when three-year-old Brian Farley receives the scare of a lifetime. As little Brian bounces on his father's stomach...
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166,46 zł |
Southern Mail
ISBN: 9780156839013 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his first novel, Saint-Exupery pays homage to those elemental divinities-night, day, mountain, sea, and storm, turning an account of a routine mail flight from France to North Africa into an epic rendering of the pioneer days of commercial aviation. The book is also a poignant reminiscence of a tragic affair, in which the uncertainties of love and flight enhance the mystery of one another. Translated by Curtis Cate.
" In his first novel, Saint-Exupery pays homage to those elemental divinities-night, day, mountain, sea, and storm, turning an account of a routine mail...
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55,35 zł |
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories
ISBN: 9781590177662 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An NYRB Classics Original
Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she turned again and again to the short story. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive selection of Jansson s stories to appear in English. Many of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island solitude and the dangerous... An NYRB Classics Original
Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen... |
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80,99 zł |
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
ISBN: 9781496185013 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While not his most famous or well-known tale, Mark Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is nevertheless a classic from one of America's greatest wits and is worth the time to sit down and read it.
While not his most famous or well-known tale, Mark Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is nevertheless a classic from one of America's greatest w...
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Faint Promise of Rain
ISBN: 9781938314971 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding his territory. On a rare night of rain, a daughter, Adhira, is born to a family of Hindu temple dancers. Fearing a bleak future, her father against his wife and sons protests puts his faith in tradition and in his last child for each to save the other: he insists Adhira marry the temple deity and give herself to a wealthy patron. But after one terrible evening, she makes a bold choice that carries her family s story and their dance to a...
Shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding ...
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72,44 zł |
Pioneer Girl
ISBN: 9780143126225 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A powerful and wholly original American saga. "San Francisco Chronicle"
Bich Minh Nguyen s previous books the acclaimed memoir "Stealing Buddha s Dinner "and the American Book Award winning novel "Short Girls" established her talents as a writer of keen cultural observation. In "Pioneer Girl," Nguyen entwines the Asian American experience with the escapist pleasures of literature, in a dazzling mystery about the origins of Laura Ingalls Wilder s classic "Little House on the Prairie." Lee Lien has long dodged her Vietnamese family s rigid expectations by immersing herself in books. But... A powerful and wholly original American saga. "San Francisco Chronicle"
Bich Minh Nguyen s previous books the acclaimed memoir "Stealing Buddha s ... |
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76,92 zł |