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The Secrets of Jin-Shei
ISBN: 9780060750589 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The epic story of a sisterhood where blood relations are nothing compared to the unbreakable bond of the secret sisters -- the bond of Jin-Shei. The epic story of a sisterhood where blood relations are nothing compared to the unbreakable bond of the secret sisters -- the bond of Jin-Shei. |
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69,10 zł |
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The People's Republic of Desire
ISBN: 9780060782771 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An uncensored, eye-opening, and laugh-out-loud funny portrait of modern China as seen through the lives and loves of four professional women in contemporary Beijing. Divorce, oral sex, plastic surgery. Indulging in a Starbucks coffee, admitting to the emotional repercussions of a one-night stand, giggling over watching pornography. These once taboo subjects have become the substance of daily conversations and practices among urban women in contemporary Beijing. It seems that no one remembers what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. A cross between Sex and the... An uncensored, eye-opening, and laugh-out-loud funny portrait of modern China as seen through the lives and loves of four professional women in con... |
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73,71 zł |
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A Cab Called Reliable
ISBN: 9780312190309 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An extraordinary debut and exciting new voice in multicultural fiction. An extraordinary debut and exciting new voice in multicultural fiction. |
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82,93 zł |
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Cultural Revolution
ISBN: 9780345396488 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "POWERFUL...STRIKING...In a series of sharp, spare stories, Norman Wong chronicles a family's escape from China to Macao, Hong Kong and, eventually, Hawaii."
--The New York Times Book Review With rich images and subtle, beautiful prose, Cultural Revolution tells a classic story of immigrant family ties and coming of age in a unique new voice: that of a gay Chinese-American man. In eleven linked stories, Norman Wong observes the fragile world of the resilient Lau family through the eyes of their "number one son," Michael, who must bear the weight of the family name while hiding his... "POWERFUL...STRIKING...In a series of sharp, spare stories, Norman Wong chronicles a family's escape from China to Macao, Hong Kong and, eventually, H...
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69,14 zł |
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Audrey Hepburns Neck
ISBN: 9780671526726 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a unique perspective and unusual insight into modern Japan and its wartime past, Audrey Hepburn's Neck is also a shrewd study of cross-cultural obsessions, and of erotic, romantic and familial love.
The American author Alan Brown crosses both racial and cultural lines to tell his story through the eyes of a young, handsome Japanese cartoonist, Toshiyuki ("Toshi") Okamoto, who traces his strong attraction to Western women bock to his ninth birthday, when his mother took him to see Audrey Hepburn in the movie "Roman Holiday." Leaving behind a sad, silent childhood --... Offering a unique perspective and unusual insight into modern Japan and its wartime past, Audrey Hepburn's Neck is also a shrewd study of cross...
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96,57 zł |
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A Nail Through the Heart : A Novel of Bangkok
ISBN: 9780061257223 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out. Poke agrees to take in Superman, Miaow's troubled and terrifying friend from the gutter. Then he agrees to help locate a distraught Aussie woman's missing uncle and accepts a generous payment to find a blackmailing... Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembli... |
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69,10 zł |
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Futureproof
ISBN: 9780061656835 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No past. No future. Only now. Originally a self-publishing success launched on N. Frank Daniels's MySpace page, the novel Futureproof tells the story of Luke and his friends as they navigate Atlanta's subculture of delinquents. In short order, the seemingly harmless high from his first cigarette sends Luke on a downward spiral that ends only after years of self-abuse. It is an extreme cautionary tale told with sensitivity, ferocity, and grit. No past. No future. Only now. Originally a self-publishing success launched on N. Frank Daniels's MySpace page, the novel Futureproof |
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64,49 zł |
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Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself
ISBN: 9780061771279 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ann Mah's Kitchen Chinese is a delicious debut novel, seasoned with just the right balance of humor and heart, and sprinkled with fascinating cultural tidbits."
--Claire Cook, bestselling author of Must Love Dogs Kitchen Chinese, Ann Mah's funny and poignant first novel about a young Chinese-American woman who travels to Beijing to discover food, family, and herself is a delight--complete with mouth-watering descriptions of Asian culinary delicacies, from Peking duck and Mongolian hot pot to the colorful, lesser known Ants in a Tree that will delight... "Ann Mah's Kitchen Chinese is a delicious debut novel, seasoned with just the right balance of humor and heart, and sprinkled with fascinatin...
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64,49 zł |
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Take Me Home
ISBN: 9780062002310 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Take Me Home is a riveting novel of two heroic people attempting to transcend the prejudices of their time and place. . . . Skillful artistry and empathy." --Ron Rash, author of Serena and One Foot in Eden
"Leung's writing is exquisite, deceptively plain, deeply felt and spiritually high, with dead-on depictions of the world as it is." --San Francisco Chronicle From Brian Leung, author of Lost Men and World Famous Love Acts (winner of both the Asian American Literary Award and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) comes a... "Take Me Home is a riveting novel of two heroic people attempting to transcend the prejudices of their time and place. . . . Skillful artistr...
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134,18 zł |
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Someone Else's Garden
ISBN: 9780062000354 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the vein of Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us, Dipika Rai's soulful debut novel is a moving multi-generational tale of mothers and daughters in rural India struggling to break free of the social traditions fencing them in. Standing out among works by Shobhan Bantwal, Chitra Divakaruni, and other emerging Indian writers, Rai's Someone Else's Garden offers a rare look at life in the Indian countryside, far from the more well-trafficked literary settings of New Delhi and Mumbai, in an evocative, atmospheric story of one woman's soulful fight to take control of her life.
In the vein of Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us, Dipika Rai's soulful debut novel is a moving multi-generational tale of mothers and dau...
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64,49 zł |
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Crazy Rich Asians : A Novel
ISBN: 9780345803788 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The acclaimed international bestseller ("A dizzily shopaholic comedy." --The New York Times) soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just...
The acclaimed international bestseller ("A dizzily shopaholic comedy." --The New York Times) soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Cons...
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73,75 zł |
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The Train That Had Wings : Selected Stories of M. Mukundan
ISBN: 9780891480914 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,14 zł |
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Days of Black
ISBN: 9781470141134 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India, 1984.The Indian government quarantines Amritsar and enforces a total media blackout to prepare for an assault against 'separatists' taking refuge in the Golden Temple--the most sacred temple of the Sikhs. They choose a religious anniversary to attack. The temple and Amritsar are crowded with the most devout pilgrims from all over India. They attack the Golden Temple with more than 65 000 soldiers to exterminate less than 150 'separatists'. An entire generation is wiped out. After the attack, the government keeps the temple closed for months to clean up the carnage. They continue to...
India, 1984.The Indian government quarantines Amritsar and enforces a total media blackout to prepare for an assault against 'separatists' taking refu...
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38,48 zł |
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Eyes Behind Belligerence
ISBN: 9781470168162 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Could you forgive the unspeakable? Culminating a bitter-sweet epic and traditional coming-of-age story, 'Eyes Behind Belligerence' sets precedence to fear and hatred, to families torn apart, and to the calloused response of internment camps. While two Japanese-American families endure the wake of Pearl Harbor's wrath, each member must face the most painful question of their life: Where does their loyalty stand? Told in five parts, this novel unravels the challenges between two unlikely Nisei friends, Jim and Russell, into adulthood during the Second World War. As restrictions are imposed,...
Could you forgive the unspeakable? Culminating a bitter-sweet epic and traditional coming-of-age story, 'Eyes Behind Belligerence' sets precedence to ...
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87,12 zł |
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Asian Voices from Beantown: Short Stories from the Aarw Writers' Group
ISBN: 9781477466674 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unique in their particularities, universal in their resonance, these stories reveal experiences of Asia America that call historical Boston their home. The resilient voices move through the challenges of justice deferred and celebrate the complexities of family, love, memory, and imagination.
Unique in their particularities, universal in their resonance, these stories reveal experiences of Asia America that call historical Boston their home...
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72,36 zł |
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Chopstyx
ISBN: 9781475095074 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's 2000: the Year of the Golden Dragon has turned into a Y2K disaster for Jessica Chou. Her Northern California dotcom career is a shambles. Unemployed for ten months and her engagement dragging into an unplanned third year, she and her boyfriend Vincent and their 18 month-old daughter move in with her parents. It doesn't help that once a week she has to face the success of her beautiful older sister, an IPO lawyer married to a high-tech mogul. Jessica yearns to find a vocation that will bring her fame and fortune, but her only asset is her singing voice. What, then, is a college-educated...
It's 2000: the Year of the Golden Dragon has turned into a Y2K disaster for Jessica Chou. Her Northern California dotcom career is a shambles. Unemplo...
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72,56 zł |
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Ying-Ying 2: Jasmine by the Bay
ISBN: 9781479276035 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eight-year old Jasmine, whose Chinese name is Ying-Ying, leaves Chicago with her mother to live in San Francisco. There she learns about family, teasing, friendship, being in charge of her nephew, trouble at summer camp, the violin, appreciating teachers, and her mother's wisdom.
Eight-year old Jasmine, whose Chinese name is Ying-Ying, leaves Chicago with her mother to live in San Francisco. There she learns about family, teasi...
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48,15 zł |
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Brothers Under a Same Sky
ISBN: 9780824838386 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nam Kun and Nam Ki Han, brothers born on a Wahiawa sugar plantation, could not have been more different. Pragmatic and stubborn, Nam Kun dutifully supported his family but refused to become "one Christian fanatic" like his widowed mother and youngest sibling, Nam Ki. When Nam Ki is drafted into the army at the start of the Korean War, he tells Nam Kun that as a Christian he cannot kill. "You gotta do it," Nam Kun replies, thinking the war will make a man of this "mama's boy. " Nam Ki finds refuge from the chaos and brutality of life as a soldier in his love for a young Korean woman,... Nam Kun and Nam Ki Han, brothers born on a Wahiawa sugar plantation, could not have been more different. Pragmatic and stubborn, Nam Kun dutifully ... |
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245,23 zł |
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Mo-O of the Kawainui: Short Fiction
ISBN: 9781483944760 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of seven short stories and one long one, "Mo-o of the Kawainui," after which the volume is named, represents an experiment in voice, my struggle to express fictively the complexities of my personal background and upbringing. The first, "Crabs," represents my original breakthrough in voice. It is through the protagonist, Doc Chang, and his crab Chester that I am able to describe one of the teeming places of my childhood--a place where awe and imagination were alive every morning and every day--and to hear and see into the darkest, most subterranean places of my life. Despite...
This collection of seven short stories and one long one, "Mo-o of the Kawainui," after which the volume is named, represents an experiment in voice, m...
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53,19 zł |
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Singhead
ISBN: 9781484996195 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SINGHEAD by Mokham Singh The tragic story of an American Sikh who single-handily takes on Skinhead terrorism in his hometown. After being kicked out of every school in Beaumont, Oregon, Harminder Singh's last chance at an education is alternate school where his teacher Aman Singh tries to put him on the straight and narrow. All goes awry when a local skinhead gang terrorizes the school and attempts to lure Aman's students into gang warfare. Not for the faint of heart, Singhead is a dark and profound examination of how the seeds of racial hatred can explode into brutal and senseless violence....
SINGHEAD by Mokham Singh The tragic story of an American Sikh who single-handily takes on Skinhead terrorism in his hometown. After being kicked out o...
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77,20 zł |