The Hundred Secret Senses
ISBN: 9780143119081 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "wisest and most captivating novel" (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Valley of Amazement
Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage,... The "wisest and most captivating novel" (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Valley of Amazement <...
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Song of the Silk Road
ISBN: 9780758241825 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this richly imaginative novel, Mingmei Yip--author of Peach Blossom Pavilion and Petals From the Sky--follows one woman's daunting journey along China's fabled Silk Road.
As a girl growing up in Hong Kong, Lily Lin was captivated by photographs of the desert--its long, lonely vistas and shifting sand dunes. Now living in New York, Lily is struggling to finish her graduate degree when she receives an astonishing offer. An aunt she never knew existed will pay Lily a huge sum to travel across China's desolate Taklamakan Desert--and carry out a series of tasks along the way.... In this richly imaginative novel, Mingmei Yip--author of Peach Blossom Pavilion and Petals From the Sky--follows one woman's daunting jo...
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86,31 zł |
Leche
ISBN: 9781566892544 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young Filipino American's riotous adventures through the sprawling tragicomic landscape of modern-day Manila.
A young Filipino American's riotous adventures through the sprawling tragicomic landscape of modern-day Manila.
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77,46 zł |
The Sweetness of Tears
ISBN: 9780061780103 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on a young woman and her family. A paperback original from a superb writer whose first novel was enthusiastically praised by Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Haji, an American of Indo-Pakistani descent, writes with grace, heart, and wisdom about the...
From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional,...
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64,69 zł |
Miss New India
ISBN: 9780547750378 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Enchanting Mukherjee's pitch-perfect ear for character and mood and her storytelling gifts capture the exhilarating restlessness of a young Indian woman's pursuit of happiness. Miss New India illuminates as brilliantly as it entertains." Amy Tan
Anjali Bose s prospects don t look great. Born into a traditional lower-middle class family, she lives in a backwater town with only an arranged marriage on the horizon. But her ambition, charm, and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her charismatic and influential expat teacher, Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to... "Enchanting Mukherjee's pitch-perfect ear for character and mood and her storytelling gifts capture the exhilarating restlessness of a young Indian w...
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68,83 zł |
Little Fires Everywhere
ISBN: 9780735224292 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Witty, wise and tender. It's a marvel." - Paula Hawkins, New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives
"I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath... "Witty, wise and tender. It's a marvel." - Paula Hawkins, New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Int...
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116,52 zł |
Tropic of Orange
ISBN: 9781566894869 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fiercely satirical. . . . Yamashita presents an] intricate plot with mordant wit." --New York Times Book Review "A stunner. . . . An exquisite mystery novel. But this is a novel of dystopia and apocalypse; the mystery concerns the tragic flaws of human nature." --Library Journal (starred review) "Brilliant. . . . An ingenious interpretation of social woes." --Booklist (starred review) "Yamashita handles her eccentrics and the setting of their adventures with panache. David Foster Wallace meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez." --Publishers... "Fiercely satirical. . . . Yamashita presents an] intricate plot with mordant wit." --New York Times Book Review "A stunner. . . . An... |
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77,68 zł |
Brazil-Maru
ISBN: 9781566894845 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese immigrants in Brazil build an isolated communal settlement in the rain forest, prey to the charisma of one man.
Japanese immigrants in Brazil build an isolated communal settlement in the rain forest, prey to the charisma of one man.
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73,14 zł |
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
ISBN: 9781566894852 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." --New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." --San Francisco Chronicle "Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil." --Village Voice "Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another." --LA Weekly "Amuses and frightens at the same time." --Newsday "Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world." --Booklist (starred... "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." --New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and... |
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77,68 zł |
The Facebook Nostradamus
ISBN: 9781477517154 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Royal Wedding Osama's Gory Death Days before they happened, a modern-day psychic dreamt of these events and posted them on her Facebook page, thereby revealing the best kept secret of 2011 and almost ruining one of the most important operations that the U.S. Military has ever performed. Follow this modern-day Facebook Nostradamus in her meteoric rise to fame & fortune as her prophetic "big world events" dreams, which she had posted on her Facebook page, go viral, creating enormous buzz among followers and the public. Brace yourselves, fasten your Kindles....it's gonna be a bumpy read
The Royal Wedding Osama's Gory Death Days before they happened, a modern-day psychic dreamt of these events and posted them on her Facebook page, th...
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67,97 zł |
The Brotherhood: The Brotherhood Trilogy
ISBN: 9780988351929 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Brotherhood is Tejas Desai's first novel. Set in contemporary New York City, this hypnotic thriller moves at a breathtaking pace and keeps you guessing until the very end. Niral Solanke, a failed writer, has become a sleazy private investigator who tails wealthy adulterers. But when his childhood friend Priya commits suicide, her brother Amrat believes it could be murder-perpetrated by wealthy financier Vishal Patel. As Niral investigates, he realizes that nothing is what it seems, as he is confronted by betrayal, religious hypocrisy, sexual deviancy and much more, until shocking...
The Brotherhood is Tejas Desai's first novel. Set in contemporary New York City, this hypnotic thriller moves at a breathtaking pace and keeps you gue...
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67,75 zł |
Birds of Paradise Lost
ISBN: 9781597092685 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Finalist for the California Book Award* The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re-education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they... *Finalist for the California Book Award* The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they ch... |
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68,83 zł |
Apology
ISBN: 9781571311047 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,05 zł |
Good Indian Girls
ISBN: 9781593765316 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In twelve startling and vividly imagined stories, Ranbir Singh Sidhu overturns the lives of ordinary Indians living in America to bring us a bold debut collection, Good Indian Girls. A woman attends a de-cluttering class in search of love. A low-level, drunkard diplomat finds himself mysteriously transferred to the Consulate in San Francisco, where everyone believes he is a great, lost poet. An anthropological expedition searching for early human fossils goes disastrously wrong and the leader turns to searching for the very first sounds made by humans. The wife of a retiring Consul...
In twelve startling and vividly imagined stories, Ranbir Singh Sidhu overturns the lives of ordinary Indians living in America to bring us a bold debu...
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73,14 zł |
Blood Hina
ISBN: 9781938849190 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fourth installment of the Mas Arai mystery series and the precursor to Strawberry Yellow, Blood Hina is now in paperback for the first time. Mas Arai's best friend Haruo is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when the ancient Japanese doll display that belongs to Haruo's fiancee goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To save his friend's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heartbreaking memories, and murder dating all the way back to the Japanese American detention centers of World War II and... The fourth installment of the Mas Arai mystery series and the precursor to Strawberry Yellow, Blood Hina is now in paperback for the ... |
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64,73 zł |
Bombay Bhel
ISBN: 9780615763576 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A schoolboy's loyalty to a street vendor is tested when the vendor disappears without notice. A grandmother prepares to begin a new chapter in her life. Bombay's tangled web of bureaucracy threatens the livelihood of an ex-serviceman. Like the city's ubiquitous snack food, Bombay Bhel blends a variety of ingredients to serve up glimpses of life among the Goan and Anglo-Indian communities-minorities in one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. The interlinked stories are set in the late twentieth century, before a wave of anticolonialism crested across India and resulted in the city's...
A schoolboy's loyalty to a street vendor is tested when the vendor disappears without notice. A grandmother prepares to begin a new chapter in her lif...
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46,40 zł |
Tale for the Time Being
ISBN: 9780143124870 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki--shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award "A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will...
A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki--shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award |
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81,99 zł |
Chorus of Mushrooms: 20th Anniversay Edition
ISBN: 9781927063484 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its publication in 1994, Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms has been recognized as a true classic of Asian Canadian literature. One of the initial entries in NeWest Press' long-running Nunatak First Fiction Series, Hiromi Goto's inaugural outing was recognized at the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes as the Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian regions that year, as well as becoming co-winner of the Canada-Japan book award. Goto's acclaimed feminist novel is an examination of the Japanese Canadian immigrant experience, focusing on the lives of three generations of... Since its publication in 1994, Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms has been recognized as a true classic of Asian Canadian literature. One of ... |
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86,09 zł |
Dragon's Fin Soup
ISBN: 9780986053344 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dragon's Fin Soup Eight Modern Siamese Fables in the tradition of the Marx Brothers Eight Rowdy Tales where East and West don't meet-they collide Eight Frightening Ruminations where nothing is as it seems, and even the unreal is an illusion Eight Delectable Servings That could only have sprung from the fevered mind of . . . S. P. Somtow The most unique writer of this, or any other, millennium. "One of the most gifted masters of colour and spectacle." Theodore Sturgeon. S. P. Somtow is the J. D. Salinger of Siam." George Axelrod.
Dragon's Fin Soup Eight Modern Siamese Fables in the tradition of the Marx Brothers Eight Rowdy Tales where East and West don't meet-they collide Eigh...
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86,31 zł |
Land of Smiles
ISBN: 9780452281851 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A remarkable story, a courageous performance, and we're privileged to get it. Los Angeles Times
Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man's journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in Oakland, California.The novel opens with a Laotian boy, Boontakone, who swims across the Mekong River, leaving his old life behind, and losing his mother and sister in the process. In a refugee camp in Thailand, Boontakone struggles to decipher the secret codes of his new... A remarkable story, a courageous performance, and we're privileged to get it. Los Angeles Times
Set in the 1970s, in the era of the ... |
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69,05 zł |