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Sanctuaries of the Heart / Santuarios del Corazón: A Novella in English and Spanish
ISBN: 9780816524655 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The night that my father burned his house down, well, I was just beginning to gather newspaper clippings and notes for my novel. . . .
Petra Leyva has begun to write a novel about the Sanctuary Movement when she hears that her widowed, womanizing father has set fire to his house in a drunken rage. Overwhelmed by family memories, Petra begins a journey of introspection that leads her to explore what "sanctuary" really means to present-day Chicanas. Petra learns there are various types of sanctuaries not only those aiding Central America refugees but also less obvious safe... The night that my father burned his house down, well, I was just beginning to gather newspaper clippings and notes for my novel. . . . <...
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92,63 zł |
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The Peruvian Notebooks
ISBN: 9780816525065 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lyrical, deeply affecting novel portrays the life of an undocumented Peruvian immigrant to the United States and his struggle and failure to achieve the American dream.
Although Antonio Alday Gutierrez dreams of great success when coming to America, he accepts work as a security guard at a shopping mall and lives in a modest apartment. To soften the bleak reality of his disappointing life, Antonio invents a privileged Peruvian past to mislead his new American friends. He also sends letters to his family in Peru boasting of a thriving business and large home. This double deception... This lyrical, deeply affecting novel portrays the life of an undocumented Peruvian immigrant to the United States and his struggle and failure to achi...
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87,75 zł |
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The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories
ISBN: 9780915306121 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Censors "is the only bilingual collection of fiction by Luisa Valenzuela, one of Latin America's best known and most widely translated authors. This selection of stories from "Clara, Strange Things Happen Here, "and "Open Door, "which delves into the personal and political realities under authoritarian rule, gives a rich representation of her literary talent.
"The Censors "is the only bilingual collection of fiction by Luisa Valenzuela, one of Latin America's best known and most widely translated authors. T...
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63,37 zł |
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Rachel's Song
ISBN: 9780915306879 / Angielski / Miękka / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,49 zł |
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After the Bombs
ISBN: 9780915306893 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the years that follow the bombing of Guatemala City in 1954, young Max grows into manhood as he searches for his identity, his father, and his place in the struggles of his country.
In the years that follow the bombing of Guatemala City in 1954, young Max grows into manhood as he searches for his identity, his father, and his plac...
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57,61 zł |
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A traves de cien montanas (Across a Hundred Mountains)
ISBN: 9781416544746 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A traves de cien montanas es un relato asombroso y conmovedor de migracion, perdida y hallazgo; de como dos mujeres -- una nacida en Mexico y la otra en los Estados Unidos -- encuentran que sus vidas coinciden de la manera mas improbable. Luego de una tragedia que la separa de su madre, Juana Garcia abandona su pueblo en Mexico para encontrar a su padre que habia dejado casa y familia dos anos antes para buscar trabajo en los Estados Unidos. Sin dinero y necesitada de que alguien la ayudara a cruzar la frontera, Juana conoce a Adelina Vasquez, una joven que dejo a su familia...
A traves de cien montanas es un relato asombroso y conmovedor de migracion, perdida y hallazgo; de como dos mujeres -- una nacida en Mexico y l...
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65,51 zł |
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The Two Mujeres
ISBN: 9781879960008 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiction. Simply and sensually written, this love story between two Mexican Jewish women has been both scandalous and celebrated since its first publication. A romance that explores the constraints that family, community and society place on love, TWO MUJERES is an evocation of a desire that crosses boundaries and the risks of that transgression.
Fiction. Simply and sensually written, this love story between two Mexican Jewish women has been both scandalous and celebrated since its first public...
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38,35 zł |
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Send My Roots Rain
ISBN: 9781879960046 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wonderful, fast-paced first novel by a new talent, "Send My Roots Rain" is the story of an urban woman artist's experiences in a small southwestern town near the Mexican border.
A wonderful, fast-paced first novel by a new talent, "Send My Roots Rain" is the story of an urban woman artist's experiences in a small southwestern ...
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38,35 zł |
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Daughter of the Mountain/Un Cuento
ISBN: 9781879960077 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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34,49 zł |
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Dominoes : And Other Stories from the Puerto Rican
ISBN: 9781880684115 / Angielski / Twarda / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Dominoes &Other Stories from the Puerto Rican, " the long-awaited debut collection of fiction of playwright and poet Jack Agueros, is a unique window on the untold stories of the lives of Puerto-Rican Americans.
With a phenomenal richness of detail, Jack Agueros brings the reality of Puerto Rican experience in New York fully to life. In stories that span the decades of the 1940s through 1990s he recreates the barrio in all its multi-faceted immensity, with its candy stores, plaster saints, numbers collectors, tropical fruit vendors and sidewalk games of dominoes, its knife fights and... "Dominoes &Other Stories from the Puerto Rican, " the long-awaited debut collection of fiction of playwright and poet Jack Agueros, is a unique window...
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68,24 zł |
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Los pasos perdidos
ISBN: 9789707320024 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buscar la utopia es querer encontrar el paraiso, y viceversa. Alejo Carpentier lo intento por medio de un riquisimo lenguaje, de la naturaleza exuberante. Los pasos perdidos es un descenso a las raices, una travesia cargada de simbolos y de un a ancestral tradicion cultural. Esta novela, escrita narra un viaje de vuelta: el protagonista, musicologo, emprende una expedicion al pais de su infancia en busca de instrumentos musicales primitivos, al mismo tiempo, es una fuga: huye de un trabajo sinsentido, de una sociedad corrompida."
Buscar la utopia es querer encontrar el paraiso, y viceversa. Alejo Carpentier lo intento por medio de un riquisimo lenguaje, de la naturaleza exubera...
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52,40 zł |
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The Region of Lost Names
ISBN: 9780816526574 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Remember that the dream of one is the dream of everyone.
Ernest is searching for a place where he can live beyond his past. His family has returned to Puerto Rico, and Ernest remains in the States, desiring only distance from his memories of childhood displacement and work, his parents' tumultuous relationship, and his own love for Magdalene. Magdalene, too, looks to move beyond her memories as she follows Ernest's family home, seeking resolution to her mother's hurtful secrets, her father's unknown identity, and her love for Ernest. As Ernest moves through the fields of Michigan,... Remember that the dream of one is the dream of everyone.
Ernest is searching for a place where he can live beyond his past. His family has return... |
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77,99 zł |
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If I Die in Juárez
ISBN: 9780816526673 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the red-light districts in Ciudad Juarez to remote villages hidden away in the mountains of Chihuahua comes a tale of one of the darkest crimes to be recorded in the history of humankind. If I Die in Juarez traces the lives of three young women--Evita, a street child; Petra, a maquiladora worker; and Mayela, a Tarahumara Indian girl--who together uncover Juarez's forbidden secret: the abduction and murder of young women. Bound together by blood, honor, an ancient chant, and a mysterious photo, the girls bring the murderous streets of Juarez to life. Based on the author's...
From the red-light districts in Ciudad Juarez to remote villages hidden away in the mountains of Chihuahua comes a tale of one of the darkest crimes t...
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102,39 zł |
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In Perfect Light
ISBN: 9780060779214 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Saenz comes In Perfect Light, a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath. In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After Andes Segovia's parents are killed in a car accident when he is still a young boy, his older brother decides to steal the family away to Juarez, Mexico. That decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family. Years... From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Saenz comes In Perfect Light, a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and... |
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69,32 zł |
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The Perez Family
ISBN: 9780393334333 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After twenty years in Castro's prisons, Juan Perez comes to America and encounters culture shock, unpredictable characters, and confusion as he and his companion in exile, Dottie, search for the Perez family in Miami.
After twenty years in Castro's prisons, Juan Perez comes to America and encounters culture shock, unpredictable characters, and confusion as he and hi...
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96,15 zł |
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The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters
ISBN: 9780446699211 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having lost their mother in early childhood, the Gabaldon sisters consider Fermina, their elderly Pueblo housekeeper, their surrogate Grandmother. The mysterious Fermina love the girls as if they are her own, and promises to endow each with a "special gift" to be received upon her death.
Mindful of the old woman's mystical ways, the sisters believe Fermina's gifts, bestowed based on their natural talents, magically enhance their lives. The oldest sister, Bette Davis Gabaldon, always teased for telling tales, believes her gift is the power to persuade anyone, no matter how outlandish her... Having lost their mother in early childhood, the Gabaldon sisters consider Fermina, their elderly Pueblo housekeeper, their surrogate Grandmother. The...
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106,77 zł |
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El Infinito En La Palma de la Mano: Novela
ISBN: 9780061724329 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El magico relato de nuestros origenes es probablemente el que mas fascinacion ha inspirado en la humanidad a lo largo de los tiempos. Pero, mas alla de los cuarenta versiculos que la Biblia dedica a Adan y Eva, mas alla incluso de la leyenda, como seria la vida de aquella inocente, valiente y conmovedora primera pareja? Como seria aquel universo primigenio? Cual fue el impulso que motivo a que Eva tomara la manzana prohibida? Y que pensamientos le pasaron por la cabeza a ambos una vez que comprendieron las consecuencias de lo que Eva acababa de hacer? Preparese para adentrar en un mundo...
El magico relato de nuestros origenes es probablemente el que mas fascinacion ha inspirado en la humanidad a lo largo de los tiempos. Pero, mas alla d...
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50,05 zł |
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Ifigenia
ISBN: 9781934768129 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ifigenia: Diario de una senorita que escribio porque se fastidiaba (Diary of a young lady who wrote because she was bored, 1924) is the first of two novels by the Venezuelan writer Teresa de la Parra (Paris, 1889-Madrid, 1936). Her second, much shorter novel, Las memorias de Mama Blanca (1929), was one of the few authored by a woman to be admitted to the Spanish American canon before the radical rereading of the tradition by feminists in the 1970s and 80s. Ifigenia, however, was long neglected, in part, due to the controversy it ignited when it first appeared and its subtle and even deceptive...
Ifigenia: Diario de una senorita que escribio porque se fastidiaba (Diary of a young lady who wrote because she was bored, 1924) is the first of two n...
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164,55 zł |
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Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito
ISBN: 9780933216624 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A moving and powerful novel that explores how the forces of colonialism, misogyny and racism emerge in the lives of a family affected by this history. The language of the narrative is rich and evocative and the characters are both real and surreal in the intensity of imagination. An important book."--Susan Griffin "A novel worth reading."--"New Directions for Women"
"A moving and powerful novel that explores how the forces of colonialism, misogyny and racism emerge in the lives of a family affected by this history...
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34,49 zł |
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Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz: A Quinceañera Club Novel
ISBN: 9780446540513 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All Ana Ruiz wanted was to have a traditional quinceanera for her daughter, Carmen. She wanted a nice way to mark this milestone year in her daughter's life. But Carmen was not interested in celebrating. Hurt and bitter over her father Esteban's departure, she blamed Ana for destroying their happy family, as did everyone else. A good man is hard to find, especially at your age Ana was told. Why not forgive his one indiscretion? Despite everything, Ana didn't want to tarnish Carmen's childlike devotion to her beloved father. But Ana knows that growing up sometimes means facing hard truths. In...
All Ana Ruiz wanted was to have a traditional quinceanera for her daughter, Carmen. She wanted a nice way to mark this milestone year in her daughter'...
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84,74 zł |
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