Zbirka: Moderni romani (po l. 1945)
25001 rezultatov
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Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born(1989) ARMAH, AYI KWEIThe central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn.Vezava: Mehka22,24 € -
River Between(1989) THIONG'O, NGUGIExplores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and "magical" customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.Vezava: Mehka22,24 € -
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In the City of Love's Sleep(2019) GREENLAW, LAVINIAIris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her husband while bringing up two daughters. Raif is a stalled academic, as uncertain of the past as he is of the future, whose girlfriend is about to move in with him.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man(2017) SASSOON, SIEGFRIEDIt is with a sigh that I remember simple moments such as those, when I understood so little of the deepening sadness of life, and only the strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heart. In the 1920s, a young man, grappling with the horrors of the wVezava: Trda18,21 € -
Weekend in New York(2019) MARKOVITS, BENJAMIN'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian'A book to be savoured.' Observer'Intimate, funny . . . But Paul's parents and siblings have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open, and with summer storms brewing, several generations of domestic tension are broughtVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
His Only Wife(2021) MEDIE, PEACE ADZOA captivating debut about defying expectations, hilarious and hopeful in equal measureVezava: Trda21,02 € -
Novel in the Viola(2011) SOLOMONS, NATASHAA sweeping story of upstairs, downstairs, love and loss by the author of Mr Rosenblum's List.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Boxer, Beetle(2011) BEAUMAN, NEDThe wildly compelling, award-winning debut novel from the author of THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
House of Hunger(2009) MARECHERA, DAMBUDZOJoint Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize 1979Vezava: Mehka24,06 € -
Mine Boy(1989) ABRAHAMS, PETERFirst published in 1946, this novel exposed the condition of black South Africans under a white regime. It presents a portrait of labour discrimination, appalling housing conditions and one man's humanitarian act of defiance.Vezava: Mehka24,06 € -
Question of Power(1986) HEAD, BESSIEIt is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission principal's cruel revelations of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown, but in the dark loneliness of the Botswanan night, the frightened South African refugee slips in and out of sanity.Vezava: Mehka21,50 € -
Devil on the Cross(1987) WA THIONG'O, NGUGIThis critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a competition oVezava: Mehka22,28 € -
Pyrates(1996) FRASER, GEORGE MACDONALDRepackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of ‘The Reavers’ and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, ‘The Pyrates’ is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
