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I saw Ramallah / Mourid Barghouti ; foreword by Edward W. Said ; translated by Ahdaf Soueif. - London : Daunt Books, 2024. - XII, 252 stronay ; 20 cm.

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Barghouti Mourid (1944- ). Autor Said Edward W. (1935-2003). Wstęp Soueif Ahdaf (1950- ). Tłumaczenie

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Barghouti, Mourid (1944- ) Konflikt społeczny Uchodźcy Życie codzienne Palestyna

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia Reportaż

Książka w języku angielskim. A fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile—shuttling among the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As he returns home for the first time since the Israeli occupation, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. Sifting through memories of the old Palestine as they come up against what he now encounters in this mere “idea of Palestine,” he discovers what it means to be deprived not only of a homeland but of “the habitual place and status of a person.” A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, I Saw Ramallah is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today’s Middle East.

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Hungry for what : stories / María Bastarós ; translated from the Spanish by Kevin Gerry Dunn. - London : Daunt Books, 2024. - [10], 213, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Bastarós María. Autor Dunn Kevin Gerry. Tłumaczenie

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura hiszpańska

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Opowiadania i nowele Czarna komedia

Książka w języku angielskim. Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of blackly comic short stories. A game between a woman’s father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her grieving mother; a solar eclipse burns emotions and lies out into the open; a girl flees across a desert in the pitch-black night. In these stories of suffocating atmosphere, the bland restraint of ordinary life careers into violence and darkness; they are hand grenades thrown at mundanity and the status quo. Foregrounding the voices and experiences of women and children and veering from claustrophobic suburbia to untamed nature and its great vistas of desert and sky, hungry for what focuses on the terror of normality, prising back its veneer of respectability to reveal the hostility and menace seething beneath.

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I remember / Joe Brainard ; with an introductions by Paul Auster and Olivia Laing. - London : Daunt Books, 2025. - XXVII, 179, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Brainard Joe (1942-1994). Autor Auster Paul (1947-2024). Wstęp Laing Olivia (1977- ). Wstęp

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Brainard, Joe (1942-1994) Artyści amerykańscy Pamięć Pisarze amerykańscy Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Autobiografia Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

Książka w języku angielskim. Joe Brainard's I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember'. Fifty-two years after its original US publication in 1970, this is the first UK edition. 'In simple, forthright, declarative sentences, he charts the map of the human soul and permanently alters the way we look at the world. I Remember is both uproariously funny and deeply moving. It is also one of the few totally original books I have ever read.' Paul Auster 'I would make a case for I Remember as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies, important for its air of unimportance and for its mingling of cultural bric-a-brac with sexual frankness and self-revelation.' New Yorker

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Lord Jim at home / Dinah Brooke ; with a foreword by Ottessa Moshfegh. - London : Daunt Books, 2023. - XI, [1], 276 stron ; 20 cm.

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Brooke Dinah. Autor Moshfegh Ottessa (1981- ). Wstęp

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

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Klasa wyższa Rodzina Postawy Przywilej Okrucieństwo Anglia (Wielka Brytania)

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Książka w języku angielskim. When "Lord Jim at home" was first published in 1973, it was described as 'squalid and startling', 'nastily horrific', and a 'monstrous parody' of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day - like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic 'Lord Jim' - commits an act that calls his past, his character and his whole world into question.

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Tragic magic / Wesley Brown ; with an introduction by Mendez. - London : Daunt Books, 2025. - XXII, 207, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Brown Wesley. Autor Mendez. Wstęp

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

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Mężczyzna Studentki i studenci Odmowa odbycia służby wojskowej Więźniowie Dojrzewanie Męskość Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Powieść psychologiczna

Książka w języku angielskim. Meet Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth – a Black twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch having been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. It’s his first day on the outside, back in New York. Hungry for freedom, desperate for female companionship and reunited with concerned parents, Mouth finds himself haunted by his past. Through a filmic series of flashbacks, we are exposed to Mouth’s time in prison, his college days and, finally, his earliest high school days. Each street corner, subway ride and run-in with an old flame brings with it the echo of his previous life. Rhythm, blues and jazz is baked into each page, with the sounds of the city – barbershop talk, lively gossip, overheard conversations – imprinted in every word. Wesley Brown boldly explores magnetic but dangerous avatars of Black masculinity in crisis, with a style that’s even more provoking than its subject.

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Rattlebone / Maxine Clair ; with an introduction by Okechukwu Nzelu. - London : Daunt Books, 2023. - XVIII, 238 stron ; 20 cm.

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Clair Maxine. Autor Nzelu Okechukwu. Wstęp

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Książki

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Literatura amerykańska

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Małe miasto Afroamerykanie Rodzina Romans Sekrety rodzinne Dojrzewanie Wspólnota Kansas (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)

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Powieść obyczajowa

Książka w języku angielskim. Irene Wilson knows that a "no-name invisible something" has settled over her parents' marriage and suspects her glamorous new teacher is to blame. Irene is not alone in her suspicions. In Rattlebone, a small Black town outside Kansas City in the segregated 1950s, secrets are hard to keep and growing up is a community affair. As Irene is initiated into adult passion and loss, her family story takes its place in a tightly woven tapestry of neighbors whose griefs and joys are as vivid as her own. Rattlebone is a one-of-a-kind triumph of American fiction, one that captures an entire world through the eyes of an unforgettable heroine.

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A Touch of mistletoe / Barbara Comyns ; with an introduction by Megan Nolan. - London : Daunt Books, 2021. - XIV, 336, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Comyns Barbara (1907-1992). Autor Nolan Megan (1990- ). Wstęp

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Literatura angielska

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Siostry Trudne sytuacje życiowe Londyn (Wielka Brytania) Holandia

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Książka w języku angielskim. Sisters Victoria and Blanche grow up in their grandfather's house in Warwickshire. It's a secluded existence: their mother is a war widow with a thirst for port and sherry and their last governess leaves never to be replaced. When their grandfather dies, their mother replaces drink with housework and the girls plan their escape. Blanche heads off to train as a model at a dubious institution in London. Vicky wants to study art but answers an ad leading her to Holland, where she tends a pack of miserable bull terriers. This is just the beginning of the sisters' adventures which take them from the poverty of cooking eggs over a candle in their Mornington Crescent bedsit, to a wider bohemian world, as they encounter love and the fluctuating fortunes that come when you're open to the strange twists life can take.

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Who was changed and who was dead / Barbara Comyns. - London : Daunt Books, 2021. - [6], 201, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Comyns Barbara (1907-1992) Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura angielska

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Wsie Epidemie Histeria Szaleństwo Anglia (Wielka Brytania)

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Powieść Tragikomedia

Książka w języku angielskim. That evening the baker’s wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is spreading through the town and picking off its victims one by one. From the Willoweed cottage, sisters Emma and Hattie watch the tragedy unfold. They have grown up in the village, cared for by their meek father and bullied by their grandmother with her enormous ear trumpet. The wild and mysterious countryside is the only world they have ever known. But as the virus spreads and hysteria grips everyone around them, they realise their lives are about to change forever.

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A Helping Hand / Celia Dale ; with an introduction by Jenn Ashworth. - London : Daunt Books, 2022. - XII, 260 stron ; 20 cm.

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Dale Celia. Autor Ashworth Jen. Wstęp

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Książki Proza

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Literatura angielska

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Chciwość Manipulacja (psychologia) Spadek Wakacje Wyzysk

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Powieść Kryminał

Książka w języku angielskim. Middle-aged Josh and Maisie Evans lead an unremarkable, unassuming life. When Auntie Flo, who has lived with them for years, dies and leaves them her Estate, they head to Italy on holiday, to take in the sea air and let the sun soak into their bones. It's there they meet Mrs Fingal. A wealthy widow, she lives with her grown-up niece Lena and it's pretty clear that neither is happy with the situation. So when Josh and Maisie bond with Mrs Fingal, over ice-cream and gentle toddles, it's only natural that they all decide she should must move in with them once home. It suits everyone. Beneath the suburban respectability of cups of tea and genteel chitchat, however, emerges a different tale: one of ruthless greed and exploitation, and suffocating, skin-crawling terror.

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The City and the house / Natalia Ginzburg ; translated by Dick Davis ; with an introduction by Natasha Brown. - London : Daunt Books, 2025. - XII, 297, [3] strony ; 20 cm.

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Ginzburg Natalia (1916-1991). Autor Davis Dick. Tłumaczenie Brown Natasha. Wstęp

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura włoska

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Rodzina Relacje międzyludzkie Rozstanie Rzym (Włochy)

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Powieść Korespondencja

Książka w języku angielskim. The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five and lover of many. Among her lovers-and perhaps the father of one of her children-is Giuseppe. After the sale of Le Margherite, the characters wander aimlessly as if in search of a lost paradise. What was once rooted, local, and specific has become general and common, a matter of strangers and of pointless arrivals and departures. And at the edge of the novel are people no longer able to form any sustained or sustaining relationships. Here, once again, Ginzburg pulls us through a thrilling and true exploration of the disintegration of family in modern society. She handles a host of characters with a deft touch and her typical impressionist hand, and offers a story full of humanity, passion, and keen perception.

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The Odd woman and the city : a memoir / Vivian Gornick ; with a foreword by Amy Key. - London : Daunt Books, 2025. - XVI, 167, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Gornick Vivian. Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

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Gornick, Vivian Miłość Przyjaźń Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)

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Powieść autobiograficzna

Książka w języku angielskim. Set in New York, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance meetings, and ever-changing relationships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman. Running through the book is Vivian Gornick’s animated exchange of more than twenty years with her best friend Leonard, as well as interactions with grocers, doormen, people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful. A narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, in this memoir we encounter Gornick’s rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis.

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Lifeblood : a mother in search of hope / Mina Holland. - London : Daunt Books, 2025. - XI, 258, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Holland Mina. Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura angielska

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Holland, Mina Choroby krwi Choroby genetyczne Genetyka Londyn (Wielka Brytania)

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia Reportaż

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Medycyna i zdrowie

Książka w języku angielskim. A raw, honest and moving memoir of caring for a baby with a rare and life-threatening illness. When Vida is born to Mina and husband Freddie, it is love at first sight. She is perfect. But it is also clear from early on that something is not right. This is the story of how Vida came to be diagnosed with rare blood disorder Diamond Blackfan Anaemia, and how Mina and her family’s lives were transformed by the experience of having a child with such a serious condition. Together, they move with fierce tenacity into a future that Mina never expected, but one that is rich with love, hope and community.

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That's all I know / Elisa Levi ; translated by Christina MacSweeney. - London : Daunt Books, 2025. - [4], 210, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Levi Elisa. Autor McSweeney Christina. Tłumaczenie

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura hiszpańska

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Młodzi dorośli Wsie Dojrzewanie Rodzina Zawód miłosny

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Książka w języku hiszpańskim. A propulsive, bewitching novel about home and family, the ache of unrealised dreams and the quiet tragedy of unrequited love. Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They yearn, they dance, they fuck, they fight. And around them, a world that isn’t quite our own vibrates with strangeness and threat. Now Lea is here, sitting on a bench, telling a silent stranger her life story. Because yesterday, change was finally unavoidable. A novel of rural entrapment and coming of age, Elisa Levi’s That’s All I Know bears the traces of Beckett and Lorca, rings with the echo of folktales and has a fierce, unapologetic vitality at its heart. Startlingly odd and deeply moving, it is the work of a profound and singular talent.

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