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Bernstein Sarah (1987- ). Autor

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Literatura kanadyjska Literatura angielska

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Rodzeństwo Kobieta Pomaganie Wsie Mieszkańcy wsi Wrogość Władza Posłuszeństwo

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Powieść psychologiczna

Bibliografia na stronach 191-193.

Książka w języku angielskim. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest of many siblings--more than she cares to remember--from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs--collective bovine hysteria, the demise of an ewe and her nearly-born lamb a local dog's phantom pregnancy, a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about newcomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property. And inside the house, although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill...

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Catton Eleanor (1985- ). Autor

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Literatura nowozelandzka

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Filantropia Klęski elementarne Małe miasto Ruchy i organizacje ekologiczne Nowa Zelandia

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Książka w języku angielskim. Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker - or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other? A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

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Nickel and dimed : undercover in low-wage America / Barbara Ehrenreich ; introduction by Polly Toynbee. - London : Granta, 2021. - XIV, 221, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Ehrenreich Barbara (1941-2022). Autor Toynbee Polly. Wstęp

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura amerykańska

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Ehrenreich, Barbara (1941-2022) Kobieta Praca Pracownicy niewykwalifikowani Stopa życiowa Ubóstwo Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia Reportaż

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Gospodarka, ekonomia, finanse Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Książka w języku angielskim. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Leaving her home, she took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity? exposing the darker side of American prosperity and the true cost of the American dream.

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A Sunny place for shady people : stories / Mariana Enriquez ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. - London : Granta, 2024. - 257, [2] strony ; 22 cm.

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Enriquez Mariana (1973- ). Autor

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Literatura argentyńska

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Buenos Aires (Argentyna) Los Angeles (Stany Zjednoczone, stan Kalifornia)

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Opowiadania i nowele grozy Horror

Książka w języku angielskim. Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.

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Under the eye of the big bird : a novel / Hiromi Kawakami ; translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda. - London : Granta, 2025. - [6], 278, [1] strona ; 23 cm.

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Kawakami Hiromi (1958- ). Autor Yoneda Asa. Tłumaczenie

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Literatura japońska

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Człowiek Rzeczywistość postapokaliptyczna Kultura

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Opowiadania i nowele Science fiction Antologia

Książka w języku angielskim. In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of "Mothers." Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings--but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabitants of this faltering new world. Unfolding over fourteen interconnected episodes spanning geological eons, at once technical and pastoral, mournful and utopic, Under the Eye of the Big Bird presents an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it.

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An Ordinary youth : a bourgeois novel / Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Michael Lipkin. - London : Granta, 2023. - [8], 472 strony ; 24 cm.

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Kempowski Walter (1929-2007). Autor Lipkin Michael. Tłumaczenie

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Literatura niemiecka

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Kempowski, Walter (1929-2007) Hitler-Jugend II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Rodzina Dzieciństwo Przeprowadzka Nazizm Ekstremizm polityczny Niemcy

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Powieść autobiograficzna Powieść historyczna

Książka w języku angielskim. »Tadellöser & Wolff« nannte Walter Kempowskis Vater, Reeder in Rostock und guter Kunde der Tabakwarenhandlung Loeser & Wolff, so ziemlich alles, was nicht gerade »Miesnitzdörfer & Jenssen« war. Und als »Miesnitzdörfer« ließ sich in der Zeit von 1938 bis 1945, von der dieser Roman erzählt, wahrhaftig vieles bezeichnen.

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Murata Sayaka (1979- ). Autor Takemori Ginny Tapley. Tłumaczenie

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Literatura japońska

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Futurologia Ideologia Miłość Rzeczywistość alternatywna Zapłodnienie in vitro Japonia

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Powieść Fantastyka

Książka w języku angielskim. Amane's family is irregular. Her parents copulated to create her and hope that she too will find love and have a child with the person she marries. But Amane falls in line with society's way of thinking and wants a regular 'clean' marriage. Then she hears of a place that is the subject of a social experiment. Everyone in Paradise-Eden will act as one big family. Could this be the perfect third way?

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The Heavens / Sandra Newman. - London : Granta, 2019. - [8], 257, [2] strony ; 23 cm.

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Newman Sandra (1965- ). Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Miłość Podróże w czasie Rzeczywistość alternatywna Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone) Londyn (Wielka Brytania)

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Książka w języku angielskim. A story of love complicated by time travel, a bewitching novel of what we have lost, and what we might yet be able to save.

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The Luminaries / Eleanor Catton. - London : Granta Publications, 2013. - [12], 832, [2] s. ; 24 cm.

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Catton Eleanor (1985- ).

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Powieść nowozelandzka

Książka w języku angielskim. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w latach sześćdziesiątych XIX wieku w Nowej Zelandii. Na wyspie wybucha gorączka złota. Szkot Walter Moody to jeden z tych śmiałków, którzy przybywają do miasta Hokitika skuszeni wizją bogactwa. Tuż po zejściu na ląd jest świadkiem dziwnego zgromadzenia. Dwunastu mężczyzn spotyka się w tajemnicy w palarni jednego z hoteli, by przedyskutować sprawę serii niewyjaśnionych zdarzeń. Wkrótce okaże się, że losy wszystkich mężczyzn, biorących udział w naradzie są ze sobą związane. Wielowarstwowa, stylowa historia o poszukiwaniu szczęścia, marzeniach i przeznaczeniu zapisanemu w gwiazdach.

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A Country in the moon : travels in search of the heart of Poland / Michael Moran. - London : Granta Publications, 2009. - XVI, 362 s. : mapy ; 20 cm.

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Moran Michael (1947- ).

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Polska Ludowa-historia Polska-podróże Polska Rzeczpospolita-historia Moran, Michael (1947- )-pamiętniki Kultura polska-historia

Bibliogr. s.[341]-346.

Filmogr. s.[347]-352. Indeks.

Książka w języku angielskim. Australijczyk, który zafascynowany naszym krajem dość niedawno osiedlił się w Polsce na stałe, opisał swoje spostrzeżenia na temat naszego życia i obyczajów. Opinie są czasami zabawne, innym razem irytujące, ale ukazują obraz Polski widziany przez cudzoziemca.

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House of Day, House of Night / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. - London : Granta Books, 2002. - 293 s. ; 22 cm.

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Tokarczuk Olga (1962- ). Lloyd-Jones Antonia (1962- ). Tł.

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Książka w języku angielskim. Plastyczny język; spokojna, ale nie nużąca narracja; fabuła, w której realizm miesza się z nierzeczywistością - to największe atuty świata wykreowanego przez tę wielokrotnie nagradzaną pisarkę.

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