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All the Light We Cannot See : A Novel / Anthony Doerr. - London : 4th Estate, 2015. - [4], 531, [16] stron ; 20 cm.

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Doerr, Anthony (1973- ). Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Język angielski II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Niewidomi Saint-Malo (Francja)

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Powieść historyczna Powieść obyczajowa

For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth, In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

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Lost Children Archive / Valeria Luiselli. - Wydanie 2. - London : 4th Estate, 2019. - 385, [2] strony ; 24 cm.

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Luiselli, Valeria (1983- ). Autor

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Język angielski

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A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate. . .

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The Lost Landscape : A Writer's coming of Age / Joyce Carol Oates. - Wydanie 3. - London : 4th Estate, 2016. - XIII, 353 strony : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Oates, Joyce Carol (1938- ). Autor

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Język angielski Pisarze amerykańscy

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Pamiętniki amerykańskie

A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it colours everything that comes after. With memories ranging from her first friendships to her first experiences with death, this is an arresting account of the ways in which Oates's life (and her life as a writer) was shaped by early childhood and how her later work was influenced by a hard rural upbringing. Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision and transports the reader to a bygone place and time - the lost landscape of the writer's past but also the lost landscapes of our own earliest, and most essential, lives.

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How To Say Babylon : A Jamaican Memoir / Safiya Sinclair. - Wydanie 3. - London : 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024. - XIII, 336 stron ; 20 cm.

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Sinclair, Safiya Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura jamajska

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Poeci Jamajka

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

An extraordinary and inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience, from award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair. There was more than one way to be lost, more than one way to be saved. Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the corrupting influence of the immoral Western world just beyond their gate. To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything: nowhere but home and school, no friends but this family and no future but this path. Her mother did what she could to bring joy to her children with books and poetry. But as Safiya’s imagination reached beyond its restrictive borders, her burgeoning independence brought with it ever greater clashes with her father. Soon she realised that if she was to live at all, she had to find some way to leave home. But how? In seeking to understand the past of her family, Safiya Sinclair takes readers inside a world that is little understood by those outside it and offers an astonishing personal reckoning. How to Say Babylon is an unforgettable story of a young woman’s determination to live life on her own terms.

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Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. - London : 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. - 477, [3] strony ; 20 cm.

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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (1977- ). Autor

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Literatura nigeryjska

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Bliskie związki międzyludzkie Miłość Imigranci Uchodźcy Nigeryjczycy Emigracja Imigracja Rasizm Polityka Nigeria Ameryka Anglia (Wielka Brytania)

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Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland.

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The Golden Notebook / Doris May Lessing. - Wydanie 4. - London : 4th Estate An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. - 576 stron ; 20 cm.

(Collins Modern Classics)

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Lessing, Doris May (1919-2013). Autor

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Literatura angielska

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Kobieta Pisarze Trudne sytuacje życiowe Londyn (Wielka Brytania)

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In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer’s block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook – the golden notebook – that finally pulls these wayward strands of her life together. Widely regarded as Doris Lessing’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, ‘The Golden Notebook’ is wry and perceptive, bold and indispensable.

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