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The Silver Music Box / Mina Baites ; Translated from German by Alison Layland. - Wydanie 2. - Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2017. - 251, [8] strony ; 21 cm.

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Baites, Mina. Autor Layland, Alison. Tłumaczenie

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura niemiecka

Subject

II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Żydzi

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Powieść obyczajowa

Tytuł oryginału: Die Silberne Spieldose.

A captivating cross-generational novel from German author Mina Baites about a Jewish family divided by World War II and an inheritance with the power to bring them back together. 1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war to honor his beloved country-a country that would soon turn against his own family. A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison inherits the box after the death of her parents. Though the silver is tarnished and dented, this much-loved treasure is also a link to an astonishing past. With the keepsake is a letter from Lilian’s mother, telling her daughter for the first time that she was adopted. Too young to remember, Lilian was rescued from a Germany in the grips of the Holocaust. Now only she can trace what happened to a family who scattered to the reaches of the world, a family forced to choose between their heritage and their dreams for the future.

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Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

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A River in Darkness : One Man's Escape from North Korea / Masaji Ishikawa ; Translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. - Wydanie 1. - Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2017. - [3], 159, [2] strony : mapa ; 24 cm.

Author

Ishikawa, Masaji (1947- ). Autor Kobayashi, Risa. Tłumaczenie Brown, Martin. Tłumaczenie

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura japońska

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Totalitaryzm Ucieczki Korea Północna Japonia

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Biografia

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Historia

The harrowing true story of one man’s life in-and subsequent escape from-North Korea, one of the world’s most brutal totalitarian regimes. Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian. In this memoir translated from the original Japanese, Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life. A River in Darkness is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the country but a testament to the dignity-and indomitable nature-of the human spirit.

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Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

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Mehran, Marsha (1977-2014). Autor Mehran, Abbas. Posłowie

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Książki Proza

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Literatura irlandzka

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Język angielski

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In the wake of the Iranian revolution, Zadi Heirati, a single mother, flees to Buenos Aires with her young daughter. She decides to do what she knows best and opens a beauty salon, but as she meets her new neighbors and discovers their shared passion for poetry, the idea develops into much more than a job. The inhabitants of her apartment building form an eclectic community: a sick ex-prisoner and his daughter; a promising medical student; a timid hairdresser; a newlywed couple with a dark past; a young revolutionary; an eccentric pilgrim of Mecca; and at the heart of the group, Zadi, whose humble small business becomes a spiritual hub where she hosts weekly readings of Persian poetry. Drawn together by the revolution in their homeland, these neighbors share words that inspire each to turn inward and discover beauty long buried. At once familiar and extraordinary, this story weaves disparate lives together into a tapestry of unique grace, wit, and lyricism.

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Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

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Rage / Zygmunt Miłoszewski ; Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. - Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2016. - 412, [6] stron ; 21 cm.

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Miłoszewski, Zygmunt (1976- ). Autor Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. Tłumaczenie

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Książki Proza

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Literatura polska

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Język angielski

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Powieść Kryminał

Tytuł oryginalu: Gniew.

Polish State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki Investigation / Zygmunt Miłoszewski ; 3

All eyes are on famous prosecutor Teodor Szacki when he investigates a skeleton discovered at a construction site in the idyllic Polish city of Olsztyn. Old bones come as no shock to anyone in this part of Poland, but it turns out these remains are fresh, the flesh chemically removed. Szacki questions the dead man’s wife, only to be left with a suspicion she’s hiding something. Then another victim surfaces-a violent husband, alive but maimed-giving rise to a theory: someone’s targeting domestic abusers. And as new clues bring the murderer closer to those Szacki holds dear, he begins to understand the terrible rage that drives people to murder. From acclaimed Polish crime writer Zygmunt Miloszewski comes a gritty, atmospheric page-turner that poses the question, what drives a sane man to kill?

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