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Night Boat to Tangier / Kevin Barry. - Wydanie 2. - Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2020. - [4], 214 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Barry, Kevin (1969- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura irlandzka

Subject

Język angielski Przyjaźń Hiszpania Irlandia

Genre/Form

Powieść obyczajowa

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice’s estranged daughter (or is she?), Dilly, to either arrive on a boat coming from Tangier or depart on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals and serial exiles, rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today.

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At the Water's Edge : A Walk in the Wild / John Lister-Kaye. - Edinburgh ; London ; New York ; Melbourne : Canongate Books, 2011. - 309 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Lister-Kaye, John Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska Literatura szkocka

Subject

Obserwacja (metoda badawcza) Spacer Fauna Flora Ekosystem Ekologia Szkocja (Wielka Brytania)

Genre/Form

Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

Domain

Biologia Ochrona środowiska

For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter – a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to lift a trout from the water or a woodcock exquisitely camouflaged on her nest – and every day, on his return home, he records his thoughts in a journal. Drawing on this lifetime of close observation, this volume encourages us to look again at the nature around us, to discover its wildness for ourselves and to respect and protect it.

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Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance / Barack Obama. - Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2008. - XVII, 442 strony ; 20 cm.

Author

Obama, Barack (1961- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Przywódcy i głowy państw Politycy

Genre/Form

Autobiografia Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

Before Barack Obama became a politician he was, among other things, a writer. This volume is his masterpiece: a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking the big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

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The Book of Form and Emptiness / Ruth Ozeki. - Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2022. - 422 strony ; 20 cm.

Author

Ozeki, Ruth (1956- ) Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

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Powieść Fantastyka

After the tragic death of his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house - a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, he falls in love with a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book - a talking thing - who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.

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