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The Testaments / Margaret Atwood. - London : Chatto & Windus, 2019. - [4], 419 stron ; 24 cm.

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Atwood, Margaret (1939- ) Autor

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Literatura kanadyjska

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Język angielski Fanatyzm Fundamentalizm Kobieta Mężczyzna Mizoginia Opór (postawa) Przemoc wobec kobiet Seksizm Teokracja

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Powieść Dystopia Fantastyka Science fiction

Na okładce: Shortlisted The Booker Prize 2019.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets. As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

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People In The Park / Marjorie Leet Ford. - London : Chatto & Windus, 2003. - 293 strony ; 24 cm.

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Ford, Marjorie Leet. Autor

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If we thought we could get away with it, this would be called 'Tails of the City'-It's a witty, warm, wonderfully eccentric novel which like Maupin's throws an irresistible concoction of San Francisco characters and life together, this time in a park and with their dogs. Inevitably the owners grow like their dogs, if they aren't already; they (that's the owners) pour out their souls to strangers in the park; they fall in love, requited and unrequited; they write poetry; they grow old, they worry, have affairs, learn French, cooking, horticulture - life, with its ups and downs like the San Francisco streets, goes on- for Tobin, the ex-hippie poet gardener, who holds it all together; and for skinny Hillary Birdwood with her thick specs and wild silver retriever Tess; for the saturnine and sexy psychiatrist and his unlikely corgi; for Jake and his Aghan trio; for Anna Leone and Dr Hawthorne with Posy the bichon fries and Romeo the rottweiler; and Nigel, Chantal and Roger the standard poodle, and a whole host of others and their pooches - all set against the irresistible backdrop of one of the most enticing and evocative cities in the world.

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Good Daughters / Mary Hocking. - London : Chatto & Windus, 1984. - [2], 248 stron ; 23 cm.

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Hocking, Mary. Autor

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Literatura angielska

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Język angielski Rodzina Relacje międzyludzkie Ojcowie i córki

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In a world of tradition change is always greeted with suspicion. To Stanley Fairley, the upheavals in his own family seemed to be as catastrophic as the changes that gripped Europe in the early 1930's. He thought about his daughters-Louise, Alice and little Claire. They were growing up-turning into young women he hardly knew. Louise had bobbed her hair and disappeared for hours at a time without saying where she was going. Alice dreamed of adventure, wild romance and exotic mystery. Even Claire seemed different these days. . .

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow / Gabrielle Zevin. - London : Chatto & Windus, 2022. - 401 stron ; 24 cm.

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Zevin, Gabrielle (1977- ). Autor

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Relacje międzyludzkie Przyjaźń Rozwój emocjonalny Chorzy Choroby ludzi Branża gamingowa Gry komputerowe Pokolenie X

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Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world – of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love – making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars. This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadei and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success. Money, fame, duplicity, tragedy. This book takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest as it examines the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

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We Need New Names / NoViolet Bulawayo. - London : Chatto and Windus, 2013. - 294 s. ; 23 cm.

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Bulawayo, NoViolet (1981- ).

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Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own.

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