- Literatura polska po angielsku, Reportaż, esej
ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE
Ryszard Kapuściński- 42,00zł
- This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his…
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- Kryminał, thriller, Literatura polska po angielsku, Literatura współczesna
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD
Olga Tokarczuk- 55,00zł
- With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in…
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- Literatura polska po angielsku, Science-fiction
MORTAL ENGINES
Stanisław Lem- 58,00zł
- 'A virtuoso storyteller ... a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age' The New York Times 'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.' A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she's programmed to kill; a…
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- Literatura polska po angielsku, Science-fiction
SOLARIS
Stanisław Lem- 51,00zł
- When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories, but…
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- Literatura polska po angielsku, Literatura współczesna
THE BOOKS OF JACOB
Olga Tokarczuk- 89,00zł
- In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to…
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- Historia, Literatura polska po angielsku, Reportaż, esej
THE EMPEROR
Ryszard Kapuściński- 49,00zł
- The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton. After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices…
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- Literatura polska po angielsku, Science-fiction
THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS
Stanisław Lem- 44,00zł
- 'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best…
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- Historia, Literatura klasyczna, Literatura polska po angielsku
THE MEMOIR OF AN ANTI-HERO
Kornel Filipowicz- 45,00zł
- The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes. Meticulously he recounts his experiences: the slow unravelling of national events as well as uncomfortable personal encounters on the street, in the café, at the office, in his love affairs. He is intimate but reserved; conversational but…
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- Literatura polska po angielsku, Science-fiction
THE STAR DIARIES
Stanisław Lem- 56,00zł
- 'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best…
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- Biografia, wspomnienia, Historia, Literatura polska po angielsku, Promocje, Reportaż, esej
TRAVELS WITH HERODOTUS
Ryszard Kapuściński- 51,00zł
- Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). At every…
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