Kiran Desai's 'The Inheritance Of Loss'

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Zadyma w dzikim sadzie - Kiran Desai

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Opis - Tryskająca humorem i chwytająca za serce, liryczna i satyryczna, pełna emocji i przemyślana do ostatniej kropki - opowieść o życiu, miłości i rodzinie, zarazem uniwersalna i bardzo indyjska. Poczujemy zapach piżma i drzewa sandałowego, przekonamy się, jak złożonym tworem jest hinduskie społeczeństwo i jak bogata jest jego kultura i tradycja. Sampath Chawla, urodził się w czasie suszy w rodzinie mało podobnej do innych rodzin, w miasteczku innym niż inne miasteczka. I życie Sampatha jest inne niż życie jego rówieśników. Bo po porażce w szkole i w pracy Sampath zamieszkał na... drzewie. Ekscentryczna decyzja zmieniła życie nie tylko Sampatha i jego rodziny, ale i całego miasteczka, prowokując serię zaskakujących wydarzeń. Nazwa - Zadyma w dzikim sadzie Autor - Kiran Desai Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Wydawnictwo Literackie Kod ISBN - 9788308052563 Kod EAN - 9788308052563 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2013 Język - polski Tłumacz - Dobrowolska Małgorzata Format - 14.5x21.0cm Ilość stron - 264 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2013-10-30

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A Study Guide for Kiran Desai's Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard

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Brzemię rzeczy utraconych ZNAK

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Booker 2006! Wreszcie pojawił się ktoś, kto może konkurować z Salmanem Rushdiem i Zadie Smith. Rok 1986, małe miasteczko w Himalajach. Szesnastoletnia Sai wychowuje się w zimnym domu dziadka ? emerytowanego sędziego Patela, którego całą energię pochłania nienawiść do wszystkiego, co nie angielskie. Ich służącym jest poniewierany przez los kucharz, którego jedyną nadzieją jest syn Bidźu próbujący podbić świat zmywaniem naczyń w najpodlejszych nowojorskich restauracjach. Sai usiłuje budować pierwszy w życiu związek ze swoim korepetytorem Gijanem, jednak sytuacja polityczna szybko wystawi na próbę rodzące się uczucie. Brzemię rzeczy utraconych to opowieść o poszukiwaniu tożsamości i rozmaitych sposobach (nie)radzenia sobie z bagażem tradycji. O wszechogarniającym wpływie Zachodu i ludziach, którzy nie mogąc znaleźć swojego miejsca w świecie, stają się emigrantami we własnym kraju. O zderzeniu wyobrażeń z rzeczywistością, stereotypach i poszukiwaniu akceptacji. W swojej powieści Desai pokazuje w ciepły i zarazem gorzki sposób losy zwykłego człowieka, które nierozerwalnie łączą się z losami jego kraju. Kiran Desai ? hinduska pisarka od lat żyjąca w Ameryce. Jej debiut Zadyma w dzikim sadzie skupił uwagę krytyków, ale dopiero Brzemię rzeczy utraconych uczyniło ją sławną. W 2006 roku, jako najmłodsza kobieta w historii, otrzymała za tę książkę prestiżową nagrodę The Man Booker Prize.

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What Went Down - Foals (Płyta CD)

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Opis - Nowa płyta kwintetu Foals, następczyni złotej na Wyspach płyty `Holy Fire`. Yannis Philippakis (śpiew /gitara), Jimmy Smith (gitara/klawisze), Walter Gervers (gitara basowa), Jack Bevan (perkusja) i Edwin Congreave (klawisze) nagrywali piosenki we Francji, a za konsoletą siedział James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence &, The Machine, Jessie Ware, Mumford &, Sons). Ciekawostka, kwintet z Oksfordu nagrywał w starym, opuszczonym, XIX-wiecznym młynie. Być może to nietypowe otoczenie sprawiło, że album ma czasami wręcz niepokojący charakter, a także sporo jest na nim ostrych przeciwstawień. Z jednej strony dość posępne i mocne rockowe piosenki, z drugiej, niemalże słodki i liryczny pop. `Chciałem, aby wypowiedział się mój wewnętrzny szaleniec` - mówił o charakterze piosenek z płyty wokalista Foals, Yannis Philippakis. Muzyk napisał teksty między innymi o strachu, identyfikacji kulturalnej, pesymizmie, cynizmie, złamanym sercu. Lista utworów - Płyta 1 1. What Went Down 2. Mountain at My Gates 3. Birch Tree 4. Give It All 5. Albatross 6. Snake Oil 7. Night Swimmers 8. London Thunder 9. Lonely Hunter 10. A Knife in the Ocean Nazwa - What Went Down Autor - Foals Wydawca - Warner Music Kod EAN - 0825646075010 Rok wydania - 2015 Nośnik - Płyta CD Ilość elementów - 1 Podatek VAT - 23% Premiera - 2015-08-28

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

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Opis - The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland - Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America ...So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear ...Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today globalised, fractured world. Masterful ...A multi-layered and thoroughly gripping book, which works as a poignant love story, a powerful dissection of how US imperialist machinations have turned so many people against the world superpower - and as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending Metro Beautifully written . ..more exciting than any thriller I read for a long time Philip Pullman A brilliant book Kiran Desai Admirably spare and amazingly exciting Rachel Cooke, New Statesman Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and Paris Review. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York. Nazwa - The Reluctant Fundamentalist Autor - Mohsin Hamid Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Penguin Books Kod ISBN - 9780241981382 Kod EAN - 9780241981382 Rok wydania - 2017 Język - angielski Format - 11.1x18.1cm Ilość stron - 218 Podatek VAT - 5%

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist Penguin Books

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland - Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America ...So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear ...Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today globalised, fractured world. Masterful ...A multi-layered and thoroughly gripping book, which works as a poignant love story, a powerful dissection of how US imperialist machinations have turned so many people against the world superpower - and as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending Metro Beautifully written . ..more exciting than any thriller I read for a long time Philip Pullman A brilliant book Kiran Desai Admirably spare and amazingly exciting Rachel Cooke, New Statesman Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and Paris Review. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York.

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The Age of Shiva BLOOMSBURY

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"In The Age of Shiva India's birth as a new nation parallels a woman's complex psychological journey confronting tradition and modernity. Exchanging sentimentality for clear vision, Suri reveals an immense humanity, and a tenderness for women making their way in a world of men. Drawn by this compelling narrative, I read this marvelous book in one sitting." ?Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss, recipient of the Man Booker PrizeFollowing his spectacular debut, The Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri returns with a mesmerizing story of modern India, richly layered with themes from Hindu mythology. The Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story of a country in turmoil and an extraordinary portrait of maternal love.Meera, the narrator, is seventeen years old when she catches her first glimpse of Dev, performing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. She wonders if she can steal him away from Roopa, her older, more beautiful sister, who has brought her along to see him.When Meera?s reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. She escapes her overbearing father only to find herself thrust into the male-dominated landscape of India after independence. Dev?s family is orthodox and domineering, his physical demands oppressive. His brother Arya lusts after her with the same intensity that fuels his right-wing politics. Although Meera develops an unexpected affinity with her sister-in-law Sandhya, the tenderness they share is as heartbreaking as it is fleeting.It is only when her son is born that Meera begins to imagine a life of fulfillment. She engulfs him with a love so deep, so overpowering, that she must fear its consequences.Meera's unforgettable story, embodying Shiva as a symbol of religious upheaval, places The Age of Shiva among the most compelling novels to emerge from contemporary India.

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Osierocona przez rodziców szesnastoletnia Sai mieszka w miasteczku w Himalajach, w domu dziadka, emerytowanego sędziego. Pod czujnym okiem jego kucharza przezywa pierwszą miłość. W tym samym czasie syn kucharza, Bidźu, w Nowym Jorku śni swój amerykański sen, który szybko przemienia się w pełen rozgoryczenia koszmar. Ich losy ukazane są na tle społecznych i politycznych przemian w postkolonialnych Indiach. To lata osiemdziesiąte XX wieku, czas zamieszek o podłożu narodowościowym, konfliktów wewnętrznych targających Indiami. Dla Sai i Bidźu - także czas poszukiwania własnej tożsamości.

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Zadyma w dzikim sadzie Literackie

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Tryskająca humorem i chwytająca za serce, liryczna i satyryczna, pełna emocji i przemyślana do ostatniej kropki ? opowieść o życiu, miłości i rodzinie, zarazem uniwersalna i bardzo indyjska. Poczujemy zapach piżma i drzewa sandałowego, przekonamy się, jak złożonym tworem jest hinduskie społeczeństwo i jak bogata jest jego kultura i tradycja. Sampath Chawla, urodził się w czasie suszy w rodzinie mało podobnej do innych rodzin, w miasteczku innym niż inne miasteczka. I życie Sampatha jest inne niż życie jego rówieśników. Bo po porażce w szkole i w pracy Sampath zamieszkał na? drzewie. Ekscentryczna decyzja zmieniła życie nie tylko Sampatha i jego rodziny, ale i całego miasteczka, prowokując serię zaskakujących wydarzeń.

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Reluctant Fundamentalist Penguin Books

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"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is the award-winning international bestseller by Mohsin Hamid. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland shortlisted for the man booker prize 2007. 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America...' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For her is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream - and a Western woman - and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear...Praise for "The Reluctant Fundamentalist": "Beautifully written ...more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time". (Philip Pullman). "Admirably spare and amazingly exciting". (Rachel Cooke, "New Statesman"). "Sharp, relevant, impressively intelligent ...entertains at the same time as it makes you think". ("Daily Telegraph")."A cleverly constructed fable of infatuation and disenchantment...Intelligent and highly engaging, genuinely provocative". ("Guardian"). "A brilliant book". (Kiran Desai). "Prods the intellect, quickens the pace and captures the imagination". ("Sunday Times"). Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", "Moth Smoke" and "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia". His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the "Guardian", "The New York Times", "Financial Times", "Granta", and "Paris Review". Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York.

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Reluctant Fundamentalist Penguin Books

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . 'So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . .Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world.'Masterful . . . A multi-layered and thoroughly gripping book, which works as a poignant love story, a powerful dissection of how US imperialist machinations have turned so many people against the world's superpower - and as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending' Metro'Beautifully written . . . more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman'A brilliant book' Kiran Desai'Admirably spare and amazingly exciting' Rachel Cooke, New StatesmanMohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian , The New York Times , Financial Times , Granta , and Paris Review . Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York.

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The Inheritance Of Loss

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Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard

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