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Netanyahus : An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family / Joshua Cohen. - Wydanie 3. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023. - 239 stron ; 20 cm.

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Cohen, Joshua (1980- ) Autor

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Netanyahu, Benzion (1910-2012) Humor Pracownicy naukowi Rodzina Tożsamość narodowa Uniwersytety Żydzi Postawy Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)

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Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian--but not an historian of the Jews--is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics--"An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family" that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead / Olga Tokarczuk ; Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. - Wydanie 12. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020. - 269, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Tokarczuk, Olga (1962- ) Autor Lloyd-Jones, Antonia (1962- ). Tłumaczenie

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Ludzie a zwierzęta Zabójstwo Myśliwi Kotlina Kłodzka

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Tytuł oryginału: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych.

A subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. Janina is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people. She's unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination – and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk's native Poland.

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The Empusium : A Health Resort Horror Story / Olga Tokarczuk ; Translated by Antonina Lloyd-Jones. - Wydanie 1. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024. - 326, [5] stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Tokarczuk, Olga (1962- ) Autor Lloyd-Jones, Antonia (1962- ) Tłumaczenie

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Tytuł oryginału: Empuzjon, 2022.

Na okładce: Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature.

In September 1913, Mieczysław Wojnicz, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior? Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the nearby highlands reach the men, a sense of dread builds. Someone – or something – seems to be watching them and attempting to infiltrate their world. Little does Mieczysław realize, as he attempts to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.

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Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; Translated from the Polish Antonina Lloyd-Jones. - Wydanie 2. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018. - 410 stron : ilustracje, mapy ; 20 cm.

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Tokarczuk, Olga (1962- ). Autor Lloyd-Jones, Antonia (1962- ). Tłumaczenie

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Tytuł oryginału: Bieguni.

FLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.

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Dembowskiego 12 (W131)

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