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A Luminous Republic / Andrés Barba ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman ; with a foreword by Edmund White. - London : Granta Publications, 2021. - 192, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Barba Andrés (1975-) Autor Dillman Lisa (1967- ) Tłumaczenie White Edmund (1940-2025) Wstęp

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Książki Proza

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Literatura hiszpańska

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Dzieci Dżungle i lasy deszczowe Język Społeczności lokalne Szczęście

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Granta Publications

Premio Herralde, 2017

A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.

Narrated by the social worker who led the hunt, A Luminous Republic is a suspenseful, anguished fable that “could be read as Lord of the Flies seen from the other side, but that would rob Barba of the profound originality of his world” (Juan Gabriel Vásquez).

San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language...

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The Luminaries / Eleanor Catton. - London : Granta Publications, 2024. - 832, [2] strony : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Catton Eleanor (1985- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura nowozelandzka

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Kopalnie złota Gorączka złota Bogactwo Osoby zaginione Tajemnica Nowa Zelandia

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Granta Publications

Winner of The Booker Prize

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields.

On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk.

Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky.

Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, "The Luminaries" is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.

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The Rehearsal / Eleanor Catton. - London : Granta Publications, 2024. - 316, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Catton Eleanor (1985- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura nowozelandzka

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Szkoły Nastolatki Skandale i sensacje Szkoły teatralne Dziewczęta Nauczycielki i nauczyciele

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Granta Publications

All the world's a stage - and nowhere is it that more true than at an all-girls high school, particularly one where a scandal has just erupted.

When news spreads of a high school teacher's relationship with his underage student, participants and observers alike soon take part in an elaborate show of concern and dismay.

But beneath the surface of the teenage girls' display, there simmers a new awareness of their own power.

They obsessively examine the details of the affair with the curiosity, jealousy, and approbation native to any adolescent girl, under the watchful eye of their stern and enigmatic saxophone teacher, whose focus may not be as strictly on their upcoming recital as she implies.

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The Vegetarian : A Novel / Han Kang ; Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. - London : Granta Publications, 2018. - 183 stron ; 20 cm.

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Han Kang (1970- ) Autor Smith Deborah (1955- ) Tłumaczenie

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Książki Proza

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Literatura koreańska

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Małżeństwo Metamorfoza postaci Wegetarianizm Marzenia senne Realizm magiczny Kobieta Alienacja

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Granta Publications

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life.

But the dreams - invasive images of blood and brutality - torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether.

As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her.

Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself.

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