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The Blind Assassin / Margaret Atwood. - London : Virago Press, 2003. - 641 stron ; 21 cm.

Author

Atwood Margaret (1939- ) Autor

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Literatura kanadyjska

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Siostry Wypadki i katastrofy drogowe Bliskie związki międzyludzkie Wdowieństwo Śmierć Miłość Kanada

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Powieść Science fiction Powieść z kluczem

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Virago Press

Winner of the Booker Prize

The novel begins with the mysterious death - a possible suicide - of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.

Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s history.

Intertwined with Iris’s account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet.

These richly layered stories-within-stories gradually illuminate the secrets that have long haunted the Chase family, coming together in a brilliant and astonishing final twist.

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The edible woman / Margaret Atwood. - London : Virago Press, 2021. - 354 strony ; 20 cm.

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Atwood Margaret (1939- ) Autor

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Literatura kanadyjska

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Kobieta Mężczyzna Relacje międzyludzkie Społeczeństwo konsumpcyjne Uczucia

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Virago Press

Marian is determined to be ordinary.

She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage.

But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach...

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Lady Oracle / Margaret Atwood. - London : Virago Press, 2021. - 375 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Atwood Margaret (1939- ) Autor

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Literatura kanadyjska

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Pisarze Kobieta Tożsamość (psychologia) Kłamstwo Podróże Ucieczki Kanada

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Virago Press

Joan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will.

She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband.

After a volume of her poetry becomes an unexpected literary sensation, her new fame attracts a blackmailer threatening to reveal her secrets.

Joan’s response is to fake her own death and flee to a hill town in Italy.

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The Robber Bride / Margaret Atwood. - London : Virago Press, 2005. - 564 strony ; 20 cm.

Author

Atwood Margaret (1939- ) Autor

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Literatura kanadyjska

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Kobieta Kobieca przyjaźń Zdrada Przyjaźń Zdrada małżeńska Toronto (Kanada) Kanada

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Powieść psychologiczna Powieść

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Virago Press

Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize

Set in present-day Toronto, Ontario, the novel is about three women and their history with old friend and nemesis, Zenia.

Roz, Charis, and Tony meet once a month in a restaurant to share a meal years after Zenia betrayed them and interfered with their romantic relationships.

During one outing they spot Zenia, who they thought to be long-dead.

The plot then travels back in time to explain how Zenia stole, one by one, their respective partners

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The Year of the flood/ Margaret Atwood. - London : Virago Press, 2020. - 518 stron ; 20 cm.

(Maddaddam / Margaret Atwood ; t. 2)

Author

Atwood Margaret (1939- ) Autor Atwood Margaret (1939- ). Maddaddam ;

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Książki Proza

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Literatura kanadyjska

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Katastrofy Sekty i nowe ruchy religijne Władza Ziemia

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Powieść Dystopia Science fiction

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Virago Press

Atwood knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more then reflect...

"The Year of the Flood" isn't prophecy, but it is eerily possible. [Jeanette Winterson]

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The Flight of the Falcon / Daphne du Maurier ; with an Introduction by Amanda Craig. - London : Virago Press, 2005. - 304 strony ; 20 cm.

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Du Maurier Daphne (1907-1989) Autor Craig Amanda Wstęp

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Książki Proza

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Literatura angielska

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Mężczyzna Bliskie związki międzyludzkie Zabójstwo Historia Włochy Rzym (Włochy)

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Powieść Kryminał

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Virago Press

Na okładce: With an Introduction by Amanda Craig.

As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life-until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, shot down in flames in '43.

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Good behaviour / Molly Keane ; introduced by Marian Keyes. - London : Virago Press, 2001. - 291 stron ; 20 cm.

(Virago Modern Classics ; 474)

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Keane Molly (1904-1996) Autor

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Literatura irlandzka

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Rodzina Arystokracja Elita społeczna Relacje międzyludzkie Życie towarzyskie Sekrety rodzinne Savoir-vivre Irlandia

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Powieść Powieść historyczna

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Virago Modern Classics

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Virago Press

Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace.

To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour.

But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires.

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Korneliussen Niviaq (1990- ) Autor Halager Anna Tłumaczenie

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Literatura grenlandzka

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Lesbijki Mniejszości seksualne Bliskie związki międzyludzkie Relacje międzyludzkie Uczucia Trudne sytuacje życiowe Młodzi dorośli Tożsamość płciowa Dysforia płciowa Rodzina Grenlandia (Dania ; wyspa)

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Virago Press

Tekst tłumaczony z języka duńskiego.

In modern day Nuuk, Greenland, four friends explore their queer identities.

Fia breaks up with her long term boyfriend, and falls for Sara.

Sara is in love with Ivik who is about to break her heart with a deep secret.

Iviq struggles with gender dysphoria, and transgender identity, as the rest of the young adults on Nuuk become addicted to Facebook, listen to American pop music and get blind drunk in bars and at house parties.

Then there's Inuk, with a secret too - something that will take him to limits of madness, and question what it means to be a Greenlander, while Arnaq, the party queen pulls the strings of manipulation, bringing these five lives to a shocking crescendo.

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My forbidden face : growing up under the Taliban : a young woman's story / Latifa ; with the collaboration of Chékéha Hachemi ; translated by Lisa Appignanesi. - London : Virago, 2002. - 192 strony : mapa ; 20 cm.

Author

Latifa (1980- ) Autor Hachemi Chékéba Redakcja Appignanesi Lisa (1946- ) Tłumaczenie

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura afgańska

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Latifa (1980- ) Kobieta Talibowie Islamizm Fundamentalizm muzułmański Afganistan

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Autobiografia Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Historia Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna

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Virago Press

Na okładce pod nazwą autora: Un International Woman of the Year 2002.

A young Afghan woman describes the stark contrast in her life before and after Taliban rule, her witness to its oppressive and terrifying regime, and her eventual escape with her parents to freedom.

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The Friend / Sigrid Nunez. - London : Virago, 2019. - 212, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Nunez Sigrid (1951- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

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Ludzie a zwierzęta Przyjaźń Psy Śmierć bliskiej osoby

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Powieść obyczajowa

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Virago Press

National Book Award in 2018.

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind.

Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.

While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time.

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The Vulnerables / Sigrid Nunez. - London : Virago, 2023. - 242, [7] stron ; 22 cm.

Author

Nunez Sigrid (1951- ) Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Pisarze Relacje międzyludzkie Papugi Samotność

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Virago Press

"The Vulnerables" offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.

Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka.

"The Vulnerables" reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another’s distress.

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Affinity / Sarah Waters. - London : Virago Press, 2000. - 350, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

Author

Waters Sarah (1966- ) Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

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Kobieta Kara Przestępcy Duchy Seans spirytystyczny Lesbijki Londyn (Wielka Brytania)

Genre/Form

Powieść historyczna

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Virago Press

Na dole okładki: "Sexy, spooky, stylish- a wonderful book" giles Foden, Guardian.

Affinity is a 1999 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters. It is the author's second novel, following her debut Tipping the Velvet. Set during 1870s Victorian England, it tells the story of a woman, Margaret Prior, who is haunted by a shadowy past and in an attempt to cure her recent bout of illness and depression, begins visits to the women's wards of Millbank Prison. Whilst there she becomes entranced by the spiritualist Selina Dawes, with whom she becomes obsessed and begins an inappropriate relationship. Written as an epistolary novel, the story alternates as a series of diary entries written by both main characters.

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