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Long Island Compromise / Taffy Brodesser-Akner. - London : Wildfire, 2024. - 444, [2] strony ; 24 cm.

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Brodesser-Akner Taffy (1975- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura amerykańska

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Uprowadzenie Ofiary przemocy Ludzie bogaci Trauma Rodzina Żydzi

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In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom.

He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.

But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all.

"Long Island Compromise" spans the entirety of one family’s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.

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There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 34445 (1 egz.)

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Small comfort / Ia Genberg ; translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson. - London : Wildfire, 2026. - 366, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Genberg Ia (1967- ) Autor Joseffson Kira Tłumaczenie

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Książki Proza

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Literatura szwedzka

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Złodzieje Małżeństwo Spadek Majątek Pieniądz Finanse Dług Relacje międzyludzkie

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Opowiadania i nowele

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Longlisted for International Booker Prize 2026

From the successful child actor who has now turned into a failing thief; to an actor hired to give a speech at a stranger's wedding; to a couple feigning married bliss to keep their inheritance: "Small Comfort" is a brilliantly original examination of the value of people and money.

How do financial structures, such as currency, relate to our own emotional landscapes? What does it really mean to be in debt to someone? And what do we lose when we supposedly win?

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Biblioteka Obcojęzyczna

There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 35572 (1 egz.)