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Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0553214640ISBN 13: 9780553214642
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it 'among the most remarkable productions of our time.' Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was 'possibly without rival.'For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the 'almost royal prerogatives' of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are particularly prophetic. His profound insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system Democracy in America enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. De Toqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. 992 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400033438ISBN 13: 9781400033430
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal-or does it end Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama 192 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0553214640ISBN 13: 9780553214642
Librería: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it 'among the most remarkable productions of our time.' Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was 'possibly without rival.'For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the 'almost royal prerogatives' of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are particularly prophetic. His profound insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system Democracy in America enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. De Toqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400033411ISBN 13: 9781400033416
Librería: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.This'brutally powerful, mesmerizing story (People) is anunflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. A masterwork. Wonderful. I can t imagine American literature without it. John Leonard, Los Angeles Times 352 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400033411ISBN 13: 9781400033416
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.This'brutally powerful, mesmerizing story (People) is anunflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. A masterwork. Wonderful. I can t imagine American literature without it. John Leonard, Los Angeles Times 352 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 140003342XISBN 13: 9781400033423
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -New York Times BestsellerMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama 352 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400076218ISBN 13: 9781400076215
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.'The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women.' -The New York Times Book Review'Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious.' -People 256 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 140003342XISBN 13: 9781400033423
Librería: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -New York Times BestsellerMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama 352 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400076218ISBN 13: 9781400076215
Librería: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.'The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women.' -The New York Times Book Review'Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious.' -People 256 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400033438ISBN 13: 9781400033430
Librería: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal-or does it end Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 037571457XISBN 13: 9780375714573
Librería: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. A wholly original achievement. Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances. A stark, shocking impact. The New York Times: 'The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years'In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane s child s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love. 160 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 037571457XISBN 13: 9780375714573
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. A wholly original achievement. Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances. A stark, shocking impact. The New York Times: 'The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years'In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane s child s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love. 160 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400033411ISBN 13: 9781400033416
Librería: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding New York Times bestseller transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400076218ISBN 13: 9781400076215
Librería: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.'The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women.' -The New York Times Book Review'Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious.' -People.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 140003342XISBN 13: 9781400033423
Librería: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -New York Times BestsellerMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 037571457XISBN 13: 9780375714573
Librería: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Alemania
Cómic
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine 'Best Comix of the Year' A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane's child's-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0553214640ISBN 13: 9780553214642
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it 'among the most remarkable productions of our time.' Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was 'possibly without rival.'For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the 'almost royal prerogatives' of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are particularly prophetic. His profound insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system Democracy in America enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. De Toqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. 992 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400033438ISBN 13: 9781400033430
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal-or does it end Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama 192 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400076218ISBN 13: 9781400076215
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.'The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women.' -The New York Times Book Review'Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious.' -People 256 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400033411ISBN 13: 9781400033416
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.This'brutally powerful, mesmerizing story (People) is anunflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. A masterwork. Wonderful. I can t imagine American literature without it. John Leonard, Los Angeles Times 352 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 140003342XISBN 13: 9781400033423
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - New York Times BestsellerMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama 352 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 037571457XISBN 13: 9780375714573
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. A wholly original achievement. Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances. A stark, shocking impact. The New York Times: 'The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years'In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane s child s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love. 160 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400076218ISBN 13: 9781400076215
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.'The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women.' -The New York Times Book Review'Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious.' -People.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 140003342XISBN 13: 9781400033423
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - New York Times BestsellerMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else - they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1400033411ISBN 13: 9781400033416
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Libro
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.This'brutally powerful, mesmerizing story (People) is anunflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. A masterwork. Wonderful. I can t imagine American literature without it. John Leonard, Los Angeles Times.
Publicado por Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 037571457XISBN 13: 9780375714573
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Cómic
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. A wholly original achievement. Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances. A stark, shocking impact. The New York Times: 'The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years'In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane s child s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.