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  • The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix

    de Alain Mabanckou ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    The award-winning author of Black Moses is at his satiric best in this novel the catalogs the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war.Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dukla

    de Andrzej Stasiuk ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    Series series Polish Literature
    At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is "write a book about light." The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Great Fear on the Mountain

    de Charles Ferdinand Ramuz ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    A haunting, allegorical Swiss masterpiece centered around a posse of villagers as they brave dark elements to ascend a mountain, thicketed with loreTeeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while offering character studies as vivid and bracing as Eudora Welty’s.Feed is running low in a rural ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Needle's Eye

    de Wieslaw Mysliwski ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    A rich, polyphonic novel from one of the leading voices of contemporary Polish literature, encompassing a half-century of history and memoryIn a Polish village, a young man watches an old man trip and fall down a flight of stairs. From this singular event arises a cascade of memories, regrets, and longings: the buried sensations of a whole lifetime, condensed and released. We hear of life during ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • a grammar of the world

    de Jeanne Benameur ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    A slim, emotionally and thematically rich book of poetry, a grammar of the world is Jeanne Benameur's second book published in English by Les Fugitives, offering a more personal look into the author's own history and writing practice. For Benameur, the Egyptian goddess Isis is a sister who advances with her along the seashore. Like her, poetry responds to life's call where the blue of the sky ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Pan Tadeusz

    The Last Foray in Lithuania

    de Adam Mickiewicz ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    The national epic of Poland and touchstone of modern European literature, now in a fresh translation by award-winning translator Bill Johnston.A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Mail Carrier

    de Roger Martin Du Gard ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    A propulsively prying sketch of French village life from Nobel laureate Roger Martin du Gard, an admired contemporary of André Gide & Albert CamusThe Mail Carrier opens with the pink shadows of dawn and closes in the red glow of sunset’s rays. In between, a day unfolds like a crumpled missive that has fallen into the wrong hands. As Joigneau the postman sets off on his rounds, he already knows ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Ennemonde

    de Jean Giono ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely livedEnnemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde’s astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean Giono immerses us in the perverse and often lurid lifeways of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Child Who

    de Jeanne Benameur ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    In an anonymous French village a child loves to wander a forest where his mother may have disappeared. His father is speechless with anger; his grandmother is concealing her own story. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Casablanca Story

    de In Koli Jean Bofane ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    Series series Global African Voices
    One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-class district emerges.In Casablanca Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Navigating the Complexities of Post-Academic Life

    Ageing, Identity and Professional Transition

    Edición de Joanne Yoo, Hilary Yerbury, Nina Burridge, Bill Johnston, Sheila Webber ...
    This thoughtful exploration examines the complex and multifaceted transition of retirement from academia, addressing fundamental questions of when and how to retire, and what retirement looks like. The work challenges assumptions about ageing while acknowledging the profound sense of loss that often accompanies the end of an academic career.Through engaging autoethnographies, this book reveals ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Stone Upon Stone

    de Wieslaw Mysliwski ...
    Traducido por Bill Johnston ...
    A masterpiece of postwar Polish literature, Stone Upon Stone is Wies?aw My?liwski¢s grand epic in The rural tradition — a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one man’s connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive. Wise and impetuous, plainspoken and compassionate ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD