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  • A Second Coming

    Canadian Migration Fiction

    von Michael Mirolla
    Serien Buch 9 - Essential Anthologies
    Migration stories are an essential component of Canada's historical/literary continuum; we need to know of such writings to rationalize about who Canadians really are, and where they are from. Aren't we all the children of migration? Where we came from, how we got here, who we were, and are, and who may become in time ? such themes should interest all those naturally concerned about identity and Lesen Sie mehr

    8,45 €

  • Coming Here, Being Here

    A Canadian Migration Anthology

    von Michael Mirolla
    Serien Buch 8 - Essential Anthologies
    This migration anthology is an entertaining miscellany of factual stories, essays, newspaper reportage, and even a poem, all of which highlight the humour, as well as the ironies and agonies generated when humans seek a new homeland. The authors, and their stories, are as diverse as our Canadian population itself, and help to tell who we all are within this amazing, tolerant, nurturing geographic Lesen Sie mehr

    8,45 €

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    von Duncan Minshull
    The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you?It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking.In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. ‘I’ve always hated Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Granta 138

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    What are the ethics of writing about a place you visit as an outsider? With Granta's long tradition of travel writing in mind, we ask some of the foremost writers of the genre: is travel writing dead?Tara Bergin, Rana Dasgupta, Geoff Dyer, Eliza Griswold, Mohsin Hamid, Lindsey Hilsum, Colin Thubron, Pico Iyer, Ian Jack, Robert Macfarlane, Wendell Steavenson, Samanth Subramanian and Alexis Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Ilustrado

    The contemporary Philippine masterpiece.

    von Miguel Syjuco
    ‘A dazzling and virtuosic adventure’ Joseph O’Connor, author of Star of the SeaInternationally Bestselling Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008‘With Ilustrado, Miguel Syjuco obliges us to remake the canons of our great classics of contemporary literature. Ilustrado is, literally, a masterpiece’ Alberto ManguelIt begins with a body. One anonymous winter day, the corpse of Crispin Salvador is Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Letter to a Stranger

    Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

    Bearbeitet von Colleen Kinder
    “Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable Lesen Sie mehr

    9,49 €

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011

    True Stories from Around the World

    Serien series Best Women's Travel Writing
    Since publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing-that presents inspiring and Lesen Sie mehr

    14,01 €

  • Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

    Essays

    von Jenny Diski
    Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia Clarke'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New YorkerJenny Diski was a fearless writer, for w... Lesen Sie mehr

    9,41 €

  • The Best American Short Stories 2017

    Bearbeitet von Meg Wolitzer
    Serien series The Best American Series
    The New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings compiles a stunning anthology of literary short fiction with T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline and others."If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn't go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for Lesen Sie mehr

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  • A Map to the Door of No Return

    Notes to Belonging

    von Dionne Brand
    A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery.Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and Lesen Sie mehr

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  • A Chip Shop in Poznań

    My Unlikely Year in Poland

    von Ben Aitken
    'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIOWARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM.Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop.Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament.In 2016 Ben Aitken moved to Poland while he Lesen Sie mehr

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  • La Superba

    Übersetzt von Michele Hutchison
    "An ode to the imagination."—NRC HandelsbladA joy to read, La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a Rabelaisian, stylistic tour-de-force. Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed "La Superba."Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b. Lesen Sie mehr

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