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"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her...
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"Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers. Evaristo's astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a...
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"Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather--and also secretly gay. With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves....
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"Zwyciężczyni Nagrody Bookera w 2019 roku. Książka dekady wg 'Sunday Times' i 'Guardiana'. Książka roku m.in. wg 'Time'a', 'Washington Post', 'New Yorkera' i 'Kirkus Reviews'. Znajdziecie tutaj Wielką Brytanię, o jakiej jeszcze nie czytaliście. Od Newcastle do Cornwall, od narodzin wieku dwudziestego do pierwszych dekad wieku dwudziestego pierwszego. Oto dwanaście postaci i ich podróż przez życie. Każda z nich czegoś szuka - kogoś...
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"De Newcastle a Cornualles, desde principio del siglo veinte hasta las adolescentes del veintiuno, en "Niña, mujer, otras" seguimos a un reparto de doce personajes en sus viajes personales por este país y sus últimos cien años de vida. Todas están enfrascadas en una búsqueda: un pasado compartido, un futuro inesperado, un lugar al que llamar hogar, un sitio donde encajar, una amante, una madre desaparecida, un padre perdido, e incluso, lisa...
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"Nü hai, nü ren, qi ta ren" miao hui yi qun Yingguo Fei yi nü xing dong ren qie chong man xi wang de ri chang mian xiang, cong nü tong zhi ju zuo jia, juan dai de zhong xue lao shi dao fei er yuan bie de she jiao mei ti wang hong, 12 wei nü xing bian bu bu tong shi dai, zhi ye, jie ji ji xing xiang, gu shi ge zi du li you xiang hu tui die, chu ji le ge shi shen fen ren tong de ku se jiao hui, tong shi yang yi zhe tong li xin yu xian huo de you...
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"An important and timely anthology of Black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging Black British writers."--
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