Graywolf press sep 2012 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The new book by Leslie Adrienne Miller, whose poems 'are delightfully eclectic, learned and wise' (Ted Kooser)If the face is a christening in flesh,the boy of him is its opposite,raising the tent of bones in whichhe will harbor all the starry anomaliesthat a knowledge of God cannot undo. -from 'Y'Y is poet Leslie Adrienne Miller's book of the looming child, the son, the cipher, the letter for which a math problem seeks a solution. Collaging lyric investigation, personal reflection, and hard research into psychology and childhood development, Miller describes motherhood with a broad-ranging intelligence, a fierce humor, and an elegant, emotive poetic line.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A brooding novel of colonial intrigue in the Congo, from the author of The Accordionist's Son and ObabakoakThe year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return to the literary cafés of Paris. His glamorous wife, Christine, has a further ambition: to own seven houses in France, a house for every year he has been abroad. At Lalande Biran's side are the ex-legionnaire van Thiegel, a brutal womanizer, and the servile, treacherous Donatien, who dreams of running a brothel. The officers spend their days guarding enslaved rubber-tappers and kidnapping young girls, and at their hands the jungle is transformed into a wild circus of human ambition and absurdity. But everything changes with the arrival of a new officer and brilliant marksman: the enigmatic Chrysostome Liege. An outstanding new novel from the critically acclaimed and prizewinning author Bernardo Atxaga, Seven Houses in France is a blackly comic tale which reveals the darkest sides of human desire.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist\*A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah BakerWhat drives a woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of permanent exile in Pakistan The Convert, a finalist for the National Book Award and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011, tells the gripping story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language.'-Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. In One Day I Will Write About This Place, named a 2011 New York Times notable book, Wainaina brilliantly evokes family, tribe, and nationhood in joyous, ecstatic language.…