Vintage books A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Го Сяолу

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Очаровательный и умный рассказ об исследовании одной женщиной любви, языка и идентичности • Двадцатитрехлетняя Чжуан (или Z, как она себя называет) приезжает в Лондон, чтобы провести год за изучением английского языка. Изо всех сил пытаясь сориентироваться в городе, разгадывая головоломки времен, глаголов и наречий; она влюбляется в пожилого англичанина и начинает понимать, что любовный ландшафт - еще более сложная местность • Винтажные путешествия: Мир путешествий, от самых высоких гор до глубин разума • Книга на английском языке • A charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity • Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain подробнее

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society' Observer • Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise • Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and who ended his life in debt and despair • David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life and death would question the reality of English justice, and serve as a wake-up call for the entire nation

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Fan J A Chinese-English Dictionary of Measure Words/Китайско-английский словарь слов-измерений - Book

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Vintage books Into The Silence. The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Davis Wade

For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but ‘a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day’. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive • While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day

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Vintage books The Elephant's Journey Сарамаго Жозе

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg archduke in Vienna. The only way for Solomon to get to his new home is to walk. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile, over the sea to Genoa and up to northern Italy where, like Hannibal's elephants before him, he must cross the snowy Alps. Based on a true story, Saramago’s tale is an enchanting mix of fact, fable and fantasy

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Vintage books Kidnapped Стивенсон Роберт Льюис

'For God's sake, hold on!' • On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test yet. He's been double-crossed by his wicked uncle, tricked into a sea voyage and sold into slavery. When the dashing Alan Breck Stewart comes aboard, he finds a brave friend at least, and the pair fight back against their treacherous, black-hearted shipmates. But then the ship hits a reef, it's every man for himself, and David must battle against the raging sea itself!

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Vintage books Soul Platonov Andrey

'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia. In this strange, haunting novella, as well as in the seven stories that accompany it, a rediscovered master of twentieth century Russian literature is shown at his wisest and most humane

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Vintage books Earthly Possessions Тайлер Энн

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, and they head south for Florida in a stolen car

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Vintage books The Matter of the Heart. A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations Моррис Томас

For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before • In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the trail-blazing ‘blue baby’ procedure to the first human heart transplant. The Matter of the Heart gives us a view over the surgeon’s shoulder, showing us the heart’s inner workings and failings. It describes both a human story and a history of risk-taking that has ultimately saved millions of lives

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Vintage books Island Хаксли Олдос

For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on earth. When cynical journalist, Will Farnaby, arrives to research potential oil reserves on Pala, he quickly falls in love with the way of life on the island. Soon the need to complete his mission becomes an intolerable burden and he must make a difficult choice • In counterpoint to Brave New World and Ape and Essence, in Island Huxley gives us his vision of utopia

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Vintage books A Lover's Discourse Го Сяолу

Роман "Беседа влюбленного", вышедший в Британии пару лет назад - восьмое по счету произведение китайско-английской писательницы по имени Го Сяо-лу, а на английский манер — Сяолу Го • Китаянка приезжает в Лондон после "Брексита", чтобы начать все сначала - как раз в тот момент, когда кампания по "Брекситу" достигает апогея • Изолированная и одинокая в Британии, которая становится все более враждебной к иностранцам, она знакомится с ландшафтным архитектором, и они вдвоем начинают строить свое будущее вместе • Играя с языком и культурными различиями, с которыми сталкивается наша рассказчица, осваиваясь в своей новой жизни, влюбленные должны разобраться в своих различиях и своем романе, будь то в своем плавучем доме без швартовки или в тесной квартире в восточном Лондоне

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Vintage books Language Го Сяолу

Вы когда-нибудь пробовали выучить другой язык? Когда Чжуан впервые приезжает в Лондон из Китая, она чувствует себя так, словно находится среди представителей инопланетного вида. Город дезориентирует, люди недружелюбны, язык представляет собой мешанину личных местоимений и капризных глаголов. Но по мере того, как вы все лучше владеете английским языком, выживание превращается в жизнь. А еще говорят, что лучший способ выучить язык - это влюбиться в носителя языка… • "Повесть "Язык" взят из книги Сяолу Го "Краткий китайско-английский словарь для влюбленных" • Книга на английском языке • Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs

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Vintage books Part of the Furniture Wesley Mary

Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to wail out across London. She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger called Evelyn, frail and older than his years, who offers her the protection of his house and his family before dying suddenly in the night • Determined to avoid being sent to Canada to join her mother and new step-father, and still grieving for her lost lovers, Juno instead finds herself on a train to Cornwall in search of Evelyn's family. There she discovers the blossoming of an English spring into which the war only occasionally intrudes and finds at last a peace for herlself and a world in which she is more than simply part of the furniture

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