granta books feb 2023 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Violet lies in hospital in the closing days of the war. Her pregnancy is over and with her husband deployed to the Front, she must put herself back together. In a small town in the valleys, another Violet contemplates the fate she shares with her unborn child - unwed and unwanted. As the lives of these two Violets intertwine, a spellbinding story of courage emerges, suffused with power and beauty.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on powerful interviews with extremists from the far right and the far left, McDonald-Gibson explores how people move from radicalisation to redemption.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A tender, heartfelt and very funny novel about fathers, sons and the many forms of family, from an internationally acclaimed writer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The story of one woman, one chainsaw, and one modest plan for a mini-cabin - a book from Norway that celebrates the act of making something with your own two hands. Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What happens to our society when we are so divorced from the act of making What happens to us as individuals when we limit the uses to which we put our hands These are questions that preoccupy Siri Helle when she inherits a cabin of 25 square metres, without electricity, inlet water, or a loo, and decides to build an outhouse herself. Without any previous experience of building anything, she has to learn on the job and what she learns is not just about how to lay a floor and construct walls, but about what she is capable of and about craft and about the satisfactions to be found in making things by hand. Written with humour and insight,Handmadeis the inspiring story of someone who tried to do it herself - and did. 208 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Flickering between virtual Mexico and actual London, this smart, funny novel follows a woman who is losing herself in the search for what is missing.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.