New York: Vintage Departures, 2017. Paperback. A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later..... More
Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2020. First English Edition. Trade Paperback. A city ignited by hate. A man in thrall to power. The ferociously original award-winning bestseller by Poland’s literary phenomenon—his first to be translated into English. It’s 1937. Poland is about to catch fire. In the boxing ring, Jakub..... More
Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "Tech writer Roberts debuts with a page-turning account of the rise of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase from the Y Combinator startup incubator to becoming a 'pillar of the larger crypto economy.'" — Publisher's Weekly For a moment late in 2018, one..... More
New Delhi: Rupa Publications India Pvt, Ltd, 2005. Paperback. In winter 2004, a writer met a young girl on a night train journey. To pass the time, she offered to tell a story. However, she had a condition: that he make it into his second book. He hesitated, but asked..... More
New Delhi: Rupa Publications India Pvt, Ltd, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business. To accomodate his friends Ish and Omi’s passion, they open a cricket shop. Govind wants to make money and thinks big. Ish is all about nurturing..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2015. Reprint. Softcover. With an introduction by Joanna Scott First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2020. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Here we meet Tambudzai, living in a youth hostel in downtown Harare after leaving a stagnant job. Proud, and yearning for success, Tambu attempts to make a new life for herself – but at every turn, she is faced with..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2001. William R. Brand, Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand (trs.). First Edition. Paperback. In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his way from Lisbon and comfort..... More
London: Granta Books, 1991. William Brand (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and..... More
London: Granta Books, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. In Imperium, Kapuscinski gives us a work of equal emotional force and evocative power: a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire in our time. He begins with his own childhood memories of the postwar Soviet occupation of Pinsk..... More
Amman: Unknown, 1970. Reprint. Paperback/Monograph. A Pro-Palestinian discussion of Israeli and U. S. policies, of Palestine under the Mandate, Zionist claims versus Arab right, and Israeli violations and aggression. More
Beijing: Panda Books, Chinese Literature Press, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. The distinguished writer Gao Xiaosheng is adept at depicting country life, having lived in the south China countryside from 1957 to 1979. Li Shunda's ideal of building himself a house is at last realized after a number of twists and..... More
Beijing: Beijing Review, 1983. Zhang Lanchen (art). First Printing. Paperback. For reading reference by both academic and lay readers the CHINA TODAY series is publishing selections of these informative articles specially edited and supplemented. They will, we hope, serve as a guide to events in a land area the third..... More
Beijing: New Word Press, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. A concise description of the economic, cultural and social life of the Chinese people today. The volume covers such topics as work and play, income and expenditure, education, birth and care for the aged. More
London: Simon and Schuster, 2017. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author on title page. 'How long do I have?' I force a laugh. 'Not long,' he says very quietly. 'They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don't have long at all.'..... More
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