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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING TOM ELLIS, RUPERT GRAVES AND STERLING K. BROWN * SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2018 * FINALIST FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE ROGERS WRITERS TRUST FICTION PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019 * SHORT...

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Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you. The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard ...

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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING TOM ELLIS, RUPERT GRAVES AND STERLING K. BROWN* SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2018 * FINALIST FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE ROGERS WRITERS TRUST FICTION PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019 * SHORTL...

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George Washington Black, eller "Wash", är en elvaårig slav på en sockerplantage på Barbados. När hans brutale Master utser honom till sin bror Christophers tjänare blir han livrädd. Men den excentriske Christopher Wilde visar sig vara en upptäckts...

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Haunting and atmospheric, this debut novel portrays the heartbreak, hardship and moments of surprising grace in the life of a man struggling to realize his destiny.A young man of astonishing promise when he emigrated from Ghana in 1955, Samuel Tyn...

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One of the TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR New York Times Book ReviewOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe ● The Washington Post ● Time ● Entertainment Weekly ● San Francisco Chronicle ● Financia...

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A dazzling adventure story about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. George Washington Black, or ¿Wash,¿ an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his maste...

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Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These ...

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Winner of the Scotiabank Giller PrizeMan Booker Prize Finalist 2011An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionBerlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden...

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From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. George Washington Black, or ¿Wash,¿ an eleven-year-old f...

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History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings?As in her fiction, the essays in Out of ...

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History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? As in her fiction, the essays in Out of...

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Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness. Emigrating to Canada from Ghana in the 1960'S was the first step on this path, but fifteen years later his grand plans have stalled. He now has a wife Maud, twin thirteen year old daughter...

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Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard f...

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Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness. Emigrating to Canada from Ghana in the 1960'S was the first step on this path, but fifteen years later his grand plans have stalled. He now has a wife Maud, twin thirteen year old daughter...

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George Washington Black, eller "Wash", är en elvaårig slav på en sockerplantage på Barbados. När hans brutale Master utser honom till sin bror Christophers tjänare blir han livrädd. Men den excentriske Christopher Wilde visar sig vara en upptäckts...

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