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Giovanni's Room
David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying who he is, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. It is a decision that will bring tragedy.
Giovanni's Room
Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time
David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancee returns and, denying his true nature, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. His decision eventually brings tragedy.
Filled with passion, regret and longing, this story of a fated love triangle has become a landmark of gay writing. James Baldwin caused outrage as a black author writing about white homosexuals, yet for him the issues of race, sexuality and personal freedom were eternally intertwined.
Going To Meet The Man
In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trapped by the roles they must play in society, and those who try and escape them.
From the child in 'The Rockpile' whose God-fearing father will not forgive his illegitimacy, to the adolescent who hides his sexuality from his community in 'The Outing', and from the down-and-out jazz pianist recovering from addiction in 'Sonny's Blues' to the chilling initiation of a racist in 'Going to Meet the Man', these tales, first published in 1965, explore the subtle and profound wounds that discrimination leaves - both in its victims and its perpetrators.
The Fire Next Time
'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'
James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.
Příběhy zvířátek
Příběhy zvířátek - audiokniha obsahuje vybrané pohádky o zvířátkách. Příběhy z říše zvířat, které jsou tím nejlepším z pokladnice klasických pohádek od autorů Rudyarda Kiplinga, Jamese Baldwina a D. G. Mukerjiho. Příběhy zvířátek vycházejí z bájí a zázraků přírody, a popisují kouzlo přátelství a neuvěřitelných příběhů.
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3,96 €
If Beale Street Could Talk (Film Tie-in)
Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?
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11,50 €
Ha a Beale utca mesélni tudna
Fonny, a szobrászfiú, és szerelme, a tizenkilenc éves Tish Harlem egyik feketék lakta utcájában tervezi a közös jövőt. Amikor a fiút egy Puerto Rico-i asszony megerőszakolásának vádjával börtönbe zárják, a lány és családja mindent megtesz, hogy összegyűjtsék az óvadékra és az ügyvédre valót. James Baldwin kultikus kisregényében az első gyermekét váró Tish szenvedélyes monológjából ismerjük meg az igazságért folytatott küzdelmet. Ám bármilyen kilátástalannak tűnjön is a helyzet, a lány sosem felejti el, hogy van, amit még egy végletekig igazságtalan társadalom sem képes elvenni az embertől: a remény és a szerelem.
Tish harcából az Oscar-díjas Holdfény rendezője, Barry Jenkins készített filmet.
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11,29 €
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.
'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'
Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.
