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  • A True Story Based on Lies
    Jennifer Clement
    A True Story Based on Lies is a remarkable novel dealing with universal issues of class discrimination, male oppression and female servitude through spellbinding dual narratives. Set in contemporary Mexico, the book examines the fallout from a sexual relationship between Leonora, a domestic servant to the wealthy O’Conner family, and the master of the house. When a child, Aura ...
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  • The Poison That Fascinates
    Jennifer Clement
    Having been deserted by her mother as a baby, Emily now lives with her father in Mexico City, and works in the local orphanage. When a mysterious cousin, Santi, appears on their doorstep, he brings with him family secrets, and soon Emily finds desire and temptation have overturned her straightforward life forever. The Poison That Fascinates is an alluring fable forged in sensuo...
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    17,86 €

  • Reading Humility in Early Modern England
    Jennifer Clement
    While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Clement argues, it is central to early modern understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to contemporary concepts of the self. Early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading. This study complicates mo ...
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    83,11 €

  • The Soft Land
    Ramon Lopez Velarde / Jennifer Clement
    ‘La suave patria’ is often regarded as the Mexican national poem, an extraordinary tour-de-force that would change forever the way that poetry would develop in Mexico. It was one of the last works by Ramón López Velarde, who died of pneumonia at the age of only 33 in 1921, and is the work for which he is most remembered today. After his death, his reputation took some time to g...
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    20,79 €

  • Reading Humility in Early Modern England
    Jennifer Clement
    While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Clement argues, it is central to early modern understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to contemporary concepts of the self. Early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading. This study complicates modern views of an early modern ...
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    268,42 €

  • Your Hand, My Mouth
    Victor Manuel Mendiola / Jennifer Clement / Ruth Fainlight
    This is the first collection in the UK for Mexican poet Victor Manuel Mendiola, although his work has been appearing in small-press editions, in others’ collections and in journals for some time. His collected poems 1987-2002, Tan oro y negro (UNAM, Mexico City), won New York’s Premio Latino de Literatura (Latino Literature Prize) in 2005. This Selected shows the full range of ...
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    22,64 €

  • New and Selected Poems
    Jennifer Clement
    Jennifer Clement studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and French Literature in Paris. Clement is the author of the memoir 'Widow Basquiat', which made the UK Booksellers' Choice list, and a novel 'A True Story Based on Lies', which was a finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Canongate Prize for New Writing in 2001, and is al...
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    17,56 €