LIBROS DEL AUTOR: nicky harman

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  • Diablo’s Boys
    Yang Hao / Michael Day / Nicky Harman
    Suwei is a teenage hermit with an overprotective mother and an addiction to video games. One day, another young man penetrates Suwei’s hermetically sealed existence, and the two wander deep into the labyrinth of Diablo’s virtual world. As Suwei and this enigmatic interloper, Li Wen, form an unspoken bond, secrets are laid bare, layer by layer: the damage done to Suwei and his m...
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    22,56 €

  • Golden Childhood
    Shen Yang / Nicky Harman
    Travel back in time to the countryside of northern China and meet little Yangyang. To her, every day is a new adventure, and the farmland is an endless playground full of joy, where animals are always invited, and the water runs and laughs.Together with her friends, Yang Yang leaps from haystack to haystack, game to game, and season to season. Join her as she dashes light-foote...
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    25,89 €

  • Flight of the Bumblebee
    Huang Beijia / Nicky Harman
    Nanjing, China, 1937. Eight-year-old Orange is uprooted from her comfortable home when the family is forced to flee from Japanese bombing raids. They take refuge in Chengdu, West China, where she grows up with her professor father, hard-working mother, two sisters, two brothers and Tianlu, a war orphan. At first, the irrepressible Orange hardly notices how hard life is for the ...
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    22,01 €

  • Dinner for Six
    Lu Min / Helen Wang / Nicky Harman
    Under the stench of factory skies, two single parents and their four teenaged children gather together for Saturday dinners. But can widowed accountant Su Qin ever publicly acknowledge her socially-mismatched relationship with Ding Bogang, a laid-off manual worker? Can she bear to see her ambitious and studious daughter form a romantic connection with his son? Can her obese son...
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    22,05 €

  • More Than One Child
    Shen Yang / Nicky Harman
    ’I broke a law simply by being born.’In the late 1980s, Shen Yang was born during the fiercest years of China’s One-Child Policy. As the second daughter of the family, she was a massive liability - an excess child, a product of illegal birth.From being raised by her grandparents in a remote village as soon as she was born, to being whisked away to her aunt’s home in a distant f...
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    31,11 €

  • A Classic Tragedy
    Xiaobin Xu / Natascha Bruce / Nicky Harman
    With her delightfully evocative prose, Xu Xiaobin presents us with a collection of stories crawling with fraught power dynamics, strange events, and unsettling images. Not only does she write about women, but the worlds around them, the fears that dog them, and the histories that haunt them. Xu’s entangled plots sneak up on the reader and make a lasting impression, from the bli...
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    21,51 €

  • The Chilli Bean Paste Clan
    Yan Ge / Nicky Harman
    Set in a fictional town in West China, this is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran’s eightieth birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed vigour. As Shengqiang struggles u...
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    23,73 €

  • Crystal Wedding
    Xiaobin Xu / Nicky Harman
    Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. However, after the political turmoil, Hua Zheng is framed as one of the perpetrators of the disturba...
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    36,65 €

  • Crystal Wedding
    Xiaobin Xu / Nicky Harman
    Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. However, after the political turmoil, Hua Zheng is framed as one of the perpetrators of the disturba...
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    15,79 €

  • Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
    Xinran / Nicky Harman
    Ten chapters ten women and many stories of heartbreak including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy destructive age-old traditions or hideous economic necessity these women had to give up their daughters for adoption others were forced to abandon them - on ci...
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    23,64 €

  • China Witness
    Xinran / Esther Tyldesley / Nicky Harman
    China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken China’s people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and place and a memorial to those wh...
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    22,98 €

  • China Along the Yellow River
    Cao Jinqing / Nicky Harman
    This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. It examines the lives and work of peasants, Party and local government officials, providing a wealth of data on life in post-reform rural China. ...
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    267,95 €