Saqi Books Forlag
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The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
From ancient myths to modern culture, The Shrinking Goddess explores how stories about women’s bodies – wild, sacred, and strange – have shaped our world. Mineke Schipper reclaims the female body as a source of power against centuries of attempts to control it.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Discretion (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
* A warm and humorous novel about working-class Algerian women in France as they reconcile their inherited trauma of migration with forging a future on their terms by an internationally bestselling and award-winning author.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan’s Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
A Man With No Title (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Living in France but ravaged by memories of war in Algeria, Mohand-Said has withdrawn into his own world. Xavier retraces the steps of his dignified and strong-willed illiterate... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth Century (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, this hugely entertaining book reveals our... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Authoritative and compelling account of European imperialism in North Africa and the Levant, and of the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Return to the Shadows (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Based on exclusive interviews with high ranking members of the Brotherhood, this is an authoritative account of the... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Quarter (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Newly discovered collection of unpublished stories by key figure and Nobel Prize winner in literature, these fable-like stories carry Mahfouz's signature observations of the human character, taking the reader deep into the beating heart of Cairo
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A fascinating examination on how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how - regardless of political leanings - every individual can act as both the suppressors and the suppressed.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A beautifully illustrated, inspirational celebration of women of colour from around the world.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
River Spirit (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author Leila Aboulela tells the unforgettable story of an embattled young woman's coming of age during the revolutionary war in nineteenth-century Sudan.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran and Africa.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
