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Literaire werken - Engels (8)
Een selectie van Engelse literaire werken die relevant kunnen zijn voor een studie Engels.
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Brick Lane
By the bestselling author of LOVE MARRIAGE
2022 || Paperback || Monica Ali || Transworld
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE'Written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime' Sunday TimesStill in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed older man. Away from her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London's East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and is forced to depend on her husband.
Confined in her tiny flat, Nazneen sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons...
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Does My Head Look Big In This (2022 NE)
2022 || Paperback || Randa Abdel-Fattah || Scholastic
Amal is a 16-year-old Melbourne teen with all the usual obsessionsabout boys, chocolate and Cosmo magazine. She's also a Muslim,struggling to honour the Islamic faith in a society that doesn'tunderstand it. The story of her decision to "shawl up" and its attendentanxieties (like how much eyeliner to wear) is funny, surprisingand touching.
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Project Hail Mary
A Novel
2022 || Paperback || Andy Weir || Del Rey
ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS:Bill Gates, GatesNotes,New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek,Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads,Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today
“If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right ...
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Memphis
2022 || Hardcover || Tara M. Stringfellow || Random House Publishing Group
Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her fathers explosive temper and seek refuge at her mothers ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the familys trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joans grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglassonly to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets...
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
A Time magazine pick for Best YA of All Time
2022 || Paperback || Erika L. Sanchez || Oneworld Publications
Poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home
The Lottery
2022 || Hardcover || Shirley Jackson || Penguin
Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. This selection includes 'The Lottery', Jackson's masterpiece and one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century. 'An amazing writer ...
If you haven't read her you have missed out on something marvellous' Neil Gaiman
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
2022 || Paperback || D. H. Lawrence || HarperCollins Publishers
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This Is My America
2022 || Paperback || Kim Johnson || Random House
Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what rea...