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The Dry Season - Melissa Febos - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Dry Season - Melissa Febos - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

''Brilliant and powerful'' ELIZABETH GILBERT ''S o full of wisdom and pleasure that you don''t want it to end'' MAGGIE NELSON In the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break - for three months she would abstain from dating, relationships and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Melissa, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship or another. It was time to focus on herself and examine the lifelong patterns that had got her to this point. When those three months ended, she decided to extend her celibate period, fearing that she had not yet gained the clarity she was searching for. She knew she was taking on a challenge but had no idea that this year would become the most fulfilling and sensual of her life. No longer defined by her romantic pursuits, Melissa learned to relish the delights of solitude, the thrill of living on her own terms, the pleasures unmediated by lovers and the freedom to pursue her ideals without distraction or guilt. She began to see her life and her self-worth in a radical new way. Her year of divestment transformed her relationships with friends and peers, her work, creativity - and most of all her relationship to herself. The Dry Season is a memoir of Melissa''s year of celibacy, and a profound exploration of independence, sexuality and deep self-knowledge.

DKK 156.00
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Dry Bones - Margaret Mayhew - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Dry Bones - Margaret Mayhew - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Colonel returns, in an atmospheric village mystery from best-selling author Margaret Mayhew. In his time living in the peaceful village of Frog''s End, the Colonel has learned that although the place looks as lively as a stagnant pond, there is plenty going on. When he receives a letter from an old friend of his late wife, telling him that ''something horrible has happened'' and asking for his help, he is intrigued and happy to assist her. But when he travels up to see Cornelia, he is shocked by what he uncovers, and soon realizes that he must take the investigation into his own hands . . .

DKK 275.00
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Dry Bones - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Dry Bones - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Private investigator Jennie Redhead finds her loyalties divided when she investigates the decades-old murder of a college student. Oxford, 1974. In the cellars beneath St Luke''s College, a sealed medieval ventilation shaft is opened up to reveal human bones. Two bodies, buried thirty years apart, but is there a connection ... Desperate to protect the College''s reputation - and finances - the bursar, Charlie Swift, hires his old friend, private investigator Jennie Redhead, to find out the identities of the two victims. But as Jennie pieces the clues together, it becomes increasingly clear that Charlie knows rather more about the murders than he''s admitted. As she uncovers a series of scandals stretching back more than sixty years, Jennie is forced to question how well she really knows her old friend Charlie Swift - and whether she can trust him...

DKK 292.00
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Ball Park - John (author) Farrow - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Ball Park - John (author) Farrow - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Émile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps - to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he''s assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn''t on the ''up and up''.Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway driver dead after her latest heist, she goes underground. For his first case on the day shift, Émile is sent to the property that Quinn has just visited, and their paths are set to cross. But has she stolen something more valuable than she realizes . . . and who is hunting for her now?

DKK 159.00
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Ball Park - John (author) Farrow - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Ball Park - John (author) Farrow - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Émile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps - to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he''s assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn''t on the ''up and up''.Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway driver dead after her latest heist, she goes underground. For his first case on the day shift, Émile is sent to the property that Quinn has just visited, and their paths are set to cross. But has she stolen something more valuable than she realizes . . . and who is hunting for her now?

DKK 242.00
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Ball Park - John (author) Farrow - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Ball Park - John (author) Farrow - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Émile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps - to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he''s assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn''t on the ''up and up''.Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway driver dead after her latest heist, she goes underground. For his first case on the day shift, Émile is sent to the property that Quinn has just visited, and their paths are set to cross. But has she stolen something more valuable than she realizes . . . and who is hunting for her now?

DKK 225.00
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Think Like a White Man - Dr Boule Whytelaw - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Think Like a White Man - Dr Boule Whytelaw - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

''This book rewarded me with dark, dry chuckles on every page'' Reni Eddo-Lodge ''Hilarious . . . This original approach to discussing race is funny, intellectual and timely'' Independent ''The work of a true mastermind'' Benjamin Zephaniah I learned early on that, for me as a black professional, to rise through the ranks and really attain power, I needed to adopt the most ruthless of mindsets possible: the mindset of the White Man who would tear your cheek from your face before he even considered turning his one first.

DKK 127.00
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The Quarry Wood - Nan Shepherd - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Quarry Wood - Nan Shepherd - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman''s journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time when such space was rarely given freely to women.In The Quarry Wood , Nan Shepherd''s subtle prose is matched with intense and memorable descriptions of the natural world, and a dry sense of humour. Ninety years after the first publication, it remains as fresh and original today.

DKK 120.00
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Thrill Kill - Don Bruns - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Thrill Kill - Don Bruns - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Beneath the carefree atmosphere of Mardi Gras, something very sinister is going on in the intriguing new Quentin Archer mystery. Three murders so far. No apparent motive; no link between the victims; none of them have been robbed. One item ties them together: a can of spray gas known as Chill has been left at the scene of each crime. Is someone killing for kicks? With no leads to pursue and no witnesses coming forward, all the cops can do is wait for murder number four. As rumours emerge, Archer realizes there''s a pattern taking shape. Could there be more to these seemingly random killings than meets the eye? Teaming up with voodoo queen Solange Cordray, Archer begins to uncover evidence of a shocking conspiracy.

DKK 185.00
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Thrill Kill - Don Bruns - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Thrill Kill - Don Bruns - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Beneath the carefree atmosphere of Mardi Gras, something very sinister is going on in the intriguing new Quentin Archer mystery. Three murders so far. No apparent motive; no link between the victims; none of them have been robbed. One item ties them together: a can of spray gas known as Chill has been left at the scene of each crime. Is someone killing for kicks? With no leads to pursue and no witnesses coming forward, all the cops can do is wait for murder number four. As rumours emerge, Archer realizes there''s a pattern taking shape. Could there be more to these seemingly random killings than meets the eye? Teaming up with voodoo queen Solange Cordray, Archer begins to uncover evidence of a shocking conspiracy.

DKK 77.00
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A Corruption of Blood - Ambrose Parry - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Corruption of Blood - Ambrose Parry - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2022 A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from.Across town, Raven finds himself drawn into Edinburgh''s mire when a package containing human remains washes up on the shores of Leith, and an old adversary he has long detested contacts him, pleading for Raven''s help to escape the hangman.Sarah and Raven''s lives seem indelibly woven together as they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood.

DKK 120.00
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Season of Blood - Jeri Westerson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Season of Blood - Jeri Westerson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A missing Holy Relic. A mysterious and beautiful woman. Two murdered monks: Crispin Guest tackles his most intriguing investigation to date. 1390. Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. Two monks lie murdered, their Holy Blood relic stolen: a relic that is said to run liquid for the sinless and remain stubbornly dry for the sinner. Unwilling to become involved in a bitter dispute between a country monastery and Westminster Abbey, the disgraced former knight Crispin Guest attempts to return the relic to Hailes where it belongs, but somehow it keeps returning to his hands no matter what.As he tries to shield a former nemesis from a charge of murder while becoming entangled with a mysterious and beautiful woman caught between Church politics and the dangerous intrigues of King Richard?s court, Crispin begins to suspect that someone at Westminster is conspiring with the assassins. Can the Blood of Christ point to the killer?

DKK 114.00
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A Hostile State - Adrian (author) Magson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Hostile State - Adrian (author) Magson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A routine assignment for deep cover specialist Marc Portman becomes something darker and deeper in this action-packed spy thriller. Deep cover specialist Marc Portman is in Lebanon on a last-minute assignment. A straightforward collect-and-go job. At least it should have been. Ambushed by a surprise attack, it''s clear that someone must have had advance warning of Portman''s arrival. But who is his unseen enemy - clearly one with considerable resources - and why do they want him dead? More importantly, how could his attacker have known of his movements with less than 24 hours'' notice? Concluding there must be an active leak at the heart of the CIA, Portman finds himself virtually alone and on the run, hung out to dry by the powers-that-be. If he is to survive, he must use his unique skill set to turn the tables on his pursuers . . . and beat them at their own game.

DKK 225.00
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A Hostile State - Adrian Magson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Hostile State - Adrian Magson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A routine assignment for deep cover specialist Marc Portman becomes something darker and deeper in this action-packed spy thriller. Deep cover specialist Marc Portman is in Lebanon on a last-minute assignment. A straightforward collect-and-go job. At least it should have been. Ambushed by a surprise attack, it''s clear that someone must have had advance warning of Portman''s arrival. But who is his unseen enemy - clearly one with considerable resources - and why do they want him dead? More importantly, how could his attacker have known of his movements with less than 24 hours'' notice? Concluding there must be an active leak at the heart of the CIA, Portman finds himself virtually alone and on the run, hung out to dry by the powers-that-be. If he is to survive, he must use his unique skill set to turn the tables on his pursuers . . . and beat them at their own game.

DKK 242.00
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A Glasgow Trilogy - George Friel - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Glasgow Trilogy - George Friel - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author''s own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth''s casual cruelty, George Friel''s books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and fading community. All these elements come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum youth that is The Boy Who Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who is obsessed with the innocence of young Grace; and in the mental collapse of Mr Alfred, a middle-aged schoolteacher who is in love with one of this pupils. The humour, realism and moral concern of Friel''s work clearly anticipate and stand alongside the novels of Alan Spence, Alasdair Gray, William McIlvanney and James Kelman.

DKK 190.00
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How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST ''Sweeping and quietly devastating'' New York Times ''A David and Goliath story for our times'' O, the Oprah Magazine Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, this is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and broken. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But it will come at a steep price - one which generation after generation will have to pay. How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community''s determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman''s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people''s freedom.

DKK 120.00
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The Secret Political Adviser - Michael Spicer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Secret Political Adviser - Michael Spicer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The hilarious collection of ''leaked'' correspondence between Michael Spicer''s genius comic creation - AKA The Man in the Room Next Door - and political figures, from Boris Johnson to Donald Trump and Jared Kushner Just who is the secret political adviser calling himself The Man in the Room Next Door? No one knows. We don''t even know his name.But now the lid is about to be blown clean off, because the secret files of the world''s most influential* political media adviser are published in this book. Packed with letters, memos, texts, tweets, emails, journal entries, leaked documents and crude doodles, these pages will reveal who The Man in the Room Next Door is and, more importantly, his thoughts on those who employ his services, including Donald ''dangerous puffin'' Trump, Boris ''posh motorboat'' Johnson and some of their least competent colleagues.This book is the evidence that anyone can be a world leader. Just as long as they''re wearing the right earpiece.*fictional

DKK 120.00
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Telling Tales - Patience Agbabi - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Telling Tales - Patience Agbabi - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb''ry Cathedral,Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,Chaucer Tales, track by track, it''s the remixFrom below-the-belt base to the topnotch;I won''t stop all the clocks with a stopwatchwhen the tales overrun, run offensive,or run clean out of steam, they''re authenticand we''re keeping it real, reminisce this:Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business. In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-century remix of Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller''s Tale to the Wife of Bath''s in her own critically acclaimed poetic style.Celebrating Chaucer''s Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi''s newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain''s most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.

DKK 120.00
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The Hook - Tim O'mara - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Hook - Tim O'mara - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Teacher Raymond Donne finds himself embroiled in another baffling murder case when his friend MoJo is found dead on the school roof, pierced by an arrow. On the rooftop of Raymond Donne''s school, Maurice ''MoJo'' Joseph''s lifeless body is found with an arrow sticking out of its back.Mojo had recently gone through drug rehab, but was turning his life around. He had a baby on the way while also working at the school and for a security company. But was he so clean? Heroin was found in his system and in his possession, and he''d been secretly carrying out security work for a notorious White Nationalist. Donne''s ex-cop instincts tell him something doesn''t add up. When Allison Rogers, an online journalist and Donne''s long-time girlfriend, runs insider stories from a runaway of the White Nationalists and a mysterious man turns up saying MoJo was working for him, Donne takes it upon himself, with the help of his techno-friend Edgar, to investigate. What was MoJo up to, and was he back to his old ways?

DKK 167.00
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Drought - Graham Masterton - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Drought - Graham Masterton - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

What would happen if the water ran out? Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace only learned the truth of the maxim that you don''t know what you have until you lose it, the day his wife walked out on him with their two kids. Now, the social worker does his best to take care of those who need it most.But good deeds mean nothing when the water just . . . disappears. It hasn''t rained for months, and now, in the height of summer, the taps run dry. And not, as they first suspect, because of a burst water main. In the deprived areas where Martin works, the water''s been intentionally cut off. And it''s his job, he discovers, to tell the families he cares for not to panic.Martin soon has more problems than lack of water. His daughter is sick with fever. And as riots over bottled water start, Martin''s teenage son is framed, and arrested, for a terrible crime. Soon Martin is left with no choice but to take drastic action to save his family, while corrupt politicians try and use the situation to their advantage, with calamitous results . . .

DKK 185.00
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Death and the Decorator - Simon Brett - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Death and the Decorator - Simon Brett - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Neighbours Carole and Jude uncover more than they bargained for when Jude decides to redecorate her cottage in this lighthearted cosy mystery. "An edgy cozy, filled with dry wit and deft plot twists"- Booklist Starred Review Having decided to redecorate Woodside Cottage, Jude has engaged the services of local man Pete, who has painted and decorated the homes of Fethering residents for many years. Pete is currently working on Footscrow House, a large Victorian building which is being converted into holiday flats by a local developer. Having arranged to meet at ''Fiasco House'', as it is known locally due to the many failed business enterprises over the years, Jude and Pete make a surprising discovery behind a wall panel: a woman''s handbag! The casual discovery becomes serious when the police identify the handbag''s owner as Anita Garner, a young woman who vanished in suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier. Determined to find out what really happened to Anita all those years ago, Jude and her neighbour Carole''s investigations plunge them into a maze of deception and murder, as they uncover a number of uncomfortable secrets beneath the serene surface of Fethering life . . .

DKK 240.00
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Death and the Decorator - Simon Brett - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Death and the Decorator - Simon Brett - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Neighbours Carole and Jude uncover more than they bargained for when Jude decides to redecorate her cottage in this lighthearted cosy mystery. "An edgy cozy, filled with dry wit and deft plot twists"- Booklist Starred Review Having decided to redecorate Woodside Cottage, Jude has engaged the services of local man Pete, who has painted and decorated the homes of Fethering residents for many years. Pete is currently working on Footscrow House, a large Victorian building which is being converted into holiday flats by a local developer. Having arranged to meet at ''Fiasco House'', as it is known locally due to the many failed business enterprises over the years, Jude and Pete make a surprising discovery behind a wall panel: a woman''s handbag! The casual discovery becomes serious when the police identify the handbag''s owner as Anita Garner, a young woman who vanished in suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier. Determined to find out what really happened to Anita all those years ago, Jude and her neighbour Carole''s investigations plunge them into a maze of deception and murder, as they uncover a number of uncomfortable secrets beneath the serene surface of Fethering life . . .

DKK 167.00
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A Reluctant Saint - Tricia Fields - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Reluctant Saint - Tricia Fields - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The killing of a greyhound breeder and rumors of election fraud during the mayoral race in small-town West Texas has Chief of Police Josie Gray searching for answers. "Fields''s excellent seventh Josie Gray mystery . . . does a masterly job evoking the dry, dusty Lone Star landscape"- Publishers Weekly Starred Review Mayoral elections are looming in Artemis. One of the candidates, Mike Striker, wants to build a racetrack while the incumbent mayor, Simon O''Kane, is strongly opposed. The proposal has divided the town: will it provide jobs and money, or will it bring crime and does it profit from animal cruelty?Tensions rise as a greyhound breeder has a number of her dogs stolen - she vows vengeance, only to soon be found dead herself. Meanwhile, fears of election fraud circulate. Is there truth behind the rumors of election rigging? Who stands to gain the most from the racetrack being built? Are animal rights activists taking matters too far? Josie Gray, Chief of Police in Artemis, must discover who is willing to kill for their cause before others in the town get caught in the crossfire - all while a gathering threat from Mexico City hovers over her.

DKK 225.00
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How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST ''Sweeping and quietly devastating'' New York Times ''A David and Goliath story for our times'' O, the Oprah Magazine Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and ignored. The country''s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest only. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will come at a steep price . . . one which generation after generation will have to pay.Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community''s determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman''s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people''s freedom.

DKK 216.00
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