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ΙΔΟΥ ΟΙ ΟΝΕΙΡΟΠΟΛΟΙ
Ο Γιέντε Γιόνγκα, μετανάστης από το Καμερούν που ζει στο Χάρλεμ μαζί με τη σύζυγό του Νένι και τον εξάχρονο γιο τους, δεν πιστεύει στην τύχη του όταν το φθινόπωρο του 2007 προσλαμβάνεται ως σοφέρ του Κλαρκ Έντουαρντς, ανώτερου διευθυντικού στελέχους της Lehman Brothers. Ο Κλαρκ ζητά από τον Γιέντε ακρίβεια, διακριτικότητα και αφοσίωση, και ο Γιέντε είναι πρόθυμος να σεβαστεί τις επιθυμίες του εργοδότη του. Όταν η Σίντι, η γυναίκα του Κλαρκ, προτείνει στη Νέντ να εργαστεί το καλοκαίρι στην εξοχική κατοικία των Έντουαρντς στα Χάμπτονς κι εκε...
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(P/B) HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE
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 p...
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(P/B) BEHOLD THE DREAMERS
After two long years apart, Jende Jonga has brought his wife Neni from Cameroon to join him in the land of opportunity. Drawn by the promise of America they are seeking the chance of a better life for them and their son. When Jende lands a dream job as chauffeur to a Lehman Brothers executive, Neni finds herself taken into the confidence of his glamorous wife Cindy. The Edwards are powerful and privileged: dazzling examples of what America can offer to those who are prepared to strive for it. But when the financial world is rocked by the c...
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(H/B) BEHOLD THE DREAMERS
A powerful and timely story of marriage, class, race and the pursuit of the American Dream. Behold the Dreamers is a dazzling debut novel about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - and of what we're prepared to sacrifice to hold on to each of them. We all do what we gotta do to become American, abi?' New York, 2007: a city of dreamers and strivers, where the newly-arrived and the long-established jostle alike for a place on the ladder of success. And Jende Jonga, who has come from Cameroon, has just set his foot on the first rung. ...
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