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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755281-8
EAN 9780007552818
The Manhattan funeral of Charles Henry Topping would have been a minor affair but for the identity of the eulogist: reclusive author A. N. Dyer, whose novel 'Ampersand' stands as a classic of teenage angst.Now Andrew Newbold Dyer takes stock of his own life, the people he's hurt and the novel that will endure as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755778-3
EAN 9780007557783
A vision appears in the sky above wintry New York and seems to exert an influence over two brothers, in this luminous, compassionate novel from the author of 'The Hours'. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up; in the sky he sees a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-754867-5
EAN 9780007548675
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-741213-6
EAN 9780007412136
A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat.It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 475 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-735634-8
EAN 9780007356348
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-754989-4
EAN 9780007549894
Hilary Mantel's novels are the most formidable literary achievements of recent times. She is the first writer to win the Man Booker Prize with consecutive novels. Adapted by Mike Poulton, the plays were premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in December 2013, directed by Jeremy Herrin.This edition contains a substantial ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749418-7
EAN 9780007494187
Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become Somebody.Golddigger, property magnate, pop star, entrepreneur ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749422-4
EAN 9780007494224
An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton.Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist Upton Sinclair, enjoying the success of The Jungle, has taken up residence with his family. Grover Cleveland, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746887-4
EAN 9780007468874
A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Both Chinese and American, Violet moves ...
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Franzen, Jonathan; Kraus, Karl
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751824-1
EAN 9780007518241
A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though his followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749808-6
EAN 9780007498086
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the 600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752430-3
EAN 9780007524303
this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood.The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation. For still, the question remains why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-00-728876-2
EAN 9780007288762
From the bestselling author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. As summer in Oakland, California, draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are hanging in there, co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen and Aviva, are the Berkeley Birth ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-00-745953-7
EAN 9780007459537
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749416-3
EAN 9780007494163
In this stunning new novel, the award-winning Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-745010-7
EAN 9780007450107
"I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months.All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets.They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 156 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749880-2
EAN 9780007498802
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84115-456-5
EAN 9781841154565
As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change the lives of every person on the planet. Economics was not always associated with bankers and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,85 €
ISBN 978-0-00-736064-2
EAN 9780007360642
101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st. Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. They speak, or don't speak.They ...
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