Editorial Canongate
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-604-7
EAN 9781847676047
When Theo Griepenkerl happens upon the fifth Gospel in a war-torn Iraqi museum, he cant believe his luck. Driven by greed and a lust for fame, he capitalises on his find by publishing it. His book is a sensation. But he can hardly imagine the incendiary consequences his discovery will have for Christians, Arabs, homicidal ...
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-267-4
EAN 9781847672674
Helen has little idea what lies ahead when she offers her spare room to an old friend of fifteen years. Nicola has arrived in the city for treatment for cancer. Sceptical of the medical establishment, placing all her faith in an alternative health centre, Nicola is determined to find her own way to deal with ...
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-427-2
EAN 9781847674272
In this startling book, David Eagleman shows us forty possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These short stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 302 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-115-8
EAN 9781847671158
At the dawn of the twenty-first century Adam Kellas finds himself hurled on a journey between continents and cultures. In his quest from the war-torn mountains of Afghanistan to the elegant dinner tables of north London and then the marshlands of the American South, only the memory of the beautiful, elusive Astrid offers the possibility ...
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-124-0
EAN 9781847671240
1914. In the heart of the Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition in which both his masters, William and Robert Craven, died and all of the party s African porters fled. Garvey carries two huge diamonds. Promptly arrested, it is from ...
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-161-5
EAN 9781847671615
A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le's The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world. Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the death ...
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 8,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-434-0
EAN 9781847674340
Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her ...
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-112-7
EAN 9781847671127
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of Auld Lang Syne', and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over. But what about the poems? Beneath the cult of Burns' Nights ...
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- Canongate, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 213 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-183-7
EAN 9781847671837
Theo Griepenkerl, a Canadian linguistics scholar, is sent to Iraq in search of artifacts that have survived the destruction and looting of the war. While visiting a museum in Mosul, he finds nine papyrus scrolls tucked in the belly of a bas-relief sculpture: they have been perfectly preserved for more than two thousand years. After ...
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- Canongate, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-113-4
EAN 9781847671134
Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. The magazine has spoken with most of the world's leading novelists, poets and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognised as classic ...
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- Canongate, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-309-1
EAN 9781847673091
This is an extraordinary debut novel - a riveting love story about the redemptive power of suffering and a romance that transcends the limits of time and space.Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.The nameless and beautiful narrator of "The Gargoyle" is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what ...
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- Canongate, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 502 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-168-4
EAN 9781847671684
The nameless and beautiful narrator of "The Gargoyle" is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and wakes up in a burns ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned. His life is over - he is now a monster.But ...
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Dreams from my Father
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The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of ...
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- Canongate, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-083-0
EAN 9781847670830
This title presents Barack Obama's political vision for the future of America.If Barack Obama is successful in his quest to become President of the United States, he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world.In this bestselling book, Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different ...
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- Canongate, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-033-5
EAN 9781847670335
A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. From Faulkner's determination that a great novel takes 'ninety-nine percent talent ...
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- Canongate, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84767-237-7
EAN 9781847672377
The Game recounts the incredible adventures of an everyday man who transforms himself from a shy, awkward writer into the quick-witted, smooth-talking Style, a character irresistible to women.But just when life is better than he could have ever dreamed (he uses his techniques on Britney Spears, receives life coaching from Tom Cruise, moves into a ...
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- Canongate, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84195-980-1
EAN 9781841959801
Take a saunter down Silver Street once more for an early Christmas encounter with the determined heroine of The Crimson Petal and the White, and find out more of what became of her.In this collection, Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel, briefly opening doors onto the lives of its characters to give ...
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- Canongate, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84195-927-6
EAN 9781841959276
On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia, there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy from the mountain, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes passionately of his life, his family and his efforts to make sense of the changes the ...
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- Canongate, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84195-886-6
EAN 9781841958866
From Rudyard Kipling to James Joyce, Emily Brontë to Vernon Lee and Henry James to Joseph Conrad, Written Lives throws a new and fascinating light upon these well-known literary figures.Inspired to revisit the lives of some of the world?s most eminent writers of all time, looking at them from the angle of some peculiar detail ...
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