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PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-62897-612-0
EAN 9781628976120
A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone's Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The year is 2011, and our aging narrator has returned to Alto da Vigia to say goodbye to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 380 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-62897-507-9
EAN 9781628975079
Antonio Lobo Antunes's twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissao das Lagrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11, 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a combination of ethnic tensions and international pressures rendered Angola's hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-62897-390-7
EAN 9781628973907
Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 221 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-187-1
EAN 9781564781871
A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in Paris in 1960, the Oulipo views imaginative writing as an exercise dominated by the method of "constraints." While a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 236 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-081-2
EAN 9781564780812
Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful and deeply serious, this is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-917-4
EAN 9781564789174
A dazzling new collection of essays'on reading, writing, form, and thought'from one of Americas master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gasss lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-967-9
EAN 9781564789679
For the past five years, this anthology has stirred reactions around the globe, exciting readers, critics, and publishers alike. Bringing new names and work of European writers to an international audience has shown the vitality of writing from Europe at a time when the number of translations has dramatically shrunk in the United States and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-344-8
EAN 9781564783448
Where the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies. First ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 250 páginas
PVP: 15,65 €
ISBN 978-1-62897-024-1
EAN 9781628970241
Nicholas Mosley's Whitbread Award-winning novel Hopeful Monsters dealt with the suggestion that if human nature could not be improved by scientific manipulation, perhaps a suitable environment or soil might nonetheless be prepared into which an appropriate seed for change might fall, and not be smothered by weeds. In Metamorphosis, a humanitarian worker and a journalist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,10 €
ISBN 978-1-62897-038-8
EAN 9781628970388
In Tests of Time (2003), Gass shares his thoughts about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion, including essays on classic writers and contemporaries, literary "lists" and their use, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, and the First Amendment. First published by University of Chicago Press, first edition from Dalkey Archive ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-62897-039-5
EAN 9781628970395
The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Val?ry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory and gorgeous, by turns humorous and devastating, it stands among Gass's best and most provocative books. First published by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-212-0
EAN 9781564782120
In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-992-1
EAN 9781564789921
This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. The artist's complexities are clarified and his genius understood in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 275 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-62897-044-9
EAN 9781628970449
Alice Clark has been trying to avoid an acute state of "not-knowing" about what's happened and what's happening. Whatever happened has much to do with why three of her friends died early and badly and she did not. Alice is a mess, and her story is a mess too -- digressive, disheveled, and wild. She ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 420 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-898-6
EAN 9781564788986
Year five of the Best European Fiction series brings another crop of cutting-edge short stories from across the continent. From Belarus to Wales! Translated from more than 25 languages and highlighting the future luminaries and revolutionaries of international literature. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 15,10 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-889-4
EAN 9781564788894
This riotous collection at last gathers together an expansive selection of Flann O'Brien's shorter fiction in a single volume, as well as O'Brien's last and unfinished novel, Slattery's Sago Saga. Also included are new translations of several stories originally published in Irish, and other rare pieces. With some of these stories appearing here in book ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 72 páginas
PVP: 18,45 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-719-4
EAN 9781564787194
Man + Doctor is Nicholas Wadley wordless story of encounters with doctors, from the patient attempts to avoid the scalpel, to, once surgery becomes inevitable, watching himself learn to cope with days and weeks spent in hospital beds.-Most of these images were drawn in the bed of a London hospital,either the Royal Free or the ...
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