Editorial Faber
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22518-7
EAN 9780571225187
In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women, and indecipherable tongues began to feed the fantasies of European merchants and adventurers. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, saw in this great people millions of souls ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25921-2
EAN 9780571259212
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director, and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence. From one of Scandinavia's most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, The Emperor ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28069-8
EAN 9780571280698
Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is devastated; he can't see what he's done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg's friend Kent alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife Carly is and chasing after a hot new colleague.The final part of Neil ...
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Two great science writers set themselves the challenge to describe the biggest theories in science. In 140 pages, 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics are presented, each in the form of 10 or so Tweets per page, just 140 characters each.
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In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for murder. Telling the story of the next twelve months, Maps for Lost Lovers opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, ...
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Music depresses me. Dancing distresses me. Everything turns out wrong. That's why, the whole day long, I feel so gloomy. Inspired by Ludwig Bechstein's nineteenth-century poem, Axel Scheffler has created a set of delightfully dark depictions of misanthropic misery. Julia Donaldson, Axel's collaborator on The Gruffalo, has penned a wry, witty new translation of the ...
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The Curse of the Jelly Babies
You, Me and Thing
- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27239-6
EAN 9780571272396
Ruby and Jackson get the surprise of their lives when they discover a Thing living at the bottom of their gardens. And when Thing places a curse on the inhabitants of the new house that's been built over his old home, Ruby and Jackson find themselves up to their eyeballs in jellybabies, magic and big ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-26079-9
EAN 9780571260799
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions. Many believe it has the power to heal emotional wounds and ease the pain of death.Others struggle with the intellectual fascination of its contradictory meanings. ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23910-8
EAN 9780571239108
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College, Leicester, in Autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, a ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24132-3
EAN 9780571241323
"Habibi", based on a Middle Eastern fable, tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby she names Zam. They live in isolation in an old boat in the desert. As they age their relationship shifts from mother and son, to brother and sister and eventually lovers.In the ...
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Includes the plays Butley; Wise Child; Dutch Uncle; Spoiled; The Caramel Crisis; Sleeping Dog.
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27357-7
EAN 9780571273577
Published to celebrate the centenary of William Golding's birth. A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28213-5
EAN 9780571282135
One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily wild music. "You shouldn't miss this for the world...Rambunctiously life-affirming and touchingly beautiful".("Herald"). "More vibrantly alive than ...
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Awful End : When both of Eddie Dickens' parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie, those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder ...
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From the bestselling Costa Prize-winning author of The Secret Scripture, On Canaan's Side is another heartbreaking novel spanning a lifetime. As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.' Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23142-3
EAN 9780571231423
On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in , their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into the desert to die. ...
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