Editorial Faber
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The first narrative history in English of the Italian front: a major forgotten conflict of the First World War.In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire, hoping to seize its lost' territories of Trieste and Tyrol. The result was one of the most hopeless and senseless modern wars - and one that inspired ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22103-5
EAN 9780571221035
Henry Morton Stanley has come down to us in history as a cruel imperialist, a bad man of Africa, and as the person who conducted the most famous celebrity interview in history, with the words Dr Livingstone, I presume?' In this compelling biography, Tim Jeal argues that Stanley is also one of the most misunderstood ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,24 €
ISBN 978-0-571-20977-4
EAN 9780571209774
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-17955-8
EAN 9780571179558
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2008. Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love.Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - ...
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- Faber, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23206-2
EAN 9780571238576
St Petersburg in the winter of 1866.Two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park - a dwarf neatly packed in a suitcase, and a burly peasant hanging from a tree. Police Detective Porfiry Petrovich begins his investigation in the city's squalid brothels and drinking dens but is soon led into an altogether more genteel stratum ...
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In the course of a routine police raid Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Jonny Faremo, wanted member of a larceny gang, it is already too late - he is obsessed.
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Drawing both on the author's own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience, this book offers an account of how the world might transform the Burma's future.
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- Faber, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23945-0
EAN 9780571239450
There are two brothers Size.There is Ogun, who owns an auto-repair shop. And there is Oshoosi, fresh out of prison, who always takes the wrong track. When his ex-cell mate Elegba gives him a clapped-out car, true freedom seems just around the corner.The first part of the Brother/Sister Trilogy, The Brothers Size is the European ...
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Kate McCall's husband has been killed by her son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. While Kate struggles with her son's surly guilt, her first love, Jack, an ex-con, reappears, along with a crew of his former colleagues. While Jack must convince his partners in crime that he really did lose the heist money, his ...
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- Faber, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22157-8
EAN 9780571221578
America recognizes itself as a voice of power and righteousness, speaking to itself in a message broadcast to the whole world. This is a fundamental part of American identity - which is to say there is no American identity without a sense of portent and doom. This is the other side of the story - ...
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August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Among the survivors of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, panic is spreading. Facing the threat of a second purge the officers and detectives, with their changed identities and false names, realise that they can trust ...
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The Secret Scripture
Costa Best Novel 2009
I once lived among humankind, and found them in their generality to be cruel and cold, and yet could mention the names of three or four that were like angels. I suppose we measure the importance of our days by those few angels we spy among us . . .'Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her 100th ...
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- Faber, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23150-8
EAN 9780571231508
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his damaged 220lb pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.
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An old man sits in a room, with a single door and a window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written labels and on the desk is ...
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An evocation of Venice which uses vivid prose, humour and irony to present a personal portrait of an eccentric city.
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- Faber, 2007
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21904-9
EAN 9780571219049
York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the employees of the North Eastern Railway company. He tells Jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always walk in twos.Jim is off ...
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- Faber, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23842-2
EAN 9780571238422
'The suicide warriors who attacked Washington and New York on September 11th, 2001, did more than kill thousands of civilians and demolish the World Trade Center. They destroyed the West's ruling myth.' So John Gray begins this short, powerful book on the belief that has dominated our minds for a century and a half - ...
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