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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23056-3
EAN 9780571230563
Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time we reach the final story we are as familiar with the people of Firozsha Baag as we are with our own neighbours. The crowded, throbbing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23234-5
EAN 9780571232345
Of their recent pamphlet publication, he remarked that 'the poems have to do with a series of historical battles (all beginning with the letter "B" as if to suggest a missing Baghdad), from post-Agreement Ireland to George W. Bush's America, in which horses or mules played a major role. Intercut with these battle-scenes are accounts ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-571-23058-7
EAN 9780571230587
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local delight; and, above all, ...
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An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
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John Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer, or the Codebreaker. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire. When tax inspector Anna Moore is assigned Law as a new client, her first task is to discover just what he is trying to hide.
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The first bilingual edition of "Godot" to be published in the UK for the centenary of his birth. Written in French and first performed at the Theatre Babylone in Paris, in 1953, "En attendant Godot" was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as "Waiting for Godot". It was performed at the Arts Theatre in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22498-2
EAN 9780571224982
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I traveled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story ...
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"Ivan's War" is the first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front, displacing the dictators and their generals who have dominated books on the subject for the past sixty years. Ivan, the archetypal Russian infantryman, emerges at last as ...
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While the eyes of the world are focused upon attempts to scale Mount Everest, two young men - once members of the world's climbing elite, subsequently forced into premature retirement after the failure of a secret military operation in the Alps during World War II - have become outcasts of mountaineering society. Until, that is, ...
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Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22050-2
EAN 9780571220502
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1376 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22790-7
EAN 9780571227907
From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. The Collected Poems represents his poetry of five decades, including such characteristic achievements as Crow, Wodwo, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. It also brings together, for the first ...
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Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others are more obscure figures, whose achievements or failures may have had consequences quite different to those they had intended. All ten ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23406-6
EAN 9780571234066
Stuff happens...And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.' The famous response of Donald Rumsfeld, American Secretary of Defense, to the looting of Baghdad, at a press conference on 11 April 2003, provides the title for a new play, specially written for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21481-5
EAN 9780571214815
An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature.How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-21801-1
EAN 9780571218011
One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at ...
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Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23040-2
EAN 9780571230402
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our ...
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