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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-649-5
EAN 9781847086495
An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of difficult childhoods, find comfort together in other people's apartments. On the edge of a university campus, a group of students are brought together by their ageing drama professor, whose predilection for pot and crush on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-079-2
EAN 9781783780792
In her comic, scathing essay Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women dont, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-83-3
EAN 9781905881833
Granta 129 brings you twenty-two meditations on fate in all its many forms. From Joseph Roth's reflection on Sarajevo in the wake of the First World War to Cynthia Ozick's exploration of the limits of belief, this issue stretches our understanding of fate, both in fact and in fiction. Striking the keys of the same ...
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At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and discovering it anew. In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this remarkable, much-loved Victorian novel, and shows how we can live richer and more ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-81-9
EAN 9781905881819
'I found in my absence that I had missed two visitors: one left me nothing I could know them by; the other must have been a woman, judging by the gift of wood-shavings and pale grasses she had picked and twisted into a bouquet that lingered on my table.' - Andrew Motion, 'A Meeting of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-030-3
EAN 9781783780303
A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood memories - a period of brewing political, ethical and religious turmoil - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-1-78378-014-3
EAN 9781783780143
One in 30 of the people on this planet is Indonesian. The 13,000 islands of their homeland, scattered along the equator, stretch the distance from London to Tehran, and the residents of the capital, Jakarta, tweet more than those of any other city on the planet. By any standard, Indonesia is a global hub, one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-839-0
EAN 9781847088390
The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-512-2
EAN 9781847085122
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed a hundred pounds of ripening apricots, which lay on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to.From this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-77-2
EAN 9781905881772
Hello Kitty, earthquakes, manga, samurai, robots and sushi. These are some of the things we think about when we think about Japan. This small island nation looms large in the popular imagination, in often contradictory ways: as the epitome of refinement and tradition, and as an embodiment of a shiny, soulless future.What is Japan to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-873-4
EAN 9781847088734
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly something changes.As the years rush by, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-432-3
EAN 9781847084323
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-79-6
EAN 9781905881796
'The weekend her father left -- left the house, the town, the country, everything, packing so lightly I believed he would come back -- he said 'You can raise Nickie by yourself. You'll be good at it. And I had said, 'Are you on crack?' And he replied, continuing to fold a blue twill jacket, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 262 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-71-0
EAN 9781905881710
It is not just nations that are made and destroyed by war - families are scattered, boundaries of loyalty redrawn. The autumn issue of Granta explores the aftermath of conflict. Patrick French writes of a great uncle whose death in the Second World War transformed the family line. A powerful new story by Thomas McGuane ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 497 páginas
PVP: 17,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-783-6
EAN 9781847087836
An American anthropologist is at a loose end in Botswana. She is ferociously intelligent and wonderfully inquisitive. She is also in love with Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who runs an experimental women-only utopian village in the Kalahari.At times wildly comic but also magnificently cerebral, Mating is a profound exploration of the human condition and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-244-2
EAN 9781847082442
From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the earth, Caspar Henderson captures the beauty and bizarreness of the many living forms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 832 páginas
PVP: 28,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-431-6
EAN 9781847084316
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-876-5
EAN 9781847088765
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and ...
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