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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-396-8
EAN 9781847083968
A spellbinding debut novel; three brothers come of age in a poverty stricken town in upstate New York. Received excellent reviews in hardback on both sides of the Atlantic.
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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-491-0
EAN 9781847084910
One starless night Janie's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up in a political storm which brought starvation to millions, tore families apart and changed the world ...
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- Granta Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-65-9
EAN 9781905881659
In a world of the future, people exist in a perpetual state of rehearsing evacuations, and one man's rehearsal involves leaving his parents behind. A firespotter knows all too well that where there's smoke, there's fire - but fails to spot the blaze that consumes half her family. Then there's the Custer impersonator who takes ...
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When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Within a few brief years, Putin had dismantled Russia's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every ...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum - Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 2013
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-63-5
EAN 9781905881635
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84708-329-6
EAN 9781847083296
Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men - witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer, who spent five years exploring the city and listening to its residents. From the woman whose voice announces the stations on the London Underground to the man who ...
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The new novel from the Nobel Prize winner, author of The Land of Green Plums, a brutal, brilliant story of survival and testimony from a young Romanian-German deported to the Soviet Gulag at the end of the Second World War.
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The story of the overcoat begins with a chance meeting - between an obsessive bibliophile, Jacques Guerin, the head of a French perfume house, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Glimpsing the possibility of adding to his collection, Guerin stumbles into a tense and tangled relationship with the novelist's family ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-61-1
EAN 9781905881611
A writer chronicles the surrender of her body to MS; a woman running a substance-abuse clinic faces challenges from clients, donors and her own past; two brothers fix up a house - but can't quite fix the aging parents who will live in it. From the chalky horse-pills of faceless pharmaceutical conglomerates to the hot ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-597-9
EAN 9781847085979
With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983, reconfirms what no one can doubt--that Said is the most impressive, ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-599-3
EAN 9781847085993
A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing between "origin," which is divine, mythical, and privileged, and "beginning," which is secular and humanly produced, Said traces the ramifications and diverse understandings ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-285-1
EAN 9781846272851
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-622-8
EAN 9781847086228
The speech of children has mutated into a virus which is killing their parents. At first it only affects Jews-then everyone. Living quietly in the suburbs, Sam and Claire's lives are threatened when their daughter, Esther, is infected with the disease. Each word she speaks - whether cruel or kind, banal or loving - is ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-537-5
EAN 9781847085375
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-56-7
EAN 9781905881567
A nation defined by tradition and built on expansion, Britain now has more languages spoken within its capital than any other city in the world. Recently, Granta has explored Chicago, Pakistan and the world of Spanish-language letters. In this bold, eclectic issue, the magazine turns back to focus on Britain. In 2012, Britain is a ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-411-8
EAN 9781847084118
For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a cosmopolitan city, home to Muslims and Christians, Serbs and Croats. Then the war tore the street apart. In this extraordinary eyewitness account, Demick weaves together the stories of ten families from Logavina Street.For three and a half years, they were often without heat, ...
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In "The Wisdom of Whores", epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani brings honesty, wit and startling pragmatism to the tawdry front lines of sex and drugs. She explains how we could shut down HIV in most of the world with a few simple steps, with less money than we already have. We could do it now. But shockingly, ...
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Fishing in Utopia
Sweden and the Future that Disappeared
- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-081-3
EAN 9781847080813
From the 1960s to the 1980s, Sweden was an affluent, egalitarian country envied around the world. Refugees were welcomed, even misfit young Englishmen could find a place there. Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a timber mill raising ...
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- Granta Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-55-0
EAN 9781905881550
Be it a wrong turn, a bad relationship, a debilitating illness or a war, every action creates a reaction, every move is followed by another move. How do we get out of what we've gotten ourselves into? How do we deal with what's been thrust upon us? Granta 118 zooms in close on the phenomenon ...
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