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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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- Granta Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-255-8
EAN 9781847082558
Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century - from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, ...
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- Granta Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-348-7
EAN 9781847083487
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- Granta Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-242-8
EAN 9781847082428
1970: Fourteen year old Tony becomes seduced by the skinhead movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre ritual. It's a milieu in which he must hide his homosexuality, in which every encounter is potentially explosively risky.2003: James is a young TV researcher, living with his boyfriend.At a loose end, he begins ...
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- Granta Books, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-394-4
EAN 9781847083944
This 1949 novella about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army has long been considered a modern Hebrew masterpiece, and it has also given rise to fierce controversy over the years. Published just months after the end of the 1948 war, Khirbet Khizeh (the khA" pronounced like the chA" in BachA") was ...
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- Granta Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 314 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-141-4
EAN 9781847081414
North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country's great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended: ...
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- Granta Books, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-894-9
EAN 9781862078949
'The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire' Jacques Lacan. Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical 'mistakes' and clinical 'frauds' as a proof of its vitality? Slavoj Zizek's passionate defence of Lacan reasserts the ethical urgency of psychoanalysis. ...
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- Granta Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,51 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-260-2
EAN 9781862072602
Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, "The Land of Green Plums" tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better prospects in the city. It is a profound illustration of a totalitarian state which comes to inhabit every ...
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- Granta Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-151-3
EAN 9781847081513
After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the history of silence ...
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- Granta Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-075-2
EAN 9781847080752
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- Granta Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-068-4
EAN 9781847080684
Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives and their housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-emerged in their lives. Having miraculously survived wartime Berlin, she had reluctantly emigrated to hostile, volatile Palestine.Recounting Edith's story, Figes boldly argues that ...
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- Granta Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-053-0
EAN 9781847080530
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- Granta Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-904-5
EAN 9781862079045
Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First published by Granta in 1992, it became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century - an 'exemplary choice' in the words of the "Washington Post" - ...
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Dancing In The Streets
A History Of Collective Joy
- Granta Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-008-0
EAN 9781847080080
In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and 'savage', Ehrenreich shows that they ...
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- Granta Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-006-6
EAN 9781847080066
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- Granta Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 9,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-987-8
EAN 9781862079878
In wartime Berlin, Cioma Schonhaus discovered a way of turning his talent for graphic design to good use: he forged documents which helped save hundreds of Jewish lives. His first challenge involved painstakingly recreating each of the twelve long and twenty-four short feathers on the German Imperial Eagle so that a pass stood up to ...
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- Granta Books, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-959-5
EAN 9781862079595
In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on the fighting that broke out between ...
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Who Paid the Piper?
The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
- Granta Books, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-327-2
EAN 9781862073272
In the West during the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherised possession. This text documents a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom were instruments - whether they knew it or not - of America's secret service.
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