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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 · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,49 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-03-1
EAN 9781905881031
At present, in Britain, there are at least 200 indigenous active terrorist cells being monitored by the Security Service MI5, with 4,000 British Muslims considered to be a threat to national security. How did we arrive at this state of affairs? A remarkable investigation by Richard Watson into the origins and the rise of the ...
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- Granta Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-185-4
EAN 9781846271854
From getting locked out of her flat twice on the same day and being fired for baking a giant cookie in the shape of her boss' head, to playing bridesmaid for a friend she'd long forgotten, Sloane Crosley can do no right, despite the best of intentions. With sharp, original and irresistible storytelling that confounds ...
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- Granta Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-040-0
EAN 9781847080400
Richard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short story writers, introduced the first "Granta Book of the American Short Story", which Granta published in 1992. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century. In the fourteen years since, Ford has been reading new ...
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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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- Granta Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-051-6
EAN 9781847080516
In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer which would kill her later the same year. In this fiercely honest and beautifully written memoir, her son David Rieff chronicles the last months of Sontag's life. Sontag had fought off two previous bouts of cancer, against all the odds, and had developed ...
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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 · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-026-4
EAN 9781847080264
In this disarmingly mischievous and provocative book, already a runaway bestseller in France, Pierre Bayard contends that in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the book's place in our culture. Drawing on examples from works by Graham Greene, ...
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The Ends of the Earth
Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
- Granta Books, 2007
Encuadernación en tapa dura
PVP: 36,00 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-977-9
EAN 9781862079779
The Ends of the Earth is an elegant boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic (edited by Elizabeth Kolbert) and the Antarctic (edited by Francis Spufford). Contributors include Roald Amundsen, Beryl Bainbridge, Andrea Barrett, James Buchan, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Jenny Diski, Tim Flannery, Jon Krakauer, Haldor Laxness, ...
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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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An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to ...
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- Granta Books, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 380 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-933-5
EAN 9781862079335
An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to ...
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- Granta Books, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 258 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-865-9
EAN 9781862078659
Turkey is a country in a state of flux, swept along by an extraordinary process of change. In the last few years a series of far-reaching political and economic reforms has swept away much of the old order which ruled the country for so long. Some people call it a second Turkish revolution. But resistance ...
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- Granta Books, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 35,85 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-906-9
EAN 9781862079069
Since September 11 2001 not a day passes without stories about 'Islam' the religion of about one-fifth of humanity appearing in the media. The terrorists who hijacked four American airliners not only unleashed a 'War on Terrorism' by the United States and its allies, leading to the removal of two governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...
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- Granta Books, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-903141-86-4
EAN 9780903141864
Where travel writing went next. On the road in Spain with V. S. Pritchett, on a train in America with Cary Grant's suit, on manoeuvres in Saigon with Tia Wallman.In this issue:Ian Jack: IntroductionTia Wallman: We Went to SaigonMichel Faber: Bye-Bye NataliaJeremy Treglown: Closing TimeJohn Burnside: How to FlyTodd McEwen: Cary Grant's SuitSimon Roberts: Across ...
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- Granta Books, 2006
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 596 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-851-2
EAN 9781862078512
The first major unbiased biography of the First Lady of Hitler's Bayreuth. Born Winifred Williams in 1897, she was adopted, aged nine, by distant relatives in Berlin. In 1915, the eighteen-year-old Winifred married into the Wagner family when they needed an heir to secure the Wagner heritage and the festival site at Bayreuth. In 1923, ...
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- Granta Books, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-890-1
EAN 9781862078901
The End of Alice treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday and caused a major controversy when it was first released in the US. The story centres on the correspondence of two paedophiles: one, the narrator, is a middle-aged child-killer serving his twenty-third year in prison; the other, his bland-speaking, sweet-seeming admirer, ...
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- Granta Books, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-889-5
EAN 9781862078895
Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens well and truly out of control. As A.M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the American ...
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