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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-849-1
EAN 9781783788491
'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...'So Roth begins his novel about the loss of faith and the experience of suffering. His modern Job goes through his trials in the ghettos of Tsarist Russia and on the unforgiving ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-735-7
EAN 9781783787357
What does it mean to be out walking in the world? From pilgrimages to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern classic weaves together numerous histories to trace a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Touching on the philosophers of Ancient Greece, the Romantic poets, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennett, Andre Breton's Nadja, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-737-1
EAN 9781783787371
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-736-4
EAN 9781783787364
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three boxes of ripening apricots, fruit from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. In this courageous, heartbreaking memoir, Solnit draws from this unexpected inheritance, weaving her own story into fairy tales and the lives ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-552-0
EAN 9781783785520
From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the cottage, she discovered the descendants of the roses that he had planted many decades previously. These survivors, as well as the diaries he kept of his planting and growing, provide ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-847-7
EAN 9781783788477
A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' William BoydIn the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed and the people he encountered. Collected in one volume, his experiences in Italy, Germany, Russia, Albania and Ukraine form a series of tender vignettes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-714-2
EAN 9781783787142
When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish civil war. But then Hilari dies too, and his sister is forced to face life's struggles ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 290 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-696-1
EAN 9781783786961
'Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid - this is a superb novel, a novel that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in' - Sunjeev Sahota, author of the Booker shortlisted The Year of the Runaways'one senses, reading his two extraordinary novels, a new mastery coming into being' - Garth Greenwell, author of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-821-7
EAN 9781783788217
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE'Beautiful, horrible... the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time' Kazuo Ishiguro'Smoky, carnal, dazzling' Lauren GroffWelcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-727-2
EAN 9781783787272
An astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in the dying days of the Second World War'Moving, graceful... Violets has a compelling, quiet power all the way to its exquisitely affecting end' Megan Hunter, author of The Harpy and The End We Start From'Stunning and original... Written in pristine prose, it reminded me of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-745-6
EAN 9781783787456
Now 91, one of England's notable book editors examines life, old age and approaching death with astonishing candor in 16 essays distinguished by her spare, direct prose. Athill, does not shy away from uncomfortable subjects: the waning of sexual desire, her qualms about the physical act of dying and her atheism, which deprives her of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-663-7
EAN 9781846276637
WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM HARFORDWhich nations have North Korean embassies? Which region has the highest number of death metal bands per capita? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the 'wrong' side of the road? And where can you find lions in the wild?Revelatory, thought-provoking and fun, Brilliant Maps is ...
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Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a journey through the works and subjects that have inspired and influenced her. Written with the same clarity and insight that characterize her fiction, the pieces range from literary criticism and reflections ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-232-1
EAN 9781783782321
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Rudolf Maier, a young microbiologist working on a plague vaccine, is summoned to Moscow to deliver a progress report to his superiors. Inadvertently, he carries the virus with him from the lab. When his illness is discovered, the state machinery turns with terrifying efficiency, rounding up dozens of people.But for many, the distinction between this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-734-0
EAN 9781783787340
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In Stasiland, winner of the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize, Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany, a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-642-2
EAN 9781846276422
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son. In Anatomy of a Killing, award-winning journalist Ian Cobain documents the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-569-8
EAN 9781783785698
Mind-blowing, twisted, and wildly entertaining, Earthlings asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? As a child, Natsuki believed she was an alien, a different species to her earthling family and classmates. She hoped a spaceship would come down and take her home. Now, she lives quietly in an asexual marriage, pretending to ...
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