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- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-825-5
EAN 9781783788255
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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Fire Island
A Queer History
- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-702-9
EAN 9781783787029
Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation. Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here were the halcyon scenes of Frank O'Hara's poetry; the bars where Patricia ...
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- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-738-8
EAN 9781783787388
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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- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-981-8
EAN 9781783789818
I'M A FAN tells the story of an unnamed narrator's involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, Sheena Patel makes startling connections between power struggles at the heart of human relationships to those in the wider world, offering a devastating critique of social media, access and patriarchal systems.
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- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-427-1
EAN 9781783784271
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an ...
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How to Think Like a Philosopher
Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking
- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-851-4
EAN 9781783788514
The Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks shares his twelve key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking in this vital new book. --Pay attention. As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with real world problems?Question everything.Drawing on decades of ...
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Still Pictures
On Photography and Memory
- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-836-1
EAN 9781783788361
For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here, Malcolm turns her gimlet eye on her own life, examining twelve family photographs to construct a memoir from camera-caught moments, each of which pose questions ...
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In Love
A Memoir of Love and Loss
- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-801-9
EAN 9781783788019
A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian ...
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- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-290-1
EAN 9781783782901
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- Granta Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-502-5
EAN 9781783785025
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists, militants, mystics and explorers. From the conquistadors setting foot ...
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The Curtain and the Wall
A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
- Granta Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-576-6
EAN 9781783785766
A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy. The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its ...
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- Granta Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-710-4
EAN 9781783787104
Which nations have launched which animals into space?Which countries have no sea views? Where were our planet's now-extinct species last sighted?Who is behind the great avocado boom? Where can you hug the world's oldest trees?With infographic maps covering the entire globe, Wild Maps will delight cartography fans and nature lovers, as well as anyone with ...
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- Granta Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-509-4
EAN 9781783785094
The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war. The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an observer and chronicler of his times. Born and ...
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- Granta Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-914-6
EAN 9781783789146
The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his ...
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- Granta Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-839-2
EAN 9781783788392
Internationally acclaimed graphic artist: Drnaso's previous title SABRINA was the first ever graphic novel nominated for the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize---Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception. - John Smith, acting coach From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class creates a tapestry ...
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Job
The Story of a Simple Man
- Granta Books, 2022
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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- Granta Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
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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- Granta Books, 2022
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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- Granta Books, 2022
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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- Granta Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
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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