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- Granta Books, 2021
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
Collected Writings and Reflections
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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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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Stasiland
Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall
- Granta Books, 2021
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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Anatomy of a Killing
Life and Death on a Divided Island
- Granta Books, 2021
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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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
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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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-624-4
EAN 9781783786244
The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free?Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew Haswell Green was a self-made man who reshaped Manhattan, built Central ...
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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-678-7
EAN 9781783786787
Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Trump's latest astonishing policy or declaration, and the overwhelming sense we have is one of confusion and incredulity - how could this be happening? As the 2020 US Presidential race takes shape, SURVIVING AUTOCRACY provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past ...
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Eat the Buddha
Life, Death, and Resistance in a Tibetan Town
- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-265-9
EAN 9781783782659
In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest and resistance. Barbara Demick chronicles the Tibetan tragedy from Ngaba, a defiant town on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau. From the stories of Ngaba's last princess and those who experienced the struggle sessions of Mao's revolution to the experiences of today's ...
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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-785-2
EAN 9781783787852
Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje PrizeSeventeen-year-old Silvie is camping in rural Northumberland with her father and a group of archaeologists, who hope to uncover evidence of human sacrifice. As Silvie glimpses new freedoms with the students, her relationship with her overbearing father deteriorates, until the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed into the ...
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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-39-2
EAN 9781909889392
When Granta published the first Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists ten years ago, it showcased a generation of talent with a list that included Samanta Schweblin and Alejandro Zambra. Now judges Chloe Aridjis, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Rodrigo Fresán, Aurelio Major, Valerie Miles and Gaby Wood will select the brightest rising stars. Granta 155 will bring ...
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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-521-6
EAN 9781783785216
Howard Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. Hinton's obsession is his work, his voyages into mathematical pure space, into the fourth dimension, but also his wife and sons, each of whom are entangled in the strange and unknown landscapes of Hinton's science fictions. In a bravura and startling meeting ...
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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-813-0
EAN 9781847088130
August is an average twelve year old - he likes dogs and fishing, and doesn't even mind early morning chores on his family's farm. When his parents' marriage falls apart and he has to start over in a new town, he tries hard to be an average teen - playing football and doing his homework ...
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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-549-0
EAN 9781783785490
In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that preferred women to be silent. Liberated by West Coast activism, growing gay pride and punk rock, she broke through oppression and over time transformed ...
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My Father's Letters
Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag
- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 45,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-528-5
EAN 9781783785285
'They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be.'Vasily Grossman. Between the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people were sent to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. My Father's ...
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Smile Or Die
How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-753-1
EAN 9781783787531
Bombarded by pink ribbons and platitudes following a breast cancer diagnosis, Ehrenreich was shocked to find that her anger was seen as unhealthy and dangerous by health professionals and other professionals. From health to academia, the economy to Iraq, Ehrenreich exposes a trail of denial, delusion, and bad faith, and reveals the often disastrous consequences ...
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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-688-6
EAN 9781783786886
A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastating wit and insight into the social and political fabric of America. Had I Known gathers together Ehrenreich's most significant articles and excerpts from the last four decades - some of which became the ...
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- Granta Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-581-0
EAN 9781783785810
Brilliantly written and incisive' Colm Toibin'An absolute tour de force' Maggie NelsonFrom leather parties in the Castro to Gay Liberation Front touch-ins; from disco at Studio One to dark rooms in Vauxhall railway arches, the gay bar has long been a place of joy, solidarity and sexual expression. But around the world, gay bars are ...
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