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- Granta Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-874-1
EAN 9781847088741
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly something changes.As the years rush by, ...
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- Granta Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-85-7
EAN 9781905881857
A powerful curiosity is the hallmark of new kind of Indian writing: important questions about the country's past and present have found their expression in different forms of non-fiction story-telling that twenty years ago tended to be the preserve of writers from the west. Biography, memoir, narrative history, reportage, the travel account: all these forms ...
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The French Intifada
The Long War between France and its Arabs
- Granta Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-259-6
EAN 9781847082596
Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of 'liberty, equality, fraternity' conceals a bitter history of domination, oppression, and brutality. ...
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- Granta Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15284-4
EAN 9780691152844
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu-themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents the essential tools of econometric research and demonstrates why econometrics is exciting and useful.The ...
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The Impossible Exile
Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-114-0
EAN 9781783781140
By the 1930s Stefan Zweig, born to an affluent Jewish family in Vienna, had become the most widely translated living author in the world - his novels, short stories, and biographies were instant bestsellers. Zweig was also an intellectual, and a patron of the arts. In 1934, following Hitler's rise to power, Zweig left Vienna ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-649-5
EAN 9781847086495
An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of difficult childhoods, find comfort together in other people's apartments. On the edge of a university campus, a group of students are brought together by their ageing drama professor, whose predilection for pot and crush on ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-079-2
EAN 9781783780792
In her comic, scathing essay Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women dont, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-83-3
EAN 9781905881833
Granta 129 brings you twenty-two meditations on fate in all its many forms. From Joseph Roth's reflection on Sarajevo in the wake of the First World War to Cynthia Ozick's exploration of the limits of belief, this issue stretches our understanding of fate, both in fact and in fiction. Striking the keys of the same ...
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At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and discovering it anew. In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this remarkable, much-loved Victorian novel, and shows how we can live richer and more ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-81-9
EAN 9781905881819
'I found in my absence that I had missed two visitors: one left me nothing I could know them by; the other must have been a woman, judging by the gift of wood-shavings and pale grasses she had picked and twisted into a bouquet that lingered on my table.' - Andrew Motion, 'A Meeting of ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-030-3
EAN 9781783780303
A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the depths of his childhood memories - a period of brewing political, ethical and religious turmoil - ...
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Indonesia etc.
Exploring the Improbable Nation
- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-014-3
EAN 9781783780143
One in 30 of the people on this planet is Indonesian. The 13,000 islands of their homeland, scattered along the equator, stretch the distance from London to Tehran, and the residents of the capital, Jakarta, tweet more than those of any other city on the planet. By any standard, Indonesia is a global hub, one ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-839-0
EAN 9781847088390
The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-512-2
EAN 9781847085122
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed a hundred pounds of ripening apricots, which lay on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to.From this ...
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Wanderlust
A History of Walking
- Granta Books, 2014
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-039-6
EAN 9781783780396
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-77-2
EAN 9781905881772
Hello Kitty, earthquakes, manga, samurai, robots and sushi. These are some of the things we think about when we think about Japan. This small island nation looms large in the popular imagination, in often contradictory ways: as the epitome of refinement and tradition, and as an embodiment of a shiny, soulless future.What is Japan to ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-873-4
EAN 9781847088734
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly something changes.As the years rush by, ...
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The Luminaries
Booker Prize 2013
- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-432-3
EAN 9781847084323
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and ...
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- Granta Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-905881-79-6
EAN 9781905881796
'The weekend her father left -- left the house, the town, the country, everything, packing so lightly I believed he would come back -- he said 'You can raise Nickie by yourself. You'll be good at it. And I had said, 'Are you on crack?' And he replied, continuing to fold a blue twill jacket, ...
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