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Sabrina
Man Booker Longlist 2018
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-490-5
EAN 9781783784905
WHERE IS SABRINA? The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral. A landmark graphic novel, already hailed as one of the most exciting and moving stories of recent years, Sabrina is a tale of modern mystery, anxiety, fringe paranoia and mainstream ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-172-0
EAN 9781783781720
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, White ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-218-5
EAN 9781783782185
WELCOME TO THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIMENTMary is out of options. Estranged from her family and beset by phantom pain, she signs up for 'The Girlfriend Experiment' - a mysterious project masterminded by a famous Hollywood actor who hires a collection of women to fulfil the different roles of a relationship. Mary is to play the Emotional ...
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The White Book
Man Booker International Prize Shortlist 2018
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-695-8
EAN 9781846276958
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The VegetarianFrom the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit.It ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-16-3
EAN 9781909889163
This issue of Granta is concerned with aftermaths. When the news cameras turn away, what remains? It includes reportage from Syria, Russia, Essex, London and beyond, as well as new fiction, poetry and photography.
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Natural Causes
Life, Death and the Illusion of Control
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-241-3
EAN 9781783782413
We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with life-threatening consequences. In this revelatory book, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that our bodies are a battleground ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-390-8
EAN 9781783783908
This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-360-1
EAN 9781783783601
Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration.Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-12-5
EAN 9781909889125
Animals. We love and care for them as pets, we weave them into our myths and fables and then we breed them under conditions of terrible cruelty just so we can eat them cheaply. As new developments in research into animal cognition force us to concede fewer characteristics separating us from our neighbouring species, this ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-182-9
EAN 9781783781829
Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about abandoning America - only to discover, years later, that ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-561-0
EAN 9781847085610
Set mostly in the American South, at the crossroads of a world both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In 'The Negative Effects of Homeschooling', Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to the funeral of her best friend ...
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- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-454-7
EAN 9781783784547
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible'In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the author of a book ...
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- Granta Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-457-8
EAN 9781783784578
This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his extraordinarily well-travelled wolf. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person, and, strangely enough, as a philosopher, leading him to re-evaluate his attitude to love, happiness, nature and death. By turns ...
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The Balkans 1804-1999
Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
- Granta Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-452-3
EAN 9781783784523
In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the bloodshed, invasions and nationalist fervour that have come to define our understanding of the south-eastern edge of Europe. In doing so, he reveals that groups we think of as implacable enemies have, over the centuries, formed unlikely alliances, thereby disputing ...
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- Granta Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-1-909889-10-1
EAN 9781909889101
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- Granta Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-393-9
EAN 9781783783939
James Orr - husband, father, reliable employee and all round model citizen - wakes one morning to find himself quite transformed. There's no way he can go into the office, and the doctors aren't able to help. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he wanders the idyllic estate where he lives, with its pretty woodland, ...
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- Granta Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-251-0
EAN 9781847082510
Espionage and counter-espionage between the Soviets and the British during London's Roaring TwentiesAt the height of the hedonistic Jazz Age, many in British society became convinced that they were under attack from the new Soviet state. Still reeling from the Russian revolution of 1917, disturbed by the development of militant workers movements at home, and ...
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- Granta Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-329-8
EAN 9781783783298
After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas leaves the house. He walks down the street, and he keeps on walking. At first Astrid asks herself where he's gone, and then when he's coming back, and finally whether he is even still alive.In precise and hypnotic prose that ...
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- Granta Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-238-3
EAN 9781783782383
Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his ...
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- Granta Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-602-6
EAN 9781846276026
Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found.Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till.Nor are her fellow employees any less curious or ...
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