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Robert Carver, journalist and author of the acclaimed 'Among the Mountains', searches for high adventure and intense experiences as he follows the trail of a family mystery . Once upon a time when Buenos Aires was still a tiny village, there existed an almost magical sub-tropical paradise in the lost heart of South America - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 470 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-06-125380-5
EAN 9780061253805
Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-725560-3
EAN 9780007255603
The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner captured ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 195 páginas
PVP: 8,85 €
ISBN 978-0-00-723425-7
EAN 9780007234257
Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone' is his intimate memoir of his growth from a small and fundamentally ridiculous person' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It's also a portrait of a middle ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-723244-4
EAN 9780007232444
The Lamberts Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is ill and as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures, secrets and long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs. Stretching from the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 8,99 €
ISBN 978-0-00-724295-5
EAN 9780007242955
Gunvald Larsson sits carefully observing the dingy Stockholm apartment of a man under police surveillance. He looks at his watch: nine minutes past eleven in the evening. He yawns, slapping his arms to keep warm. At the same moment the house explodes, killing at least three people.Chief Inspector Martin Beck and his men don't suspect ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-00-716545-2
EAN 9780007165452
The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of 'Mr Golightly's Holiday' and 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. 'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and it is this traumatic event ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-724200-9
EAN 9780007242009
In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange - and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent. Of all the books you read this year, this will be the one ...
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`A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-711871-7
EAN 9780007118717
The history of language is also a history of its speakers, reflecting the power, culture, conquests, prestige and occasionally the declining fortunes of its users. Through the study of its languages, we find a potted history of the world itself. Empires of the Word is the first and only book recount this remarkable story in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-717399-0
EAN 9780007173990
Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy - but one who crucially had an American passport, having been born in Brooklyn. He didn't know what he wanted except to stop being hungry and to better himself. On the subway he watched students carrying books. He saw how they ...
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ISBN 978-0-06-095838-1
EAN 9780060958381
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 356 páginas
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-0-00-717989-3
EAN 9780007179893
Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, architects and engineers are looking at imitating nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials such as spider silk or the surface of the gecko's foot.The amazing power of the gecko's foot has long been known it can ...
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ISBN 978-0-06-087813-9
EAN 9780060878139
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-06-058569-3
EAN 9780060585693
"Both insightful and playful . . . When Bradbury speaks, we should listen." "Mr. Bradbury brings immense satisfaction . . . These pieces will prove more than rewarding." "Wonderful . . .This book is vintage Bradbury.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-711322-4
EAN 9780007113224
The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both engineer and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless ...
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PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-722152-3
EAN 9780007221523
Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-00-720500-4
EAN 9780007205004
A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-06-088328-7
EAN 9780060883287
One of the 20th century's enduring works, Marquez's masterpiece is the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. Alternately reverential and comical, this novel weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling.
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