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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52362-2
EAN 9780330523622
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist . . . Dr Sacks shows ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-50890-2
EAN 9780330508902
In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52359-2
EAN 9780330523592
Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people those struck by affliction, unusual talent and even, in one case, by lightning ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52370-7
EAN 9780330523707
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR V.S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction - two novels and a collection of stories - that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humour. The Suffrage ...
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In a Free State
Man Booker Prize Winner of All Time Shortlist
- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52290-8
EAN 9780330522908
In a Free State was conceived in 1969 as a sequence about displacement. There was to be a central novel, set in Africa, with shorter surrounding matter from other places. The shorter pieces from these varied places were intended to throw a universal light on the African material.But then, as the years passed and the ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52291-5
EAN 9780330522915
Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52300-4
EAN 9780330523004
Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precociously observant neighbourhood boy.We are introduced to a galaxy of characters, from Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build the wild thing ...
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A Writer's People
Ways of Looking and Feeling
- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52298-4
EAN 9780330522984
My purpose is not literary criticism or biography. I wish only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which I was exposed.' For the serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul's own ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52296-0
EAN 9780330522960
In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University.Over the next few years letters passed back and forth between V. S. Naipaul and his family particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings.The result is a fascinating chronicle of Naipaul's time at university; ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 326 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-330-47204-3
EAN 9780330472043
Moving beyond travelogue, The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul's journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52369-1
EAN 9780330523691
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world.Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage -- many of which have been unavailable for some time -- are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52294-6
EAN 9780330522946
A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South.Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52285-4
EAN 9780330522854
In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52289-2
EAN 9780330522892
A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion' Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52299-1
EAN 9780330522991
Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative; ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-330-50914-5
EAN 9780330509145
The new Quirke novel from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black 1950's Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fresh from drying out in an institution, ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52286-1
EAN 9780330522861
Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, "The Enigma of Arrival" tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52288-5
EAN 9780330522885
This vastly innovative novel explores colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and forth between past and present and delve into both autobiography and fiction. Naipaul offers a personal choice of examples of Spanish and British imperial history in the Caribbean, including an imagined vision of Raleigh's last expedition and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53631-8
EAN 9780330536318
The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he's living with one beautiful model and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53630-1
EAN 9780330536301
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream and its worst nightmare American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
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