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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53587-8
EAN 9780330535878
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53626-4
EAN 9780330536264
It's an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home until his long-absent muse wanders in. Mary Foxe (beautiful, British and 100% imaginary) is in a playfully combative mood. You're a villain, she tells him. A serial killer . . . ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51053-0
EAN 9780330510530
When Nuria Martí, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Such ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-330-49026-9
EAN 9780330490269
Booker Prize nominee Tim Winton continues to astonish critics and captivate readers with this Australian love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past. Annotation: Booker Prize nominee Tim Winton continues to astonish critics and captivate readers with this Australian love story about people stifled ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-44565-8
EAN 9780330445658
Leonard Lessing once cast a spell on stage, hypnotizing crowds with his improvised jazz, easy in his music, at home in the moment. Now, home is somewhere he never leaves. His sax is silent, his marriage faltering, his stepdaughter vanished, and his life shrinking until one afternoon the TV brings news he can't ignore. A ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53385-0
EAN 9780330533850
For Patrick Melrose, family' is more than a double-edged sword. As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor an heiress who forsook the grandeur of her upbringing for good works', freely bestowed upon everyone but her own child Patrick finds that his transition to orphanhood isn't necessarily the ...
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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-46104-7
EAN 9780330461047
When Kenneth Earl realises his memory is failing, he advertises for someone to help him catalogue his vast collection of music, and so create a record of his life. Maggie, the final candidate, is his last hope. But he doesn't guess, when he gives her the job, that the archive will be as much about ...
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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 hasnt been and with people he doesnt know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, hes living with one beautiful model and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53932-6
EAN 9780330539326
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. It continues to ...
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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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