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Among the Believers
An Islamic Journey
- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52282-3
EAN 9780330522823
An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism Among the Believers is V.S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-47198-5
EAN 9780330471985
In contemporary Spain, a man arrives at an insane asylum in Seville claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that lead him to break with reality, lie at the centre of this page-turning novel. He appears out of the sea, washed up naked, in the treacherous Straits ...
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Beyond Belief
Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51787-4
EAN 9780330517874
This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52271-7
EAN 9780330522717
THE SECOND BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India.Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization. In this work he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52283-0
EAN 9780330522830
THE FIRST BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; ...
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The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffy's third collection, and as with her later books, takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar but soon prove anything but. This book leads our imagination to places our minds could not have suspected were there, or would not have dared to go alone. Some of its ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51986-1
EAN 9780330519861
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Room
Booker Shortlist 2010
- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51992-2
EAN 9780330519922
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45567-1
EAN 9780330455671
Sometimes, the most dangerous thing you can do is nothing . . . The seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell-bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, ...
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'Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge' - "Observer". Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. This novel brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe while ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51382-1
EAN 9780330513821
Sometimes, you only know you've crossed the line when it's too late . . . Micka loves drawing and wants a pup, but with older brothers into violence and petty crime, and a mother who can't read the notes his teacher sends home from school, neither he nor the pup stand much of a chance. ...
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'Sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose' Sunday Times Morrow a clerkish, middle-aged type encumbered with a chain-smoking dying aunt and a considerable talent for wallowing is at a loose end when, on two separate occasions, he is beckoned up the stairs of an empty Dublin house. The first is an offer of dubious work, and Morrow ...
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'Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory' - "Sunday Telegraph". William Fiennes' childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from the roof-tiles of his ancient family home. His older brother Richard, known for his ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-42747-0
EAN 9780330427470
Charlatan. Guru. Master of disguise. Ahead of his time, wise beyond his years, a simple opportunist or the great pretender; however you choose to see him, one fact is certain: Dr Ragab is a mysterious man. Talked about by pretty much everyone in 1920s Cairo, only a few get the chance to make his acquaintance, ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-0-330-49074-0
EAN 9780330490740
A book about life, death and natural disasters Blending history, science and eye-witness accounts, and arranged in chapters corresponding to the four elements (earth, air, fire and water), Terra explores the relationship between the planet and the humans who inhabit its surfaces. Through four case histories -- the Lisbon earthquake of 1755; the weather-panics of ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-37356-2
EAN 9780330373562
This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities - a cosmopolitan city of vibrant architecture and art, great churches and museums, intriguing port life and extravagant nightclubs, restaurants and bars. It moves from the story of the city's founding, and huge expansion in the nineteenth century, to the lives of Gaudi, Miro, Picasso, Casals and ...
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