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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-0-330-44736-2
EAN 9780330447362
Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable' Simon Winchester Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs in the cities. These people are the driving forces ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1248 páginas
PVP: 15,59 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51073-8
EAN 9780330510738
Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. Gonzo was a wild, often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times. In the three great collections of Gonzo writings, The Great Shark Hunt, Generation of Swine, ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-44743-0
EAN 9780330447430
Published for the first time in the UK, this is the epic novel that defined one of Latin America's greatest writers, and his unique vision of the twentieth century Santa Teresa, on the Mexico US border, is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls. Among them are three academics on the trail of a ...
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My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood.My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45853-5
EAN 9780330458535
The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical; narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, we are -- finally -- given a woman's take on the timeless tale that is the Mahabharata Tracing Panchaali's life -- from fiery birth and lonely childhood, where ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-330-50952-7
EAN 9780330509527
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesárea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51183-4
EAN 9780330511834
A highly charged novel that embodies the violent recent history of Latin America It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-47979-0
EAN 9780330479790
A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporary Spain claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that led him to break with reality, lie at the center of this captivating, romantic, and stunningly written novel. Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, the mysterious man who ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,99 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51126-1
EAN 9780330511261
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded over the decades in the pages of Playboy, the Paris Review, Esquire; in various lectures; and in television appearances, many in print for the first time. Fearless and unsparing, the ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45842-9
EAN 9780330458429
On 2 March 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the home of the city's Chief of Police, George Shippy. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. Lazarus Averbuch, Shippy claimed, was an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives who ...
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- Picador, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,74 €
ISBN 978-0-330-50399-0
EAN 9780330503990
Jimmy Luntz is one of the good guys; he's even in a barbershop chorus (like a quartet, only bigger). Trouble is, Juarez -- the man Luntz owes money to -- isn't so nice. And when Juarez gets bored of waiting, he sends someone round to collect. Luntz doesn't actually plan to shoot the guy, but ...
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- Picador, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 345 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45408-7
EAN 9780330454087
Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as ...
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- Picador, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,58 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45720-0
EAN 9780330457200
Two exquisite collections of stories and a Whitbread Award-winning novel brought together with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst The stories and classic novel collected here are the work of one of the most subtle and observant writers of our time. Drawing on haunting encounters, solitary lives, hours spent in longing, and the blossoming of unlikely ...
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- Picador, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 11,70 €
ISBN 978-0-330-41838-6
EAN 9780330418386
Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we understand 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 to ...
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- Picador, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 10,70 €
ISBN 978-0-330-44921-2
EAN 9780330449212
Tree of Smoke the name given to a psy op' that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned is Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. Set in south-east Asia and the US, and spanning two decades, it ostensibly tells the story of Skip Sands, ...
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- Picador, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,18 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45623-4
EAN 9780330456234
Isabel, Owen and Julia were childhood friends. But when they were fifteen, Julia disappeared without a trace an event that had a devastating impact on the others. Years later, Isabel returns to her home town in the north of England for Owen's funeral. She hadn't seen him since they recklessly burned down the local supermarket ...
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- Picador, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,49 €
ISBN 978-0-330-46143-6
EAN 9780330461436
William Big Bill' Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When he gets wind of a hostile biography planned for him by the investigative journalist Wilson Cleaver, he commissions his daughter's husband, John Glass, to pen the official line. ...
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- Picador, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45843-6
EAN 9780330458436
Reissued with a new afterword by Professor Bate Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life and afterlife of the ...
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