Editorial Portobello
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Swallowing Mercury
Man Booker Prize International Longlisted 2017
- Portobello, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-609-5
EAN 9781846276095
Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist.Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels.Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with fables ...
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- Portobello, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-617-0
EAN 9781846276170
Riot police are shutting down borders, 800 lives are lost in a single shipwreck, a boy's body washes up on a beach: this is the European Union in summer 2015. But how did a bloc founded upon the values of human rights and dignity for all reach this point? And what was driving millions of ...
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- Portobello, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-477-0
EAN 9781846274770
Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur ...
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- Portobello, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-597-5
EAN 9781846275975
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of ...
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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?
A Story about Women and Economics
- Portobello, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-566-1
EAN 9781846275661
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest When Adam Smith wrote that all our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain he brought to life 'economic man'. Selfish and ...
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The Vegetarian
Booker Prize Winner 2016
- Portobello, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-603-3
EAN 9781846276033
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares.In South Korea, where vegetarianism is ...
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- Portobello, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-074-1
EAN 9781846270741
Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet, we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories, from our grasp of scientific fact to the merits of our favourite team. Being Wrong looks at why this ...
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Deer Hunting with Jesus
Guns, Votes, Debt and Delusion in Redneck America
- Portobello, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-152-6
EAN 9781846271526
A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism. "Deer Hunting with Jesus" is web columnist Joe Bageant's report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns brutal, tender, incendiary, ...
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