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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A woman returns to the rundown suburb of Buenos Aires her family once called home. From the safety of her window, she watches as a teenage prostitute raises her five-year-old son on the street. They sleep outside, surrounded by pimps and addicts, psychopaths and dealers, worshippers of the occult and corrupt police.One day, the mother ...
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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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The 13th Labour of Hercules : Inside the Greek Crisis
Shortlisted Debut Political Book of the Year 2015
- Portobello, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84627-624-8
EAN 9781846276248
Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe have watched with morbid fascination as the country has repeatedly flirted with political and financial chaos, as one failed rescue programme has followed another, as extremism spread and its official ...
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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 · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-376-6
EAN 9781846273766
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for ...
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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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- Portobello, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-206-6
EAN 9781846272066
It is the day of Sylvia's 16th birthday and her life as an adult is about to begin - not with the party she had been planning, but with a car-crash. At the wheel is a talented young footballer, just arrived from Buenos Aires, and set for stardom on and off the pitch.As their destinies ...
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- Portobello, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,39 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-031-4
EAN 9781846270314
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- Portobello, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-009-3
EAN 9781846270093
In her very dusty provincial museum of fake exhibits lovingly crafted from cardboard, wire and glue, Tanya dreams of Russian art's long colours and wonders when Yuri will stop fishing long enough to notice how she adores him, while she tries the zero-one-zero diet in order to meet Aeroflot's maximum waist requirements for trainee cabin-crew.When ...
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- Portobello, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-155-7
EAN 9781846271557
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- Portobello, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-118-2
EAN 9781846271182
Sylvie is about to meet her father again after 13 years apart, to ask him to give her away at her wedding. Although she has a promising career as a photographer and a secure relationship, Sylvie feels restless and, as she prepares for the reunion, her thoughts turn to their final, fateful summer when she ...
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- Portobello, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-140-3
EAN 9781846271403
When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains ...
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Like Eating a Stone
Surviving the Past in Bosnia
- Portobello, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-088-8
EAN 9781846270888
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Africa
Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
- Portobello, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 37,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-154-0
EAN 9781846271540
The great Africa correspondent delivers, after four decades' close observation of the miraculous continent, a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa.Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 Richard Dowden has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands.Like ...
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- Portobello, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,69 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-070-3
EAN 9781846270703
Description Produced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly, hidden by euphemism, shit is rarely out in the open in 'civilised' society, but the world of waste - and the people who deal with it, work with it and in it - is a rich one. This book takes us underground to the sewers of NYC ...
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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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