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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-184-6
EAN 9781846591846
In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much in life may be reborn as "hungry ghosts" - spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full. Six year-old Shivan is boarded up in his grandmother's mansion in Sri Lanka. While civil unrest brews outside, Shivan is fighting small battles of his own: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 126 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-160-0
EAN 9781846591600
All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding the Perfectionist is hypnotised by her ex, Hypno, to believe that Tom is invisible.Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later the Perfectionist is sure that Tom has abandoned her, so she's moving to Vancouver. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 14,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-061-0
EAN 9781846590610
To Mohamed Choukri, Tangier was "the most extraordinary and mysterious city in the world.' A haven for many Western writers in the early twentieth century, Tangier drew the likes of Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams in the 1960s and 1970s. All were befriended by Choukri. Mohamed Choukri's recollections of these encounters offer a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 250 páginas
PVP: 10,39 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-086-3
EAN 9781846590863
Rebecca has a most unusual problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can't stop broadcasting her feelings to people around her. Luckily, she's discovered how to trap and store her feelings in personal objects - but just how much emotional baggage can Unit 207, E.Z. Self Storage hold? Lewis is grieving for his wife, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-079-5
EAN 9781846590795
Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies out to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive Housekeeper of Kampala's Sheraton Hotel. But Mary has her own agenda: her son Jamil is missing, and she has secretly summoned Vanessa's beloved ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-077-1
EAN 9781846590771
It is the summer of 1982 and Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan's parents have just been evacuated from the city with other members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.Ivan stays on, interpreting for international medical volunteers in Sabra refugee camp by day, getting stoned with them at night, and working undercover for the PLO. Hoping ...
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Kemal's friend mysteriously disappears, leaving him a generous allowance and the use of his large house. He discovers that his new dwelling involves an inheritance of 1.3 million, and a Russian nobleman's missing son. Kemal embarks on a missing person case that will bring chaos and romance to his life.Clues lead him from Istanbul to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 10,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-056-6
EAN 9781846590566
Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like himself, come out of an unhappy marriage.Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to return to Karachi, leaving Lydia behind. Two years later, Lydia abandons her life in London ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 13,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-066-5
EAN 9781846590665
Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-057-3
EAN 9781846590573
Even with the knowledge that there are some sins too big for even God to forgive, every night my sky is still full of stars; a wonderful song for night. Trained as a human mine detector, My Luck, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part in unspeakable brutality. At 12, his vocal ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,58 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-049-8
EAN 9781846590498
From the beginning of the world, when God created Audrey Hepburn, the guilt complex and worker ants, to the end, broadcast live on a TV chat show, "A History" whips through our tortuous past with the deftness of a surgeon's scalpel. Jonah confronts a ship of Norwegian whalers; a medieval pilgrim points out the London ...
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"Autonauts of the Cosmoroute" is a love story, an irreverent travelogue of elaborate tales and snapshots detailing Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop's thirty-three-day voyage on the Paris-Marseilles freeway in 1982. Satirizing modern travel and the great explorers, this sparkling work pushes life and literature to surreal extremes.
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A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understand a word anyone says. As one claustrophobic day follows another, he wonders why no one has found him yet, whether his wife has given him up for dead, and how he'll get by in this society that ...
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Alfred White, a London park-keeper, rules his home with a mixture of ferocity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. But family ties are strong, and when Alfred collapses on duty one day, they rush to be with him. His daughter's partner, Elroy, a black social-worker, is brought face to face with Alfred's younger ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84659-019-1
EAN 9781846590191
A whole world seems to orbit within Nobody's Home. It's a world that looks familiar but strange. Dubravka Ugresic takes us on her whirligig travels through Europe, and across to the US, offering her insightful and unique perspectives on literature, geopolitics, East and West. She wryly points out that while the Eastern bloc is gripped ...
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Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of his siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. This is a memoir of a young Moroccan ...
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