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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958945-7
EAN 9780099589457
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-733-0
EAN 9781784707330
When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings.But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange journey of self-discovery that involves ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-544-2
EAN 9781784875442
Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past.He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-541-1
EAN 9781784875411
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-542-8
EAN 9781784875428
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-543-5
EAN 9781784875435
In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and each navigate their own complex, personal relationship to the fading lustre of the Makioka family name. Rich with breathtaking descriptions of ancient customs and an ever-changing natural world, Junichiro Tanizaki evokes in loving detail ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-540-4
EAN 9781784875404
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, ...
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The Secret Network of Nature
The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-849-8
EAN 9781784708498
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth?Or that wolves can alter the course of a river?Or that earthworms control wild boar populations?The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans. But it is ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-617-3
EAN 9781784876173
The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. Before that point, he lived a tumultuous and varied existence.He was a member of the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957178-0
EAN 9780099571780
When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers , he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-828-3
EAN 9781784708283
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-658-6
EAN 9781784706586
Heads of the Colored People interrogates our supposedly post-racial era to wicked and devastating effect, exposing the violence that threatens black Americans, no matter their apparent success.A teenager is insidiously bullied as her YouTube following soars; an assistant professor finds himself losing a subtle war against his office mate; a nurse is worn down by ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928608-0
EAN 9780099286080
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of 300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, M. I.6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then the stories start coming disturbingly true...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947836-2
EAN 9780099478362
A gripping spy thriller that unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and politics along the way, the novel focuses upon the disturbing relationship between Myatt, the pragmatic Jew, and naive chorus girl Coral Musker as they engage in a desperate, angst-ridden ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928852-7
EAN 9780099288527
A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife, Sarah. To ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928849-7
EAN 9780099288497
Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties - his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations - Greene opens up a powerfulvision of the limitless greed of the rich. Black comedy and painful satire combine in a totally compelling novel.
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928619-6
EAN 9780099286196
In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-554-1
EAN 9781784875541
Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope.Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter, Merry, commits an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism and the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-555-8
EAN 9781784875558
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral. Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star - and as a bullying ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-556-5
EAN 9781784875565
The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president.In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced ...
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