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Other People's Countries : A Journey into Memory
Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize
- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958703-3
EAN 9780099587033
Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics, full of charm, menace and wonder.To the days before television, to Marie Bodard's sweetshop, to the Nazi occupation and unexpected collaborators. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 864 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959573-1
EAN 9780099595731
Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence.Drawing ...
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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958742-2
EAN 9780099587422
Here, as before, lies the battlefield of the heart, where characters who have suffered disaffection, alienation or emotional damage somehow emerge - haltingly, awkwardly - into the astonishment of intimacy. And here, too, are the ones who will not shake off the hurt and the loss, who will not come through. The extraordinary title story ...
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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-115-4
EAN 9781784701154
History is written by the victors. It's a cliche, but a reliable one - except in the case of the Spanish Civil War. Many believe - wrongly, as it turns out - that under Franco's dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or created.And this myth reinforces another: that there is ...
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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957494-1
EAN 9780099574941
The wonderfully nostalgic, vivid and compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top five bestselling author of A Loving Family. From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets. When he grandfather passes away, Charity is helped by a kindly doctor who introduces her ...
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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959844-2
EAN 9780099598442
France, 1940. Lucile Angellier's husband has been captured as a prisoner-of-war, and all she can do is wait for him - and tend to the household controlled by her domineering mother-in-law. Their small village is soon occupied by a regiment of German soldiers, forcing the locals to coexist with an invading Nazi force.Lieutenant Bruno von ...
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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958179-6
EAN 9780099581796
'I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out...but he lay on the ground with his eyes closed'. A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, ...
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954607-8
EAN 9780099546078
The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes. 'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world. Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen.54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves. Norway is the richest country on earth. 5 per ...
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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955604-6
EAN 9780099556046
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958776-7
EAN 9780099587767
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959742-1
EAN 9780099597421
WINNER OF THE 2014 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD'One of the best books of the past decade... The characters are edgy, often violent, locked into a world described in ways that are both harsh and tender. .. Adds a sense of myth, even a spiritual aura, to the narrative that lifts the meanness of the circumstances ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958313-4
EAN 9780099583134
Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the burden of memory and guilt, and the brutal monotony of his surroundings to retain his humanity, eventually finding the possibiltiy of redemption through an affair with a fellow prisoner.
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-037-9
EAN 9781784870379
A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the film-maker and critic, was dying in Paris, he set off to walk there from Munich, 'in full faith, believing that ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958146-8
EAN 9780099581468
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-008-9
EAN 9781784700089
This is the official story that has inspired the British film, The Imitation Game, a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing the pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code and his brilliant team at Britain's top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957275-6
EAN 9780099572756
Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belie their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the warder who ...
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Darling Monster
The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952
- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957859-8
EAN 9780099578598
Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, an actress of stage and early screen. When she married rising political star Duff Cooper, they became the golden couple who knew everyone who was anyone; they sat at the very heart of British public life.Diana's letters to her only son, John Julius Norwich, cover the period ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959789-6
EAN 9780099597896
Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world. As a statesman and as a human being, he was the incarnation of the mercurial, contrarian France which ...
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Witches
James I and the English Witch Hunts
- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954914-7
EAN 9780099549147
September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with violent convulsions.Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family will be stricken with the same terrifying symptoms. The second son, the last male of ...
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The Story of the Jews
Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)
- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954668-9
EAN 9780099546689
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It is a story of ...
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