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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955535-3
EAN 9780099555353
One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a ...
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Through the Language Glass
Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950557-0
EAN 9780099505570
'Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics...he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just as important, how we perceive the world' - "Observer". Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952033-7
EAN 9780099520337
On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruna and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young carefree group of friends are transformed into a broken generation. Out of this incident during the early months of Spain's tragic civil war, Manuel Rivas weaves ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953955-1
EAN 9780099539551
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined The Ephrussis came from ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953222-4
EAN 9780099532224
The five personal and intensely powerful tales that make up this collection draw upon William Styron's real-life experiences in the US Marine Corps, and give us an insight into the early life of one of America's greatest modern writers. The stories are set in the gruelling camps and sweltering training fields which mark the limbo ...
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Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this in between island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; ten-year-old Howard seethes at the ...
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since. Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 2 May ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955446-2
EAN 9780099554462
Before his brain began to shrink, Barney Panofsky clung to two cher-ished beliefs. Life was absurd, and nobody ever truly understood any-body else. Even his friends tend to agree that Barney is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a pen-chant for violence and probably a murderer'. But when his ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952668-1
EAN 9780099526681
Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". She won international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian state corruption. "Nothing but the Truth" is a defining collection of Anna Politkovskaya's best writing for "Novaya Gazeta", published between 1999 and 2006. Beginning ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955409-7
EAN 9780099554097
In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow within sight ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955499-8
EAN 9780099554998
From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman who reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954678-8
EAN 9780099546788
One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love. So began a quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history, politics, and passion. The Cello Suites is the story of that ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953954-4
EAN 9780099539544
A young woman prays at her husband's bedside as he lies in a coma with a bullet in his neck. From outside come the sounds of tanks, gunshots, screaming and, most terrifying of all, silence. Inside, her two frightened daughters call to her from the hallway. As she tries to keep her husband alive, the ...
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How To Live
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948515-5
EAN 9780099485155
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-133588-9
EAN 9780141335889
One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954139-4
EAN 9780099541394
'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers...It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn' - "Irish Times". "A Dead Man in Deptford" re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country.Burgess brings ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118991-8
EAN 9780141189918
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Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth century and Katherine was renowned for her beauty and regarded as enigmatic, intriguing and even dangerous by some of her contemporaries. In her impressive ...
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