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Five Spice Street
ISBN: PB: 9780300167962, Yale University Press, June 2012
352 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Five Spice Street" is a novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Som...
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£14,99
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Celestina
ISBN: PB: 9780300141993, Yale University Press, June 2012
288 pp., 21x14 cm
A timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina" is a classic of Spanish literature. Second only to "Don Quixote" in its cultural importance, Rojas' dramatic dialogue presents the elaborate tale of a star-crossed court...
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£9,99
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Infinity The Story of a Moment
ISBN: PB: 9781847771667, Carcanet, May 2012
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"The piano is not an instrument for young ladies Massimo, he said, it is an instrument for gorillas. Only a gorilla has the strength to attack the piano as it should be attacked, only a gorilla has the uninhibited energy to challenge the piano as it...
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£12,95
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Compulsory Happiness
ISBN: PB: 9780300182958, Yale University Press, May 2012
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of "Compulsory Happiness" create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of t...
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£13,00
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Black Envelope
ISBN: PB: 9780300182941, Yale University Press, May 2012
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds", is investigating his father's death...
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Naked Singularity A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226141794, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
688 pp., 23x15 cm
"A Naked Singularity" tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender – one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of...
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£13,50
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Noah
ISBN: HB: 9780857420466, Seagull Books, May 2012
186 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
As the current global recession stubbornly persists and financial experts around the world struggle to prevent further financial collapse, everyone has a theory about how to save the economy. But perhaps no idea that has been proffered is as radical...
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£14,50
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Shi Cheng Short Stories from Urban China
ISBN: PB: 9781905583461, Carcanet, April 2012
224 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
To the West, China may appear an unstoppable economic unity, a single high-performing whole, but for the inhabitants of this vast, complex and contradictory nation, it is the cities that hold the secret to such economic success. From the affluent, We...
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£9,99
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IN & OZ A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226807447, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
152 pp., 21.6x11.4 cm
Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasula's style, "IN & OZ" is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subve...
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£13,00
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Dona Barbara A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226279206, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
448 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm
Romulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel "Dona Barbara". Published in 1929 and...
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