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Fiction in translation

Includes translations of the earliest preserved novels in ancient Greek that offer us a glimpse of the beginning of prose fiction in the western world. Translator(s): Trzaskoma, Stephen M. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841931
ISBN
9781603841931
Condition: New

€ 51.81
€ 41.70

Paperback.
Publisher
Alma Books
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847492876
ISBN
9781847492876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.44

Paperback. Translator(s): Briggs, Anthony. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 191 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843913658
ISBN
9781843913658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.24

Hardcover.
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780857050960
ISBN
9780857050960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Fulton, Bruce; Fulton, Ju-Chan. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160674
ISBN
9780231160674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.79

Hardback. Translator(s): Fulton, Bruce; Fulton, Ju-Chan. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160667
ISBN
9780231160667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. The author was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. In this title, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946, a real-life event that was the inspiration for the closing scenes of her 1976 novel Patterns of Childhood. Translator(s): Derbyshire, Katy. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857421869
ISBN
9780857421869
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.58

Paperback. Pierre Loti's novel "Madame Chrysantheme" (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime. More broadly, Loti's novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, 'preposterous' - in short, ripe for exploitation. Presented as the diary of Chrysantheme, this title retells Loti's story. Num Pages: 112 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824834371
ISBN
9780824834371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.29

Paperback. Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197388
ISBN
9780141197388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197340
ISBN
9780141197340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197364
ISBN
9780141197364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 7. Weight in Grams: 80.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392035
ISBN
9780141392035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

paperback. Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Edition
Standard Edition
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197371
ISBN
9780141197371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. G H, a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197357
ISBN
9780141197357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Translator(s): Scott, Ursula Meaney. Series: French Literature Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564786265
ISBN
9781564786265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Translator(s): France, Miranda. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278. 227 pages. Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Dimension: 131 x 199 x 21. Weight: 282. Translator(s): France, Miranda.
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Number of pages
227
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904738411
ISBN
9781904738411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. Ines, realistic about the state of her marriage, is not surprised to find a note to her husband with a heart smeared in lipstick and the words All YoursA". When Ernesto becomes a suspect in the murder case of his lover she provides him with an alibi. But when he continues his sexual adventures Ines plans a diabolical revenge. Translator(s): France, Miranda. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press United Kingdom
Edition
F First Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904738800
ISBN
9781904738800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.46

Paperback. A world-weary young father is seduced by dark secrets from the lost world of the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 30. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857051264
ISBN
9780857051264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.51

Paperback. Chosen by Le Monde and by readers of Elle as their Novel of the Year - a beautiful, resonant novel set on Normandy's coastline. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: 416 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
MACLEHOSE PRESS
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000382
ISBN
9781906694715
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A modern-day Sleeping Beauty story of love and hope, for fans of Jojo Moyes. Translator(s): Foster, Lucy. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FRD; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473626768
ISBN
9781473626768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

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