Fiction in translation
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Fiction in translation
Paperback. A wonderful collection of surreal stories from French master Emile Zola given a fresh new translation Translator(s): Cummins, Anthony. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843911883
- ISBN
- 9781843911883
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€ 16.99€ 15.42
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Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 33. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846271
- ISBN
- 9781603846271
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
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Paperback. Follows pure and pious Father Julian Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an irresponsible libertine, in order. When he discovers moral decadence, cruelty and corruption at his new home, Julian's well-meaning but ineffectual attempts to prevent the fall of the House of Ulloa end in tragedy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 118 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392950
- ISBN
- 9780141392950
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Condition: New
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Paperback. 192 pages. "A hidden genius of Argentine literature."--Le Monde. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 13. Weight: 250. Translator(s): Novey, Idra.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786043
- ISBN
- 9781564786043
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.22
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; CBW; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Hachette Children´s Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781444937190
- ISBN
- 9781444937190
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Condition: New
€ 4.99
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Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908276865
- ISBN
- 9781908276865
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
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Paperback. Comprise fifty-two chapters that provide insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab, his absence from the pages of history, his birth in prison, and his never having been born at all. This book parodies literary conventions, deconstructs narrative and meaning, and combines absurdity and hopelessness with irony and humor. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan; Hardin, Eleanor. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3226 x 7. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803263703
- ISBN
- 9780803263703
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.53
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Paperback. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Series: French Literature Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786333
- ISBN
- 9781564786333
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.79
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Paperback. Translator(s): Lane, Helen. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141985862
- ISBN
- 9780141985862
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.93
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Paperback. Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141194547
- ISBN
- 9780141194547
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. Translator(s): Foulston, Jill. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141984506
- ISBN
- 9780141984506
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
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Paperback. A film director is found murdered in a hotel room in Istanbul. Electrocuted by a hair dryer thrown in his bath water. When the police accuse the lead actress she turns to her only friend in town, the feisty and sexy owner of Istanbul's only mystery book shop. Translator(s): Whitehouse, Ruth. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248. 256 pages. A film director is found murdered in a hotel room in Istanbul. Electrocuted by a hair dryer thrown in his bath water. When the police accuse the lead actress she turns to her only friend in town, the feisty and sexy owner of Istanbul's only mystery book shop. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight: 246. Translator(s): Whitehouse, Ruth.
- Publisher
- Bitter Lemon Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904738688
- ISBN
- 9781904738688
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Condition: New
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Hardcover. Translator(s): Carr, Maurice. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 30. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- David Paul United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954054274
- ISBN
- 9780954054274
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.65
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Hardcover. Ex Library with usual markings.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Quercus London
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK First Edition; 1st printing.
- SKU
- KEX0204845
- ISBN
- 9781847247971
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Translator(s): Silverston, Sondra; Shlesinger, Miriam; Englander, Nathan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099563327
- ISBN
- 9780099563327
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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Paperback. In the Cite, a seedy neighborhood where criminals gather, Rodolphe encounters a young prostitute of breathtaking purity who goes by the name Songbird. He saves her from an attack by a ruffian called the Slasher, setting off the dominoes of an epic narrative traversing the ranks of French society. Num Pages: 1392 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1108.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143107125
- ISBN
- 9780143107125
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.24
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Paperback. Julian has suffered three severe blows: His wife has walked out, his mother has died, and Alba, the six-year old daughter he adores, is displaying signs of emotional withdrawal and other problems. While clearing out his mother's apartment he finds an old pistol. It has obviously belonged to his father who had died years before. Translator(s): Schifino, Martin; Packard, Selina. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Number of pages
- 270
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- FICTC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905147878
- ISBN
- 9781905147878
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.53
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Paperback. Breda, Spain, is in the midst of the housing boom that has swept up the country. Although there are differences of opinion and the ambitious project is not without risk, the expectation of sumptuous profits drives the partners to continue. Then the corpse of one of the partners is discovered inside one of the newly constructed buildings. Translator(s): Schifino, Martin. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- FICTC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905147373
- ISBN
- 9781905147373
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.60
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- MacLehose Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857050687
- ISBN
- 9780857050687
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€ 10.99€ 9.51
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Paperback. A sweeping saga of generations of a rural Egyptian family and the history of the wider Egypt that affects their lives. Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Translator(s): Roberts, Nancy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774166204
- ISBN
- 9789774166204
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.99
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Paperback. A rich and sensitive novel about loss and alienation, about life lived in exile, and about the search for home, shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Translator(s): Peate, John. Series: Hoopoe Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; 1KBBEY; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 23. .
- Publisher
- Hoopoe Fiction
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774168192
- ISBN
- 9789774168192
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.23
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Paperback. One night, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs, don't use weapons, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone in Pakistan to fend for himself. This book describes his five-year journey from Afghanistan to Italy where he finally managed to claim political asylum. Translator(s): Curtis, Howard. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555452
- ISBN
- 9780099555452
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
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Paperback. Translator(s): Harss, Luis. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 134 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811221801
- ISBN
- 9780811221801
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.46
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Paperback. Provides an unparalleled view of the art of traditional Chinese short fiction. Translator(s): Yang, Shuhui. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DQ; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993713
- ISBN
- 9780295993713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.60€ 63.20
€ 63.60
€ 63.20