Fiction in translation
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Fiction in translation
Paperback. In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors including Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, and Pier-Paolo Pasolini offer the delight of exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Essential reading for anyone who has been to Rome or dreams of going there. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Translator(s): Shankland, Hugh. Num Pages: 320 pages, twenty black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; DQ; FA; FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199572465
- ISBN
- 9780199572465
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
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Paperback. A masterpiece of the literature of colonialism - the story of a strong but doomed and unequal bond between a Dutch boy and his Indonesian best friend Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 140
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846273230
- ISBN
- 9781846273230
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
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Paperback. The great masterpiece of the living Dutch novelist most often tipped as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature - a classic tale of the European settlers' experience in the Far East worthy of the great Victorians. Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846271717
- ISBN
- 9781846271717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Edition
- 2013 ed.
- Number of pages
- 463
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564787927
- ISBN
- 9781564787927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.36
€ 18.36
Paperback. Translator(s): Velmans, Hester. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405924009
- ISBN
- 9781405924009
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Translator(s): Velmans, Hester. BIC Classification: FYT. Dimension: 155 x 233 x 40. Weight in Grams: 484. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007769
- ISBN
- 9780718182953
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. Jumping ship at the African port of Lourenco Marques, Hanna decides to begin her life afresh. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099572176
- ISBN
- 9780099572176
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
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Paperback. Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape themisery of life in a brothel. Leila has travelled with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home. Translator(s): Segerberg, Ebba. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099455486
- ISBN
- 9780099455486
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
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Paperback. When Kurt Wallander first appeared in "Faceless Killers", he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. This book chronicles the events that led him to such a place. Translator(s): Segerberg, Ebba; Thompson, Laurie. Series: Kurt Wallander. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099571780
- ISBN
- 9780099571780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Series: Kurt Wallander. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099571728
- ISBN
- 9780099571728
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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Paperback. Every morning retired naval officer Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home. A few months earlier, at Hakan's 75th birthday party, he was eager to talk to detective Kurt Wallander about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be connected to his disappearance? Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Series: Kurt Wallander. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNS; FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 200 x 33. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099548409
- ISBN
- 9780099548409
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
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Paperback. Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted, constantly pursued by 'demons'. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 44. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099541882
- ISBN
- 9780099541882
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.80
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Paperback. Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099512981
- ISBN
- 9780099512981
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence, they write in cafes, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. This book captures the tenderness of three people in love with each other and with life. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141194639
- ISBN
- 9780141194639
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903517796
- ISBN
- 9781903517796
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Translator(s): Jones, W. Glyn. Series: Dedalus European Classics. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 300. Series: Dedalus European Classics. 278 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight: 300. Translator(s): Jones, W. Glyn.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Limited
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907650734
- ISBN
- 9781907650734
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
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Paperback. In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099283621
- ISBN
- 9780099283621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.15
€ 10.15
Paperback. Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him into an enchanted, Faust-like underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters, romantic, freakish and savage by turn, Haller begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth. Translator(s): Creighton, Basil. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 17. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951521
- ISBN
- 9780241951521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.45
€ 9.45
Paperback. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 129 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 129
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2008 Modern Library Pbk. Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812974782
- ISBN
- 9780812974782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.03
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Paperback. Paperback outing for the first novel from Muller since she won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature: a fierce and finely-wrought novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life Translator(s): Hulse, Michael; Boehm, Philip. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Portobello Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846273766
- ISBN
- 9781846273766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73