Fiction in translation
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Fiction in translation
Paperback. Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493712
- ISBN
- 9781847493712
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Features a wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky who implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a drunken petty criminal into the body of a stray dog. As the dog slowly transforms into a man, and man into a slovenly, lecherous government official, the doctor's life descends into chaos. Editor(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455151
- ISBN
- 9780140455151
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
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Paperback. In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells and body bags. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140455465
- ISBN
- 9780140455465
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.75
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Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099529569
- ISBN
- 9780099529569
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.86
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Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099540946
- ISBN
- 9780099540946
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.07
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Paperback. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's saga, the author recreates the experience of battles, and also the long pauses that come before and after. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300151459
- ISBN
- 9780300151459
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.81
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Paperback. In A Hero of Our Time, the first great Russian novel, a young officer, passionate and world-weary, is posted to the Caucasus and becomes involved in a series of adventures. A dazzlingly original work of fiction, the novel is newly translated together with Pushkin's travel narrative, A Journey to Arzrum, with introduction and notes. Translator(s): Slater, Nicolas Pasternak. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199652686
- ISBN
- 9780199652686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941920039
- ISBN
- 9781941920039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.62
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Paperback. Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. But now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death.. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780871080
- ISBN
- 9781780871080
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Hardcover. The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis and then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, married to an unpleasant and dangerous lunatic, and a Proustian society helplessly bent on its own destruction. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 205 x 54. Weight in Grams: 854.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593548
- ISBN
- 9781841593548
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.97
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Hardcover. Abady becomes aware of the plight of a group of Romanian mountain peasants and champions their cause, while Gyeroffy dissipates his resources at the gaming tables, mirroring the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire itself. Series: Transylvania Trilogy. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 204 x 38. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593531
- ISBN
- 9781841593531
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.89
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Pamphlet. Translator(s): Barton, Polly. Series: Keshiki. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 4. .
- Publisher
- UEA Publishing Project
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911343073
- ISBN
- 9781911343073
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Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.14
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Paperback. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413775313
- ISBN
- 9780413775313
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.46
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Paperback. Features a benign old monk who listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls. In this title, the author also treats us to a cornucopia of cooked animal flesh - ostrich, camel, donkey, dog, as well as the more common varieties. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422217
- ISBN
- 9780857422217
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413771193
- ISBN
- 9780413771193
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.46
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Paperback. A title in which, the author personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, it breathes life into Chinese history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Series: What Was Communism?. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 176 x 8. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Edition
- Rep Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857421609
- ISBN
- 9780857421609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.64
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Paperback. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Darf Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850772903
- ISBN
- 9781850772903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.51
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253008237
- ISBN
- 9780253008237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.79
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Paperback. A traveler shuts himself up in his hotel room, with no-one but room service to talk to; a teenager stalks her long-lost father; a journalist interviews a great poet with a dark past; a woman pursues a doomed liaison with an anonymous man she meets once a month at the casino; and a bar lady locked in with the regulars at night.. Translator(s): Gramich, Eluned. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910409633
- ISBN
- 9781910409633
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Condition: New
€ 12.36
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Paperback. A darkly gripping new mystery in the internationally bestselling Malin Fors series. Translator(s): Smith, Neil. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444776386
- ISBN
- 9781444776386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04