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Fiction in translation
Paperback. A village in the Tuscan hills, a summer of sun and chirping cicadas, and three boys who are utterly different but bound to each other in friendship. Years later, despite being thousands of miles apart, the three have never been closer in spirit. But is it destiny or a more earthly force that is determining the course of their lives? Translator(s): Curtis, Howard. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 266. Some light shelf wear else as new.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KTG0006069
- ISBN
- 9781908968166
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Editor(s): Chambers, Anthony. Num Pages: 248 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139137
- ISBN
- 9780231139137
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.36
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€ 22.36
Paperback. A compelling human story, regarded as one of the great achievements of modern Arabic literature. Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2010 and published for the first time into English. Translator(s): Colla, Elliott. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Telegram Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846590917
- ISBN
- 9781846590917
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
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Paperback. For Andre, a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of 'the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table and our family'. He loves the land, fears his austere, pious father who preaches from the head of the table as if it is a pulpit, and loathes himself, as he starts to harbour shameful feelings for his sister Ana. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141396781
- ISBN
- 9780141396781
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
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Paperback. A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults, cruelty and warring egos, their sexual adventure turns into a savage power game. Translator(s): Tobler, Stefan. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141396804
- ISBN
- 9780141396804
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Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.66
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Paperback. Amina, a baker in sultan's palace, awaits her son's return from a voyage at sea, fearful that the sea has claimed Said. Said begins to make his way home witnessing British colonial oppression along the way. When Said returns and learns the island's slave population is planning a revolt against sultan's tyrannical rule, he and Amina are drawn in. Translator(s): Romaine, Barbara. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 109 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717527
- ISBN
- 9780292717527
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.59
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Paperback. Under a weak winter sun in small-town Spain, a man discovers a rotting corpse in a marsh. It's a despairing place filled with half-finished housing developments and unemployment, a place defeated by the burst of the economic bubble. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593171
- ISBN
- 9780099593171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.30
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€ 19.30
Paperback. A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul's Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer - and he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the man's mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to investigate clandestinely and discovers the murderer's motive. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 853 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 55. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Arabia Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 853
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906697242
- ISBN
- 9781906697242
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.20
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Paperback. Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the art of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical reform, never guessing what risks he is running. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 36. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 450
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906697280
- ISBN
- 9781906697280
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
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Paperback. Salim the coachman tells enchanting tales, but suddenly he is struck dumb. Just as Scheherazade told tales to save her life, Salim's friends must spin yarns to save his speech. Set in Damascus in 1959, the novel alternates the real lives of our storytellers with stories from the distant past. Translator(s): Boehm, Philip. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Arabia Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906697358
- ISBN
- 9781906697358
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.98
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Paperback. Icelandic police officer Ari Thor returns to investigate a chilling series of crimes that are rooted in tragic events from the past. Translator(s): Bates, Quentin. Series: Dark Iceland. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orenda Books
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910633113
- ISBN
- 9781910633113
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
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Paperback. As the 24-hour Arctic summer is transformed into darkness by a volcanic eruption, Ari Thor must find a killer before someone else dies.. NEXT in the international, bestselling Dark Iceland series Translator(s): Bates, Quentin. Series: Dark Iceland. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Orenda Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910633465
- ISBN
- 9781910633465
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
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Paperback. Editor(s): Bosch, Eva. Translator(s): Yates, Alan. Series: Dedalus European Classics. Num Pages: 204 pages, 10. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909232617
- ISBN
- 9781909232617
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
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Paperback. A landmark in the development of the twentieth-century novel, the Notebooks is the story of a young Danish aristocrat , told in a series of notes that explore Malte's life in Paris, childhood memories and reflections in highly crafted poetic prose. A radical departure from literary realism, it is an archetypal confrontation with the modern. Translator(s): Vilain, Robert. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJC; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199646036
- ISBN
- 9780199646036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
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Hardback. Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: The German List. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420473
- ISBN
- 9780857420473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.40
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Paperback. Marie-Constance loves reading and possesses a beautiful voice. So, one day she decides to put an ad in the local paper offering her services as a paid reader. Her first client, a paralysed teenager, is transformed by her reading of a Maupassant short story. Her fame spreads and soon the rich, the creative and the famous clamour for her services. Translator(s): Hunter, Adriana. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Peirene Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908670229
- ISBN
- 9781908670229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
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Paperback. Translator(s): Cancogni, A. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590171387
- ISBN
- 9781590171387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.49
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Paperback. Translator(s): Schiff, V. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714501833
- ISBN
- 9780714501833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.28
€ 9.28
paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprinted Ed
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714534022
- ISBN
- 9780714534022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.36
€ 12.36
Paperback. Translator(s): Cuningham, Rupert Copeland. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Publisher
- Calder Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714544564
- ISBN
- 9780714544564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.66
€ 13.99
€ 11.66