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Fiction in translation

Paperback. Drawing on the author's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, this title takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099490661
ISBN
9780099490661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin's narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author's classical style and precision of language. Translator(s): Aplin, Galya; Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 120 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172. 200 pages. At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin's narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author's classical style and precision of language. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Dimension: 199 x 120 x 13. Weight: 168. Translator(s): Aplin, Galya; Aplin, Hugh.
Publisher
Alma Books
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847492838
ISBN
9781847492838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FXL; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 291 x 20. Weight in Grams: 910.
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590179833
ISBN
9781590179833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 22.70

Paperback. In these six late stories Tolstoy explores human relationships and moral choices, raising profound questions about life in gripping fictional form. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is an existential masterpiece, a harrowing tale of the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. Newly translated, and with a wide-ranging Introduction. Editor(s): Kahn, Andrew. Translator(s): Slater, Nicolas Pasternak. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199669882
ISBN
9780199669882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing; is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? While fears increase that the murder could have been racially motivated, the police receive reports that a suspected paedophile has been spotted in the area. Translator(s): Scudder, Bernard; Cribb, Victoria. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099542322
ISBN
9780099542322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 29. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007420308
ISBN
9780007420308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.40

Paperback. Set against the backdrop of Russian high society, this novel charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Translator(s): Maude, Louise Shanks; Maude, Aylmer. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
992
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540663
ISBN
9780099540663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.21

Paperback. As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; FA; FW; FYT; HRHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702052
ISBN
9781784702052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion - one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908968364
ISBN
9781908968364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback.
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
153
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232044
ISBN
9781909232044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.36

Paperback. This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected stories, aphorisms, and parables that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, the stories meditate on art and artists and the human experience. Includes an introduction and notes. Translator(s): Crick, Joyce. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199600922
ISBN
9780199600922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society. Translator(s): Colla, Elliott. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Arabia Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
171
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906697020
ISBN
9781906697020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Translator(s): Landry, Judith. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184. 168 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 15. Weight: 182. Translator(s): Landry, Judith.
Publisher
Dedalus Limited
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907650567
ISBN
9781907650567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Translator(s): Noweira, Amira. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 200 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260. (English Edn). 320 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Dimension: 130 x 200 x 21. Weight: 262. Translator(s): Noweira, Amira.
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789992194720
ISBN
9789992194720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.60

Paperback. Provides an annotated translation of the famous "Chin P'ing Mei", an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. Num Pages: 776 pages, 40 line illus. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1118.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691150185
ISBN
9780691150185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Hardcover. .
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276865
ISBN
9781908276865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. A woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. But he is already on his final warning and has little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor when it becomes apparent that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Harry Hole. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 375.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702298
ISBN
9781784702298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Translator(s): Agee, Joel. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782273394
ISBN
9781782273394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

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