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Fiction in translation

Paperback. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472285
ISBN
9780099472285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.82

Paperback. Translator(s): Patterson, Robin. Series: Dedalus Africa. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910213070
ISBN
9781910213070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037345979
ISBN
9783037345979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.21

Paperback. 1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. Translator(s): Cribb, Victoria. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099535638
ISBN
9780099535638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Presents an account and indictment of colonialism. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: Illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803279667
ISBN
9780803279667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.65

Paperback. Translator(s): Lee, Jennifer M. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564789150
ISBN
9781564789150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Aitken, Martin. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Open Letter
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940953373
ISBN
9781940953373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781628970647
ISBN
9781628970647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. As regards his method of dealing with his material and shaping it into mould, he stands even higher than as a pure creator. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. Vintage paperback in good condition, with some light shelfwear.
Publication date
1950
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KRF2232311
ISBN
9780140440096
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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

Paperback. Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love, yet know they have only a short time together as society deems their relationship impossible and refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of their feelings. Translator(s): Bowman, Peter James. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392172
ISBN
9780141392172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Translator(s): Castells, Jordi. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: FM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 297 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
Number of pages
196
Publisher
Amazon Publishing United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503937567
ISBN
9781503937567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.67

Paperback. Focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Editor(s): Devi, Mahasweta; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books Pvt.Ltd India
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9788170461449
ISBN
9788170461449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.08

paperback. Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Translator(s): McCannon, Olivia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449723
ISBN
9780140449723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardback. IN Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423078
ISBN
9780857423078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.22

Paperback. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov's "Oblomov" follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. This title presents the translation the novel. Translator(s): Schwartz, Marian. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300162288
ISBN
9780300162288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.32

hardcover. 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. Translator(s): Dixon, Richard. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 386. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear. Light wear to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvill Secker London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000677
ISBN
9781910701089
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Driving home, Paulo passes an indigenous girl at the side of the road. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's camp. From cocaine-fuelled rich kids and the Guarani Indians camped along Brazil's highways to a squatter's life in London, Nowhere People is a raw and passionate classic in the making, about our need for human connections and a home. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276384
ISBN
9781908276384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140455120
ISBN
9780140455120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this new edition includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works. Seen by many as the first existentialist novel, Notes from Underground was a pivotal moment in the development of modern literature and has inspired countless novelists, thinkers and film-makers. Translator(s): Zinovieff, Kyril; Hughes, Jenny. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493743
ISBN
9781847493743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.96

Paperback. Translator(s): Kentish, Jane. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536382
ISBN
9780199536382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. As well as the text itself and an informative introduction, this new edition includes a selection of background documents (also newly translated), which help set the work in the cultural and intellectual context out of which it emerged. Translator(s): Lodge, Kirsten. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554812219
ISBN
9781554812219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.61

Hardcover. An introduction that places the underground man in the historical context of nineteenth-century modernity's movement toward secularism, examines his psychological dynamics, and identifies the developments in Russian intellectual life that the work parodies and criticises. Editor(s): Guignon, Charles; Aho, Kevin. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
99
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209060
ISBN
9780872209060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.68

Paperback. An introduction that places the underground man in the historical context of nineteenth-century modernity's movement toward secularism, examines his psychological dynamics, and identifies the developments in Russian intellectual life that the work parodies and criticises. Editor(s): Guignon, Charles; Aho, Kevin. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
99
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209053
ISBN
9780872209053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.01

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