Fiction in translation
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Fiction in translation
Paperback. Recounts the frenzied transformations that made late nineteenth-century Paris the fashion capital of the world. This novel includes a capitalist hero, Octave Mouret, who creates a giant department store that devours the dusty, outmoded boutiques surrounding it. Num Pages: 383 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 383
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520078673
- ISBN
- 9780520078673
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Condition: New
€ 32.00€ 26.47
€ 32.00
€ 26.47
Paperback. A novel that tells the story of a young Muslim who, when his life is threatened, finds sanctuary in a community of Coptic monks. Translator(s): Romaine, Barbara. Series: Literature of the Middle East. Num Pages: 116 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 143 x 9. Weight in Grams: 174. A Novel. Series: Literature of the Middle East. 116 pages, 1 map. A novel that tells the story of a young Muslim who, when his life is threatened, finds sanctuary in a community of Coptic monks. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 209 x 143 x 9. Weight: 174. Translator(s): Romaine, Barbara.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520200753
- ISBN
- 9780520200753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 1032
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691150437
- ISBN
- 9780691150437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.19€ 50.63
€ 65.19
€ 50.63
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803224414
- ISBN
- 9780803224414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.23
€ 15.99
€ 15.23
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803234932
- ISBN
- 9780803234932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.42
€ 17.99
€ 17.42
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
€ 18.99
€ 18.65
Paperback. Set largely in locations along the French Riviera, these 11 short stories depict with great compassion the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this privileged region. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803280076
- ISBN
- 9780803280076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.72
€ 20.99
€ 20.72
Hardback. After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature through the tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420282
- ISBN
- 9780857420282
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.11
€ 35.99
€ 28.11
Hardback. In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin, and towns large and small, the author has dreamt - and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume, she shares her dreams of the years 2008-10, a time of global upheaval that happened to coincide with upheavals in her own life. Illustrator(s): Banerjee, Sunandini. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 116 pages, 24 colour plates. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420299
- ISBN
- 9780857420299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.33
€ 19.99
€ 17.33
Hardback. Richard I (1157-99) was king of England from 1189 until his death, but he is best known as a soldier, not a monarch. This title provides the story of a man living in the shadow of his own myth, also a fanatic general who wants to conquer the world's greatest sanctum and a king who is suddenly vulnerable. Translator(s): Anderson, James. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420336
- ISBN
- 9780857420336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.36
€ 20.99
€ 18.36
Hardback. The eponymous Old Testament hero Noah fuels his local economy with a prescient plan to build the Ark. Though no one around him seriously believes in the coming flood, everyone is more than willing to do business with him: The people of Mesopotamia had never had it so good. Translator(s): Willcocks, Samuel P. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420466
- ISBN
- 9780857420466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.81
€ 19.99
€ 16.81
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
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.33
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Hardback. T, an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They meet, they break up, they marry, and they get divorced. They neither can live with nor without one another, and this impossible state of affairs lasts all their lives. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857421708
- ISBN
- 9780857421708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.33
€ 20.99
€ 18.33
Hardback. Translator(s): Tanoukhi, Nirvana. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423252
- ISBN
- 9780857423252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.14
€ 27.99
€ 22.14
Hardback. Translator(s): Hoban, Wieland. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423696
- ISBN
- 9780857423696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.64
€ 24.99
€ 20.64
Hardback. Translator(s): Nair, Anita. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 214 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423917
- ISBN
- 9780857423917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.73
€ 24.99
€ 20.73
Paperback. For those who cannot read the language of the original texts, the lively and varied world of eighteenth-century Russian literature has been largely inaccessible. This translation presents three seminal tales that express the major literary, social, and philosophical concerns of late-eighteenth-century Russia. Translator(s): Gasperetti, David. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875806747
- ISBN
- 9780875806747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. The author is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. In this title, his story radiates out, relaying the poet's personal history through 1994, including his unique perspective on the 1991 coup by Communist hardliners resisted by Boris Yeltsin. Translator(s): Fusso, Ms. Susanne. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807157
- ISBN
- 9780875807157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Hardcover. The wide sweep of this important novel encompasses many layers. It ranges over decades in the life of Chotti - the central character - in which India moves from colonial rule to independence and then to the unrest of the 1970s. Translator(s): Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405107044
- ISBN
- 9781405107044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Paperback. The wide sweep of this important novel encompasses many layers. It ranges over decades in the life of Chotti - the central character - in which India moves from colonial rule to independence and then to the unrest of the 1970s. Translator(s): Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405107051
- ISBN
- 9781405107051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.78
€ 45.99
€ 45.78
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318252
- ISBN
- 9781846318252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.42
€ 158.42
Hardcover. The protagonist has just turned thirty and is engaged to be married and about to start work as a teacher. Frightened by the idea of settling down, he journeys to the Alps in a do-or-die effort to climb the unclimbed North Ridge, and by doing so prove he is not ordinary. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: The German List. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906497927
- ISBN
- 9781906497927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.94
€ 19.99
€ 16.94
Hardcover. Translator(s): Gernant, Karen; Zheping, Chen. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell University East Asia Program
- Edition
- hardcover
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947235
- ISBN
- 9781933947235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.11
€ 139.11
Paperback. Translator(s): Gernant, Karen; Zheping, Chen. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947532
- ISBN
- 9781933947532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.48
€ 31.99
€ 28.48