Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Provides a portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. Translator(s): Waswo, Ann. Series: Voices from Asia S. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 40.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520083721
- ISBN
- 9780520083721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.01
€ 35.99
€ 26.01
Paperback. An international bestseller. A charming and wonderful novel about a cat that brings joy into a couple's life. Translator(s): Selland, Eric. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447279402
- ISBN
- 9781447279402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780670919888
- ISBN
- 9780670919888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. What does it mean to be a good daughter, sister, friend and citizen - and a good Muslim? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847679758
- ISBN
- 9781847679758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.67
€ 13.99
€ 10.67
Paperback. The highly acclaimed romantic tragedy of love, migration, and the search for identity from the Granta 'Best of Young British' author Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847679789
- ISBN
- 9781847679789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.41
€ 14.99
€ 11.41
Paperback. Boualem Yekker, a bookstore owner lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god. Translator(s): De Jager, Marjolijn. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803215917
- ISBN
- 9780803215917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.37
€ 19.37
Paperback. 'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141022826
- ISBN
- 9780141022826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.81
€ 11.99
€ 9.81
Paperback. A searing allegorical portrait of North African society, The Sacred Night uses Arabic fairy tales and surrealist elements to craft a stunning and disturbing vision of protest and rebellion against the strictures of hidebound traditions governing gender roles and sexuality. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801864414
- ISBN
- 9780801864414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.77
€ 30.99
€ 25.77
Paperback. A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Johns Hopkins paperback ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801864407
- ISBN
- 9780801864407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.77
€ 30.99
€ 25.77
Hardcover. A novel that follows the parallel lives of a transplanted Austrian woman, who has made Iran her home, and her grandson, Nuri, who desperately misses his mother but hides his longing behind a veneer of teenage bravado. Translator(s): Rahimieh, Nasrin. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609339
- ISBN
- 9780815609339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.15
€ 30.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Translator(s): Berry, Michael. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 272 pages, 43 cartoon drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780231120975
- ISBN
- 9780231120975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.04
€ 29.99
€ 22.04
Paperback. Alice has a perfect life - a great job, happy kids, a wonderful husband. Until he goes missing one night; she receives a suspicious phone call; things don't quite add up. Alice needs to know what's going on. But when she uncovers the truth she faces a brutal choice. And how can she be sure it is the truth? Sometimes it's better not to know. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784162399
- ISBN
- 9781784162399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849822459
- ISBN
- 9781849822459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.38
€ 10.99
€ 9.38
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781451698985
- ISBN
- 9781451698985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.04
€ 16.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. Old Johnny Ifor had never gone anywhere. Not physically, anyway. But in his mind, in the journals he's inherited, in the stories he starts to tell to Jonathon, he travels across oceans and generations. Num Pages: 331 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902638768
- ISBN
- 9781902638768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.20
€ 13.99
€ 13.20
Paperback. If I Forget You is at once a great love story and a moving exploration of what it means to love and to lose, and how the choices we make can change our lives forever, from the bestselling author, T.C. Greene. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782399377
- ISBN
- 9781782399377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.08
€ 10.99
€ 9.08
Paperback. Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa. Boyle's other works include "The Tortilla Curtain". Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781862071551
- ISBN
- 9781862071551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.95
€ 10.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408881767
- ISBN
- 9781408881767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.79
€ 13.99
€ 10.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, maps (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408831373
- ISBN
- 9781408831373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.77
€ 11.99
€ 10.77
Paperback. When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KAC0002223
- ISBN
- 9780747525721
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Presents a saga in which scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the tragedy. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 372. 464 pages. Presents a saga in which scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the tragedy. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight: 320.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408800980
- ISBN
- 9781408800980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KLN0015365
- ISBN
- 9780747529330
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the younger generation dealing with the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story, the Japanese literary genre. Editor(s): Goossen, Theodore W. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 484
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583195
- ISBN
- 9780199583195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.28
€ 16.99
€ 13.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Brindle & Glass
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142424
- ISBN
- 9781897142424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.48
€ 27.99
€ 19.48