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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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
€ 11.05

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
€ 10.73

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.54

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

€ 17.99
€ 17.54

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

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
€ 26.28

Paperback. Available in English for the first time, About My Mother is an evocative portrait of a woman and a world left behind, exploring themes of love, loss, family and illness, as well as the reliability of memory and the subjugation of women. Translator(s): Schwartz, Ros; Norman, Lulu. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Telegram Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846592010
ISBN
9781846592010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.65

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
€ 26.18

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

€ 31.99
€ 29.52

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

€ 30.99
€ 22.32

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
€ 10.26

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
€ 9.46

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

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
€ 13.43

Paperback. A riveting debut--a black Afghanistan veteran in search of his lost brother amid the chaos of Hurricane Katrina. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566893091
ISBN
9781566893091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.17

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
€ 9.18

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

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
€ 10.93

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
€ 10.81

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

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