Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DD; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571194711
- ISBN
- 9780571194711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
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Paperback. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571215515
- ISBN
- 9780571215515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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paperback. Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571135394
- ISBN
- 9780571135394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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Paperback. This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Translator(s): Rappaport, S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206926
- ISBN
- 9780571206926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
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Paperback. Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571179435
- ISBN
- 9780571179435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.77
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Paperback. A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this early novel. Translator(s): Kussi, Peter; Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571197774
- ISBN
- 9780571197774
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571174379
- ISBN
- 9780571174379
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. The new novel from the bestselling author of THINGS MY GIRLFRIEND AND I HAVE ARGUED ABOUT. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753826270
- ISBN
- 9780753826270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. Is this love or just oxytocin? The brilliant second novel by the bestselling author of Things my Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753820728
- ISBN
- 9780753820728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. The bestselling cult comedy from Mil Millington published alongside his new novel, Love and Other Near Death Experiences Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753820735
- ISBN
- 9780753820735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. Hungarian Classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed Translator(s): Banffy-Jelen, Katlin; Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 40. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050910
- ISBN
- 9781910050910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
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Paperback. Hungarian classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed. Translator(s): Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050927
- ISBN
- 9781910050927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
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Paperback. Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. But now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death.. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780871080
- ISBN
- 9781780871080
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Num Pages: 514 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Open Letter United States
- Number of pages
- 514
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934824368
- ISBN
- 9781934824368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.59
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941920039
- ISBN
- 9781941920039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.11
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Paperback. A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. It features Pechorin who is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. Translator(s): Randall, Natasha. Num Pages: 208 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143105633
- ISBN
- 9780143105633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.19
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paperback. Num Pages: 287 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781468301526
- ISBN
- 9781468301526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 6.49
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Paperback. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843914310
- ISBN
- 9781843914310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.37
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Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780967967554
- ISBN
- 9780967967554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.05
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paperback. In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head and heart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0021880
- ISBN
- 9781843512707
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12