Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardcover. Translator(s): Zucker, Alex. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 189 x 21. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Karolinum Press, Charles University
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788024631271
- ISBN
- 9788024631271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.87
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Paperback. One day a rift opens along the border between Spain and France, and the Iberian peninsula floats off across the Atlantic, a great stone raft. But what of the floating population? While the tourists and investors flee, the Spanish and Portuguese escape the coast and wander the inland roads. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860467219
- ISBN
- 9781860467219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.38
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Paperback. In early 18th-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860469015
- ISBN
- 9781860469015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Ricardo Reis was a pseudonym created by Fernando Pessoa, the great Portugese poet. Six weeks, after Pessoa's death, Ricardo Reis returns to Lisbon to take up residence in a hotel,wander the streets, read the newspapers and muse on love, destiny, politics, life and death with his old friend. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860465024
- ISBN
- 9781860465024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
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Paperback. Cipriano and his daughter craft a new line of small ceramic figurines and the Centre orders cast quantities and then recants. Resigned to idleness, Cipriano moves to a soulless megaplex, until late one night he comes across a horrifying secret in the bowels of the artificial city. This is an Orwellian nightmare, a family fable and a love story. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099449157
- ISBN
- 9780099449157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. A driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099573586
- ISBN
- 9780099573586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. A man knocked on the King's door to ask for a boat. Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. Illustrator(s): Sis, Peter. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 48 pages, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 42
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860466908
- ISBN
- 9781860466908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.84
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Paperback. Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself; the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other and for music; and the typist whose boss can't keep his eyes off her. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099581826
- ISBN
- 9780099581826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. When Raimundo Silva, humble proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, takes it upon himself to insert a negative into the sentence of a history book, he rewrites history. The effect of this act of insubordination is to make his editor, the voluptuous Dr Maria Sara, fall in love with him. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860467226
- ISBN
- 9781860467226
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. Senhor Jose is a minor official in a registry office, with a passion for reconstructing people's lives from the data in archive documents. One woman's file is particularly intriguing. She is dead, and he decides to trace her life backwards, from death to birth. But can he bring her back to life? Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860467202
- ISBN
- 9781860467202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. A retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son not of God, but of Joseph. In the desert it is not Satan, but God that Christ tussles with, an autocrat with whom he has an unbalanced and unsettled relationship. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Harvill Pr
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860466847
- ISBN
- 9781860466847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
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Paperback. Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated but the result is even worse. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784871772
- ISBN
- 9781784871772
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Condition: New
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Paperback. What happens when Deadline M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And what happens when each of these men attempt to investigate each other's lives? Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099461654
- ISBN
- 9780099461654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. An unforgettable novel about the fate of those who dare to dream. Translator(s): Almani, Saleh. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789992194737
- ISBN
- 9789992194737
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Translator(s): Vetch, John. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811222181
- ISBN
- 9780811222181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.42
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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€ 13.32
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Paperback. Focuses on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. This book contains a reader's guide to names, places, and important movements, as well as notes and a comprehensive annotated English/Spanish bibliography. Series: Texas Pan American Series. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780292703964
- ISBN
- 9780292703964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.53
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Paperback. A journalist - the autobiographical features are quite deliberate - is trying to find out what happened to Lidia, who disappeared in Luanda in 1992, a point in time when the civil war flared up again with ferocity after rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA movement refused to accept defeat in the country's first free and democratic elections. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906413200
- ISBN
- 9781906413200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
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Paperback. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593126
- ISBN
- 9780099593126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. Durtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original for 'Bluebeard'. Bored and disgusted by the vulgarity of everyday life, Durtal seeks spiritual solace by immersing himself in another age. Translator(s): Hale, Terry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447675
- ISBN
- 9780140447675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
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Paperback. 160 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 12. Weight: 168. Translator(s): King, Brendan.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Dedalus
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903517475
- ISBN
- 9781903517475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.22
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paperback. A collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's influential and imaginative writers. It was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. Editor(s): Yates, Donald A.; Irby, James East. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212. Very good copy showing minor age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics England
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025750
- ISBN
- 9780141184845
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.82
€ 4.82
paperback. Translator(s): Yates, Donald A.; Irby, James East; Fein, John M.; Weinberger, Eliot. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 116 x 12. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780811218832
- ISBN
- 9780811218832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.26
€ 12.26
Paperback. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, this book explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. Translator(s): Boyer, Mildred Vinson; Morland, Harold. Series: Texas Pan American Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 226 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Edition
- 13th ed.
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292715493
- ISBN
- 9780292715493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.37
€ 19.37