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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Series: Dover Dual Language Russian. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486488738
- ISBN
- 9780486488738
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last of his money on booze and sets off on a train journey to visit beautiful, picturesque, utopian Petushki, where his beloved and child are waiting for him. But Venya's drinking gets out of control.. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main - Faber Modern Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571322787
- ISBN
- 9780571322787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714528748
- ISBN
- 9780714528748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
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Paperback. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD. Translator(s): Brown, Clarence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140185850
- ISBN
- 9780140185850
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And both are sworn enemies. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 240 x 2. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784701376
- ISBN
- 9781784701376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Translator(s): Hodges, Horace Jeffery; Hwang, Sun-ae. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 37. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564789112
- ISBN
- 9781564789112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.23
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Paperback. The second collection of stories from Yiyun Li, author of the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007303106
- ISBN
- 9780007303106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
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Paperback. The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000381
- ISBN
- 9780007196654
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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paperback. Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007196630
- ISBN
- 9780007196630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.24
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Paperback. Translator(s): Murray, Giles. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Counterpoint United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint, Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781582436265
- ISBN
- 9781582436265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.96
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Paperback. Translator(s): Kriss, David; Levenston, Edward A. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HRCG9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 41. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811214056
- ISBN
- 9780811214056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.42
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Paperback. Yoko Ogawa, a lonely teenaged girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a sinister tale of greed. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099521358
- ISBN
- 9780099521358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
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Paperback. He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9780099521341
- ISBN
- 9780099521341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.64
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paperback. In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a long seduction. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099548997
- ISBN
- 9780099548997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Pamphlet. Translator(s): Angles, Jeffrey. Series: Keshiki. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 4. .
- Publisher
- UEA Publishing Project
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911343011
- ISBN
- 9781911343011
Paperback
Condition: New
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paperback. Translator(s): Cavanagh, H. Series: Europe 1992/95. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Dedalus Limited United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780946626748
- ISBN
- 9780946626748
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Condition: New
€ 10.35
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paperback. Translator(s): Argyraki, Mary. Series: Dedalus Europe 2000 S. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Dedalus Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781873982440
- ISBN
- 9781873982440
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Condition: New
€ 12.41
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Paperback. Azazeel takes 5th century quarrels in the Coptic Church as the ground for an ambitious investigation into good and evil, faith and doubt.' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent In this haunting and controversial novel, Youssef Ziedan confronts issues as vital today as they were nearly two millenia ago. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848874299
- ISBN
- 9781848874299
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Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.58
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Paperback. An abandoned yacht, a young family missing - chilling crime from the queen of Nordic Noir. Series: Thora Gudmundsdottir. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444734485
- ISBN
- 9781444734485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284574
- ISBN
- 9780099284574
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282891
- ISBN
- 9780099282891
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she finds herself in love with the young servant Saburo. Tormented by his indifference, yet invigorated by her desire, she makes her move, with catastrophic consequences. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099530275
- ISBN
- 9780099530275
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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paperback. Features Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the villagers' gossip threatens to divide them, Shinki must risk his life to prove his worth. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099289982
- ISBN
- 9780099289982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. Depicts a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189567
- ISBN
- 9780141189567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.40
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€ 13.40