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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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
€ 13.49

Paperback. Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - provincial families, a political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282990
ISBN
9780099282990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099284796
ISBN
9780099284796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282785
ISBN
9780099282785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

paperback. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099285670
ISBN
9780099285670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 318 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679752684
ISBN
9780679752684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Sargent, Geoffrey W. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 116 x 7. Weight in Grams: 60.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
57
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811218542
ISBN
9780811218542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.19

Paperback. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780099282792
ISBN
9780099282792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.21

Paperback. A collection of stories, which describes life in Russia before and after the collapse of Communism, and the plight of Russian emigres in the USA in post communist times. It includes characters that are recognisable and bizarre, bewildered but also invigorated by the challenge that everyday life presents - whatever economic system they live under. Translator(s): Moore, Thomas. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Peter Owen
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0007714
ISBN
9780720613001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A collection of stories, which describes life in Russia before and after the collapse of Communism, and the plight of Russian emigres in the USA in post communist times. It includes characters that are recognisable and bizarre, bewildered but also invigorated by the challenge that everyday life presents - whatever economic system they live under. Translator(s): Moore, Thomas. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Peter Owen
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0007825
ISBN
9780720613001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, six Hispanic and six English-language authors have each contributed a previously unpublished story in tribute to these giants of world literature. With Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Yuri Herrera, Valeria Luiselli and others, introduced by Salman Rushdie. Editor(s): Hahn, Daniel; Valencia, Margarita. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276780
ISBN
9781908276780
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.94

Paperback. Makina knows how to survive in a macho world. Leaving her native Mexico in search of her brother, she's smuggled into the USA bearing two secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld. In this grippingly original novel Herrera explores the actual and psychological crossings and translations people make. Translator(s): Dillman, Lisa. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
And Other Stories
Condition
New
SKU
9781908276421
ISBN
9781908276421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.04

Paperback. The Year of Terror, 1937. Zybin, an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata, finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin's reign. Soon, he and his colleagues are caught up in an ambitious Cheka investigator's attempts to set up a show trial to rival those taking place in Moscow. Translator(s): Myers, Alan. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 40. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Harvill Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846556982
ISBN
9781846556982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. Translator(s): Hewison, R Neil. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774166839
ISBN
9789774166839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.59

Paperback. Camus meets Orhan Pamuk, via Freud, in this existentialist novel by the father of Turkish modernism. Translator(s): Stark, Fredd. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872867116
ISBN
9780872867116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.19

Paperback. In this finely crafted novel, Yusuf Idris, best known as the master of the Arabic short story, brings to life not only some of the most human characters in modern Arabic fiction but the soul of Cairo itself and the soul of a national consciousness focused on liberation. Translator(s): Hewison, Neil R. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
175
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774246999
ISBN
9789774246999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849821650
ISBN
9781849821650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.53

Paperback. Translator(s): Glenny, Tamara. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564782168
ISBN
9781564782168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780916583286
ISBN
9780916583286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Watson, Donald. Series: French Literature Series. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
SKU
9781564784445
ISBN
9781564784445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

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