Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540953
- ISBN
- 9780099540953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
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Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 176 x 113 x 30. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- RANDOM HOUSE EXPORT
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099512820
- ISBN
- 9780099512820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.91
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Paperback. Features such characters as: Satsuki who has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake who left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away; and, fourteen-year-old Sala who has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099448563
- ISBN
- 9780099448563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
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Paperback. Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves. But things are moving forward, and Aomame does not yet know that she and Tengo are more closely bound than ever. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099549055
- ISBN
- 9780099549055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love Naoko sinks deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find a new meaning and a new love in order to survive. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099448822
- ISBN
- 9780099448822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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€ 10.95
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 112 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099590422
- ISBN
- 9780099590422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.07
€ 9.99
€ 9.07
Hardcover. On his way home from school, the young narrator finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned. Translator(s): Goossen, Ted. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 176 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846559211
- ISBN
- 9781846559211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.77
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€ 18.77
Paperback. Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has been receiving. In this title, as the story unfolds, the suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer are truned inside out. Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 37. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099448792
- ISBN
- 9780099448792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
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€ 11.14
Paperback. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky. Series: Vintage Magic. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099458326
- ISBN
- 9780099458326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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€ 10.33
Paperback. The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 44. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099549062
- ISBN
- 9780099549062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.51
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Paperback. The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. Num Pages: 1328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 308 x 61. Weight in Grams: 918.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099578079
- ISBN
- 9780099578079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 9.99
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Paperback. Presents a narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, this title unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448785
- ISBN
- 9780099448785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448471
- ISBN
- 9780099448471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Features a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor, and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448778
- ISBN
- 9780099448778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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€ 11.04
Paperback. The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099506249
- ISBN
- 9780099506249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, Hajime and Shimamoto had been childhood sweethearts. The two eventually lost touch but now, in their thirties, they meet up again. Hajime, now a father and husband, finds himself catapulted into the past, risking all that he has in the present. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448570
- ISBN
- 9780099448570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
unknown_binding. What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? The author has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. This title presents these stories. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099481553
- ISBN
- 9780099481553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1FMN; 2AB; BG; FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Indra Publishing Australia
- Number of pages
- 371
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780958771856
- ISBN
- 9780958771856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.59
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 260 x 14. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551526065
- ISBN
- 9781551526065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.63
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€ 15.63
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583669
- ISBN
- 9781905583669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.35
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Paperback. Translator(s): Wright, Jonathan. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Comma Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583256
- ISBN
- 9781905583256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.33
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Paperback. Translator(s): Wright, Jonathan. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172. 176 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 132 x 199 x 11. Weight: 168.
- Publisher
- Comma Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583522
- ISBN
- 9781905583522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.31
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Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBH; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936347721
- ISBN
- 9780936347721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.11
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€ 21.11
Paperback. Translator(s): Roger, Allen. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Interlink Pub Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566569712
- ISBN
- 9781566569712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.79
€ 17.99
€ 16.79