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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else would he do? Because he would have to do something. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846687358
ISBN
9781846687358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. Features a complete translation of The Book of Disquiet. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 42. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241200131
ISBN
9780241200131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172339
ISBN
9781590172339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.01

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594933097
ISBN
9781594933097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.10

Paperback. Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility. Translator(s): Belfrage, Cedric. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
282
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393308556
ISBN
9780393308556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.41

Hardcover. Translator(s): Jackson, Prof. Elizabeth. Series: Brazilian Literature Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 167 x 81. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564786814
ISBN
9781564786814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.05

Paperback. The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184 220pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Picador
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
9780330371872
ISBN
9780330371872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.45

Hardcover. Takes us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murder and recently widowed art historian Max Morden, who has returned to a sleepy seaside boarding house to relive the events of his first adolescent awakenings. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593678
ISBN
9781841593678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. The novel that became a huge bestseller in Iran, before it was banned by the government. Translator(s): Khalili, Sara. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349138770
ISBN
9780349138770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. Editor(s): Seif, Atef Abu. Series: Reading the City. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 201 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583645
ISBN
9781905583645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.42

Paperback. .
Publisher
Comma Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910974018
ISBN
9781910974018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. This is going to be a little uncomfortable.. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408809648
ISBN
9781408809648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.17

Paperback. Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But his bar mitzvah is looming, his friends are all hitting puberty and Aron, terrified and revolted by what he sees around him, enters a state of arrested development. Translator(s): Rosenberg, Betsy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KTG0006000
ISBN
9780099552321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: British Literature Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Pr
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564785619
ISBN
9781564785619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.64

Paperback. .
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583720
ISBN
9781905583720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.42

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

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. A brilliant debut from a striking and original American voice Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447202431
ISBN
9781447202431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.35

Paperback. Sweeping and heartrending - the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 44. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007575350
ISBN
9780007575350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.37

Paperback. Memory is an albino woman, languisihing in prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man - a man whose murder she is now convicted of. Facing the death penalty, she tells the story os the chain of events that brought her there. But is everything exactly as she remembers it? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571249916
ISBN
9780571249916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 179 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Wakefield Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780984115587
ISBN
9780984115587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552775489
ISBN
9780552775489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. A startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery and a tour de force of both voice and storytelling Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780746524
ISBN
9781780746524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.66

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232815
ISBN
9781909232815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. .
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583683
ISBN
9781905583683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

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