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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Translator(s): Berry, Michael. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 272 pages, 43 cartoon drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780231120975
- ISBN
- 9780231120975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.32
€ 30.99
€ 22.32
Hardback. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwanese coastal town in the 1970s, this prize-winning Taiwanese bestseller about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition captures the intimacy of agricultural life in the midst of an increasingly industrialized society. Translator(s): Wu, Michelle. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231117920
- ISBN
- 9780231117920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.37€ 76.26
€ 99.37
€ 76.26
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226773223
- ISBN
- 9780226773223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.17
€ 27.99
€ 23.17
paperback. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 200 x 12. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226773193
- ISBN
- 9780226773193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.01
€ 27.99
€ 23.01
Hardback. A love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce and a murder mystery. The hero of the comedy, Leopold Roth, complains that he has never made love to an Indian woman. A married Roth becomes obsessed with Lalita Gupta and sets out to seduce her whilst translating the "Kamasutra". Num Pages: 398 pages, 40 line drawings. BIC Classification: FA; FP; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226756974
- ISBN
- 9780226756974
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.91
€ 33.99
€ 26.91
Paperback. Documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can. Series Editor(s): Moncrieff, Scott. Series: Cinema and Modernity. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226669823
- ISBN
- 9780226669823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.27
€ 24.99
€ 20.27
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226561103
- ISBN
- 9780226561103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.02
€ 32.99
€ 26.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226561097
- ISBN
- 9780226561097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.96
€ 32.99
€ 25.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226412610
- ISBN
- 9780226412610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.27
€ 24.99
€ 20.27
Paperback. With distinctive voices, compelling characters, on-the-ground observation, and suspense, this book offers a serious, illuminating take on the changing tides of race, class, and politics in late twentieth-century Chicago. It tells the story of a plasterer turned landlord in Chicago who, in the late 1970s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226202648
- ISBN
- 9780226202648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.34
€ 20.99
€ 18.34
Paperback. Follows the interactions of a socially insecure, pun-loving family man, an officious lady caseworker from an adoption agency, and a chauvinist pig - all suburban neighbors who know far too much about one another's private lives in this goofy and gently hilarious tale of marital quibbles. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226173474
- ISBN
- 9780226173474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.22
€ 23.99
€ 19.22
Paperback. Homi Seervai is a Parsi scientist, who invents a machine which activates the memory store of the brain. When a love affair finishes, Homi uses the machine to relive good times, but the machine goes wrong, and he experiences ancestral and racial memories. This is the author's first novel. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226143811
- ISBN
- 9780226143811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.94
€ 32.99
€ 25.94
Paperback. On a summer's night in Athens, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade. His body completed the tableau. This is a two-sided ethnography: one from the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226073224
- ISBN
- 9780226073224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.06
€ 27.99
€ 23.06
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€ 21.20
€ 25.99
€ 21.20
Paperback. Translator(s): Gernant, Karen; Zheping, Chen. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947532
- ISBN
- 9781933947532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.71
€ 31.99
€ 28.71
Hardcover. In this psychological novel, memories spawn tales within tales and seemingly disparate elements are woven into a tapestry of extraordinary moments that reveals the authorAEs penetrating observations on the interdependency of humanity and nature in its wholeness. Translator(s): Wilson, Michiko N.; Wilson, Michael K. Series: Cornell East Asia Series. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947303
- ISBN
- 9781933947303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.86
€ 139.86
Hardcover. Translator(s): Gernant, Karen; Zheping, Chen. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell University East Asia Program
- Edition
- hardcover
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947235
- ISBN
- 9781933947235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.33
€ 140.33
Hardcover. The protagonist has just turned thirty and is engaged to be married and about to start work as a teacher. Frightened by the idea of settling down, he journeys to the Alps in a do-or-die effort to climb the unclimbed North Ridge, and by doing so prove he is not ordinary. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: The German List. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906497927
- ISBN
- 9781906497927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.94
€ 19.99
€ 16.94
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Omnidawn Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890650209
- ISBN
- 9781890650209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.56
€ 16.99
€ 14.56
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Omnidawn Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890650193
- ISBN
- 9781890650193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.69
€ 13.99
€ 12.69
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781885445858
- ISBN
- 9781885445858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.76
€ 19.99
€ 19.76
Hardcover. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781885445339
- ISBN
- 9781885445339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.98
€ 133.98
Paperback. The offer of a sensational ride alongside a unique individual in his quest to find freedom from his criminal past. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Soul Rocks Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846949883
- ISBN
- 9781846949883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.47
€ 13.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Private Investigator Tommy Storm is hired by a top Hollywood film producer to find his missing daughter and her leading man. As Storm and his goody two-shoes doppelganger investigate the case, sinister forces conspire to commit the ultimate murder. The question is: who is on the side of the angels, and can either Storm tell the difference? Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: F; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846949531
- ISBN
- 9781846949531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.37
€ 11.37