The Gates of Ivory By Margaret Drabble

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Title	:	The Gates of Ivory
Author	:	Margaret Drabble
ISBN	:	0140167196
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	480

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The Gates of Ivory is a vibrant, mesmerizing novel that juxtaposes the cynical, sophisticated realm of London against the dreaded world of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot s Cambodia In London, psychiatrist Liz Headleand receives an unexpected package, containing, among other things, a laundry bill from a hotel in Bangkok, old newspaper clippings, and two human finger bones S The Gates of Ivory is a vibrant, mesmerizing novel that juxtaposes the cynical, sophisticated realm of London against the...

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The Golden Age By Michal Ajvaz

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Title	:	The Golden Age
Author	:	Michal Ajvaz
ISBN	:	1564785785
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	280

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Heir to the philosophical fantastical tradition of Borges, Calvino, and Perec, The Golden Age is Michal Ajvaz s greatest and most ambitious work The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the Heir to the philosophical fantastical tradition of Borges, Calvino, and Perec, The Golden Age is Michal Ajvaz s greatest and most ambitio...

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Te retrouver By Fabio Volo

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Title	:	Te retrouver
Author	:	Fabio Volo
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	363

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Marco non ha mai scelto, perch ha paura che una scelta escluda tutte le altre Non ha mai dato retta a nessuno, solo a se stesso Sembra dire a tutti amatemi pure, ma tenetevi lontani.Andrea, suo fratello maggiore, ha deciso da subito come doveva essere la sua vita, ha sempre fatto le cose come andavano fatte sposato con Daniela, una donna sobria ed elegante Insieme Marco non ha mai scelto, perch ha paura che una scelta escluda tutte le altre Non ha mai dato retta a nessuno, solo a se stesso Sembra dire a t...

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To His Coy Mistress By Andrew Marvell

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Title	:	To His Coy Mistress
Author	:	Andrew Marvell
ISBN	:	1857996690
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	64

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To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell....

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Authority and Conflict By Derek Hirst

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Title	:	Authority and Conflict
Author	:	Derek Hirst
ISBN	:	0674052919
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	390

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Without question Authority and Conflict is the most up to date, well balanced, and interesting survey of the politics of this tumultuous period that we are likely to have for a long time It would be a great pity if so successful a synthesis of modern and traditional scholarship, one written with such verve and elegance, did not also find a wider audience of educated read Without question Authority and Conflict is the most up to date, well balanced, and interesting survey of the politics of t...

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Noteka 2015 By Konrad T. Lewandowski

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Title	:	Noteka 2015
Author	:	Konrad T. Lewandowski
ISBN	:	8386758783
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	348

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Kultowy zbi r opowiada Lewandowskiego Opowiadanie tytu owe zdoby o nagrody im J.A Zajdla i Sfinks, natomiast Pacykarz i P misek zosta y nominowane nagrody im J.A Zajdla....

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Aura By Carlos Fuentes

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Title	:	Aura
Author	:	Carlos Fuentes
ISBN	:	9580469717
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	65

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Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband s memoirs There Felipe meets her beautiful green eyed niece, Aura His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion....

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La febre d'or By Narcís Oller

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Title	:	La febre d'or
Author	:	Narcís Oller
ISBN	:	842971670X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	304

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La febre d or s la gran novel la de la Barcelona del XIX i d una burgesia que veu cr ixer la seva autoritat econ mica i social arran de l especulaci de la borsa de comen aments dels anys vuitanta Es converteix, aix , en un document d estudi per a con ixer un moment crucial de la hist ria d un determinat sector de la societat del seu temps, vist, evidentment, a trav s de La febre d or s la gran novel la de la Barcelona del XIX i d una burgesia que veu cr ixer la seva autoritat econ mica i social arran de l...

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The Other City By Michal Ajvaz

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Title	:	The Other City
Author	:	Michal Ajvaz
ISBN	:	1564784916
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	168

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In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates thecity of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossiblestatues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar totourists The Other City is a guidebook to this invisible, other Prague, overlapping the workaday world a place where librariescan turn into jungles, secret passages ya In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates thecity of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and imposs...

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Oeroeg By Hella S. Haasse

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Title	:	Oeroeg
Author	:	Hella S. Haasse
ISBN	:
Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages	:	122

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Oeroeg is de historie van een Indonesische jongen, die met het zoontje van een Nederlandse administrateur opgroeit in het Nederlands Indi van voor de tweede wereldoorlog Samen brengen ze hun kinder en jeugdjaren door, howel de Nederlandse vader het zeer betreurt dat zijn zoon zo Indisch opgroeit In de jaren dat beiden het voorgezet onderwijs volgen, elk op een andere Oeroeg is de historie van een Indonesische jongen, die met het zoontje van een Nederlandse administrateur opgroeit in het Ned...

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My Happy Days In Hell By György Faludy

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Title	:	My Happy Days In Hell
Author	:	György Faludy
ISBN	:	0002174618
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	528

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My Happy Days in Hell 1962 is Gyorgy Faludy s grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but merely a cursory asylum When the French capitulate to the Nazis, Faludy travels to North Africa, then on to America, where My Happy Days in Hell 1962 is Gyorgy Faludy s grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and ...

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Uneasy Money By P.G. Wodehouse

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Title	:	Uneasy Money
Author	:	P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN	:	1841591327
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	256

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Uneasy Money sees the hard up Lord Dawlish off to America to make a fortune....

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Een hart van steen By Renate Dorrestein

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Title	:	Een hart van steen
Author	:	Renate Dorrestein
ISBN	:	902541110X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	258

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We waren al met zijn vieren toen Ida werd geboren, in een ongewoon koude zomernacht Dankzij de bijna volle maan was het zelfs om twee uur nog zo licht dat we de sproeten op elkaars neus konden tellen De twaalfjarige Ellen is de enige van de vier kinderen uit het saamhorige gezin Van Bemmel die de gezinsuitbreiding met grote ongerustheid tegemoet ziet Vijfentwintig jaar We waren al met zijn vieren toen Ida werd geboren, in een ongewoon koude zomernacht Dankzij de bijna volle maan was het zelfs om twee uur ...

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Rare and Commonplace Flowers By Carmen L. Oliveira

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Title	:	Rare and Commonplace Flowers
Author	:	Carmen L. Oliveira
ISBN	:	0813530334
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	218

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Rare and Commonplace Flowers a Brazilian bestseller tells the story of two women Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self trained Brazilian architect This dual biography brilliantly researched, and written in a lively, novelistic style follows their Rare and Commonplace Flowers a Brazilian bestseller tells the story of two women Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer ...

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Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916 By Margot Asquith

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Title	:	Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916
Author	:	Margot Asquith
ISBN	:	0198229771
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	417

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Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914 Asquith s early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by Lloyd George, whose career he had done so much to promote Margot had both the literary gifts and the vantage Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914 Asquit...

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La vida cotidiana del dibujante underground By Nazario

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Title	:	La vida cotidiana del dibujante underground
Author	:	Nazario
ISBN	:	8433926128
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	288

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Nazario Luque Vera, de nombre art stico Nazario, lleg a Barcelona procedente de Sevilla en 1972 con un trabajo de maestro bajo el brazo y el firme prop sito de dejarlo en cuanto pudiese ganarse la vida dibujando c mics No tard en abandonar el colegio, pero lo de vivir de los tebeos result un poco m s complicado El joven dibujante vivi en primera persona la Barcelona Nazario Luque Vera, de nombre art stico Nazario, lleg a Barcelona procedente de Sevilla en 1972 con un trabajo de maestro bajo el b...

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Transit By Hella S. Haasse

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Title	:	Transit
Author	:	Hella S. Haasse
ISBN	:	9074336086
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	92

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Heel haar aardse bezit zat samengeperst in een klein model rugzak Ze had juist haar gezicht gewassen en haar tanden gepoetst in de wc op het eerste perron In de nissen, gevormd door de muur van het hoofdgebouw en de uitspringende metalen ribben van de overkapping zaten en lagen een paar, meest jonge reizigers te wachten op vroege, internationale treinen Ook zij had geld Heel haar aardse bezit zat samengeperst in een klein model rugzak Ze had juist haar gezicht gewassen en haar tanden gepoetst in de wc op ...

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