Fiction

Author: Sandel, Michael J. Brand: Penguin Color: White Features: Product Condition: No Defects Number Of Pages: 320 Release Date: 25-02-2010 model number: 9780141041339 Part Number: 9780141041339 Details: Is it always wrong to lie? Should there be limits to personal freedom? Can killing sometimes be justified? Is the free market fair?...

    Details: The Almond casts new light on sexuality and women in Islam. It is a journey into the erotic undercurrents of a world that is, outwardly and to Western eyes, near-puritanical.Badra is a young Muslim woman in a brutal arranged marriage who flees her small town of Imchouk...

  Brand: Penguin Random House Binding: paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 98 Release Date: 01-07-2000 Part Number: RKC2008501800 Details: Product Description-- First paperback edition.-- Formally inventive and utterly joyous, Grabinoulor recounts the fantastic adventures of its light-hearted, satyric, eponymous hero as he visits other planets, time travels, and finds...

  Details: Product Description One of the most widely admired writers of our time returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novels—G. and To the Wedding among them—with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.One hot afternoon in Lisbon, our narrator, John,...

   

  Details: After a separation of many years, Emily `Fido’ Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has become a successful woman of business...

  Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers Edition: New Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 375 Release Date: 14-10-2000 Details: Don Rigoberto - insurance executive by day, pornographer and sexual enthusiast by night - misses his estranged second wife. As he compensates for her absence by filling notebooks with a...

  Details: The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde—a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic...

s Details: This new collection will pick up where Dorothy L. Sayers' The Omnibus of Crime (1929) left off - "in the heart of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction" - bringing together monumental, entertaining works of mystery short fiction from the early 1930s to the present, from the inter-war...

A Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's...

  Binding: hardcover Format: Import Number Of Pages: 240 Release Date: 01-04-2003 Details: Product Description The author of theTin Drumtakes on the worst maritime disaster in history, the sinking of a German cruise ship packed with refugees by a Soviet sub--a disaster that killed nine thousand people. 60,000 first printing.From...

The translationsare delightful ... This book will be a boon to students, and will surely soon be appearing on university booklists. -- Robin Waterfield Chappell's reader is likely to be especially welcome at a time of ever-reducing student incomes, and it is easy to see how several different courses might...

  Details: Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinian, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and new born son. But secretly she has a mission - to find her real father. Carlos was a 'desaparecido' - one of the many political activists in Argentina who literally 'disappeared' during the country's brutal...

  Details: Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy,...

    Details: Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. Ecrits is his most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between 1936 and 1966. Following...

    Details: A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual." Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-month period...

   

   

  Details: Product Description Martereau is narrated by a tubercular young man driven by a compulsion to discover what lies behind faades, especially in relation to the adults around him. He's particularly interested in Martereau, his uncle's devoted friend and business associate. All in all, Martereau seems like a trustworthy,...

    Details: From the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former story paints a picture of a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by clich s. She...

   

   

     

   

 Considered by many to be his greatest book, Michel Butor's Mobile is the result of the six months the author spent traveling across America. The text is composed from a wide range of materials, including city names, road signs, advertising slogans, catalog listings, newspaper accounts of the 1893 World's Fair,...

   

  Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers Color: White Edition: 1 Binding: Paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 295 Release Date: 14-02-2002 Part Number: RKC2008501843 EAN: 9781564783066 Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches Languages: English

  Ordered by two mysterious men to write a statement of about 100 pages, the narrator of Chinese Letter--who's not sure of his name, but calls himself Fritz--faithfully records the bizarre occurrences of his daily life: his absurd conversations with his mother who is abducted by slave traders, his visits...

   

   

   Ben Flesh is one of the men “who made America look like America, who made America famous.” He collects franchises, traveling from state to state, acquiring the brand-name establishments that shape the American landscape. But both the nation and Ben are running out of energy. As blackouts roll through...