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Publicado por Vintage Publishing Jul 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0099466139ISBN 13: 9780099466130
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, this compelling novel introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father Ioann, a Russian priest; Kara-Musayev the Younger, the chief of police; and Umarali-Moneybags, the old moneylender. Their colorful lives offer a unique and comic picture of a little-known land populated by outgoing Mullahs, incoming Bolsheviks, and a plethora of Uzbeks, Russians, Persians, Jews, Koreans, Tatars, and Gypsies. At the heart of both the town and the novel stands the railway station--a source of income and influence, and a connection to the greater world beyond the town. Rich and picaresque, 'The Railway' is highly sophisticated yet contains a naive delight in its storytelling, chronicling the dramatic changes felt throughout Central Asia in the early 20th century. 336 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing Jul 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0099507641ISBN 13: 9780099507642
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs Elner Shimfissle is up a tree, picking figs to make jam, and the next thing she knows, she is off on a strange adventure, running into people she never expected to see again, in the unlikeliest of places. Meanwhile, Elner's highly strung niece Norma takes to her bed, before embarking on a brand new career; Elner's neighbour Verbena turns to the Bible; her truck-driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch; a dark secret emerges from the past - and the entire town is left wondering, 'What's life all about anyway ' Except for Tot Whooten, whose main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.A plea for honest doubt and humanity in an over-certain world, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven is further proof that Fannie Flagg was put on this earth to write. 368 pp. Deutsch.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing Jul 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0099488663ISBN 13: 9780099488668
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An eclectic and eccentric collection of short stories from the Japanese master of magic realism. Spanning five years of his writing, it includes a stories of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a nightwatchman whose reflection in a mysterious mirror tries to take control of him; and a couple whose relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on crab. Always favouring the surreal over the real, this is a dazzling and mind-bending read. 'An intimate pleasure' Ruth Scurr, 'The Times' 448 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing Jul 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0099501376ISBN 13: 9780099501374
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job seem to come from Eastern Europe. You can get a cappuccino in the café and the checkout girls are all Nigerian. Ireland is certainly changing, but then so too is Paula - dry, and determined to put her family back together again. 'A phenomenally rewarding read. Could not be bettered in its depiction of the minutiae of the life of a recovering alcoholic: relentless, trivial, terrified' Observer 288 pp. Deutsch.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing Jul 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0099464438ISBN 13: 9780099464433
Librería: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Bill Buford, an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook, was asked by the New Yorker to write a profile of Mario Batali, a Falstaffian figure of voracious appetites who runs one of New York's most successful three-star restaurants. Buford accepted the commission, on the condition Batali allow him to work in his kitchen, as his slave.He worked his way up to 'line cook' and then left New York to learn from the very teachers who had taught his teacher: preparing game with Marco Pierre White, making pasta in a hillside trattoria, finally becoming apprentice to a Dante-spouting butcher in Chianti.Heat is a marvellous hybrid: a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventures, the story of Batali's amazing rise to culinary fame, a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at a famous restaurant, and an illuminating exploration of why food matters. It is a book to delight in, and to savour. 336 pp. Deutsch.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing Jul 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 1844133087ISBN 13: 9781844133086
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short HistoryThe Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. John Julius Norwich has visited every country around its shores; now he tells the story of the Middle Sea - a tale that begins with the Pharaohs and ends with the Treaty of Versailles - in a dramatic account of the remarkable civilisations that rose and fell on the lands of the Mediterranean.Expertly researched and ingeniously executed, Norwich takes us through the Arab conquests of Syria and North Africa; the Holy Roman Empire and the Crusades; Ferdinand and Isabella and the Spanish Inquisition; the great sieges of Rhodes and Malta by the Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent; the pirates of the Barbary Coast and the Battle of Lepanto; Nelson and Napoleon; the Greek War of Independence and the Italian Risorgimento.The Middle Sea is colourful, character-driven history at its most enjoyable and is the culmination of John Julius Norwich's distinguished career as one of the greatest enthusiasts for anecdotal history.'An expertly paced, exhilarating read.a landmark in popular history-telling.a splendid achievement for its memorable scope and vitality. This wonderfully riveting history reveals our favourite holiday destination in all its glorious, epic depth' Sunday Telegraph.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing Jul 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 1844137422ISBN 13: 9781844137428
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In this life of the master diplomat, David Lawday follows Talleyrand's remarkable career through the most turbulent age Europe has known and explores - for the first time - in intimate detail his extraordinarily perverse relationship with Napoleon.