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Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 1997
ISBN 10: 1860463703ISBN 13: 9781860463709
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Good.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099289636ISBN 13: 9780099289630
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejudices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. Or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult, demanding but mostly, good-hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, like her sister's, or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. And in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terrifying to the young Indian adolescent far from home.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 1997
ISBN 10: 0749395990ISBN 13: 9780749395995
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Good. From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commi tments the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will st ay with you long after reading. 'He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as t hat' Paula Spencer is thirty-nine, the mother of four and learning to live witho ut Charlo, her violent, abusive husband. Paula's started drinking more and dreaming more, taking herself back to her contented childhood and audacious teenage years. Everything was better the n, not least the music, the soundtrack to her romance with Charlo. As the p ast floats by and mingles with the present Paula Spencer finds herself comi ng alive, in all her vulnerability and her strength. 'Roddy Doyle's unsparing examination of a brutal marriage transcends the boundaries of class and nationhood' The Times.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099535858ISBN 13: 9780099535850
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His early life is isolated and difficult, overshadowed by the disappearance of his mother. When he lo ses both his best friend, and then his girlfriend in tragic circumstances, his only remaining desire is to fulfil her dream of visiting the grave of a legendary missionary, deep in the remote hills of Northern Zambia. On reaching Africa, Olofson is struck by its beauty and mystery. After fulf illing his initial quest, an opportunity of employment in the region tempts him to stay, and before long he takes sole responsibility for the farm he manages. Despite his early optimism, he is shocked by the attitude of the l ocal white population to their adopted country, as well as their pitiful vu lnerability to alcohol and malaria. As relationships splinter and fray, Han s is soon to discover that his African dream is rapidly turning to a nightm are. The Eye of the Leopard is a first-rate psychological thriller from the bestselling author of the Wallander Mysteries, delving deep into the mind of a man lost in an unknown world.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2007
ISBN 10: 0099483734ISBN 13: 9780099483731
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Good. Having Been Diagnosed With Hysteria In 1878, Blanche Wittman Was Committed To Salpêtrière Hospital For Sixteen Years. Under The Care Of The Famous M. Charcot She Was Regularly Displayed Before A Public Audience In A Catalepti c State. Over Time The Nature Of Her Participation In These Demonstrations Changed, As Did Her Relationship With M. Charcot, Until Eventually She Grad uated From Patient To Assistant. On Leaving The Hospital She Was Hired By M arie Curie To Work In Her Paris Laboratory, Where, On 17 February 1898, Aft er Successful Experiments Conducted With The Mineral Pitchblende, Radium Wa s Discovered. So Enchanted Was Marie By Its Soft Blue Glow That She Took To Keeping A Glass Vial Of Radium Salts At Her Bedside. For Blanche, The Effe cts Were More Brutal; Exposure To Radiation Necessitated The Amputation Of All Her Limbs, Save One. Marie Did Not Escape Tragedy Altogether; Her Husba nd And Collaborator Pierre Was Weakened By Illness And Subsequently Killed Having Wandered In Front Of An Oncoming Horse And Cart. Following Pierre S Death Marie Embarked On An Ill-Fated Love Affair Which, In 1911, Almost Cos t Her A Second Nobel Prize.Using Blanche S Notebooks - 'The Book Of Questio ns' - Enquist Deftly Weaves Fact And Fiction To Render The Extraordinary Re lationship Of Two Extraordinary Women At The Dawn Of A Century Of Tremendou s Change. Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein And Emmeline Pankhurst Are Among T he Many That Add To The Authenticity Of This Powerful Tale Of Scientific Di scovery, Death, Art And Love.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2001
ISBN 10: 0099428334ISBN 13: 9780099428336
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Good. At the time of his death from cancer on 1 March 2001, journalist and broadc aster John Diamond had completed six chapters of what was to be an uncompli mentary look at the world of complementary medicine. These chapters, based on his own experience and on researched fact, which were emailed each week to his editors at Random House, are both personal and poignant, hard hittin g and controversial, tackling the issues raised by alternative medicine wit h total candour and his usual wit.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2018
ISBN 10: 1784741981ISBN 13: 9781784741983
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Good.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2008
ISBN 10: 0099492776ISBN 13: 9780099492771
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. David Imaz, the protagonist in The Accordionist's Son, was raised in the village of Obaba and is now living in exile on a ranch in California. Nearing fifty and in failing health, he decides to write the story of his youth, a narrative that takes the reader from 1936 to 1999. David's pastoral childhood in Obaba is ruptured when, as a teenager forced to learn the accordion (like his father), he finds a letter implicating his father in fascist activities during the Spanish Civil War, including the execution of local republican sympathizers. This letter leads to other discoveries - like the fact that David's uncle opposed his father's activities - and Obaba's history slowly cracks open to reveal to David the political tensions still raw beneath the surface, and the long shadow cast by the war. With The Accordionist's Son, Atxaga delivers a politically charged and deeply personal novel - It is his finest work to date.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 1997
ISBN 10: 0749386258ISBN 13: 9780749386252
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an enthralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 1997
ISBN 10: 0749398574ISBN 13: 9780749398576
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Goog. While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, un frocked priests and reformed though by no means inactive whores, in a bizar re search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their s tupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies. Here sies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation The second part of a trilogy, following "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts," which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction.".
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2009
ISBN 10: 1844133311ISBN 13: 9781844133314
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Good. A brilliant new book about the seedy side of Victorian London by a talented young historian. In 1887, government inspectors were sent to report on the horrifying, often lethal, living conditions of the Old Nichol, a notorious 15-acre slum in L ondon s East End. Among much else, they found that the rotting 100-year-old houses were some of the most lucrative properties in the capital for their absent slumlords. Peers of the Realm, local politicians, churchmen and law yers were making profits on these death-traps of as much as 150 per cent pe r annum. Before long, Old Nichol became a focus of public attention: its 6, 000 inhabitants were condemned for their drunkenness and criminality. The s olution to the problem lay in internment camps, some said, or forced emigra tion even eugenics. The Blackest Streets focuses on the last fifteen years of the nineteenth ce ntury, a turbulent period in London s history, when revolution was very muc h in the air when unemployment, agricultural depression and a crackdown on parish relief provided a breeding ground for communists and anarchists. Sarah Wise explores the real lives behind the statistics, excavating the Old Nichol from the ruins of history, laying bare the social and political conditions that created and sustained this black hole at the very heart of the Empire.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 1992
ISBN 10: 0099929309ISBN 13: 9780099929307
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: Good. BOOKER PRIZE 1991. `So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists be tween life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and inj ustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to t he land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the l and of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the tempt ations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazar us's story. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2017
ISBN 10: 178733015XISBN 13: 9781787330153
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Hardback. Condición: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities and reinvent themselves as Roman emperors living in a lavish house in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society. The story of the powerful Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, René, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. René chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden - the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2015
ISBN 10: 0099590379ISBN 13: 9780099590378
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: New. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage centers on a devastati ng emotional betrayal and its consequences. Tsukuru Tazaki belongs to a tig ht-knit group of five friends in high school--three boys and two girls who form a perfect circle they imagine will stay together forever. But when Tsu kuru returns home from college in Tokyo, he finds himself inexplicably rebu ffed by the group. Something has changed, but nobody, not even his closest friends, will tell him what. Years later, Tsukuru, now a successful enginee r, begins dating an older woman named Sara and confesses to her the shadow this betrayal has cast over his life. Sara urges Tsukuru to try to find his old group and to try to solve the mystery that has haunted him all these y ears: why did they suddenly turn on him? On a quest to discover the truth, Tsukuru travels back to meet his old friends--with the exception of Shiro, the group's most volatile and psychologically unstable member, who he learn s was strangled to death in an unsolved murder six years ago. As the dark t ruth about Shiro reveals itself, Tsukuru must confront the simmering emotio nal undercurrents that the group had suppressed in order to reach their ide al of perfect friendship. Can love overcome isolation? Is it possible to tr uly reach another person? Can buried emotions ever really stay buried? And will confronting the past allow Tsukuru to finally open himself up to the f uture?.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, US, 2003
ISBN 10: 0099448769ISBN 13: 9780099448761
Librería: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Condición: New. Features such characters as: High-class call girls billed to Mastercard; a psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads; a hunky matin ee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers; and, a one-armed beach-combin g poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem.