Búsqueda de Editorial : ALFRED A. KNOPF PUBLISHER

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  • THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS
    ROJAS CONTRERAS, INGRID
    For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and ’90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother’s fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called “the secrets”: the power to talk to the dead, tell the...
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    $ 99,900.00

  • LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
    GARMUS, BONNIE
    Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in l...
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    $ 139,900.00

  • TO PARADISE
    YANAGIHARA, HANYA
    "In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much olde...
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    $ 120,000.00

  • BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
    QIAN JULIE WANG
    A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world—an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent • A TODAY SHOW #READWITHJENNA PICKIn Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity...
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    $ 105,000.00

  • HARLEM SHUFFLE
    WHITEHEAD, COLSON
    "'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...' To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from...
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    $ 105,000.00

  • THE NICKEL BOYS
    WHITEHEAD, COLSON
    In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown i...
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    $ 86,000.00

  • THE TESTAMENTS
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    ABOUT THE TESTAMENTS#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEThe Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there a...
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    $ 89,000.00

  • TIME PIECES
    BANVILLE, JOHN
    From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries–a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author’s recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, w...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • ARABIAN NIGHTS AND DAYS
    MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
    The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic...
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    $ 54,900.00

  • THE MANGA BIBLE
    VARIOS AUTORES
    From the creation of the earth to the ultimate showdown between the forces of good and evil, this is the greatest story every told...as you've never seen it before. A graphic novel adaptation of the Holy Bible, The Manga Bible tells the story of God's relationship with His people, from the creation of the earth and the early history of the Israelites, to the life of Jesus, His ...
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    $ 55,000.00

  • MIDAQ ALLEY
    MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
    Considered by many to be Mahfouz's best novel, "Midaq Alley" centers around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo. No other novel so vividly evokes the sights and sounds of the city. The universality and timelessness of this book cannot be denied. ...
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    $ 65,000.00

  • AKHENATEN
    MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
    From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--the first known monotheistic ruler--whose ...
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    $ 54,900.00

  • ALIAS GRACE
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers...
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    $ 56,000.00

  • CHILDREN OF THE ALLEY
    MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
    The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring narrative: the spiritual history of humankind. The men and women of a modern Cairo neighborood unwittingly reenact the lives of their holy ancestors: from the feudal lord who disowns...
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    $ 65,000.00

  • THE JOURNEY OF IBN FATTOUMA
    MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
    In this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of perfection, from which no one has ever returned. On his way, Ibn Fattouma passes through a series of very different lands--realms where the moon is worshipped, where marriage does not exist, where kings are treated like gods, and whe...
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    $ 54,900.00

  • MIRAMAR
    MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
    This highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attention of the young servant Zohra. Zohra is a beautiful peasant girl who fled her family to escape an arranged marriage. She becomes the focus of jealousies and conflicts among the Miramar's residents, who include an assortment of radica...
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    $ 54,900.00

  • THE THIEF AND THE DOGS
    MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
    Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story. After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than one. Egypt has undergone a revolution and, on a more personal l...
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    $ 54,900.00

  • THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
    BOYNE, JOHN
    Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Brun...
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    $ 45,000.00

  • THE BLIND ASSASSIN
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    In The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative. The novel begins with the mysterious death—a possible suicide—of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctua...
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    $ 56,000.00

  • METAPHYSICAL ANIMALS
    MAC CUMHAILL, CLARE
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    $ 204,000.00

  • THERE'S A MYSTERY THERE
    COTT, JONATHAN
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    $ 188,000.00

  • RICHARD SCARRY'S BEST LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS EVER!
    SCARRY, PATSY
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    $ 82,000.00

  • STAY TRUE
    HSU, HUA
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    $ 163,000.00

  • ORIGIN
    BROWN, DAN
    #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER "Dr. Langdon is once again wrapped up in a global-scale event that could have massive ramifications on the world's religions. As he does in all his novels, Brown['s] extensive research on art, architecture, and history informs every page." --Entertainment WeeklyRobert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum ...
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    $ 79,900.00

  • THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU WILL BE
    WINFIELD MARTIN, EMILY
    The New York Times bestseller that celebrates the dreams, acceptance, and love that parents have for their children . . . now and forever! From brave and bold to creative and clever, Emily Winfield Martin's rhythmic rhyme expresses all the loving things that parents think of when they look at their children. With beautiful, and sometimes humorous, illustrations, and a clever g...
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    $ 106,000.00

  • SEEKER
    DAYTON, ARWEN ELYS
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    $ 44,900.00

  • THE KILL ORDER
    DASHNER, JAMES
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    $ 39,900.00

  • STEELHEART
    SANDERSON, BRANDON
    The #1 New York Times bestseller from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer, coauthor of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy. And don't miss the rest of the Reckoners series: Firefight and Calamity.How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father?If someone destroyed your city?If everythi...
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    $ 39,900.00

  • THE MAZE RUNNER
    DASHNER, JAMES
    Perfect for fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games, this special movie tie-in edition of the first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, The Maze Runner, features an eight-page full-color insert with photos from the film. The Maze Runner movie, featuring the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O'Brien, as Thomas; Kaya Scodelario as Teresa; Aml Ameen as Alby; ...
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    $ 42,900.00

  • THE RULE OF THOUGHTS
    DASHNER, JAMES
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    $ 42,900.00


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