Búsqueda de Editorial : FABER AND FABER

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  • LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
    VIRGINIA COWLES
    This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her 'the Forrest Gump of journalism'). Paris as it fell to the Nazis London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague...
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    $ 105,000.00

  • GIRL
    O´BRIEN, EDNA
    "I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a ...
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    $ 59,000.00

  • THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA
    KUREISHI, HANIF
    The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits that the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving - albeit with some rude and raucous results.'One of the best comic novels ...
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    $ 52,000.00

  • MISS DIOR
    PICARDIE, JUSTINE
    When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior?s ?New Look? created a striking, romantic vision of femininity, luxury, and grace, making him?and his last name?famous overnight. One woman informed Dior?s vision more than any other: his sister, Catherine, a Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, ...
    Agotado

    $ 124,000.00

  • COUNTRY OF OTHERS
    SLIMANI, LEILA
    "Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner...
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    $ 93,000.00

  • THE WOMAN IN THE PURPLE SKIRT
    IMAMURA, NATSUKO
    "I suppose what I'm trying to say is that I've been wanting to become the friend of the Woman in the Purple Skirt for a very long time . . . The Woman in the Purple Skirt seems to live in a world of her own. She appears to glide through crowded streets without acknowledging any reaction her presence elicits. Each afternoon, she sits on the same park bench, eating a pastry and i...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • THE BOOK OF NOT
    DANGAREMBGA, TSITSI
    In The Book of Not, Dangarembga reintroduces a lot of her old characters, including Tambu's detestable mother, her misogynistic uncle, her bitter aunt, and her intelligent and ever-questioning cousin Nyasha. It is the family we have all wanted to run away from at some point in time. For all connoisseurs of African literature, The Book of Not is an important new read. The story ...
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    $ 56,000.00

  • RICHARD SCARRY'S ABC WORD BOOK
    SCARRY, RICHARD
    Jump into Busy Town and learn your ABCs with Richard Scarry and his friends!Each double page spread is packed with words starting or finishing or including a specific letter of the alphabet. The letters are highlighted in bright pink to emphasise the learning point. It's busy and it's bright and it makes learning your alphabet fun. ...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • ANIMAL FARM
    ORWELL, GEORGE
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    $ 93,000.00

  • SECOND PLACE
    CUSK, RACHEL
    A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between o...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • KLARA AND THE SUN
    ISHIGURO, KAZUO
    "This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned...
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    $ 93,000.00

  • BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU
    ROONEY, SALLY
    The new novel from the author of u003ciu003eNormal People.u003c/iu003e ...
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    $ 81,000.00

  • LITTLE SCRATCH
    WATSON, REBECCA
    Little Scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics; clock-watching and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays what it takes to get through the quotidian detail of that single trajectory - from...
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    $ 85,000.00

  • THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING
    RIJNEVELD, MARIEKE LUCAS
    Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - un...
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    $ 59,000.00

  • COVENTRY
    CUSK, RACHEL
    'Cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now.' Stephanie Merritt, ObserverCoventry is a collection of essays about choices, womanhood and art. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism, with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, it is essential reading for...
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    $ 65,000.00

  • THIS MOURNABLE BODY
    DANGAREMBGA, TSITSI
    "Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh hum...
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    $ 56,000.00

  • HOMELAND
    KINGSOLVER, BARBARA
    ‘You have to marry outside your clan,’ she said. ‘That’s law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.’When Gloria’s great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee who’d resisted capture long ago.Decades later, her family takes Great Mam ...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • GHOSTLY STORIES
    FREMLIN, CELIA
    The first of these two tales of slow-burning domestic horror tells how a young girl’s delight at being left home alone evaporates when the doorknob starts to rattle. In the second, a woman is tormented by prescient dreams about her niece. ...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • THE CHEATER'S GUIDE TO LOVE
    DIAZ, JUNOT
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    $ 25,000.00

  • LET THE OLD DEAD MAKE ROOM FOR THE YOUNG DEAD
    KUNDERA, MILAN
    A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painf...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • FAIRY TALES
    MOORE, MARIANNE
    A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV. Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss - the more he cares, the less willing he is to intrude - and that his mother is descended from o...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • KUDOS
    CUSK, RACHEL
    A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal ...
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    $ 59,000.00

  • TERRIFIC MOTHER
    MOORE, LORRIE
    Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: ‘You’d make a terrific mother’. That’s when she goes to her friends’ Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby.The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne’s retreat from life and her attempt to return to it.Her sharp sceptic...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • DANTE AND THE LOBSTER
    BECKETT, SAMUEL
    u003cbu003eu003ciu003eWell, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all.u003c/iu003eu003ciu003eu003c/iu003e u003ciu003e u003c/iu003eu003ciu003eu003c/iu003e u003ciu003eIt is not.u003c/iu003eu003ciu003eu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003e "Dante and the Lobster" is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, u003ciu003eMore Pricks Than Kicksu003c/iu003e. P...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • COME RAIN OR COME SHINE
    ISHIGURO, KAZUO
    When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.0But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to contro...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • THE LOSER
    BERNHARD, THOMAS
    Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists - Wertheimer, Glenn Gould, and the narrator - have dedicated their lives to achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould playing Bach's Goldberg Variations, and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a tortured p...
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    $ 69,000.00

  • MY SON THE FANATIC
    KUREISHI, HANIF
    Set in a northern industrial town, this story studies the dismay experienced by a Pakistani father when his son rejects the material possessions and values he has slaved all his life for and embraces a fundamentalist sect of Islam. ...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • THE WALL
    LANCHESTER, JOHN
    Kavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has to do two years of this. 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and will never have to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. But what if something did happen — if the Others came, if he had to Fight for his life ? Thrilling...
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    $ 56,000.00

  • A RIVER IN EGYPT
    MEANS, DAVID
    In his masterful story ‘A River in Egypt’, David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls ‘the sweat chamber’, where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis.Cavanaugh has brought distractions – spasmodic action figures, malformed toy trucks – but they do little to alter the frustration of the sick child scr...
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    $ 25,000.00

  • MARY VENTURA AND THE NINTH KINGDOM
    PLATH, SYLVIA
    Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.0'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom of the frozen will,' comes the reply. 'There is no going back....
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    $ 25,000.00


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