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Condizione: New. Poetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, My Beautiful Bus is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel. Based on an actual bus trip across France taken by Oulipo-member Jacques Jouet, this fictional reconstruction focuses no.

Condizione: New. Shklovsky: Witness to an Era is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the 70s, toward the end of the great critic s life, and in the fa.

Condizione: New. Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles s most acclaimed novel is a journey into the inner lives of three young women, each revealing her secrets and loves, each awaiting a destiny tied to the colorful and violent world of modern Brazil. Sen.

Condizione: New. Theo Fales is a one-time historian turned book editor who specializes in ghostwriting the memoirs of leading American policy-makers. For over twenty-five years, Theo has been helping retired generals and CIA directors justify their decisions in the first-pe.

Condizione: New. When a woman falls into a coma, her daughter accompanies her through six weeks of agony, bearing witness to the prolonged death imposed upon her by the monstrous machine of modern medicine. During this final voyage through the fog, the narrator attempts to .

Condizione: New. Emil, the unwanted child of two young parents, is adopted by Yoel and Leah, a childless couple. Yet, as the years pass, it becomes clear that Emil doesn t bear much resemblance to the parents who ve loved and raised him. Is his name the only thing his real .

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. When Vic meets Lali, they stumble into a dysfunctional ten-year relationship that leaves him in ruins and raising a child on his own. As Vic strives to protect their daughter from the cruel truths of his relationship with her mother, he finds himself hopele.

Condizione: New. The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where information and its loss can be a matter of life and death.The de.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. Mathilde Lewly a female painter at the dawn of the twentieth century has achieved notoriety among the Parisian avant-garde. But when her perfect life is threatened by the shadow of her little sister, Eug nie, what follows is a fierce rivalry, an emotional t.

Condizione: New. Featuring the work of some of the greatest poets of the twentieth century as well as their contemporary counterparts, this anthology is unique in bringing together a broad selection of Switzerland s greatest authors in all of the country s major languages.

Condizione: New. A collision between contemporary poetics and the Renaissance lyric, between aestheticism and political engagement, The Master of Insomnia is a collection of Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak s verse from the last fifteen years, including numerous poems never be.

Condizione: New. On the eve of a coup d etat, the wife of a diplomat newly returned to Turkey from the United States finds that the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuat, is in fact a childhood friend. Having married more for status than love, and quizzically unmoored from .

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United States s greatest authors, critics, and tastemakers, In Partial Disgrace is a sprawling self-contained trilogy chronicling the troubled history of a small Central European nation bearing certa.

Condizione: New. American Odysseys is an anthology of twenty-two writers drawn from the shortlist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. Including work by Dinaw Mengestu, T a Obreht, Yiyun Li, and introduced by poet Charles Simic, this collection is p.

Condizione: New. In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden--but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam s wife Priscila has fal.