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  • IN DIAMOND SQUARE
    IN DIAMOND SQUARE
    MERCÈ RODOREDA
    Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birds delight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then the Spanish Civi...
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    12,50 €

  • THE BELL JAR
    THE BELL JAR
    SYLVIA PLATH
    I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a ...
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    12,50 €

  • FINNEGANS WAKE
    FINNEGANS WAKE
    JAMES JOYCE
    Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowed styles, like Ulysses, but, rather, formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. This 'language' is based on English vocabulary and synt...
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    4,95 €

  • THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
    THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
    JOHN BOYNE
    Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war. 'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-W...
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    9,99 €

  • A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
    A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
    JOAN DIDION
    An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming novel of innocence and evil. Set in the ruined Central American nation of Boca...
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    11,25 €

  • THE CAMPUS TRILOGY
    THE CAMPUS TRILOGY
    DAVID LODGE
    'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' Time Out The plot lines of The Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures of academics who move outside familiar territory. Beginning in the late 60s Changing Places follows the undistinguished English lecturer Philip Swallow and hotshot American pr...
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    21,25 €

  • FOR ESMÉ - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR
    FOR ESMÉ - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR
    J. D. SALINGER
    A collection of stories of loss and unsuppressed rage - in which the children are fragile, odd, and hyper-smart and the adults beaten down by circumstances. In "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her that these creatures have a tragic flaw; if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE AFRICAN TRILOGY
    THE AFRICAN TRILOGY
    CHINUA ACHEBE
    Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking Things Fall Apart, Everyman republish Achebe's first and most famous novel alongside No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God, under the collect...
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    25,00 €

  • THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS
    THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS
    ITALO CALVINO
    Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Naturally, we were all there, - dld Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that...
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    12,50 €

  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    MARGARET ATWOOD
    ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she ...
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    12,50 €

  • FRANNY AND ZOOEY
    FRANNY AND ZOOEY
    JEROME D. SALINGER
    De lotgevallen van een broer en zuster, beiden zoekend naar een innerlijk evenwicht. ...
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    11,25 €

  • THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
    THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
    JEROME DAVID SALINGER
    The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves- the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his r...
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    12,50 €

  • COLD MOUNTAIN
    COLD MOUNTAIN
    CHARLES FRAZIER
    Inman is a wounded soldier who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his pre-war sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to survive her father's death and the loss of his income by reviving the family farm in the Cold Mountain community where she is an outsider. Based on...
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    12,50 €

  • HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
    HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    This novel is set in Nigeria in the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died, and thousands were massacred in cold blood.The three main characters in the novel get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman,...
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    12,50 €

  • THE BELL JAR
    THE BELL JAR
    SYLVIA PLATH
    Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witt...
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    11,25 €

  • THE SECRET HISTORY
    THE SECRET HISTORY
    DONNA TARTT
    A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsUnder ...
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    15,00 €

  • THE INVENTION OF MOREL
    THE INVENTION OF MOREL
    ADOLFO BIOY CASARES
    Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fasc...
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    11,25 €

  • BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS
    BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS
    SIJIE DAI
    1971: Mao's cultural Revolution is at its peak. Two sons of doctors, sent to 're-education' camps, forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths, have only their sense of humour to keep them going. Although the attractive daughter of the local tailor also helps to distract them from the task at hand. The boys' true re-education starts, however, when they disc...
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    12,50 €

  • GIOVANNI'S ROOM
    GIOVANNI'S ROOM
    JAMES BALDWIN
    One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three mon...
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    12,50 €

  • TAI-PAN
    TAI-PAN
    JAMES CLAVELL
    Set in the days of the founding of Hong Kong, this work presents the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the trading company in the Far East, who is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. It presents the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient. ...
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    16,25 €

  • THE PILGRIMAGE
    THE PILGRIMAGE
    PAULO COELHO
    On a legendary road across Spain, travelled by pilgrims of San Tiago, we find Paulo Coelho on a contemporary quest for ancient wisdom. This journey becomes a truly initiatory experience, and Paulo Coelho is transformed forever as he learns to understand the nature of truth through the simplicity of life. 'The Pilgrimage' has a very important place in the work of Paulo Coelho, n...
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    12,50 €

  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    MARGARET ATWOOD
    The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's n ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE TRIAL OF GOD
    THE TRIAL OF GOD
    ELIE WIESEL
    The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)A Play by Elie WieselTranslated by Marion WieselIntroduction by Robert McAfee BrownAfterword by Matthew Fox Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination. Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place...
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    18,75 €

  • POSSESSION
    POSSESSION
    A. S. BYATT
    Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.WINNER OF THE BOOKER PR...
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    13,75 €

  • NINE STORIES
    NINE STORIES
    J.D. SALINGER
    The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger's fictional Glass family.Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urb...
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    12,50 €

  • ONE HUNDRED FLOWERS
    ONE HUNDRED FLOWERS
    GENKI KAWAMURA
    Yuriko leads a quiet, orderly life as a piano teacher. It's New Year's Eve and her grown-up son Izumi comes to visit. Together, they look like a normal family. But Yuriko has a secret. Many years earlier, when Izumi was a boy, Yuriko suddenly disappeared for an entire year. She returned, but the lost year was never discussed ...
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    13,75 €

  • WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
    WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
    DELIA OWENS
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    12,50 €

  • THE COVENANT OF WATER
    THE COVENANT OF WATER
    ABRAHAM VERGHESE
    "Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the fir...
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    24,95 €

  • FOR ESME - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR : AND OTHER STORIES
    FOR ESME - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR : AND OTHER STORIES
    J. D. SALINGER
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    8,75 €

  • CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS : SOON TO BE A BBC THREE DRAMA
    CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS : SOON TO BE A BBC THREE DRAMA
    SALLY ROONEY
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    12,50 €