Anagrama
Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433979551
The Noise of Time
In 1936, Shostakovich, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia, Shostakovich reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, and his childr..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433977939
Loving Sabotage
So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking for three years in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her world of the concrete ghetto o..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433998583
The Secret Festivities
Daniel is a Martian who doesn’t fit into the world. Or is it the world that is weird? This is a novel, and as in any training novel, there is a search; in this case it is not the Holy Grail, because what Daniel is looking for is nothing less than the Secret of Festivities. / «Soy un raro de concurs..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433981097
Mr Wilder and Me
In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433998651
The Touch System
Ania returns to Argentina on behalf of her family for the farewell of her uncle Agustín. To do so, she will embark on a journey of fifteen hundred kilometers, which is also a flight from the present towards the diffuse borders of memory. / Ania regresa a Argentina en representación de su familia pa..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433977946
The Tremor of Forgery
The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Patricia Highsmith's finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set in America. / Howard Ingham llega a Túnez con la intenci..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433979902
The Trick
In 1934, a rabbi’s son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp. /..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433901774
The Last Day of the Previous Life
A real estate agent is preparing an empty house for buyers to visit when she finds herself in the kitchen with a seven-year-old boy who doesn't blink an eye. The apparition will be repeated, and the woman will leave her everyday world behind. What is on the other side is suspended time, a loop, and ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433911148
Elizabeth Finch
Neil, the narrator, is a middle-aged man who hasn't been doing too well either personally or professionally. If there is something that he remembers with enthusiasm, it is the Culture and Civilization classes that he received from an exceptional teacher: Elizabeth Finch. Intelligent and unattainable..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433964588
In Praise of Walking
Neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits that walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. Walking is good for our muscles and posture; it helps to protect and repair organs, and can slow or turn back the aging of ou..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433977090
Emmaus
The Saint, Luca, Bobby and the narrator are four teenagers living in an indeterminate space and time, but who vaguely belong in a city in the North of Italy in the seventies. They belong to the middle class and are profoundly catholic. The appearance of Andre, a girl from a very different world (upp..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433980311
In Camping-Car
This is a book about a French family in the eighties, vacationing in a motorhome through Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Morocco... A personal story about the author in his youth. It’s about his childhood as a lost paradise; a tribute from Ivan Jablonka to his parents and the relationship between ge..
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