Fiction
Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417954659
With Lead in the Wings
With Lead in the Wings recreates one of the greatest love stories of the Civil War: the one led by the American pilot Harold E. Dahl, who was hired as a mercenary by the Republic, and vaudeville singer Edith Rogers, with whom he had just married weeks before arriving in Spain. / Con plomo en las al..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441413078
Couplets
This novel tells the story of the common proletariat who protested against the czar and the capitalists which eventually led to the October Revolution. Pelageya is the wife of a factory worker who ignores the political upheaval in her country in favor of caring for her personal life. She represents ..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788492915859
Copygirl
So. You want to work in advertising. The glitz, the glamour, the cocktail-fueled brainstorming sessions and Xbox breaks. Sounds like a dream job, right? Wrong. The reality can be a nightmare. There are five simple rules for succeeding in the ad world, and I think I’ve already broken every single one..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433998071
Hearts in the Darkness
Nora goes out to dinner with some friends. After some drinks a man tries to seduce her; she refuses but is sexually assaulted. In the struggle, he hits his head and she escapes. Her sister Susan takes cares of their dying mother. From letters and photographs that Susan finds, readers get to know the..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433975409
Running
In 1946 during the Inter-Alliance Games of Berlin, the World laughed when they saw the clumsy looking man on the poster for Czechoslovakia. But as he accelerated during the 5000 metre race and crossed the finish line alone, the spectators exploded into cheers. Émil Zapotek seemed invincible after tw..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433902597
Running
During the Inter-Alliance Games of Berlin, the World laughed when they saw Émil Zapotek. But after two Olympic Games he seemed invincible, not even the Czechoslovakian regime could stop him. Émil runs against decadence, and he smiles, even in the Uranium mines where he was banished to for supporting..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433978455
Transparent Things
This is Nabokov's penultimate novel, a literary tour de force whose protagonist is Hugh Person, a young North American editor who goes on various trips to Switzerland over the years. It was here that his father travelled to for the last time in his life and where Hugh should meet a distinguished wri..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433980335
Cox or the Passing of Time
In the mid-eighteenth century, Alister Cox, the most prestigious watchmaker in Europe, arrives on the shores of China invited by the all-powerful Emperor Quiánlóng, who wants to make him some very special watches. As the artisan shapes his precise machinery, he begins to realize that he is like a pr..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433902641
Crematory
The death of Matthias Bertomeu launches the mechanisms that make up this book and shows lives that rose on dark ground. Chirbes offers a stunning panorama: family as property values, real estate speculation, dark business, drugs, sex as currency, corruption that runs through the body of a troubled s..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433980694
Manservant and Maidservant
At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. Is..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433920324
A Suspension of Mercy
Sidney and Alicia have been married for several years. The relationship with his wife is beginning to erode, so Alicia decides to take a long vacation in Brighton. Meanwhile, Sidney starts plotting schemes and thinks about what would happen if he would have to kill Alicia. As he imagines these horri..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433920119
Motel Chronicles
Highways, cars, loneliness and adventure soak these Motel Chronicles, a book of “broken histories”, autobiographical fragments, stories and poems that are all gifted with a fast paced and concise writing style. / Las carreteras, los coches, la soledad y la aventura empapan estas Crónicas de motel, ..
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