Fiction
Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433979407
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
This is a striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, it brings an unflinching gaze to the violence and hope it depicts / Una extraordinaria y cautivadora historia de..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433979254
How to Build a Girl
Life sucks for the protagonist of this novel, an overweight teenage girl who touches herself quietly at night so as to not wake her brother; she belong to a big and poor family with a father who is a drunk and a depressed mother.To top it all off, she embarasses herself badly on local TV while readi..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433967770
How to Be Good
Katie Carr is a mother to two sons, practices medicine and she would like to think that she is a good person because she helps others. On a trip to Leeds, she has an affair with a man younger than her and from that moment onwards her life transforms into a sea of doubt. The thing is, her cynical hus..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433980540
How to Be Famous
Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she's nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking. For anyone who has admired fame or judged it, How to Be Famous is a hilarious tale of fame..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418538278
Like a Sigh
Two sisters. A secret. A lifetime of longings. Giovanna and Sergio have guests today. Like every Sunday, his friends come to eat and enjoy a pleasant after-dinner. But today will be different. As the entrees are about to be served, a knock on the door interrupts their Sunday routine. On the threshol..
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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: 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: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417954369
Believe in the wonderful
César wants to die. But a young woman knocks on his door and upsets his plans. This is the story of a man saved by his childhood and the power of myths. A man who will understand that perhaps it is time to become a father and to transmit what he has loved the most. / César decide morir. Pero una mu..
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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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