Impedimenta
Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668838
The Gospel According to the New World
One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: “A miracle!” Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will c..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788417553913
The Group
An exceptional novel, a modern classic of extreme elegance and frankness and one of the most brilliant x-rays of the United States in which women began to speak in the first person. "The Group" is considered the best-known —and controversial— work of the North American Mary McCarthy. Endowed with a..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788419581211
The Promised City
Oscillating between disappointment and insecurity, between disenchantment and despair, Ileana struggles to hold on to the idea of seeing her seriously ill mother again, who has left her in the care of her aunts. But her fear grips her, her dreams return pieces of a lost past, and her reflection has ..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668418
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators a..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788419581358
The Memory of Animals
The acclaimed author of Unstable Earth delivers a disturbing and emotional novel about freedom, vulnerability, and sacrifice. Amid a pandemic, Neffy, a biologist scarred by career failures, joins vaccine trials. After a virus mutation, she ends up in a nearly empty hospital with no connection to the..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668326
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scor..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788417553418
What is Africa to Me?
Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788419581235
The Accident on the A35
An unexpected event tarnishes the routine of Saint-Louis: an influential lawyer in the city has died in an accident on the A-35. Inspector Gorski, in charge of the investigation, will have to deal not only with his Strasbourg counterpart, but also with a young amateur willing to compete with him: Ra..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668364
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the f..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788419581143
Child of Fortune
Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes from ella, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment from ella. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daugh..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788419581174
Siberian Haiku
June 1941. A quiet village in Central Lithuania awakes to the arrival of the Soviet Army. Young Algiukas...s family is given barely ten minutes to pack before being herded onto a crowded freight train bound for the snowy plains of Siberia. Leaving behind the fertile agricultural lands of rural villa..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668647
Young heroes of the Soviet Union
Alex Halberstadt’s quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather—most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits L..
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