Impedimenta
Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788417553685
Basilisk
Dissatisfied with his job as an engineer, the protagonist of "Basilisk" moves to California, where he meets two people who will change his life: Katharina, a young woman who will eventually become his wife, and John Dunbar, a trapper, Civil War veteran, and occasional gunfighter who has been dead fo..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668562
Case Study
London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. Bu..
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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: 9788417553555
The Body (Blinder 2)
"The body" is the central building of the dazzling "Blinder" trilogy. An overwhelming, hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic and intellectually subversive book that marks a before and after in the history of European literature... Bucharest in the mid-sixties. Romania is a gray country dominated by the Party..
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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: 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: 9788418668401
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender―by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic―begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects―a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc...
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788419581587
The Deadly Percheron
When the young millionaire Jacob Blunt shows up at the office of the prestigious Doctor George Matthews, a psychiatrist with a bland and placid life, he will completely change the course of his existence. Suddenly, the respected psychiatrist is swept into a strange, surreal world where nothing is as..
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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: 9788418668234
Encyclopedia of Early Earth
Before our history began, another -- now forgotten -- civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a young man as he pad..
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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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