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Ficciones / English fiction books (52)

Ficciones / English fiction books
  • THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
    HUGO, EVELYN
    From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. ...
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    15,90 €

  • A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    BERLIN, LUCIA
    One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection,...
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    20,90 €

  • ALL YOUR PERFECTS
    HOOVER, COLLEEN
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us—whose writing is “emotionally wrenching and utterly original” (Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)—delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it.Quinn and Graham’s ...
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  • DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    JENKINS REID, TAYLOR
    Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity... until now.Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she lo...
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    16,90 €

  • ON THE ROAD (CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS)
    KEROUAC, JACK
    On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberan...
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    28,90 €

  • BETTY (ENG)
    MCDANIEL, TIFFANY
    A COMING-OF-AGE STORY FILLED WITH MAGIC IN LANGUAGE AND PLOT: BEAUTIFUL AND DEVASTATING'OBSERVER, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'I FELT CONSUMED BY THIS BOOK. I LOVED IT, YOU WILL LOVE IT'DAISY JOHNSON, AUTHOR OF SISTERS'A PAGE-TURNING APPALACHIAN COMING-OF-AGE STORY ...
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    21,90 €

  • MRS DALLOWAY (PENGUIN CLOTHBOUND CLASSICS)
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in w...
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    23,90 €

  • BARK
    MOORE, LORRIE
    In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fundraising dinner in Georgetown. In...
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    19,90 €

  • THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
    HAWKINS, PAULA
    THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLER***Includes a preview of Paula's scorching new thriller, A Slow Fire Burning ***'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read.' SJ Watson, bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEPRachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's ...
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    16,90 €

  • PURPLE HIBISCUS
    NGOZI ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
    The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer. When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt.In this house, noisy a...
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    15,90 €

  • THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SPANISH SHORT STORIES
    JULL COSTA , MARGARET
    This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well a...
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    21,90 €

  • NIGHTS OF PLAGUE
    PAMUK, ORHAN
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    23,90 €

  • YEAR OF THE MONKEY
    SMITH, PATTI
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Riveting, elegant, humorous—this "picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones” (The New York Times) is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids.Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary...
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    26,90 €

  • NEVER
    FOLLET, KEN
    The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it's an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day.In the Sahara Desert, two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists, risking their lives--and, when they fall desperately in love, their careers--at every turn. Nearby, a beautiful ...
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  • VIOLETA (ENG)
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will...
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    20,90 €

  • TRESPASSES
    KENNEDY, LOUISE
    'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBYOne by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark stre...
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  • THE BODY
    KING, STEPHEN
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me—is now available as a stand-alone publication.It’s 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-ol...
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  • I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME
    MOORE, LORRIE
    From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen and unseen.“Is it an allegory? Is it real? It doesn’t matter...[It’s] a novel with big questions, no answers...
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  • STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
    HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAINThe psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. 'Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped i...
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    19,90 €

  • THE WAVES
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of thei...
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    16,90 €

  • TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
    ZEVIN, GABRIELLE
    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before. ...
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  • GRAND HOTEL EUROPA
    LEONARD PFEIJFFER, ILJA
    Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.‘A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy the ages’ Trouw (The Netherlands)‘The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the alliteration, a terrible sentence to write. I do not want to come to the conclusion that, as it is the case f...
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    23,90 €

  • TOMORROW, TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
    ZEVIN, GABRIELLE
    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before."Delightful and absorbing." —The New York ...
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    25,90 €

  • THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES VOL. 1
    DAHL, ROALD
    "The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes.They are brutal. these stories. and yet you finish reading each one with a smile. Or maybe even a hollow laugh. Certainly a shiver of gratification. Because the conclusion always seems so right."Charlie Higson. Roald Dahl is one of the most popular writers of the modern age. effortless...
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  • SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL - WOMEN AND LITERATURE
    HARDWICK, ELIZABETH
    'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan SontagSidelined. Shortchanged. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick considers women in literature.She imagines the lives of the Brontes, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Dorothy Wordsworth, Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the stories of fictional heroines from Richardson's Clarissa to Ibsen's Nora...
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  • THE INSEPARABLES
    BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE
    The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But as the girls grow into young women...
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  • EVENING IN PARADISE
    BERLIN, LUCIA
    The publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin’s dazzling collection of short stories, marked the rediscovery of a writer whose talent had gone unremarked by many. The incredible reaction to Lucia’s writing – her ability to capture the beauty and ugliness that coexist in everyday lives, the extraordinary honesty and magnetism with which she draws on her own histor...
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  • OVER TO YOU
    DAHL, ROALD
    A collection of ten stories of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; of the infectious madness of conflict; and of the nervy jollity of the mess and OPS room. ...
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    15,90 €

  • WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
    OWENS, DELIA
    OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDESOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Painfully beautiful' New York Times'Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving' Daily Mail'A rare achievement' The Times'I can't even express how much I love this book!' Reese Witherspoon-------------------------------------------------For years, rumours of the 'M...
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    16,90 €

  • BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LAST INTERVIEW
    HOLIDAY, BILLIE
    The first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but groundbreaking singer Billie Holiday, part of Melville House’s beloved Last Interview series Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive in this first-ever collection of interviews from throughout her career. Included is her last interview, given from her deathbed in a New York City hospital, where police were standi...
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