Gifts for the One Who Comes After
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Ghost thumbs. Microscopic dogs. One very sad can of tomato soup . . . Helen Marshall s second collection offers a series of twisted surrealities that explore the legacies we pass on to our children. A son seeks to reconnect with his father through a telescope that sees into the past. A young girl (...)
Contos do camiño e da rúa
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"Relatos magníficos que toman como unidade temática a oposición entre a vida da aldea e a vida da vila. Estes contos, publicados en 1932, destacan pola capacidade do autor para combinar de maneira maxistral a imaxinación creadora cunha técnica case cinematográfica para recrear ambientes, poñendo (...)
La Mano de Michael
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¿Te imaginas pasar unos días junto a Michael Jackson? Rafaela, valiéndose de sus amplios conocimientos sobre el mejor músico y bailarín del siglo XX-XXI y de una prolífi ca imaginación, lo ha conseguido ambientándolo en un lugar etéreo. Siguiendo el hilo de su biografía, da un repaso a los (...)
A Fine Balance
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'Set in the mid-1970s in India, A Fine Balance tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become (...)
The Unconsoled
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'Almost certainly a masterpiece.' Anita BrooknerRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - (...)
The Hell of it All
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'He fixed his gaze on her and said, "Are you scamming me?"
Tales from Firozsha Baag
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'In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry reveals the rich, complex patterns of life inside a Bombay apartment building. The occupants from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najami, the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi, the boy (...)
Family Matters
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'Nariman Vakeel is a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past. He lives with his two middle-aged step-children. When Nariman's illness is compunded by a broken ankle, he's forced to take up residence with his daughter Roxana, her husband (...)
Serious Concerns
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'The D-day landings the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing on an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even (...)
Creatures of the Earth
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'John McGahern is considered by many to be the most important Irish prose writer of the last fifty years. McGahern s short stories equal his finest novels, reflecting both the richness of the ordinary, and the extraordinary, in the lives of a variety of individuals: the jilted lover waiting with (...)