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Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099540746ISBN 13: 9780099540748
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'As a force for change, its influence has been surpassed only by the Bible. As a piece of writing, it is a masterpiece' 'Guardian' 96 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099540894ISBN 13: 9780099540892
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The classic boy-hero of American literature. Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Missippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped a hanging. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe 'In this book Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger to Pynchon' Guardian 240 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099535831ISBN 13: 9780099535836
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his neighbors and their precocious young daughter, Sal, he discovers the community has fresh wounds of its own. A girl is missing, and when Sal too disappears, suspicion falls on Frank.Decades earlier, Leon tries to hold together his family's cake shop as their suburban life crumbles in the aftermath of the Korean War. When war breaks out again, Leon must go from sculpting sugar figurines to killing young men as a conscript in the Vietnam War. 304 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 009951298XISBN 13: 9780099512981
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him.The figure approaching in the freezing cold is Harriet, the only woman he has ever loved, the woman he abandoned in order to go and study in America forty years earlier. She has sought him out in the hope that he will honour a promise made many years ago. Now in the late stages of a terminal illness, she wants to visit a small lake in northern Sweden, a place Welin's father took him once as a boy. He upholds his pledge and drives her to this beautiful pool hidden deep in the forest. On the journey through the desolate snow-covered landscape, Welin reflects on his impoverished childhood and the woman he later left behind. However, once there Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until last.If you enjoyed Italian Shoes, the new Henning Mankell novel featuring Fredrik Welin, After the Fire, is available now. 368 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099526751ISBN 13: 9780099526759
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi.He ends up in Shingi's Brixton squat where the inhabitants function at various levels of desperation. Shingi struggles to find meaningful work and to meet the demands of his family back home; Tsitsi makes a living renting her baby out to women defrauding the Social Services.As our narrator struggles to make his way in 'Harare North', negotiating life outside the legal economy and battling with the weight of what he has left behind in strife-torn Zimbabwe, every expectation and preconception is turned on its head. This is the story of a stranger in a strange land - one of the thousands of illegal immigrants seeking a better life in England - with a past he is determined to hide. 240 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099540525ISBN 13: 9780099540526
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paperback edition of this second novel from Sadie Jones, following the success of her debut, 'The Outcast', winner of the Costa First Novel award, and shortlisted for the Orange Prize. It is a portrait of a man and his marriage, set during the Cyprus Emergency and explores what happens when everything he believes in, army, country, marriage, begins to crumble. 'Sadie Jones pulls no punches in her description of the savagely unsophisticated island war. An exceptional book that shudders with the weight of human responsibility' 'Good Housekeeping' 480 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0224083341ISBN 13: 9780224083348
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pete Davies is the author of 11 acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. His 1990 classic All Played Out was a bestseller and has been in print ever since. It has recently made into a 90 minute film directed by James Erksine, with the new title One Night in Turin. Pete Davies lives in West Yorkshire.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 1845950674ISBN 13: 9781845950675
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Zeit also für eine große Bilanz dieser folgen- und opferreichsten politischen Ideologie der vergangenen Epoche. Sie wird von einem der weltweit führenden Kommunismus-Experten vorgelegt : Archie Brown, Professor für Politische Wissenschaften an der Oxford University. Souverän schildert er die Entwicklung der kommunistischen Idee vom 1848 veröffentlichten 'Kommunistischen Manifest' über die Gründung kommunistischer Parteien, die Weltkriegsepoche bis hin zur Ost-West-Konfrontation im Kalten Krieg und zum Niedergang des Kommunismus als politischer und ideologischer Faktor der Weltpolitik.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099530376ISBN 13: 9780099530374
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic which he joined to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. After the expedition, Cherry-Garrard served in the First World War and was invalided home. With the zealous encouragement of his neighbour, George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World (1922) in an attempt to overcome the horror of the journey. As the years unravelled he faced a terrible struggle against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 1846554365ISBN 13: 9781846554360
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099541483ISBN 13: 9780099541486
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.