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RANDOM HOUSE, 2004
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2004
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2004
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2006
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2002
This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2004
Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on.....
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2004
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2003
Youth’s narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country.
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PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 2014
Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels.
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AST, 2021
Novaja kniga izvestnogo russkogo pisatelja Jurija Poljakova «Sovdetstvo» — eto unikalnaja vozmozhnost vzgljanut na moskovskuju zhizn dalekogo 1968 goda glazami dvenadtsatiletnego sovetskogo malchika, nabljudatelnogo, nachitannogo, nasmeshlivogo, no iskre
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War, J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald, author of Offshore, in Penguin Modern Classics.
Price: 2 995 Ft
SIGNET, 1987
Generations of readers have traveled to Neverland and all the secret places of a child's heart. A story rich in adventure, humor, and sadness, J.M. Barrie's masterpiece remains a stirring call to flights of imagination.
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LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE, 2018
Siete cuentos morales es un libro urgente; provoca e inquieta como debe hacer la literatura. Nos despierta a nosotros mismos en nuestro hoy, y ofrece un escenario de pensamiento posible para que lo inmoral no nos seduzca y obnubile.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2021
The Death of Jesus is the completion of an incomparable trilogy in which J. M. Coetzee explores the meaning of a world empty of memory but brimming with questions.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2017
Davíd is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends.
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ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2011
Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour's tribe - the Blue Men - are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders.
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ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2017
On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister.
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BISON BOOKS, 2011
Haunting and beautiful, these stories speak to a universal longing for a life beyond the confines and trappings of modern existence. In each tale it is a child who can see and appreciate these places filled with wonder and knowledge.
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POINTS, 2014
J.M.G. Le Clézio, né a Nice en 1940, est l'auteur d'une cinquantaine d'ouvrages – romans, récits, nouvelles et essais. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 2008.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001
Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012
Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
Ray Smith is a coast-to-coast, freight-hopping poet and drifter, at odds with urban life and middle-class existence (‘all that dumb white machinery in the kitchen’).
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2009
From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
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.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
This edition is transcribed from the original manuscript: hundreds of typed pages taped together by Kerouac to form a 'scroll', published word for word as it was originally composed.
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PENGUIN, 2018
Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015
The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012
The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
The town is Galloway in Massachusetts, birthplace of the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family in the early 1900s. The city is New York, the vast and heaving melting pot which lures them all in search of futures and identity.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 1992
Early in the novel, Kerouac attempts to communicate his Buddhist beliefs.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012
The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
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INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED, 2019
The novel's themes include masculinity and male friendship. London discusses various life experiences he has had with alcohol, and at widely different stages in his life.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame.
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PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2018
'The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.'
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SIGNET, 2009
Robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning
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SIGNET, 2010
Timeless tales of wolves, dogs, men, and the Wild, The Call of the Wild and White Fang are two of the world’s greatest adventure stories.
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PENGUIN, 2006
Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe.
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SIGNET, 2013
Also in this volume: “The Law of Life,” “The One Thousand Dozen,” “All Gold Canyon,” and “Moon-Face”.
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BANTAM, 2007
To Build A Fire and Other Stories is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Jack London's short stories available in paperback.
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HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2020
For thirty years, Julien has lived with the question as to why his mother, Helene, suddenly walked out on him and his father - and why his father Henri refused to ever speak of her again.
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EDITIONS STOCK, 2018
Elles sont quarante, enfermées dans une cave, sous la surveillance d'impassibles gardiens qui les nourrissent. La plus jeune - la narratrice - n'a jamais vécu ailleurs.
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VIRAGO PRESS, 2016
Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet-set.
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LIVRE DE POCHE, LE, 2015
David Courty mene une existence discrete et insipide entre sa femme Mira et sa fille Caroline, une adolescente taciturne. La découverte du cadavre de Mira et la disparition de Caroline dans des circonstances troublantes vont changer le cours de sa vie.
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AST, 2018
Deti moi - novyj roman Guzel Jakhinoj, samoj jarkoj debjutantki v istorii rossijskoj literatury novejshego vremeni, laureata premij «Bolshaja kniga» i «Jasnaja Poljana» za bestseller «Zulejkha otkryvaet glaza».
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AST, 2021
Guzel Jakhina – samaja jarkaja debjutantka v istorii rossijskoj literatury novejshego vremeni, laureat premij «Bolshaja kniga» i «Jasnaja Poljana», avtor bestsellerov «Zulejkha otkryvaet glaza» i «Deti moi».
Price: 11 390 Ft
PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2001
When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York.
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HODDER PAPERBACK, 2020
Originally published as A Gift from Bob, this festive standalone special sees the return of James and Bob, stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob, as they spend a cold and challenging December on the streets of London together in a new adventure
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HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2012
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change.
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HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2016
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change.
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SIGNET, 2014
he Last of the Mohicans, one of the world’s great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birth of American culture was intertwined with that of Native Americans.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
The novel is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town on the American frontier.
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PANMACMILLAN, 2013
The first volume of the classic adventures and misadventures involving the young vet, James Herriot, in the Yorkshire Dales from 1937 onwards.
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PAN BOOKS, 2013
The second volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer’s daughter,...
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PAN BOOKS, 2013
The third volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small Training as an RAF pilot in the smoke and bustle of London is a far cry from James Herriot’s day job as a country vet in the Yorkshire Dales.
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PAN BOOKS, 2013
During his decades spent as a country vet in Yorkshire, James Herriot has seen huge advances in medical science, technological leaps, and a world irrevocably changed by war.
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PAN BOOKS, 2010
James Herriot is settling in to the Darrowby practice, but he still has plenty to learn...
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PAN BOOKS, 2006
The Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James.....
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PAN BOOKS, 2006
A few months of married bliss, a lovers' nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War.
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SIGNET, 2006
A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist’s life.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life.
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ALMA BOOKS, 2012
James Joyce’s first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for the understanding of the author’s development as a writer and endures as
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BANTAM, 2005
James Joyce has been hailed as one of the great literary rebels of our time. He rebelled against social and literary conventions, against Catholicism, and against Dublin, the city at the center of this magnificent collection of stories.
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EVERYMAN, 1991
James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Published in 1939, 'Finnegans Wake' is Joyce's final masterpiece. Seventeen years in the writing, it represents the culmination of his experiments with literary form and language.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
A modernist classic, 'Ulysses' is without doubt one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century. Loosely modelled on the wanderings of Homer's Ulysses as he journeyed toward wife, son and home in Ithaca, the novel follows the interwoven paths of..
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2022
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition.
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ALMA BOOKS, 2022
Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921,
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ORION PUBLISHING GROUP, 2008
Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter.
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ORION BOOKS, 2005
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution; a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2022
22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life.
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PIRATFÖRLAGET, 2013
I Jan Guillous Ondskan beskrivs valdet i den svenska vardagen. Vi far följa huvudpersonen Eriks fostran i ondska fran hemmet med den sadistiske fadern till skolgarden med dess gängbildningar.
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M. EVANS & COMPANY, 2002
Shortly before she died, Jane Austen started working on a new novel, but did not live to finish it.
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FOLIO, 2023
Une veuve spirituelle et jolie, mais sans un sou, trouve refuge chez son beau-frere, un riche banquier. Est-elle sans scrupules, prete a tout pour faire un beau mariage, ou juste une coquette qui veut s'amuser ?
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COLLINS, 2020
This edition of Persuasion provides depth and context for A Level students, with the complete novel in an easy to read format, and a detailed introduction and bespoke glossary written by an experienced A Level teacher with academic expertise in the area.
Price: 1 625 Ft
PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2019
Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement.
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POCKET, 2017
Pour la premiere fois, alors qu'elle s'y était toujours refusée, Janine Boissard raconte sa vie de femme, d'épouse et de mere.
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DTV, 2012
Was im Leben wichtig ist
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PENGUIN, 2005
The inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Jaroslav Hašek's black satire The Good Soldier Švejk is translated with an introduction by Cecil Parrott in Penguin Classics.
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BABEL, 2016
Adria grandit a Barcelone dans les années 1950, entre un pere qui veut faire de lui un humaniste polyglotte et une mere qui le destine a une carriere de violoniste virtuose.
Price: 6 295 Ft
DESTINO, EDICIONES, 2021
Ismael ha tenido una infancia difícil, pero ha conseguido estudiar y se gana la vida como profesor de Lengua y Literatura.
Price: 13 200 Ft
DESTINO, EDICIONES, 2014
Viaje de invierno es un homenaje literario a Schubert, a Bach y a la música y, al mismo tiempo, una celebración de la pintura, simbolizada por Rembrandt.
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BOOKET, 2013
La infancia y la adolescencia de Adria, llena de preguntas sin respuesta está dedicada al estudio de la historia y de las lenguas, y a la práctica del violín.
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DEBOLSILLO, 2021
Un día cualquiera, «un día estúpido», condicionará el resto de su existencia. Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera.
Price: 7 095 Ft
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