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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001
In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses "camera eye" and "newsreel" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, fictional and historical figures, he builds up a composite picture of American society.
Price: 8 250 Ft
CANONGATE, 2001
John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to start writing. In a life that spanned 74 years, Fante wrote several great novels, such as Ask the Dust.
Price: 3 475 Ft
CANONGATE, 2005
The Brotherhood of the Grape is vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion.
Price: 4 290 Ft
CANONGATE, 2004
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy.
Price: 6 550 Ft
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CANONGATE, 2018
For Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression, the winter proves harsh.
Price: 3 850 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2004
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda.
Price: 4 290 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2004
Charles Smithson,a respectable engaged man,meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis,staring out to sea.Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman,and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.
Price: 4 295 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved "Forsyte Saga" traces the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster.
Price: 5 050 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.
Price: 5 050 Ft
MANPOCKET, 2014
Hazel är 17 ar och kommer aldrig att bli frisk igen. Det har hon vetat sedan dagen da hon fick sin cancerdiagnos för tre ar sedan.
Price: 3 950 Ft
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DELL BOOKS, 2008
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game.
Price: 2 050 Ft
DEBOLSILLO, 2023
Imaginad un ano sin Navidad. Sin centros comerciales abarrotados. Sin cenas de empresa. Sin pasteles de frutas. Sin regalos ridículos.
Price: 8 395 Ft
FISCHER TASCHENBUCH, 2020
Das Buch der Stunde, das uns Hoffnung macht.
Price: 7 575 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 1990
If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
Price: 3 850 Ft
SCRIBNER, 2023
In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships.
Price: 5 895 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy.
Price: 3 750 Ft
FABER & FABER, 2015
The residents of Pepsy Road, London-a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder:
Price: 3 475 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 1998
A successful and self-contained novelist, Felix Morsom suddenly gets thrust into the underworld of London's homeless, when a strange woman proclaims him the father of her son and he becomes a prime suspect in a murder case.
Price: 2 390 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.
Price: 4 875 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
Dramatic and intense, John Steinbeck's experimental play-novelette tells a tale that could happen anywhere and at any time, exploring as it does elemental human needs and passions.
Price: 5 275 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
In the chaos of Cannery Row a collection of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists - live side-by-side.
Price: 3 750 Ft
DTV, 2020
Steinbecks eindrucksvoller Reisebericht in einer neuen Übersetzung.
Price: 5 950 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
An epic allegorical novel chronicling the fortunes of two families as they try to escape the sins of their forbears, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Steinbeck's East of Eden is introduced by David Wyatt.
Price: 3 750 Ft
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001
This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of East of Eden, his longest and most ambitious novel.
Price: 4 675 Ft
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch.
Price: 3 375 Ft
PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2023
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own.
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2024
A special student edition of the iconic American author's most enduring novel, with an introduction and study notes.
Price: 3 375 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is the day after Lousy Wednesday, one of those days which is just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny and clear, a day when anything can happen...
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all.
Price: 5 625 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French.
Price: 6 995 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
The Wayward Bus travelled the backroads through the lush California countryside.
Price: 3 390 Ft
PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2001
Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned.
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel.
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land.
Price: 3 750 Ft
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DTV, 2007
Ein kleines Café mitten im Nirgendwo wird zum Wendepunkt im Leben von John, einem Werbemanager, der stets in Eile ist.
Price: 6 290 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Banished to a desert retreat for errant clerics, the Reverend but randy Thomas Marshfield types out his life history and his yearning for the retreat's manager, the mysterious Ms Prynne.
Price: 2 275 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 1999
Bech is one of the most entertaining comic creations in recent modern fiction' Financial Times
Price: 3 525 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach; their flight into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west.
Price: 4 875 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
It’s 1989, and Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail.
Price: 4 375 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's ok, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age.
Price: 3 450 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
It’s 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise.
Price: 2 725 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
It's 1959 and Harry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere.
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues – the threat of Islamist terror from within.
Price: 3 375 Ft
BALLANTINE BOOKS, 2009
After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, “the scene of their primes,” site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago.
Price: 1 450 Ft
BALLANTINE BOOKS, 2008
In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches.
Price: 4 950 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2003
After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome.
Price: 3 950 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2013
Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.
Price: 4 290 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2018
John Williams’s first novel is a brooding psychological noir.
Price: 3 850 Ft
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DTV, 2014
Stoner‹ ist einer der großen vergessenen Romane der amerikanischen Literatur.
Price: 4 995 Ft
LABUTXACA, 2018
Amb Stoner, John Williams aconsegueix condensar tota una vida en una novel·la. Una obra mestra que, en paraules del narrador, recrea com "a algú se li va concedir la saviesa i al cap dels anys va trobar la ignorancia".
Price: 4 525 Ft
FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS, 2021
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city.
Price: 5 550 Ft
LA NAVE DI TESEO EDITORE S.R.L., 2021
Cosa ci rende quello che siamo? Perché conduciamo la nostra vita e non un’altra? Un nuovo anno sta per concludersi e Asle, un anziano pittore rimasto vedovo, ripensa alla sua storia.
Price: 14 850 Ft
MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2019
A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.
Price: 6 125 Ft
FOLIO, 2023
Dans les deux volumes de ce dyptique romanesque contemporain, Jón Kalman Stefánsson entremele les destins singuliers des membres d'une famille et des habitants d'une petite île islandaise.
Price: 15 225 Ft
MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2018
Ari - a writer and publisher - lands back in Keflavik from Copenhagen. His father is dying, and he is flooded by memories of his youth in the '70s and '80s, listening to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, raiding American supply lorries and discovering girls.
Price: 5 550 Ft
MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2011
In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Bar?ur join a boat to fish for cod.
Price: 5 550 Ft
SALAMANDRA, EDICIONES, 2022
Considerada la obra más emblemática del autor de la «Trilogía del muchacho».
Price: 12 975 Ft
MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2016
After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world.
Price: 5 550 Ft
MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2015
It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bár?ur. Three weeks, but already Bár?ur's ghost has faded.
Price: 5 550 Ft
MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2024
A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most celebrated novelists.
Price: 11 150 Ft
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PICADOR, 2018
In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, determined to live a life of independence.
Price: 4 725 Ft
PICADOR, 2024
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.
Price: 4 725 Ft
ANCHOR BOOKS, 2004
Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God.
Price: 5 850 Ft
BLOOMSBURY, 2011
On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too.
Price: 3 125 Ft
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PIRATFÖRLAGET, 2021
Victor Svensson har stora planer för Alderheims konsthandel, vägen till makt och inflytande gar via konsthandlarens dotter Jenny - en försynt, ung kvinna som älskar expressionismen mer än nagot annat.
Price: 3 375 Ft
HOGARTH, 2015
The Authority looks favourably upon meticulousness, efficiency and ambition. Bjorn has all of this in spades, but it's only in the Room that he can really shine.
Price: 5 150 Ft
ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2012
Patty und Walter Berglund – Vorzeigeeltern und Umweltpioniere – geben ihren Nachbarn plötzlich Rätsel auf: Ihr halbwüchsiger Sohn zieht zur proletenhaften Familie nebenan.
Price: 5 025 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2007
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of ‘The Corrections’.
Price: 4 825 Ft
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FOURTH ESTATE, 2016
Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with student debt and a reclusive mother, but there are few clues as to who her father is or how she’ll ever have a normal life.
Price: 4 825 Ft
HARPER PERENNIAL, 2007
Strong Motion’ is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’.
Price: 5 295 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2010
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age.
Price: 3 850 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2006
Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of ‘Freedom’ and the highly acclaimed ‘The Corrections’, arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri.
Price: 3 850 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2019
In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes – both human and literary – that have long preoccupied him.
Price: 4 825 Ft
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FOURTH ESTATE, 2007
The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, ‘The Corrections’.
Price: 6 250 Ft
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UITGEVERIJ PROMETHEUS, 2012
Na 26 jaar bezint Patty Berglund zich op haar huwelijk. Haar man Walter is niet meer de sympathieke idealist voor wie ze jaren geleden als een blok viel. Hij heeft zich ontpopt als een ambitieuze, rusteloze ondernemer.
Price: 8 675 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?
Price: 3 750 Ft
NORSTEDTS, 2017
Oskar Schell, 9 ar, är uppfinnare, frankofil, origamist, datakonsult, smyckesdesigner och amatörarkeolog. Dessutom spelar han väldigt gärna tamburin och korresponderar med Stephen Hawking och Ringo Starr.
Price: 2 995 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017
Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .
Price: 2 990 Ft
SIGNET, 2008
Set sail on an incredible journey with Jonathan Swift's satiric masterpiece.
Price: 1 150 Ft
INSEL VERLAG, 2016
Dieses Buch (…) wurde leider alsbald, verstümmelt und verkürzt, zur Kinder- und Jugendlektüre verniedlicht.
Price: 5 495 Ft
ALMA BOOKS, 2023
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians.
Price: 3 750 Ft
GOLDMANN,WILHELM VERLAG, 2014
In den 1990er Jahren war Jordan Belfort die Ikone der Wall Street. Er war ein knallharter Börsenhai, eiskalter Betrüger und feierwütiger Junkie. Mit 26 war er bereits Multimillionär.
Price: 6 350 Ft
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FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2016
Komm, ich erzähl dir eine Geschichte ist ein Buch aus Büchern. Griechische Sagen spielen darin eine Rolle, Sufi-Gleichnisse, japanische Parabeln, Lehren des Zen-Buddhismus, Geschichten aus Tibet, Argentinien, Frankreich, Russland oder Afrika, genauso wie
Price: 6 575 Ft
PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2023
Magical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of the most uniquely inventive short story writers of the twentieth century.
Price: 3 750 Ft
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SHURKAMP TASCHENBUCH, 2012
Price: 6 950 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2005
Price: 3 475 Ft
EDIZIONI ANFORA, 2010
Price: 7 375 Ft
DOM QUIXOTE, 2006
Price: 9 500 Ft
VIVIANE HAMY, 2005
Price: 8 295 Ft
AMFORA, 2005
Price: 8 550 Ft
EINAUDI, 2009
