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EINAUDI, 2014
Se tu te ne sei scordato, egregio signore, te lo ricordo io: sono tua moglie. Si apre cosi la lettera che Vanda scrive al marito che se n'e andato di casa, lasciandola in preda a una tempesta di rabbia impotente e domande che non trovano risposta.
Price: 5 895 Ft
KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH, 2012
Eric Packer, 28 Jahre alt, ist ein reicher, gewissenloser Börsenspekulant. Unterwegs in seiner Stretchlimousine zu einem Friseurtermin, führt ihn sein Weg über die 47. Straße quer durch Manhattan.
Price: 3 675 Ft
PICADOR, 2011
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn’t know what he wanted. Then he knew.
Price: 3 850 Ft
PICADOR, 2008
Falling Man begins on September 11, in the smoke and ash of the burning towers. In the days and the years following, we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals.
Price: 3 850 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis.
Price: 3 950 Ft
PICADOR, 2011
The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast.
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PICADOR, 2022
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us?
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EINAUDI, 2019
Ci sono romanzi che toccano corde cosi profonde, originarie, che sembrano chiamarci per nome.
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BLOOMSBURY, 2010
Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything.
Price: 5 295 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 1993
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
Price: 3 850 Ft
ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1992
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries.
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ROWOHLT, 2017
Viktor ist ein Mann mit durchschnittlichen Problemen: Er wird demnächst fünfzig, er hat hohen Blutdruck, fünf Kinder, zwei Exfrauen und eine Lebensgefährtin, die nicht immer so glücklich wie er selbst damit ist, dass er gerade Festival-Intendant wurde.
Price: 6 825 Ft
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FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2007
Das goldene Notizbuch, längst ein klassisches Dokument in der Geschichte der Befreiung der Frau.
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FOURTH ESTATE, 2013
The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.
Price: 4 350 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2013
Set in Rhodesia, ‘The Grass is Singing’ tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm.
Price: 4 350 Ft
PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2022
Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of the decadent 1920s, notorious as a hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for endlessly quotable one-liners.
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN VERLAG, 2021
Was bleibt von uns, wenn alles, was wir kannten, untergeht?
Price: 7 575 Ft
SIGNET, 2004
A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.
Price: 1 150 Ft
PICADOR, 2021
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things.
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DEBOLSILLO, 2016
Una novela emblemática, basada en testimonios reales, sobre el valor y la dignidad de las mujeres en los tiempos más difíciles de nuestra historia reciente.
Price: 6 450 Ft
ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS, 2017
Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory.
Price: 4 290 Ft
ACT, 2016
«Dnevnik Domovogo» bukvalno vzorval Set. Ezhednevnye prikljuchenija grubovatogo, no ocharovatelnogo strashilki v kompanii s kotom i schenkom zatronuli serdtsa bolee 2 000 000 chitatelej Runeta.
Price: 7 975 Ft
RANDOM HOUSE, 2010
To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures...
Price: 2 875 Ft
RANDOM HOUSE, 2010
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers - the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, ...
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2010
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, ...
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PENGUIN, 2006
Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel includes a new introduction by Jonathan Freedland in Penguin Modern Classics.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance.
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EVERYMAN, 1992
The story of a house and two sisters, Howards End is also a subtle meditation on national, sexual and social identities.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012
Frequently cited as E. M. Forster's finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the English character.
Price: 2 425 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical.
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PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2012
E. M. Forster's first novel is a witty comedy of manners that is tinged with tragedy.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2007
One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.
Price: 2 325 Ft
RANDOM HOUSE, 2007
The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2005
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society.
Price: 3 750 Ft
SIGNET, 2009
Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of this probing portrait of the English character. And in this story of extreme contrasts—in values, social class, and cultural perspectives—an unconventional romantic relationship leads to conventional happiness in
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BALLANTINE BOOKS, 1984
Tarzan had renounced his right to the woman he loved, and civilization held no pleasure for him. After a brief and harrowing period among men, he turned back to the African jungle where he had grown to manhood.
Price: 1 430 Ft
PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2023
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
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IMPEDIMENTA, 2016
Un escritor que descubre a su padre esbozando su novela en el mismo café en el que él se refugia para crear su propia obra.
Price: 11 375 Ft
BOOKET, 2020
Las enigmáticas desapariciones de ninas del colegio de las madres lazaristas de San Gervasio son el punto de inicio de la aventura indagatoria que tiene como protagonista a un cliente del manicomio,...
Price: 5 150 Ft
SEIX BARRAL EDITORIAL, 2014
Perdido en la Barcelona preolímpica, el extraterrestre Gurb pone al servicio de su supervivencia la extrana cualidadde adoptar el aspecto que le plazca.
Price: 6 925 Ft
SEIX BARRAL EDITORIAL, 2021
Las aventuras de Rufo Batalla parecen encaminarse al remansamiento cuando contrae matrimonio con una rica heredera, pero no consigue olvidar al príncipe Tukuulo y a su exquisita esposa.
Price: 12 595 Ft
PICADOR, 2014
Acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity, this magnificent cycle of novels - in which Patrick Melrose battles to survive the savageries of his childhood and lead a self-determined life - is one of the major achievements in English fiction
Price: 6 450 Ft
CORVUS, 2019
On the idyllic Pine Road, three women are looking for a fresh start...
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ACT, 2016
Inoj raz zhizn napominaet vjazanie. Odno nevernoe dvizhenie i nitochki polzut, gljadish i oni uzhe zaputalis. Tak sluchilos i v zhizni professora Tveritinova
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AST, 2019
Bobrov i Marta po-prezhnemu vmeste. No eto obstojatelstvo ne daet pokoja mnogim. Udastsja li dobrozhelateljam razrushit ikh idealnyj sojuz?
Price: 3 550 Ft
ACT, 2016
Kazalos by vse v zhizni Jaroslavy plokho - ushla ot muzha, mat vygnala na ulitsu, no geroinja nakhodit v sebe sily radovatsja zhizni. I sudba blagovolit ej. Sluchajnaja vstrecha, kotoraja ponachalu tolko pugaet ee, perevernet vsju ee zhizn.
Price: 5 550 Ft
ACT, 2016
Ljudi vstrechajutsja, ljudi vljubljajutsja. I vdrug rasstajutsja. I vot, kogda mezhdu nimi propast vremeni, i vse, kazalos by, pozadi, sudba daet novyj shans — novuju vstrechu...
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DEUTIKE VERLAG, 2014
Eine Mutter, die lieber am anderen Ende der Welt mit Omar Sharif Bridge spielt. Ein Vater, der seine Tochter zu hässlich findet, um sich mit ihr auf der Straße zu zeigen.
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CORPUS, 2015
Zhivuschaja v Kanade Elena Bochorishvili pishet po-russki, no korni ee malenkikh povestej - v Gruzii, v naivnykh kartinakh Niko Pirosmani i mudrykh tragikomedijakh velikogo gruzinskogo kino.
Price: 6 395 Ft
AST, 2017
Novyj roman Eleny Chizhovoj napisan v zhanre antiutopii, obraschennoj v proshloe: v Velikuju Otechestvennuju vojnu nemetskie vojska doshli do Urala.
Price: 9 675 Ft
DEBOLSILLO, 480
Sigue las vivencias de las protagonistas de la saga «Dos amigas»: una historia de amistad que recorre los anos más importantes del siglo XX.
Price: 7 095 Ft
SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2020
Neapel in den Neunzigern, Giovanna ist dreizehn Jahre alt, die Vorzeigetochter kultivierter Mittelschichtseltern, eine strebsame Schülerin.
Price: 11 325 Ft
SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2017
Elena und Lila sind inzwischen erwachsene Frauen. Lila hat einen Sohn bekommen und sich von allem befreit, von der Ehe, von ihrem neuen Namen, vom Wohlstand.
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SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2019
Als ich nach Neapel zurückzog, vermied ich es, wieder feste Beziehungen zu Lila aufzubauen. Das war nicht leicht. Sie versuchte fast sofort, erneut in mein Leben einzubrechen, und ich ignorierte sie, tolerierte sie, ertrug sie.
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SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2019
m Frühling 1966 vertraute Lila mir in höchster Aufregung eine Blechschachtel mit acht Schreibheften an. Sie sagte, sie könne sie nicht länger zu Hause behalten, sie fürchte, ihr Mann könnte sie lesen.
Price: 6 495 Ft
EDIZIONI E/O, 2017
Una donna ancora giovane, serena e appagata viene abbandonata all'improvviso dal marito e precipita in un gorgo scuro e antico.
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EDIZIONI E/O, 2021
Questo libro accoglie quattro testi inediti di Elena Ferrante sulla altrui e sulla propria "avventura dello scrivere":
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E/O, 2011
Care lettrici, cari lettori, provate a leggere questo libro e vorrete che non finisca mai.
Price: 12 795 Ft
FOLIO, 2021
Je ne suis pas nostalgique de notre enfance : elle était pleine de violence. C'était la vie, un point c'est tout : et nous grandissions avec l'obligation de la rendre difficile aux autres avant que les autres ne nous la rendent difficile.
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EDIZIONI E/O, 2019
L'invenzione occasionale' e composta da cinquantuno frammenti eterogenei di esperienze e di poetica, di intuizioni e di autobiografia. I titoli dei brevi testi modellano una mappa in movimento, definita di volta in volta dall'occhio del lettore.
Price: 11 075 Ft
DEBOLSILLO, 2018
Una joya de la literatura contemporánea que ya ha fascinado a más de 30 millones de lectores y se ha traducido en 42 países.
Price: 7 095 Ft
EDIZIONI E/O, 2022
Leda e un’insegnante, divorziata da tempo, tutta dedita alle figlie e al lavoro. Ma le due ragazze partono per raggiungere il padre in Canada. Ci si aspetterebbe un dolore, un periodo di malinconia.
Price: 6 675 Ft
DEBOLSILLO, 2018
La nina perdida pone punto final a «Dos amigas», la historia de dos amigas que nacieron a mediados del siglo XX en Nápoles.
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SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2016
Sie könnten unterschiedlicher kaum sein und sind doch unzertrennlich, Lila und Elena, schon als junge Mädchen beste Freundinnen.
Price: 9 350 Ft
SUHRKAMP, 2018
In einem volkstümlichen Viertel Neapels wachsen sie auf, derbes Fluchen auf den Straßen, Familien, die sich seit Generationen befehden, das Silvesterfeuerwerk artet in eine Schießerei aus.
Price: 7 575 Ft
EUROPA EDITIONS, 2012
From one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples.
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FOLIO, 2017
Pourquoi Leda interrompt-elle brusquement ses vacances ? Au bord de la mer, elle était subjuguée par une famille et en particulier une jeune femme, Nina, et sa fille Elena.
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E/O, 2014
Storia della bambina perduta e il quarto e ultimo volume dell’Amica geniale, la saga italiana che ha avuto piu successo in questi anni, confermando l’autrice, gia conosciuta per i precedenti romanzi, come una delle massime scrittrici al mondo.
Price: 13 825 Ft
E/O, 2017
Elena e Lila, le due amiche la cui storia i lettori hanno imparato a conoscere attraverso "L'amica geniale" e "Storia del nuovo cognome", sono diventate donne.
Price: 13 150 Ft
EUROPA EDITIONS, 2021
The Story of a New Name, the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story where My Brilliant Friend left off.
Price: 4 290 Ft
EUROPA EDITIONS, 2021
The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women? the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children.
Price: 4 290 Ft
EUROPA EDITIONS, 2021
Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the brilliant and bookish Elena.
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DEBOLSILLO, 2018
Continúa la saga Dos amigas, la historia de la amistad de dos mujeres que recorre los anos más importantes del siglo XX.
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ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2004
Es ist bemerkenswert, mit welchem Detailreichtum Elfriede Jelinek die Spielarten kleinbürgerlichen Verhaltens aufzeigt, präzise eingeschrieben in die Zeitgeschichte des österreichischen Wirtschaftswunders. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
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ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2012
Seit Aids ins letzte Alpental vorgedrungen ist und «die infiziert, die in der Liebe für den Wechsel sind», muß der Fabrikdirektor auf Partnertausch und Prostituierte verzichten und wieder auf seine Frau Gerti zurückgreifen.
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SERPENT'S TAIL, 2016
Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day.
Price: 4 725 Ft
FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2012
Wie Joyce’ ›Ulysses‹ ist ›Die Blendung‹ eine mächtige Metapher für die Auseinandersetzung des einsam reflektierenden Geistes mit der Wirklichkeit.
Price: 5 525 Ft
HANSER BERLIN, 2019
Jede Zeile von Kafka ist mir lieber als mein ganzes Werk. - Elias Canettis Schriften über Franz Kafka.
Price: 14 225 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012
Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices of Marrakesh, he captures the essence of that place:
Price: 3 750 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2018
Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is:
Price: 4 290 Ft
DOGAN KITAP, 2012
Gönülden yazilmis her roman, her hikaye, her kelime bir semsparedir...
Price: 8 650 Ft
VIKING, 2019
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019. An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour
Price: 5 625 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2020
In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore...
Price: 3 750 Ft
KEIN & ABER, 2016
Istanbul im 16. Jahrhundert. Als Elefantenführer des Sultans lernt der junge Jahan den Hofarchitekten Sinan kennen, den berühmtesten Baumeister der islamischen Welt.
Price: 6 575 Ft
KEIN & ABER, 2018
Mitten in einem belebten Viertel Istanbuls steht der Bonbonpalast - anders als der Name es vermuten lässt, handelt es sich hierbei um ein heruntergekommenes Mietsgebäude.
Price: 7 025 Ft
DEBOLSILLO, 2013
Nacieron del mismo vientre y casi al mismo tiempo: Pembe y Jamila eran gemelas, hijas de una familia numerosa que vivía en un pequeno pueblo de Kurdistán, pero la voluntad del padre las separó y llevó sus vidas por caminos distintos.
Price: 4 990 Ft
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SHURKAMP TASCHENBUCH, 2012
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EDIZIONI ANFORA, 2010
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