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Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family. ...
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In this novel, a couple exchange confessions during nightly blackouts in a Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss. ...
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This novel tells the story of two people who want the same things - fidelity, love, family life and a stable home. They are out of line with the fashions of the 60s, but life seems to smile on them until Harriet's fifth pregnancy, when everything starts to go wrong... ...
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Enceinte et secrètement mariée, Cheryl Anway griffonne sur un cahier d'écolier ce qui deviendra ses dernières volontés, juste avant que trois élèves, désaxés et déchaînés, mitraillent la cafétéria de son lycée. Quatre personnages dramatiquement touchés racontent alors leur histoire : Cheryl narre ca...
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From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hardliving movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves.Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an ...
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Modern fictionDebut novel from Meera Syal, who wrote the screenplays to Bhaji on the Beach and My Sister Wife. This is the story of nine-year- old Meena, an Indian girl growing up in the sixties, daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington. "Anita and Me is full...
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Modern fictionNew cover reissue of this Booker-shortlisted novel. ...
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A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America's involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed. ...
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In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on a journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. More than a thousand years later, using their writings as a guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their steps. ...
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Eleanor Rigby is the story of Liz, a self-described drab, overweight, crabby, and friendless middle-aged woman, and her unlikely reunion with the charming and strange son she gave up for adoption. His arrival changes everything, and sets in motion a rapid-fire plot with all the twists and turns we e...
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Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, "Soul Mountain" is a novel which journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China. ...
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Larry is a successful farmer in Zebulon County, Iowa. Widowed, he has three daughters, Ginny and Rose who work on the farm, and Caroline, who is a lawyer. When Larry decides to give the ownership of the farm to his daughters, Caroline's reservations mean she is cut out of the ownership. ...
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This is a collection of stories about Africa which evoke the people and continent, drawn from the author's experiences as a child in Southern Rhodesia. ...
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The first volume of Doris Lessing's 'Collected African Stories', and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ...
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Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in one of her most involving, most personal, most political novels. ...
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Held against his will at a safe-house after an assassination attempt, Cardinal Bem is unsure whether his captors work for the government or for the Catholic Church ...
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Pierre Brossard is a Nazi collaborator accused of murdering 14 Jews during World War II, who is still living on the run in contemporary France. He's been sheltered by the Roman Catholic church, but now he has been accused of crimes against humanity and his places to hide are becoming fewer. ...
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A FORTUNE-TELLER TOLD ME - EARTHBOUND TRAVELS IN THE FAR EAST
Tiziano Terzani
- Flamingo
- 1 Octobre 1998
- 9780006550716
An account of the travels of Tiziano Terzani, a news correspondent who travelled only by rail, road and sea, having been told that he should not risk flying by a fortune teller. Terzani consulted fortune tellers and shaman from then on, since the original seer had prevented him from taking a plane w...
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Alexander Cold and his grandmother - a fearless reporter - are going to the Amazon rainforest to search for a fabled headhunting tribe and a legendary, marauding "Beast". Here they find out much, much more about the mysteries of the jungle and its inhabitants. ...
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Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a neighbourhood cat, a series of small, ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the fractures in a marriage wrenching itself apart. ...
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Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.Through the story of three generations of women in her own...
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Born in the 1920s to bohemian parents, Paula Fox was left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage. Rescued by her grandmother and cared for by a poor minister, her parents began to re-surface, their self-absorbed, toxic "care" a blight on Paula's life. ...
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