Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A collection of stories, which describes life in Russia before and after the collapse of Communism, and the plight of Russian emigres in the USA in post communist times. It includes characters that are recognisable and bizarre, bewildered but also invigorated by the challenge that everyday life presents - whatever economic system they live under. Translator(s): Moore, Thomas. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Peter Owen
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0007714
- ISBN
- 9780720613001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. Centered around the prostitution industry in a rural Chinese community, Retribution presents a compelling exploration of the intersections of sexual desire, sadism, folk belief, and the inexorable cycles of karmic retribution. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard; Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128742
- ISBN
- 9780231128742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.09
€ 50.09
paperback. Features Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the villagers' gossip threatens to divide them, Shinki must risk his life to prove his worth. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 144. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0021651
- ISBN
- 9780099289982
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099282891
- ISBN
- 9780099282891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.67
€ 13.99
€ 9.67
Paperback. This book is one of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety. Series: New Directions Paperbook. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Later Printing
- SKU
- V9780811201186
- ISBN
- 9780811201186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.37
€ 16.99
€ 16.37
Paperback. Translator(s): Sargent, Geoffrey W. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 116 x 7. Weight in Grams: 60.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 57
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811218542
- ISBN
- 9780811218542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.53
€ 11.99
€ 11.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 318 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679752684
- ISBN
- 9780679752684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.67
€ 18.99
€ 13.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 181 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 181
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1966
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811201179
- ISBN
- 9780811201179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.17
€ 16.99
€ 16.17
Paperback. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics New York
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285670
- ISBN
- 9780099285670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282792
- ISBN
- 9780099282792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282785
- ISBN
- 9780099282785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Paperback. A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284796
- ISBN
- 9780099284796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05
Paperback. Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - provincial families, a political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282990
- ISBN
- 9780099282990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Depicts a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189567
- ISBN
- 9780141189567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.16
€ 16.99
€ 13.16
Paperback. After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she finds herself in love with the young servant Saburo. Tormented by his indifference, yet invigorated by her desire, she makes her move, with catastrophic consequences. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099530275
- ISBN
- 9780099530275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284574
- ISBN
- 9780099284574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Translator(s): Berry, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781400031863
- ISBN
- 9781400031863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.53
€ 19.99
€ 13.53
Paperback. An abandoned yacht, a young family missing - chilling crime from the queen of Nordic Noir. Series: Thora Gudmundsdottir. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444734485
- ISBN
- 9781444734485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Azazeel takes 5th century quarrels in the Coptic Church as the ground for an ambitious investigation into good and evil, faith and doubt.' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent In this haunting and controversial novel, Youssef Ziedan confronts issues as vital today as they were nearly two millenia ago. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848874299
- ISBN
- 9781848874299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Translator(s): Starkey, Paul. Series: Interlink World Fiction. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 135 x 27. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Interlink Pub Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566569910
- ISBN
- 9781566569910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.81
€ 20.99
€ 19.81