wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear
ISBN: 9780811216128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy--recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic...
Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi...
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121,22 zł |
Berta Isla
ISBN: 9780241983553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A marriage built on lies, a man with many faces, an unpaid debt to the secret service - rich drama from the author of The Infatuations.
For a while, she wasnt sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not. Berta and Tomás meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend their lives together. Eighteen and betrothed, Tomás leaves to study at Oxford. His talent for languages quickly catches the interest of a certain government agency, but Tomás resists their offers - until one day he makes a mistake that will affect the rest of his life,... A marriage built on lies, a man with many faces, an unpaid debt to the secret service - rich drama from the author of The Infatuations.
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57,13 zł |
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell
ISBN: 9780241338063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,93 zł |
When I Was Mortal
ISBN: 9780141389264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This collection of twelve stories from the imagination of one of Spain's foremost literary writers includes the satirical ghost story of the title, a grisly tale of murder at the racetrack and a surprising insight into the life of a porn movie star.
This collection of twelve stories from the imagination of one of Spain's foremost literary writers includes the satirical ghost story of the title, a ...
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57,13 zł |
Tomas Nevinson
ISBN: 9788466363495 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Tomás Nevinson, marido de Berta Isla, cae en la tentación de volver a los Servicios Secretos tras haber estado fuera, y se le propone ir a una ciudad del noroeste para identificar a una persona, medio española y medio norirlandesa, que participó en atentados del IRA y de ETA diez años atrás. Estamos en 1997.
Tomás Nevinson, marido de Berta Isla, cae en la tentación de volver a los Servicios Secretos tras haber estado fuera, y se le propone ir a una ciuda...
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109,49 zł |
The Man of Feeling
ISBN: 9780804172592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A story of love and memory.
On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty. The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love,... A story of love and memory.
On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle... |
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93,32 zł |
When I Was Mortal
ISBN: 9780307950789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A dozen stories by Javier Marias, -the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature- (The Boston Globe).
Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman about to star in her first porn film; a night doctor who adds new meaning to -specialist-; a ghost whose neglect is greatly resented. A dozen stories by Javier Marias, -the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature- (The Boston Globe).
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93,32 zł |
Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
ISBN: 9780811218122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marias's three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed -exquisite- (Publishers Weekly), -gorgeous- (Kirkus), and -outstanding: another work of urgent originality- (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza--hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of...
Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays in...
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110,20 zł |
Berta Isla / Berta Isla: A Novel
ISBN: 9781984898258 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2019 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,39 zł |
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream
ISBN: 9780241288917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,93 zł |
To Begin At The Beginning: The Cahier Series 28
ISBN: 9781909631182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In To Begin at the Beginning, celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marias explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference between what is true in the world and what is true in fiction, he explains why an appeal to "real" events has never convinced him; why the history of his own family--with its Cuban and Spanish strands--has left him uncertain about what is legend and what is historic fact; and why what has been imagined or dreamed can end up being truer than what...
In To Begin at the Beginning, celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marias explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own fa...
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77,18 zł |
Dark Back of Time
ISBN: 9780141199894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'We lose everything because everything remains except us'. In this book, the author recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself.
'We lose everything because everything remains except us'. In this book, the author recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, includ...
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55,07 zł |
El Siglo
ISBN: 9788466311397 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2003 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,35 zł |
Tomas Nevinson
ISBN: 9780241568613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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114,35 zł |
Thus Bad Begins
ISBN: 9780241972823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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88,15 zł |
The Infatuations
ISBN: 9780241958490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the cafe with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches...
The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe...
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51,93 zł |
All Souls
ISBN: 9780307950772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply -being- at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors,... By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University....
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89,08 zł |
Tomas Nevinson
ISBN: 9780241568637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,13 zł |
Berta Isla : Roman
ISBN: 9783103973969 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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120,12 zł |
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear
ISBN: 9780241288894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,13 zł |