The works anatomy of a city

Canto a the City of Giants

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Nights of the Dispossessed – Riots Unbound

Nights of the Dispossessed brings together artistic works, political texts, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to sense, chron

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Kay´s Anatomy - Kay Adam

Anotace: Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well . . . pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your maths teacher`s is even weirder.This book is going to tell you what`s actually going on in there, and answer the really important questions, like:Are bogeys ...

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Avalon Hill desková hra Betrayal at Baldur's Gate english

Never split the Party...unless someone is the traitor! The city of Baldur's Gate has become twisted by evil. ENTER IF YOU DARE!With every tile you place, your adventuring party works together to build the city's catacombs and alleys. That is, until some horrific evil turns one of you against the others!Then it's a race for survival as you can face an onslaught of fearsome...

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William Faulkner Novels 1930-1935 (LOA #25): As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon - William Faulkner

<p>Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America’s finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library of America collection display an astonishing range of characters and treatments in his Depression-era fiction. As I Lay Dying (1930) is a combination of comedy, horr...

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Augustine's City of God

The City of God, written in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, is the most influential of Augustine's works, having played a decisive

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History of Kansas City

Excerpt from The History of Kansas City: Together With a Sketch of the Commercial Resources of the Country With Which It Is SurroundedWith much diffidence on the part of the writer the following pages are submitted to the public. They are the result of much patient research, yet none can be better aware of the imperfections in details than the writer. It has been rather t...

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Anatomy: A Love Story, 1. vydání - Dana Schwartz

<p>Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist's Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renown...

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Scenes of New York City

A visual love-letter to New York City which features works by major artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Gaudi. The Complete Works - 40th Anniversary Edition - Rainer Zerbst

<p>Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaudí himself, as well as an extensive appendix of all his works including furniture and unfinished projects, this book takes us through the Catalonian’s fantastic...

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Buenos Aires Across the Arts

Analyses artistic works across disciplines with a focus on the city of Buenos Aires as a playground of modernity.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Christopher Eccleston, Tim Pigott-Smith and Pippa Nixon star in

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The Wizard of Oz: and Other Wonderful Books of Oz: the Emerald City of Oz and Glinda of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum

Anotace: This is the complete and unabridged story of "The Wizard of Oz", in which Dorothy, together with her companions the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the cowardly Lion, makes her journey along the Yellow Brick Road in search of the wonderful wizard. Bringing together traditional handicraft with cutting-edge book design, the "Penguin Threads" series has already crea...

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Reflecting on the City Through Literature Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting – but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city. How can spatial difference be conc...

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In the Country of Last Things

'That is how it works in the City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that is doomed, and so all that is left is Anna's unwritten account

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Frameables: City Lights - Pascaline Boucharinc

<p>Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home!</p> <p>Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by...

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Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator - Supporter Pack

With the Supporter Pack, start your company off with a wide range of exclusive items to customise your taxi, stand out from the competition and catch the eye of potential fares! Included in this DLC : 6 “Barcelona Mosaic” skins – In a tribute to the incredible works of Antoni Gaudí, clad your taxis in the shimmering colours of the sublime Barcelon...

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Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator - Supporter Pack (PC)

With the Supporter Pack, start your company off with a wide range of exclusive items to customise your taxi, stand out from the competition and catch the eye of potential fares!Included in this DLC :6 &ldquo;Barcelona Mosaic&rdquo; skins &ndash; In a tribute to the incredible works of Antoni Gaud&iacute;, clad your taxis in the shimmering colours of the su...

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Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator - Supporter Edition

With the Supporter Edition, start your company off with a wide range of exclusive items to customise your taxi, stand out from the competition and catch the eye of potential fares! Included in this edition: The game Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator 6 “Barcelona Mosaic” skins – In a tribute to the incredible works of Antoni Gaudí, clad your taxi...

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Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator - Supporter Edition

With the Supporter Edition, start your company off with a wide range of exclusive items to customise your taxi, stand out from the competition and catch the eye of potential fares! Included in this edition: The game Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator 6 “Barcelona Mosaic” skins – In a tribute to the incredible works of Antoni Gaudí, clad your...

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Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator - Supporter Edition (PC)

With the Supporter Edition, start your company off with a wide range of exclusive items to customise your taxi, stand out from the competition and catch the eye of potential fares!Included in this edition:The game Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator6 &ldquo;Barcelona Mosaic&rdquo; skins &ndash; In a tribute to the incredible works of Antoni Gaud&iacute;, c...

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Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator - Supporter Edition (PC)

With the Supporter Edition,&nbsp;start your company off with a wide range of exclusive items to customise your taxi, stand out from the competition and catch the eye of potential fares!Included in this edition:The game Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator6 &ldquo;Barcelona Mosaic&rdquo; skins &ndash; In a tribute to the incredible works of Antoni Gaud&i...

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

Anotace: Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm. Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill e...

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm. Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in t...

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Dianetics: the Original Thesis

Here is the bedrock foundation of Dianetics discoveries: the Original Axioms, the Anatomy of the Analytical and Subconscious ("Reactive") Mind, the things that drive a persons motivation in life, the Emotional Scale, and the first description of a highly desirable mental state called "Clear". This books contains the basic principles how and why Dianetics works.

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

<p>Four years on The New York Times bestseller list Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm. Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who own...

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Marvel Dice Masters: City Slingers Monthly Organized Play Kit

Each Marvel Dice Masters: City Slingers Monthly OP Kit contains the following:- Twenty Limited Edition Alternate Art Ricochet Participation Cards- Five copies of a brand-new Limited Edition Marvel Dice Masters Spider-Man: Sneaky Pete Competitive Prize Card- Five copies of a brand-new Limited Edition Marvel Dice Masters Black Cat: Thief Competitive Prize Card- One Instruct...

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Thinking through the image: The visual events of Miroslav Petříček - Jitka Hlavicová

<p>"Images are names for we cannot name,” says the philosopher, teacher, and translator Miroslav Petříček, who written on visual art for several decades. He has summarized his observations in, among other things, the book Thinking Through the Image: A Guide to Contemporary Philosophical Thought for the Non-Intermediate (2009), which formed the impulse for the 2...

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Gardena smart SILENO city Set 600qm 19603-60 Robotická sekačka

Max. plocha trávníku (m2): 600 Max. sklon (stupňů): 35 Nastavitelná výška sečení: ano Výška střihu (mm): 20 - 50 Šířka řezu (cm): 16 Max. hlasitost (dB): 57 Typ baterie / aku: Lithium-Ionen Včetně baterií: integrovaný Provozní doba (min.): 65 Délka nabíjení (hod): 1 Ovládání pomocí aplikace: ano Typ: Robotická sekačka Způsob provozu: Aku baterie Barva: šedá / modrá Šířka ...

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Gardena smart SILENO city Set 600qm 19603-60 Robotická sekačka

Max. plocha trávníku (m2): 600 Max. sklon (stupňů): 35 Nastavitelná výška sečení: ano Výška střihu (mm): 20 - 50 Šířka řezu (cm): 16 Max. hlasitost (dB): 57 Typ baterie / aku: Lithium-Ionen Včetně baterií: integrovaný Provozní doba (min.): 65 Délka nabíjení (hod): 1 Ovládání pomocí aplikace: ano Typ: Robotická sekačka Způsob provozu: Aku baterie Barva: šedá / modrá Šířka ...

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Architecture of Community

Leon Krier is one of the best-known - and most provocative - architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In "The Architecture of Community", Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book "Architecture: Choice or Fate". Here ...

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The Sisterhood - Katherine Bradley

<p>‘Frightening and timely, Bradley’s The Sisterhood is the book everyone should read this year. If you thought it ended with Orwell, think again . . .' CHRISTINA DALCHERVox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist reimagining of 1984 In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Julia is the seemingly per...

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The Three Golden Keys Labyrint

Anglické vydání knížky Tři zlaté klíče. / World-renowned artist brings to life the magic of Prague and its legends. In this allegorical tale, a man in a hot-air ballon is thrown off course in a violent storm, landing him in the city of his youth. He finds the way to his old home, but the house is dark, with three rusty padlocks on the door. A black cat with eyes...

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A Shadow Crown: The Halfling Saga - Blair Melissa

Anotace: The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off... To the kingdom, Keera is the king`s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow-the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on fire. Together, ...

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A Shadow Crown: The Halfling Saga - Melissa Blair

<p>The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off... To the kingdom, Keera is the king's Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow-the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on fire. Together, t...

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The Lost Metal: A Mistborn Novel - Sanderson Brandon

Anotace: The seventh novel in the bestselling Mistborn series from a master of modern fantasy. Wax Ladrian is back! Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal. For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator...

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The Lost Metal: A Mistborn Novel - Brandon Sanderson

<p>The seventh novel in the bestselling Mistborn series from a master of modern fantasy. Wax Ladrian is back!</p> <p>Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.</p> <p>For years, frontier...

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Thinking through the image: The visual events of Miroslav Petříček - Miroslav Petříček,Jitka Hlavicová,Milena Bartlová,Jiří Přibáň,Jaroslav Janošek

Anotace: "Images are names for we cannot name," says the philosopher, teacher, and translator Miroslav Petříček, who written on visual art for several decades. He has summarized his observations in, among other things, the book Thinking Through the Image: A Guide to Contemporary Philosophical Thought for the Non-Intermediate (2009), which formed the impulse for the ...

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Gauguin: The Other World - Fabrizio Dori

<p>In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the city-dwelling European. He is free: to love, to sing, and to create. In Copenhagen, Gauguin’s wife enjoys no such freedom. She would rather forget her odious husband and his degenerate artwork. Instead, in a city res...

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Gauguin: The Other World - Fabrizio Dori

Anotace: In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the city-dwelling European. He is free: to love, to sing, and to create. In Copenhagen, Gauguin's wife enjoys no such freedom. She would rather forget her odious husband and his degenerate artwork. Instead, in a ci...

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On the Road, 1. vydání - Jack Kerouac

<p>'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob Dylan</p> <p>Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becom...

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The Three Golden Keys - Petr Sís

<p>Fascinující ilustrovaná kniha o Praze, v níž se prolínají historické legendy s osobními příběhy a vzpomínkami. Černá kočka nás provází křivolakými ulicemi Starého Města a Malé Strany, abychom našli klíče k zámkům vlastního dětství. Tři zlaté klíče otevírají tajemné dveře starých pražských pověstí o Bruncvíkovi, o Golemovi a o mistru Hanušovi. Legendární kniha, kt...

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Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals - Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera

<p>Here are the life and works of Diego Rivera: folk hero, husband of Frida Kahlo, and one of Mexico’s greatest artists. His giant murals depicting social change still grace the halls of Mexico’s public buildings. Much of the photography for this book required scaffolding to achieve the greatest accuracyand show Rivera’s murals in detail.</p> <p>The most...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Of Symbols and Signs - Dieter Buchhart, Antonia Hoerschelmann, Klaus Albrecht Schröder (EN)

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy-not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages he encoded around political, social, racial, and cultur...

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A German Christmas : Festive Tales From Berlin to Bavaria - Mann Thomas

Anotace: From helpful elves to an enchanting Nutcracker, rediscover the German Christmas tales behind our most iconic festive traditionsEine froehliche Weihnachten -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, roast goose and red cabbage, tinsel and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty...

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Fashion Designers A–Z. 40th Anniversary Edition - Suzy Menkes

<p>Celebrating over a century of fashion’s greatest talents, from Azzedine Alaïa and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent. This updated edition features photographs of hundreds of garments selected from the permanent collection of the Fashion Institute of Technology’s museum in New York City.</p> <p> </p> <p>Defining design...

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Alexander Calder

Calder's sculptural works can fit in the palm of a hand, or tower over a city square. This fascinating exhibition catalog examines how the artist's se

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Life After Growth

In Life After Growth, leading City analyst Tim Morgan sets out a ground-breaking analysis of how the economy really works. Economists are mistaken, he

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Perfect English Style

Some styles of decorating have a longer shelf life than others. One of the most durable is English Country Style, which works just as well in a city a

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Kafka´s Prague - Wagenbach Klaus

Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka's death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and letters, `Kafkaesque' has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence and bureaucracy. Yet for all the universal significance of his fiction, Kaf...

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At Home with Ivan Vladislavic Taylor & Francis Ltd

At Home With Ivan Vladislavic is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavic. Bringing a flaneur’s internal GPS to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavic established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’...

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Rembrandt - Michael Kitson

<p>Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) transcends any period or social milieu: he is one of the world’s great masters and though his works reflect the confidence of newly independent Holland, his vision extends far beyond these narrow confines. A deeply perceptive artist (his many self-portraits show his continued interest in the study of human nature), he sought to go bey...

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František Bílek (1872-1941) - Hana Larvová

Anotace: Prague City Gallery is launching the long-awaited reissue of the essential anthology František Bílek (1872-1941), which accompanied his major retrospective at the Prague Castle Riding School in 2000. This updated and expanded monograph, consisting of expert studies, lists of works, and a detailed biography and bibliography by leading art historians and theorists...

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František Bílek (1872-1941)

Prague City Gallery is launching the long-awaited reissue of the essential anthology František Bílek (1872–1941), which accompanied his major retrospective at the Prague Castle Riding School in 2000. This updated and expanded monograph, consisting of expert studies, lists of works, and a detailed biography and bibliography by leading art historians and theorists, provides...

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František Bílek (1872-1941) anglicky - Hana Larvová

<p>Prague City Gallery is launching the long-awaited reissue of the essential anthology František Bílek (1872–1941), which accompanied his major retrospective at the Prague Castle Riding School in 2000. This updated and expanded monograph, consisting of expert studies, lists of works, and a detailed biography and bibliography by leading art historians and theorists,...

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Kafka in Prague - neuveden

Anotace: Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka`s death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and letters, `Kafkaesque` has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence and bureaucracy. Yet for all the universal significance of his fi...

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Kafka´s Prague - Klaus Wagenbach

<p>Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka's death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and letters, `Kafkaesque' has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity of modern existence and bureaucracy. Yet for all the universal significance of his fic...

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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv - Kurkov Andrej

Anotace: A love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees. Strange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea . . . A ragtag group gathers round a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery - among them an ex-KGB of...

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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv - Andrey Kurkov

<p>A love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees.Strange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea . . . A ragtag group gathers round a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery - among them an ex-KGB office...

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Before I Met You Arrow Books (UK)

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caughty up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return. Over half a century later, in the grungy mid-´90s, her granddaughter Betty arrives in London. She can´t wait to begin her new life. But before she can do so, she must find the my...

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