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Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 352, Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing, Autor: J. M. Coetzee, William Sutcliffe, Michael Ondaatje, Teju Cole, Alice Walker, Michael...
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One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall"From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of...
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Disgrace takes as its complex central character 52-year-old English professor David Lurie whose preoccupation with Romantic poetry--and romancing his students--threatens to turn him...
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In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants:...
In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation...
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