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Martin Amis - The Pregnant Widow Martin Amis’ acerbic new novel set in the summer of 1970 explores the seventies sexual revolution when a momentous transfer of power took place between the sexes. Partly autobiographical, its looks at the casualties, including Amis’ sister, Sally, through the eyes of its three main characters: twenty-year-old English student, Keith Nearing, his girlfriend, Lily and her friend, Sheherazade. Narrated by Keith, now fifty, who reminisces about that fateful summer in 1970, we relive his sexual trauma that wounds him still like ‘pincers of bliss’ ...more
EUR 16,30 |
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Patrick Neate - Jerusalem ‘Jerusalem’ is a riotous, hilarious but, at the same time, poignant parody of the English, Englishness and the colonial rulers’ relationship with their colonies, pre and post-independence. Like David Mitchell in ‘Cloud Atlas’, Patrick Neate deploys different writing styles to characterise the spanned generations. The story begins with the journal of an unnamed officer serving during the Boer War, an initially proudly English servant of king and country who begins to question the principles behind the Empire ...more
EUR 9,90 |
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Elizabeth Gilbert - Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage Elizabeth Gilbert’s word-of-mouth bestseller ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ is the story of her journey to Italy, India and Bali in search of herself. Her odyssey began with the traumatic break-up of her marriage and concluded with her falling in love with Felipe, a Brazilian with an Australian passport. In ‘Committed’ we discover what happened next. Felipe encounters visa problems re-entering the U.S. and it seems the couple must marry before they can set up home together ...more EUR 14,95 |
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Jeremy Rifkin - The Empathic Civilization In a fascinating new interpretation of the history of civilization, Jeremy Rifkin examines the evolution of empathy and the profound ways it has influenced the shaping of our societies. Recent discoveries in brain science and child development are forcing us to rethink the long held belief that human beings are basically aggressive, materialistic, utilitarian and self-interested. Viewing economic history through an empathic lens ...more EUR 24,90 |
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