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“j c patrick”

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  • The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by J. C. Patrick ...
    A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, whileas in all of Tabucchi's workblurring genre boundaries.Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Shadow of the Wind

    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ...
    Translated by Lucia Graves ...
    Series series The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
    "Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind**. Really, you should." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —* ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 2666

    A Novel

    by Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERTHE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Bad Girl

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    A New York TimesNotable Book of 2007From Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes The Bad Girl, a **"...splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible [novel]. . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--**The New York Times Book ReviewRicardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager kno... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Havana Red

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    First of quartet with same hero. Sold well in Spain, Italy , France and Germany (40,000 per title in Germany alone). First time the author is available in English.Award winning novel.High critical acclaim in all countries. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Havana Black

    A Lieutenant Mario Conde Mystery

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    The first book in this series, Havana Red, is the best selling Bitter Lemon title. Prize winning novel. Beautiful, sexy rendition of life in Cuba in mystery format. But also a deep, cutting, yet uncensored critique of the Cuban regime from within. Padura has elected to stay, remains in love with his country yet is open eyed about the failings of the government. A unique perspective. Sold 80,000 in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Havana Fever

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    Padura’s best novel. Assured in pace and style. A suspenseful mystery, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved island, all rolled into one. 2. The titles in the Havana Quartet, Havana Red, Havana Black, Havana Blue and Havana Gold were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 70,000. 3. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Island that Dared

    Journeys in Cuba

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter and three young granddaughters and you have a Swallows-and-Amazons-like adventure in the Caribbean as they trek into the hills and along the coast as a family, camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars and relishing the ubiquitous Cuban hospitality. But this is no more than the joyful start of a fully ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret in Their Eyes

    A Novel

    by Eduardo Sacheri ...
    Now a Major Motion Pictured starring Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, and Chiwetel EijioforBenjamín Chaparro is a man haunted by his past—a retired detective, he remains obsessed with the decades-old case of the rape and murder of a young woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the details of the investigation, he is reacquainted with his similarly long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos, then just ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • It's Not About the Tapas

    A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels

    by Polly Evans ...
    Single, stressed, and living amid the hustle and hurry of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, matadors and promenades–and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any decent dream, Polly’s came with its own reality: of thighs screaming with pain and goats trying to derail her, of strange local delicacies and overzealous suitors. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Tango Singer

    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    by Tomás Eloy Martínez ...
    Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • A Manuscript of Ashes

    A Novel

    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this "beautifully wrought" novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery ( New York magazine).It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus