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Bursting with local color, this hilarious, heart-warming coming-of-age tale follows two friends on a raucous journey across Cameroon as they grapple with grief, sexuality, and dreams of Europe. After their father's death, Jean's older brother Roger decides he's had enough of their mother and their city and leaves to try his luck with "boza"-crossing illegally into Europe-in the hope of becoming a soccer star abroad. Aiming to catch up with Rog...

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Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever.Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another. Exploring addict...

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The highly anticipated final book in the internationally bestselling The Art of Hearing Heartbeats trilogy, a moving story about love's power to transcend distances and heal seemingly irreparable wounds. Twelve-year-old Ko Bo Bo lives with his uncle U Ba in Kalaw, a town in Burma. An unusually perceptive child, Bo Bo can read people's emotions in their eyes. This acute sensitivity only makes his unconventional home life more difficult: His fat...

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Winner of the Prix Goncourt award, "The Patience Stone" captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa, this poignant fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life.A deadly and incurable virus has put humanity on the edge of extinction. Speaks the mighty Baobab tree, first tree and the last, the mythical tree whose crown touches the heavens. Under his branches offering the world down below refreshing shade, men, women, children caught in the turmoil, fierce ...

A seminal text in the womenís movement."-Ethel S. Person, author of The Sexual Century "Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion."-Eli Sagan, author of Freud, Women and Mortality "[The Mermaid and the Minotaur] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of its psychoanalytic approach even as its major ideas have become as unobtrusively essential to psychoanalytic fem...

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Originally published as Resto qui in 2018 by Giulio Einaudi editore. First published in English in 2020 by Head of Zeus Ltd"--Copyright page.

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Originally published in French as La confiance en soi: Une philosophie in 2018 by Allary âEditions, Paris"--Title page verso.

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In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture.When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The h...

Originally published in Turkish as Serenad in 2011 by Doægan Egmont, Istanbul"--Title page verso.

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