Wrong about Japan

Uma improvisação sobre a vida de Alexis de Tocqueville e um retrato imensamente divertido da amizade impossível entre um amo e um criado. Peter Carey, duas vezes premiado com o Booker Prize, explora neste livro a aventura da democracia americana, na teoria e na prática, com uma inteligência e u...

«Escrito com a destreza narrativa de um romancista de créditos firmados (vencedor do Booker Prize por duas vezes), este livro traz em si, também, a urgência da reportagem e a capacidade de observação do melhor jornalismo. Revela-nos aquilo a que muita gente ainda não terá dado a atenção ne...

30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. Bloomsbury is pleased to announce the second title in the phenomenally well-rece...

In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume. Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous–inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing ...

Collection of British Authors. Selected, with an introduction, by William Sharp. Copyright edition. ...

Miguel Torga's first novel is a tribute to the Douro, its people and its landscapes. A book for all who love this extraordinary region....

The Silk Road, the great trans-Asian highway linking Imperial Rome and distant China, reached the height of its importance during the T'ang Dynasty. Along it traveled cargos of silk, gold, ivory, as well as new ideas, art and knowledge. But then, China lost control of the region and finally the town...

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