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Book cover for "Never let me go".
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English
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale,...
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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.
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"An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo...
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Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.
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Publisher:
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
1995
Language:
English
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life....
Book cover for "An artist of the floating world".
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Book cover for "Nocturnes".
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One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
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Book cover for "The summer we crossed Europe in the rain".
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain collects the lyrics of sixteen songs he wrote for world-renowned American singer Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner, Jim Tomlinson. An exquisite coming together of the literary and musical worlds, the lyrics are infused with a sense of yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces. Further exploring the notion of collaboration...
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Publisher:
Vintage Español
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
Spanish
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A primera vista, los jovencitos que estudian en el internado de Hailsham son como cualquier otro grupo de adolescentes. Practican deportes, tienen clases de arte donde sus profesoras -o guardianas- se dedican a estimular especialmente su creatividad y, como todos los jóvenes, descubren el sexo, el amor, los juegos del poder. La institución es una curiosa Arcadia inglesa, recóndita y orgullosa de sus instalaciones deportivas, de sus jardines, de...
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Publisher:
Anagrama
Pub. Date:
1997
Language:
Spanish

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Publisher:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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An ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
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Publisher:
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
Spanish
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"Inglaterra, Edad Media. Dos ancianos parten en busca de su hijo. Este se marcho hace mucho, aunque en circunstancias que no recuerdan, porque han perdido buena parte de la memoria debido a lo que los habitantes de su region llaman ±la niebla¬. En su periplo se encontraran con un guerrero sajon llamado Wistan, un joven herido y el anciano caballero Sir Gawain, que busca acabar con un dragon. Juntos se enfrentaran a los multiples peligros del viaje....
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
Spanish
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Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date:
2001
Language:
English
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5 stars
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The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
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Publisher:
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.
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Publisher:
Scribner
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
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An entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time looks at works from the eighteenth century to the present day, spanning multiple genres, cultures, and countries.