Victus(Unabridged) The Fall of Barcelona by AlbertSanchezPinol Paperback, Published 2016 by Harper Audio ISBN-13: 978-0-06-234551-6, ISBN: 0-06-234551-6
"Ninety-eight-year-old Martâi Zuvirâia--a prestigious military engineer in the early 1700s who fought on both sides of the long War of the Spanish Succession and betrayed the city he was commended to keep--recollects the 1714 annexation of ..."
"A #1 international bestseller reminiscent of the works of Roberto Bolano, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and Edward Rutherford--a page-turning historical epic, set in early eighteenth-century Spain, about a military mastermind whose betrayal ultimately leads to the conquest of Barcelona, from the globally popular Catalonian writer Albert Sanchez Pinol.Why do the weak fight against the strong? At 98, Marti Zuviria ponders this question as he begins ..."
"A #1 international bestseller reminiscent of the works of Roberto Bolaño, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and Edward Rutherford—a page-turning historical epic, set in early eighteenth-century Spain, about a military mastermind whose betrayal ultimately leads to the conquest of Barcelona, from the globally popular Catalonian writer Albert Sánchez Piñol.Why do the weak fight against the strong? At 98, Martí Zuviría ponders this question as he begins t ..."
"No one knows the truth of the story better, for Martí was the very villain who betrayed the city he was commended to keep. The story of Catalonia and Barcelona is also Martí’s story."
"Too poor to even rent a room, Mirno purchased a wagon that he converted into
the family home. And thanks to a passing acquaintance he bought an old bear
that was going to be put down from a circus company. The bear was as thin as
Martha and had as few teeth as little Marcus. And so began the Sevic family's
artistic career. Mirno was the tightrope walker. The worst tightrope walker ever,
according to Marcus. The man's mishaps, which ..."
"It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which both his masters have died, and all of the party's African porters have fled. With him, he carries two huge diamonds. From his prison cell in London, Garvey recounts his horrific and thrilling ordeal. Young Tommy Thomson is assigned to transcribe Garvey's story and only ..."
"It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which both his masters have died, and all of the party's African porters have fled. With him, he carries two huge diamonds. From his prison cell in London, Garvey recounts his horrific and thrilling ordeal. Young Tommy Thomson is assigned to transcribe Garvey's story and only ..."
"Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a weather official on a tiny, remote island on the edge of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. Gruner, the man inhabiting the lighthouse, approaches the newcomer at first as an adversary and obstacle to his continued survival. As night fa ..."
Cold Skin(1st Edition) (Paperback) by AlbertSanchezPinol, Cheryl Leah Morgan Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84195-688-6, ISBN: 1-84195-688-0
"On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island."
"On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the world. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is ..."
Cold Skin(1st Edition) by AlbertSanchezPinol Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Canada International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-14-317031-0, ISBN: 0-14-317031-7
"On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the world. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is ..."
"On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island, far from all shipping lanes."
Cold Skin by AlbertSanchezPinol Ebook, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-620-7, ISBN: 1-84767-620-0
"'A troubling, hammering and glorious novel' DAVID MITCHELL On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island."
Cold Skin [ COLD SKIN BY Pinol, AlbertSanchez ( Author ) Feb-06-2007[ COLD SKIN [ COLD SKIN BY PINOL, ALBERTSANCHEZ ( AUTHOR ) FEB-06-2007 ] By Pinol, AlbertSanchez ( Author )Feb-06-2007 Paperback by AlbertSanchezPinol, Cheryl Leah Morgan Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2007 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84195-900-9, ISBN: 1-84195-900-6
"On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island, far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the earth. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, instead just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest i ..."
Fungus / Fungus(1st Edition) The King of the Pyrenees (Spanish Edition) by AlbertSanchezPinol, SanchezPiñolAlbert Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Alfaguara ISBN-13: 978-84-204-3545-9, ISBN: 84-204-3545-7
"«El mal no existe. Solo existe el poder.» La esperada nueva novela de Albert Sánchez Piñol es la puerta de entrada a un mundo nunca visto de fantasía y revolución. 1888. Ric-Ric es un pobre diablo, un anarquista desarrapado que no encuentra otro sitio donde caerse muerto que una cueva perdida del Pirineo catalán. En esa zona, vía de paso para contrabandistas y malhechores, descubre por azar un género de setas ignorado por la civiliz ..."
Pandora w Kongu by AlbertSanchezPinol Paperback, 372 Pages, Published by Noir Sur Blanc ISBN-13: 978-83-7392-288-4, ISBN: 83-7392-288-1