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Transparent things : a novel

As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to New York with his bride. Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past.

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  • "Ch'ŏt sarang"
  • "Transparent things"@tr
  • "첫사랑"
  • "Itch'ŏjin siin"
  • "잊혀진詩人"

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  • "As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to New York with his bride. Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past."@en
  • ""Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." --Martin Amis From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • ""Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."--Martin Amis."
  • "Bij bezoeken aan Zwitserland brengt tot driemaal toe een plotselinge tragische dood een totale wending in het leven van een eenzame man."
  • ""Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . . As a young [American] publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R. [an eccentric author], falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride. . . . Eight years later--following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment--Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past. . . . The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." --Martin Amis."

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  • "Bookplates (Provenance)"
  • "Amerikaans"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść rosyjska"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ink stamps (Provenance)"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Page proofs (Printing)"
  • "Page proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Authors' annotations (Provenance)"
  • "Romans"

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  • "Transparent things : a novel"
  • "Transparent things : a novel"@en
  • "La Transparence des choses [Roman]"
  • "Cose trasparenti : romanzo"@it
  • "Cose trasparenti : romanzo"
  • "Saydam şeyler"
  • "Saydam şeyler"@tr
  • "Cose transparenti : Romanzo"@it
  • "La Transparence des choses"
  • "Transparent things : a novel by the author of Lolita and Ada"@en
  • "Transparent things : a novel by the author of Lolita and Ada"
  • "Transparent things a novel"@en
  • "Transparent things a novel"
  • "透明한物體들 : 첫사랑 : 잊혀진詩人"
  • "Transparant things"
  • "Trasparent Things"
  • "Transparent things; a novel"
  • "La transparence des choses"
  • "Transparent things"
  • "Transparent things"@en
  • "Transparent things. [Novel]. (Repr.)"
  • "Prozirnost stvari : roman"
  • "Transparent things a novelby the author of LOLITA and ADA"
  • "Diaphanē antikeimena : mythistorēma"
  • "Áttetsző testek"@hu
  • "Áttetsző testek"
  • "Cosas transparentes"@es
  • "Cosas transparentes"
  • "Prosvechivai︠u︡shchie predmety"
  • "Transparent things: a novel, by the author of Lolita and Ada"
  • "Просвечивающие предметы"
  • "T'umyŏnghan mulch'edŭl : Ch'ŏt sarang : Itch'ŏjin siin"
  • "Transparent things : A novel"
  • "Saydam şeyler= Transparent things"
  • "Przejrzystość rzeczy"@pl
  • "Przejrzystość rzeczy"
  • "Transparent things: a novel"
  • "Transparências : a mais recente novela do autor de Lolita"

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