The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

The Faraway Nearby

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Faraway Nearby

By Rebecca (Y) Solnit

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories spun like those of Scheherazade, who used her gifts as a storyteller to change her fate and her listener's heart.As she looks back on t...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9781847085122

Publisher

Granta Books

Published year

2014

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Faraway Nearby

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

When the almond trees bloom

When the almond trees bloom

Samina Vabo Ansari

A Sunny Place for Shady People

A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez

The Echo of Old Books A Novel

The Echo of Old Books A Novel

Barbara Davis

Cold Enough for Snow

Cold Enough for Snow

Jessica Au

The island of missing trees

The island of missing trees

Elif Shafak

With love from London

With love from London

Jio, Sarah

The Little French Bookshop

The Little French Bookshop

Cecile Pivot

Wayward

Wayward

Spiotta, Dana

The Frightened Ones

The Frightened Ones

Dima Wannous

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

Shokoofeh Azar

Small Days and Nights

Small Days and Nights

Tishani Doshi

A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

A field guide to getting lost

A field guide to getting lost

Rebecca Solnit

Autumn Light

Autumn Light

Pico Iyer

Passing for Human

Passing for Human

Liana Finck

The book of M

The book of M

Passing Strange

Passing Strange

Ellen Klages

Foreign fruit

Foreign fruit

Jojo Moyes

At the Edge of the Orchard

At the Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier

Avenue of mysteries

Avenue of mysteries

John Irving

The French gardener

The French gardener

Santa Montefiore

Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

The marble collector

The marble collector

Cecelia Ahern

Gift from the Sea

Gift from the Sea

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

Ella Frances

Love in Small Letters

Love in Small Letters

Francesc Miralles

By Light We Knew Our Names

By Light We Knew Our Names

Anne Valente

The valley of amazement

The valley of amazement

Amy Tan

We are all completely beside ourselves

We are all completely beside ourselves

Far Far Away

Far Far Away

Tom McNeal

The girl who chased the moon

The girl who chased the moon

The Language of Flowers

The Language of Flowers

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Story Sisters A Novel

The Story Sisters A Novel

Alice Hoffman

The gift

The gift

Cecelia Ahern

The Telling

The Telling

Jo Baker

The Night Counter

The Night Counter

Alia Yunis

The Probable Future

The Probable Future

Alice Hoffman

Self

Self

Yann Martel

Almost No Memory Stories

Almost No Memory Stories

Lydia Davis