The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal; Paul Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladimír Boudník, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life came to a tragic end shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Boudnik and Hrabal had a close and often contentious friendship. For a brief period, in the ear ...Show more
The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016...How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?..Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parent ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cele ...Show more
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