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Like Flies from Afar by K. Ferrari; Adrian Nathan West (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Luis Machi has had enemies for a long time: after all, he's built his success on dirty deals - not to mention his cooperation with the military junta's coup years ago, or his love life - a web of infidelities. What's new is the corpse in the boot of his car. A body with its face blown off, detained by a ...Show more
Like Flies from Afar - A Novel by Adrian Nathan West (Translator); K. Ferrari
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
This novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff. --James Sallis, author of Drive The first novel to appear in English by the subway janitor by nig ...Show more
My Father's Diet by Adrian Nathan West
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In a broken-down Middle American town, the disintegration of a struggling family--its ambitions and emotions worn thin--is laid bare through the cold eyes of its only son. While studying at the local community college to finish his degree, he works what his divorced parents deem to be menial jobs and tr ...Show more
Rave by Rainald Goetz; Adrian Nathan West (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Following on his monumental examination of `the most contrary and most political, the most radical and rich, the most unstruggling decade of decades,' the 1980s in his ruthless debut novel, Insane, his analysis of RAF terrorism in Kontrolliert, and his monumental forerunner of `uncreative writing', the ...Show more
The Garden of Seven Twilights by Adrian Nathan West (Translator); Miquel de Palol
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Catalan Literature Ser.
As if Borges wrote The Decameron During an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a luxurious mansion in the mountains where he is put up, along with other guests, awaiting the outcome of the conflict. For the following seven days the residents of the mansi ...Show more
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut; Adrian Nathan West (translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaw ...Show more
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