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After the Winter by Guadalupe Nettel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
A shy young Mexican woman moves to Paris to study literature. Cecilia has few friends, and a morbid fascination with watching the funerals taking place in the cemetery outside her apartment. She suddenly strikes up a close platonic relationship with her neighbour, a sickly young man who shares her inter ...Show more
An Oblique Place by Frank Perry (Translator); Caterina Pascual Söderbaum
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
"Caterina Pascual Söderbaum has left a major European literary work of art as her legacy" STEVE SEM-SANDBERG, author of Emperor of Lies The Oblique Place is a captivating journey of the imagination, a prize-winning novel that probes the ruinous legacies of Fascist Europe in the twentieth century. T ...Show more
Belladonna by Dasa Drndic
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
Andreas Ban is a writer and a psychologist, an intellectual proper, full of empathy, but his world has been falling apart for years. When he retires with a miserable pension and finds out that he is ill, he gains a new perspective on the debris of his life and the lives of his friends. In defying illnes ...Show more
One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions | Reading Level: very good
A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths ? the first novel of Germany's best-known contemporary playwright One clear ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of d ...Show more
The Impostor by Javier Cercas
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
The Impostor, by the admired Spanish writer Javier Cercas, is a true story that is nevertheless packed with fiction - fiction created by its main character, Enric Marco. Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain's ...Show more
The President's Gardens by Muhsin Al-Ramli; Luke Leafgren (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
On the third day of Ramadan, a small village in Iraq wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated. How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so ...Show more
The President's Gardens by Muhsin Al-Ramli; Luke Leafgren (translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions | Reading Level: very good
One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite-Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting" Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent F ...Show more
The Tree of the Toraja by Philippe Claudel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
A middle-aged filmmaker visits Indonesia and becomes entranced by the Toraja custom of interning the bodies of very young deceased children in the trunks of trees. In time, the trunk heals, encasing and protecting the tiny bodies as the tree grows slowly heavenwards. On his return to France, the filmmak ...Show more
Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018. WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is str ...Show more
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