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Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Tóibín, from the introductionDeath in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, ...Show more
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction. 'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...' It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-o ...Show more
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each s ...Show more
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days. As he hurtles towards his death, he reflects on the chaos around him - the naive soldiers, the painfully thin girl who ...Show more
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
With an introduction by Sunday Times bestselling author Victoria Hislop 'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .' Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countrys ...Show more
Women by Mihail Sebastian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John Banville. Stefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the Alps, where he soon becomes entangled in romantic relationships with three different women who pass throug ...Show more
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