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Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Do you see what kind of a madhouse this town of Drohobycz is now, Dr Mann? People here never think and act as they should! Locked away in a dimly lit cellar in a provincial Polish town, the writer Bruno Schulz is composing a letter to Thomas Mann, warning him of a sinister impostor who has deceived the ...Show more
Isolde by Irena Odoevtseva; Brian Karetnyk (Translator); Irina Steinberg (Translator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The first English translation of a pioneering Russian writer: a hypnotically dark classic of love, deceit and wayward youth in Paris Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty ...Show more
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
An old man lives alone. His garden is the envy of all his neighbours. But one morning he wakes up to find that his garden is floating away, with him on board, and his supplies won't last. As the water runs out and the delirium takes over, the desperation of solitude begins to overwhelm him.Fluent, narra ...Show more
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Collection
'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him ...Show more
Poems to Night by Rilke, Rainer Maria; Will Stone (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pushkin Collection
A collection of haunting mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English.
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal ...Show more
Rendezvous in Venice by Philippe Beaussant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Pierre thought he knew his Uncle Charles well. He had worked with him on a daily basis for fifteen years, assisting the austere art historian in his studies. Yet after Charles' death, Pierre finds a diary in which his uncle confessed to a secret, heartbreaking love affair. Pierre's search for the truth ...Show more
Salad Anniversary by Machi Tawara
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pushkin Collection
'Unputdownable, essential Japanese poetry: read and love' Sunday Times In Style This internationally bestselling book took the world by storm on its publication. Covering the discovery of new love, first heartache and the end of an affair, these poems mix the ancient grace and musicality of the tanka fo ...Show more
Subtly Worded and Other Stories by Nadezhda Teffi
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny - a ...Show more
Surrender To Night (Pushkin Collection): Collected Poems of Georg Trakl by Georg Trakl
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pushkin Collection
A new translation by acclaimed poet Will Stone of the visionary Austrian poet Georg Trakl In Georg Trakl's brief, tragic life he produced a body of work of intense visual power. Dense, imagistic and full of unnerving symbolism, his poems occupy a critical place in German Expressionism. Until his death ...Show more
The Art of the City : Rome, Florence, Venice by Georg Simmel; Will Stone (Translator)
$21.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Pushkin Collection
A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the cit ...Show more
The Beauties : Essential Stories by Nicholas Slater (TRN) Anton Pavlovich; Pasternak Chekhov
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
Without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov's short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales of his early years to some of the most achingly profound stories ever composed, and this variety of ...Show more