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The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse by Ivan Repila
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
'It looks impossible to get out,' he says. And also: 'But we'll get out.' Two brothers, Big and Small, are trapped at the bottom of a well. They have no food and little chance of rescue. Only the tempting spectre of insanity offers a way out. As Small's wits fail, Big formulates a desperate plan. With t ...Show more
The Cake Tree in the Ruins by Akiyuki Nosaka; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly m ...Show more
The Captain's Daughter - Essential Stories by Alexander Pushkin; Anthony Briggs (Translator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's most fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony Briggs.
The Evenings by Gerard Reve; Sam Garrett (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. ...Show more
The Hideout by Egon Hostovský; Fern Long (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A kind, blundering Czech engineer is pressured by the Nazi government to hand over his invention, which could be key to their military operations. He flees to Paris, hoping to sell his invention to the French government instead; yet when the Germans invade France, he is forced into hiding, and spends mo ...Show more
The Last and the First by Nina Berberova
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The first English translation of celebrated Russian writer Nina Berberova's debut novel: an intense story of family conflict.
The Marquise of O— by Heinrich von Kleist; Nicholas Jacobs (Translator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Collection
A vivid new translation of a timeless classic: Kleist's tense, ambiguous novella about an unexpected pregnancy In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town's ci ...Show more
The New Sorrows of Young W. by Ulrich Plenzdorf
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
'I was just a regular idiot, a nutcase, a show-off and all that. Nothing to cry about. Seriously' Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius - and dead - tells the story of his brief, spectacular life. It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of communist East Germa ...Show more
The Pointless Leopard: What Good are Kids Anyway? by Colas Gutman
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
A walk in the woods turns into a funny, philosophical and irresistibly charming mini-adventure.In this witty tale of insistent parents and talking animals, a child questions his purpose.In the country, there's nothing to do, except: admire. It's the same as being bored, but with your eyes wide open.The ...Show more
The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy by Antal Szerb
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Category: Travel | Series: Pushkin Collection
In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his ima ...Show more
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his e ...Show more