A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman
$48.00 NZD
Category: Translation | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE In a dive bar in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, takes the stage for his final show. Over the course of a single evening, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood. An ...Show more
Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún
$16.43 NZD
Category: Translation
The award-winning and haunting novel from Rodrigo Hasb n, the literary star Jonathan Safran Foer calls, "a great writer," about an unusual family's breakdown--set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and inspired by the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl. Inspired by real events, A ...Show more
Bark by Georges Didi-Huberman; Samuel E. Martin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Translation
A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, ...Show more
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou; Helen Stevenson (Translator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Translation
One of The New York Times 10 French Novels to Read Now Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary PrizeLonglisted for the PEN America Translation PrizeShortlisted for the Albertine PrizeIncluded in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2017""The story's unflinching tone and sly humor belie t ...Show more
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo; Len Rix (Translator)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Translation
FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II. In prewar Budapest three famili ...Show more
Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a ...Show more
Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco
$18.58 NZD
Category: Translation
After suffering violence and betrayal at home, a young boy flees into an uncompromising landscape ravaged by drought. Without food or water, exposed to the heat of the sun and the violence of his pursuers, the boy sets out across the Spanish plains. An encounter with an elderly goatherd offers hope of ...Show more
The Book of Emma Reyes - A Memoir by Emma Reyes; Daniel Alarcón (Translator, Introduction by)
$17.15 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
"Startling and astringently poetic." --The New York Times A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombi ...Show more
The Book of Whispers by Varujan Vosganian; Alistair Ian Blyth (Translator)
$54.99 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres during the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Varujan Vosganian grew up in Romania hearing firsthand ac ...Show more
The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo
$11.43 NZD
Category: Translation
A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South Korea The Impossible Fairy Taleis the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is "lucky"--she is spoiled by her mother and, as she explains, her two fathers. She gloats over her exotic imported color pencils and won't be den ...Show more
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