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I Live in the Slums by Can Can Xue; Karen Gernant (Translator); Zeping Chen (Translator)
$47.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue's stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structu ...Show more
Journeying by Claudio Magris; Anne Milano Appel (Translator)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys. A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the ...Show more
Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue; Annelise Finegan Wasmoen; Eileen Myles
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China todayIn this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community th ...Show more
The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon; Jonathan Wright (Translator)
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Widely praised in the Arab world, Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows an Iraqi academic, Nameer, who meets an antiquarian bookseller, Wadood, in a Baghdad market. Nameer becomes captivated by Wadood's obsession with cataloging everything that the 2003 invasion of their country des ...Show more
The Orphanage - A Novel by Serhiy Zhadan; Reilly Costigan-Humes (Translator); Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (Translator)
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine "A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege. . . . With a poet's sense of lyricism . . . [Zhadan] unblinkingly reveals a country's devastation and its people's passionate determinatio ...Show more
The Punishment by Tahar Ben Jelloun; Linda Coverdale (Translator)
$52.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
An innocent man's gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moro ...Show more
The Republic of Letters by Marc Fumaroli; Lara Vergnaud
$53.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enligh ...Show more
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