A Childhood - The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews; Tobias Wolff (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural SouthA Penguin ClassicHarry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when "the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in ...Show more
People from Bloomington by Budi Darma
$31.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia's most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin ClassicIn these seven stories of The People ...Show more
The Last Days of Jeanne D'Arc by Ali Alizadeh
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jeanne is a young woman from rural France. She's a knight who wears men's clothing. The English call her Joan of Arc. Jeanne has led France to victory in epic battles. She hears ghostly voices and has unspeakable desires. The English want to burn her. Her king has abandoned her. Her heart has been broke ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sen ...Show more
Runaway by Alice Munro
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and w ...Show more
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The best-known book by Cuba's most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura A Penguin Classic Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his c ...Show more
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Danielle Dutton’s writing is as protean as it is beguiling, using the different styles and different spaces of experience to create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life. This collection covers an inventive selection of subjects in four eponymous sections which contrast and echo ...Show more
Pedro Páramo by Juán Rulfo; Douglas J. Weatherford (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A new translation of the legendary Mexican classic of magic realism which went on to inspire the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa