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Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction
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Big Summer
(Paperback)
Jennifer Weiner
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R437
R410
Discovery Miles 4 100
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Albion
(Hardcover)
Anna Hope
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R430
R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
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The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home – twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone – to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other. Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage. And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they’ve built their lives.
'Elisa said Yes and I said Yes. We said Yes in all the European
languages. Yes. We said yes we said yes, yes to vague but powerful
things, we said yes to hope which has to be vague, we said yes to
love which is always blind, we smiled and said yes without
blinking.' ('A Better Way to Live') ----------- How does love
change us? And how do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of
it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these
delicate, impossible questions. In Vienna, an icy woman seduces a
broken man; in London, a bird mimics an old-fashioned telephone; in
adland, a sleek copywriter becomes a kind of shaman. These are
twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour and
curiosity, stories about what it means to live and love, together
and alone.
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Utopia
(Paperback)
Gianluca Cameron
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R302
Discovery Miles 3 020
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Two young men, Raoul and Niko, who have little in common other than
their isolation, escape across a wall of mist from a town about to
become a crazed utopian experiment only to encounter a series of
dreamlike dystopias, apparently in parallel. Perhaps unconsciously
Utopia reflects the key themes of the generation coming of age: the
environment, the impossibility of finding a job, the fragmentation
of society, a troubled hedonism. The novel is also highly original
and contains cubes, corridors, robots, biological columns (a
metaphor for the constraints the system places on us), an ugly
green and sensitive woman born out of a huge flower - and as in
Botticelli's Birth of Venus the west wind blows gently into her
hair - and many other powerful imaginings.
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