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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Set
against the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The
Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family,
tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a
sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise,
tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve
of World War One, when all is set to fall apart. Rich, epic and
profoundly moving, The Radetzky March is Joseph Roth's timeless
masterpiece.
Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he leaves
his lucrative law career for a foreign correspondent post in a
Portuguese backwater with a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar
recognizes Barrington Saddler, the disappeared reporter he's
replacing, as the larger-than-life character he longs to emulate.
Yet all is not as it appears. Os Soldados Ousados de Barba--"The
Daring Soldiers of Barba" --have been blowing up the rest of the
world for years in order to win independence for a province so
dismal and backward that you couldn't give the rathole away. So
why, with Barrington vanished, do incidents claimed by the "SOB"
suddenly dry up? A droll, playful novel, The New Republic addresses
terrorism with a deft, tongue-in- cheek touch while also pressing a
more intimate question: What makes particular people so magnetic,
while the rest of us inspire a shrug?
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Cages
(Hardcover)
Jeffrey C. Pugh
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R1,322
R1,060
Discovery Miles 10 600
Save R262 (20%)
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Stockholm, 1791. Emil Larsson is a self-satisfied bureaucrat in
the Office of Customs and Excise. He is a true man of the Town-a
drinker, card player, and contented bachelor. That is until Mrs.
Sofia Sparrow, fortune-teller and proprietor of an exclusive gaming
parlor, shares with him a vision she has had of a golden path that
will lead Emil to love and connection. She lays an Octavo for him,
a spread of eight cards that augur the eight individuals who can
help him realize this vision-if he can find them.
But as Emil eagerly searches for his eight, he comes to the
startling realization that finding them is no longer just a game of
the heart, but crucial to pulling his country back from the
crumbling precipice of rebellion and chaos.
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