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"An intricate, finely crafted and polished tale, The Weeping Woman
brings magic-realism to the dimly lit streets of Prague. Through
the squares and alleys a woman walks, the embodiment of human pity,
sorrow, death. Everyone she passes is touched by her, and Germain
skilfully creates an intense mood and feel in her attempt to
produce a spiritual map of Prague."The ObserverThe figure of this
bereft woman develops into a memorable symbol: her sudden
appearances - on a bridge, in a square, in a room - haunt the book
like history, moved to tears."Robert Winder in The Independent"a
haunting classic" Madeleine Kingsley in She Magazine
The Last of the Vostyachs won two literary prizes in Italy: The
Premio Campiello and The Premio Stresa. As a child, Ivan and his
father work as forced labourers in a mine in Siberia, the father
having committed some minor offence against the regime. Ivan's
father is then murdered in front of his young son, after which Ivan
- who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he
is the last remaining speaker - is struck dumb by what he has
witnessed. Some twenty years later the guards desert their posts
and Ivan walks free, together with the other inmates. Guided by
some mysterious power, he returns to the region he originally came
from...
This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by
Dino Buzzati - author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and
one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature -
stories which show the Italian master's taste for the bizarre and
the humorous, and for exploring the darker recesses of the human
psyche. From `The Collapse of the Baliverna', where a man is racked
with guilt at the thought that he might have been responsible for
the loss of many lives, to `The Epidemic', which describes the
spread of a "state influenza" contracted only by people who don't
step into line with the government, and `Terror at the Scala',
where the higher echelons of Milan society are gripped with the
fear of an impending revolution - these stories show how strange
and unexpected events can creep into everyday life and draw
ordinary people towards mystery, disquiet and, ultimately,
catastrophe.
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The interpreter (Paperback)
Diego Marani; Translated by Judith Landry
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R312
R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
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In 1943, Fania Fenelon was a Paris cabaret singer, a secret member
of the Resistance, and a Jew. Captured by the Nazis, she was sent
to Auschwitz, and later, Bergen-Belsen. With unnerving clarity and
an astonishing ability to find humor where only despair should
prevail, the author charts her eleven months as one of "the
orchestra girls"; writes of the loves, the laughter, hatreds,
jealousies, and tensions that racked this privileged group whose
only hope of survival was to make music.
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