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The Passenger (Paperback)
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; Translated by Philip Boehm; Introduction by Andre Aciman
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R452
R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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The Appointment (Paperback)
Herta Muller; Translated by Michael Hulse, Philip Boehm
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R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the
life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's
totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time
she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the
linings of men's suits bound for Italy. 'Marry me', the notes say,
with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country.As
she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray to her
friend Lilli, shot while trying to flee to Hungary; to her
grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them; to
Major Albu, her interrogator, who begins each session with a wet
kiss on her fingers; and to Paul, her lover and the one person she
can trust. In her distraction, she misses her stop and finds
herself on an unfamiliar street.And what she discovers there
suddenly puts her fear of the appointment into chilling
perspective. Bone-spare and intense, The Appointment is a pitiless
rendering of the terrors of a crushing regime.
Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young
schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in
a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for
the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina
returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut
off. On another day, a hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilation is a
sign that she is being tracked - the fox was ever the hunter.
Images of photographic precision combine to form a kaleidoscope of
reflections, deflections and deceit. Adina and her friends struggle
to keep living in a world permeated with fear, where even the eyes
of a cat seem complicit with the watchful eye of the state, and
where it's hard to tell the victim apart from the perpetrator.
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Darkness at Noon (Paperback)
Arthur Koestler; Translated by Philip Boehm
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R311
R253
Discovery Miles 2 530
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A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original
manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From
a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian
government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime,
mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the way of his
party's aims, Rubashov has had the tables turned on him. He has
been arrested and he'll be interrogated, probably tortured and
certainly executed. Darkness at Noon is as gripping as a thriller
and a seminal work of twentieth-century literature. Published in
Great Britain in 1940, it was feted by George Orwell, went on to be
translated into thirty languages and is considered the finest work
of pre-eminent European master, Arthur Koestler. And yet the
novel's worldwide reputation has, for over seventy years, been
based on the first incomplete and inexpert English translation -
Koestler's original manuscript was lost when he fled the German
occupation of Paris in 1940. In 2016, a student discovered that
long-lost manuscript in a Zurich archive. At last, with the
publication of this new translation of the rediscovered original,
Koestler's masterpiece can be experienced afresh and in its
entirety for the first time. THE NEW TRANSLATION BY PHILIP BOEHM
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Letters to Milena (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Philip Boehm
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R516
R394
Discovery Miles 3 940
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Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize The Fox
and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and
reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an
outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the
nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent-to his dismay-to the
provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by
an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he
considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox
moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to
Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and
Freud-whose methods, Dr. Shimamura concludes, are incompatible with
Japanese politeness. The ironic parallels between Charcot's
theories of female hysteria and ancient Japanese fox myths-when it
comes to beautiful, writhing young women-are handled with a lightly
sardonic touch by Christine Wunnicke, whose flavor-packed,
inventive language is a delight.
Anna Janko's mother watched as her whole village was destroyed and
her family murdered in 1943. She passes the trauma of the event
onto her daughter, and A Little Annihilation bears witness to both
the crime and its aftershocks - the trauma visited on the next
generation - as revealed in a beautifully scripted and deeply
personal mother-daughter dialogue. As Anna fathoms the full
dimension of the tragedy, she reflects the memory and loss, the
ethics of helplessness, and the lingering effects of war.
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The Appointment (Paperback)
Herta Muller; Translated by Michael Hulse, Philip Boehm
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R487
R405
Discovery Miles 4 050
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From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in
Literature, a fierce and devastating novel about a young woman's
discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life
"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins a day in the
life of a young factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian
regime. She has been questioned before; this time, she believes,
will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's
suits bound for Italy. "Marry me," the notes say, with her name and
address. Anything to get out of Romania.
As each tram stop brings the young woman closer to the appointment,
her thoughts stray to her father and his infidelities; to her
friend Lilli, shot trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents,
deported after her own husband informed on them; and to Paul, her
lover, her one source of trust despite his drunkenness. In her
distraction, she misses her stop and finds herself on an unfamiliar
street. And what she discovers there makes her fear of the
interrogation pale by comparison.
Bone-spare and intense, "The Appointment" powerfully renders the
humiliating terrors of a crushing regime and its corrosive effects
on family and friendship, sex and love.
For My Children And Grandchildren This book is dedicated to my
wonderful children and grandchildren, and of course to any new and
special additions that may still come our way. I hope through these
stories, my grandchildren will be able to share in the magic of
their parent's childhood, in the same way that their parent's are
now sharing in theirs. And in the most special way, it is dedicated
to Sammy and Bumpers. Two incredible little squirrels that made the
stories in this book come to life. It was the magical adventures
that Scooter and Buzzy Bear had with Sammy and Bumpers that made
these stories possible. I was lucky enough to have witnessed all
that follows.
For My Children And Grandchildren This book is dedicated to my
wonderful children and grandchildren, and of course to any new and
special additions that may still come our way. I hope through these
stories, my grandchildren will be able to share in the magic of
their parent's childhood, in the same way that their parent's are
now sharing in theirs. And in the most special way, it is dedicated
to Sammy and Bumpers. Two incredible little squirrels that made the
stories in this book come to life. It was the magical adventures
that Scooter and Buzzy Bear had with Sammy and Bumpers that made
these stories possible. I was lucky enough to have witnessed all
that follows.
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