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Skeletons in the Closet
Jean-Patrick Manchette; Translated by Alyson Waters
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R478
R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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Meeselphe
Claude Ponti; Illustrated by Claude Ponti; Translated by Alyson Waters, Margot Kerlidou
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R485
R400
Discovery Miles 4 000
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Noor and Bobby (Hardcover)
Praline Gay-Para; Illustrated by Lauranne Quentric; Translated by Alyson Waters
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R378
Discovery Miles 3 780
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No Room at the Morgue (Paperback)
Jean-Patrick Manchette; Translated by Alyson Waters; Afterword by Howard A Rodman
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R446
R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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His eyes "shine with a glimmer of perpetual amusement"; his
sartorial taste is impeccable; Ossama is "a thief, not a
legitimated thief, such as a minister, banker, or real-estate
developer; he is a modest thief." He knows "that by dressing with
the same elegance as the licensed robbers of the people, he could
elude the mistrustful gaze of the police," and so he glides lazily
around the cafes of Cairo, seeking his prey. His country may be a
disaster, but he's a hedonist convinced that "nothing on this earth
is tragic for an intelligent man." One fat victim ("everything
about him oozed opulence and theft on a grand scale") is relieved
of his crocodile wallet. In it Ossama finds not just a gratifying
amount of cash, but also a letter - a letter from the Ministry of
Public Works, cutting off its ties to the fat man. A source of rich
bribes heretofore, the fat man is now too hot to handle; he's a
fabulously wealthy real-estate developer, lately much in the news
because one of his cheap buildings has just collapsed, killing 50
tenants. Ossama "by some divine decree has become the repository of
a scandal" of epic proportions. And so he decides he must act. . .
. Among the books to be treasured by the utterly singular Albert
Cossery, his last, hilarious novel, The Colors of Infamy, is a
particular jewel.
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My Valley (Paperback)
Claude Ponti; Translated by Alyson Waters
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R293
R243
Discovery Miles 2 430
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Hiznobyuti (Paperback)
Claude Ponti; Translated by Alyson Waters
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R293
R243
Discovery Miles 2 430
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What happens when we look at a painting? What do we think about?
What do we imagine? How can we explain, even to ourselves, what we
see or think we see? And how can art historians interpret with any
seriousness what they observe? In six engaging, short narrative
"fictions," each richly illustrated in color, Daniel Arasse, one of
the most brilliant art historians of our time, cleverly and
gracefully guides readers through a variety of adventures in
seeing, from Velazquez to Titian, Bruegel to Tintoretto.
By demonstrating that we don't really see what these paintings
are trying to show us, Arasse makes it clear that we need to take a
closer look. In chapters that each have a different form, including
a letter, an interview, and an animated conversation with a
colleague, the book explores how these pictures teach us about ways
of seeing across the centuries. In the process, Arasse freshly lays
bare the dazzling power of painting. Fast-paced and full of humor
as well as insight, this is a book for anyone who cares about
really looking at, seeing, and understanding paintings."
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Cousin K (Paperback, 0th edition)
Yasmina Khadra; Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Alyson Waters; Afterword by Robert Polito
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R406
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
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"Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done
badly; evil done well." And such is the twisted logic of good and
bad, right and wrong, knitted into this novella by one of the most
powerful voices to emerge from North Africa in our time. With his
father brutally killed as a traitor during a national liberation
war and his older brother an army officer far away, the young
narrator lives reclusively with his mother, who scorns him. He
turns to his young cousin for affection, only to be mocked and
humiliated so deeply that his love becomes hopelessly entangled
with hatred. Fate places a young woman in the narrator's path when
he rescues her from a violent attack, and the reawakening of his
confused passions proceeds toward terrible vengeance. In this
nameless narrator's tormented reflections, played out against the
backdrop of an indifferent world, Yasmina Khadra plumbs the
mysteries of the crippled heart's desires.
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Coda - A Novel (Paperback)
Rene Belletto; Translated by Alyson Waters
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R352
R286
Discovery Miles 2 860
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"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story
that proves it beyond all doubt." With this sentence Rene Belletto
begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked
in-thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror-into
one breathless narrative in which what is at stake is nothing less
than our own immortality. Playing with the expectations of the
reader, Belletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic,
much like the "almost-perpetual motion machine" invented by the
narrator of this novel and his father. What sets the story in
(perpetual) motion is a package of frozen seafood. This lowly
mechanism triggers a series of picaresque and otherworldly events,
from the storyteller's meeting with Fate disguised as a beautiful
woman, to the kidnapping of his daughter, to his amorous reunion
with the younger half-sister of a high school friend, to the
elimination of death from the world. It's a funny business, but
Belletto's playful and falsely transparent language opens the book
to such serious matters as explorations of death, immortality,
love, and the innocence of children.
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Our Fort (Hardcover)
Marie Dorleans, Alyson Waters
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R570
R467
Discovery Miles 4 670
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An NYRB Classics Original Emmanuel Bove was one of the most
original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a
popular success in his day. Discovered by Colette, who arranged for
the publication of his first novel, "My Friends," Bove enjoyed a
busy literary career, until the German occupation silenced him.
During his lifetime, Bove's novels and stories were admired by
Rainer Maria Rilke, the surrealists, Albert Camus, and Samuel
Beckett, who said of him that "more than anyone else he has an
instinct for the essential detail." "Henry Duchemin and His
Shadows" is the perfect introduction to Bove's world, with its cast
of stubborn isolatoes who call to mind Herman Melville's Bartleby,
Robert Walser's "little men," and Jean Rhys's lost women. The poet
of the flophouse and the dive, the park bench and the pigeon's
crumb, Bove is also a deeply empathetic writer for whom no defeat
is so great as to silence desire.
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Diary Of A Body (Paperback)
Daniel Pennac; Translated by Alyson Waters
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R231
Discovery Miles 2 310
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From a particularly humiliating accident at scout camp, to the
final stages of terminal illness, Daniel Pennac's warm, witty and
heart-breaking novel shows the rise and fall of an ordinary man,
told through his observations of his own body. It is with damp eyes
(not to mention underpants) that our narrator begins his diary,
seeking through it to come to terms with the demoralising quirks of
his fleshy confines. Through the joys and horrors of puberty to the
triumphs of adolescence, we grow to love him through every growth,
leak and wound, as he finds himself developing muscles, falling in
love, and then leaving school to join the French Resistance. Yet,
as ever, this is only half the story. As years pass and hairs grey,
everything he took for granted begins to turn against him. Tackling
taboo topics with honesty and charm, Pennac's wit remains sharp
even as everything else begins to sag. This is a hugely original
story of the most relatable of unlikely love stories: a human, and
the body that defines him.
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My Valley (Hardcover)
Claude Ponti; Translated by Alyson Waters
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R445
Discovery Miles 4 450
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A medical mystery/fantasy/love story that delves into the nature of
consciousness while raising the ethical and existential issues
facing scientists today A contemporary Frankenstein that defies
expectations, this is a thrilling novel about a journalist, Cedric
Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him
from the neck down. An ideal candidate for a body transplant,
Cedric survives the surgery but has both physical and existential
trouble with his recovery and adaptation: encountering his lover
with a new body, discovering the life history of his donor, and
attempting to understand the mind-body relationship as he lives it.
Haddad explores the confusion and insignificance of a single
consciousness before experience and identity: What is a head
without a body? What or who is a lover with another's body? The
gruesome transplant (detailed in a manner that highlights the
author's diligent research and comprehension) parallels other ways
humanity mutates nature globally. The novel is a provocative and
timely allegory-a work of dystopian fantasy.
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Hiznobyuti (Hardcover)
Alyson Waters
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R483
R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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