|
Showing 1 - 10 of
10 matches in All Departments
|
Sanctuary
Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya; Translated by Andrea G Labinger
|
R450
R377
Discovery Miles 3 770
Save R73 (16%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Clerk (Paperback)
Guillermo Saccomanno; Translated by Andrea G Labinger
|
R420
R351
Discovery Miles 3 510
Save R69 (16%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
77 (Paperback)
Guillermo Saccomanno; Translated by Andrea G Labinger
|
R380
R360
Discovery Miles 3 600
Save R20 (5%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
|
An Empty House (Paperback)
Carlos. Cerda; Translated by Andrea G Labinger
|
R585
R491
Discovery Miles 4 910
Save R94 (16%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
A story of contemporary Chile by one of its most prominent
novelists, "An Empty House" depicts the dissolution of an
upper-middle-class family against a chilling background of exile,
return, and discovery. The stark and moving narrative suggests the
enormity of the horrors perpetrated in Chile over the last decades,
horrors that resonate through the culture to this day. Cecilia and
Manuel accept her father's gift of a house, in hope of repairing
their unraveling marriage along with the badly scarred building.
Instead, the couple's efforts expose the horrifying truth about the
building--and reveal the subtle strands of complicity,
responsibility, and indifference that bind them to each other,
their country, and its dark past. With its deftly drawn characters,
play of ideas, and vivid dialogue, "An Empty House" gives
English-speaking readers a memorable portrait of Chile today:
honest, brutally realistic, but with a redemptive touch of lyricism
and hope.
Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale--however one
reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana Maria Shua, a
work of fiction like no other and a dark pleasure to read. Shua, an
Argentinian writer widely celebrated throughout Latin America,
frames her complex drama in deceptively simple, straightforward
prose. The story takes place at a fat farm called The Reeds, a
nightmare world that might not exist but certainly could. The last
resort of the overweight wealthy (or sponsored), The Reeds subjects
its "campers" to extreme measures--particularly the regimented
system of public humiliation imposed by its director, a glib and
sharp-minded sadist called the Professor.
Into the midst of this methodical madness comes Marina Rubin,
who experiences all the excesses of The Reeds. The pervasive
cruelty of this refined novel distances it from facile conclusions.
Amid the mordant social satire, The Reeds' obese campers are far
more than merely victims of the system, subjected to impossible
social demands for physical perfection. Out of control, fierce,
rebellious, or subjugated, they are recognizable human beings,
contending with an unjust but efficient authority in their unique
and solitary ways.
|
Call Me Magdalena (Paperback)
Alicia Steimberg; Translated by Andrea G Labinger
|
R436
R362
Discovery Miles 3 620
Save R74 (17%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
Erotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder,
even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of Mind
Control class envisioned when they gathered on a ranch outside
Buenos Aires for a relaxing weekend. But here nothing is quite what
it seems, least of all Magdalena herself, who while recounting the
weekend's events, changes her name as often as she changes her
mind. Within the taut framework of a murder mystery, Alicia
Steimberg weaves a tale far more concerned with who-is-it than with
whodunit. In what is probably the celebrated author's most
interesting and complex novel, Magdalena conducts us through her
tortuous childhood as an Argentine Jew and through her doubts about
morality and mortality, the existence of God, and the amorphous
nature of identity. Animated by Steimberg's lively dialogue and
wit, this eccentric tour of some of the more pressing questions
about gender, identity, and existence itself is finally as
intriguing and suspenseful as the mysteries large and small,
otherworldly and mundane, that it invites us to contemplate.
|
You may like...
Higher
Michael Buble
CD
(1)
R172
R154
Discovery Miles 1 540
|