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Satisfaction (Paperback)
Nina Bouraoui; Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins; Prologue by Helen Vassallo
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R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
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Satisfaction is an intense, introspective novel that explores the
intimate thoughts, feelings and impressions of Mme Akli, a French
woman living in Algeria in the late 1970s. Mme Akli is a possessive
mother in conflict with her own sexuality in a country that feels
alien to her. The acquiescence of Catherine Bousba, mother of her
son's best friend Bruce, will cause a turmoil of emotional events.
Through a narrative charged with sensuality and repressed passion,
we navigate Mme Akli's complex and paradoxical feelings towards her
own son, Catherine, Bruce and the Algerian landscape. The
representation of a troubled motherhood that echoes the tumultuous
political situation of Algeria at the time, opens the story to
wider community issues.
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Vladivostok Circus
Elisa Shua Dusapin; Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
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R314
R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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Winter In Sokcho (Paperback)
Elisa Shua Dusapin; Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
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R309
R251
Discovery Miles 2 510
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'Oiled with a brooding tension that never dissipates or resolves, Winter in Sokcho is a noirish cold sweat of a book.' -- Guardian
'Narrated in an elegant, enigmatic voice that skilfully summons the tenderness and mutability of an inner life, Winter in Sokcho is a lyrical and atmospheric work of art.' -- Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti
'A masterpiece.' -- Huffington Post
It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down: the fish turn venomous, bodies are red and raw, beyond the beach guns point out from the North s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives, a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape.
As she begins accompanying him on his trips to discover his idea of an authentic Korea, the two of them begin an uneasy relationship filled with suspended misunderstandings and punctuated by spilled ink. They visit snowy mountaintops, take daytrips to dramatic waterfalls, cross into North Korea. But he takes no interest in the Sokcho she knows the gaudy and beautiful neon lights, the fish market where her mother guts squid and puffer fish, the evening meals she prepares meticulously for the guesthouse. As she's pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she strikes upon a way to finally be seen.
An exquisitely-crafted novel, which won the Prix Robert Walser, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. A natural inheritor to Marguerite Duras, Elisa Shua Duspain's voice is distinctive and unmistakable.
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The Pachinko Parlor (Paperback)
Elisa Shua Dusapin; Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
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R443
R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
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Terrorism Explained to Our Kids, takes the form of a dialogue
between the author and his teenage daughter. Using her ill-defined
fears as the starting point, Exploring all forms of terrorism in
both a historical and contemporary context, the book addresses
complex and pressing questions in an everyday, accessible language.
Because Ben Jelloun understands that terrorist acts come from the
perpetrators' deep sense of inadequacy, his arguments are all the
more powerful. The author, himself a Muslim, places a high value on
the importance of secular values, with which he believes Islam is
compatible.
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Winter in Sokcho (Paperback)
Elisa Shua Dusapin; Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
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R395
R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
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The Pachinko Parlour (Paperback)
Elisa Shua Dusapin; Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
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R310
R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
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'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be
surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL
BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD All Men Want
to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a
wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent
swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is
French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface
in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of
violence that forces the family to flee the country. In Paris,
eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a
week she makes her way to The Kat, a legendary gay nightclub, where
she watches women from the sidelines, afraid of her own desires,
her sudden and intoxicating freedom. In her solitude, she starts to
write - and finds herself writing about her mother. All Men Want to
Know is a haunting, lyrical international bestseller about mothers
and daughters, about shame and sexuality, about existing between
two cultures and belonging to neither. A phenomenon in France, this
is a defining portrait of womanhood from one of Europe's greatest
living writers. 'Blown away by the power and lyricism of All Men
Want to Know. What a book. Read it' Niven Govinden, author of THIS
BRUTAL HOUSE 'Magnificent... a captivating autobiographical novel'
Elle 'A tour de force' Le Figaro 'Haunting, spell-binding,
luminous' Lire
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Seven Stones (Paperback)
Venus Khoury-Ghata; Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
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R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
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In a remote community on the edge of a windswept desert, a woman
has been condemned to death by stoning. Steeped in the harsh values
of her traditional, patriarchal society, Noor accepts her fate.
When an aid worker befriends her, urging her to defend herself and
her unborn child, the two women form a bond. Together with Amina,
Noor's outspoken friend, they struggle to defy the law. Written in
prose imbued with the rhythms and images of the author's native
language, Arabic, this is a tale of the bonds of female
friendships, solidarity and empowerment in a society where a
woman's voice, especially in the public sphere, has been denied.
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