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The Illogic of Kassel (Paperback)
Enrique Vila-Matas; Translated by Anne McLean, Anna Milsom
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R280
R228
Discovery Miles 2 280
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A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic
female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the
legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in
Kassel, Germany. The writer's mission will be to transform himself
into a living art installation, by sitting down to write every
morning in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of town. Once in
Kassel, the writer is surprised to find himself overcome by good
cheer. As he strolls through the city, spurred on by his
spontaneous, quirky response to art, he begins to make sense of the
wonders that surround him. 'A writer who has no equal in the
contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel' Roberto Bolano
'Vila-Matas's work made a tremendous impression on me' Paul Auster
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Good Offices (Paperback)
Evelio Rosero; Translated by Anna Milsom, Anne McLean
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R243
R217
Discovery Miles 2 170
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When Father Almida is summoned to an audience with the parish's
principal benefactor, a stand-in is found in Father Matamoros, a
drunkard with an angel's voice whose sung mass is mesmerizing to
all. But Matamoros hides a darker side, and when the church's
residents throw a feast for him he encourages them to lose all
their inhibitions and give free reign to their most Bacchanalian
desires. A satire on the iniquities of the Catholic church in
Colombia, Good Offices is at once comic, surreal and startling, a
novel that will linger long in the mind.
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