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The Rooftop (Paperback)
Fernanda Trias; Translated by Annie McDermott
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R296
R240
Discovery Miles 2 400
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In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a
father and daughter close themselves off from the world. 'The world
is this house', says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last
recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. As Clara's
connection to the outside is stripped away-the neighbor who stops
coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a
pregnancy-desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling
embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we
know the future holds.
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Tender (Paperback)
Ariana Harwicz; Translated by Carolina Orloff, Annie McDermott
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R292
R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
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The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's "Involuntary
Trilogy" finds us on familiar, disquieting ground. Under the spell
of a mother's madness, the French countryside transforms into a
dreamscape of interconnected imagery: animals, desire, the
functions of the body. Most troublingly: the comfort of a teenage
son. Scorning the bourgeois mores and conventionality of their
small town, she withdraws him from school and the two embark on
ever more antisocial and dangerous behavior. Harwicz is at her best
here, building an interior world so robust, and so grotesque, that
it eclipses our shared reality. Savage, and savagely funny, she
leaves us singed, if not scorched.
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Empty Words (Paperback)
Annie McDermott; Mario Levrero
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R268
R218
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An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey
of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his
writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to
keep a notebook of handwriting exercises, hoping that if he is able
to improve his penmanship, his personal character will also
improve. What begins as a mere physical exercise becomes
involuntarily coloured by humorous reflections and tender anecdotes
about living, writing, and the sense - and nonsense - of existence.
The first book by Mario Levrero to be translated into English,
Empty Words is the perfect introduction to a major author and a
significant point of reference in Latin American writing today.
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The Luminous Novel (Paperback)
Mario Levrero; Translated by Annie McDermott
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R468
R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
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'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing
today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up
exercise. [...] But it's quite possible that if I go on writing -
as I usually do - with no plan, although this time I know very well
what I want to say, things will start to take shape, to come
together. I can feel the familiar taste of a literary adventure in
my throat. I'll take that as confirmation, then, and start
describing what I think was the beginning of my spiritual awakening
- though nobody should expect religious sermons at this point;
they'll come later. It all began with some ruminations prompted by
a dog.' A writer attempts to complete the novel for which he has
been awarded a big fat Guggenheim grant, though for a long time he
succeeds mainly in procrastinating - getting an electrician to
rewire his living room so he can reposition his computer, buying an
armchair, or rather, two: 'In one, you can't possibly read: it's
uncomfortable and your back ends up crooked and sore. In the other,
you can't possibly relax: the hard backrest means you have to sit
up straight and pay attention, which makes it ideal if you want to
read.' Insomniacs, romantics and anyone who's ever written (or
failed to write) will fall in love with this compelling masterpiece
told by a true original, with all his infuriating faults, charming
wit and intriguing musings.
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Feebleminded (Paperback)
Ariana Harwicz; Translated by Carolina Orloff, Annie McDermott
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R296
R241
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Following the international success of Die, My Love (longlisted for
the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again
takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this
delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound by chaos
as much as love. Driven to the edge by the men in their lives, they
oscillate between erratic bursts of housework, lazing in the
garden, and drunken escapades. But is the constant undercurrent of
violence all in the daughter's mind or will they actually go
through with their plan for revenge? With a shocking,
edge-of-the-seat finale worthy of Thelma & Louise if it were
remade by David Lynch, Feebleminded is a wild ride of a novel with
echoes of Agota Kristof, Elfriede Jelinek and Alan Warner, and will
leave you both shaken and begging for more.
With the grand sweep of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, this
enduring tale transports us to a picturesque seaside town haunted
by its colonial past. Considered one of Europe's most influential
contemporary writers, Portuguese novelist Lidia Jorge has
captivated international audiences for decades. With the
publication of The Wind Whistling in the Cranes, English-speaking
readers can now experience the thrum of her signature poetic style
and her delicately braided multi-character plotlines and witness
the heroic journey of one of the most maddening, and endearing,
characters in literary fiction. Exquisitely translated by Margaret
Jull Costa and Annie McDermott, this breathtaking saga, set in the
now-distant 1990s, tells the story of the landlords and tenants of
a derelict canning factory in southern Portugal. The wealthy,
always-scheming Leandros have owned the building since before the
Carnation Revolution. It was Leandro matriarch, Dona Regina, who
handed the keys to the Matas, the bustling family from Cape Verde
who saw past the dusty machinery and converted the space into a
warm-and welcoming-home. When Dona Regina is found dead outside the
factory on a holiday weekend, her body covered in black ants, her
granddaughter, Milene, investigates. Aware that her aunts and
uncles, who are on holiday, will berate her inability to articulate
what has just happened, she approaches the factory riddled with
anxiety. Hours later, the Matas return home to find this strange
girl hiding behind their clotheslines and with caution, they take
her in. Days later, the Leandros realise that Milene has become
hopelessly entangled with their tenants, and their fear of
political and financial ruin sets off a series of events that
threatens to uproot the lives of everyone involved. Narrated with
passionate, incandescent prose, The Wind Whistling in the Cranes
establishes Lidia Jorge as a novelist of extraordinary
international resonance.
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Woodworm
Layla Martinez; Translated by Sophie Hughes, Annie McDermott
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R544
R444
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When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a
wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost of your
consumables? There is a war raging in the heartlands of Peru, waged
on the land by the global industries plundering the Amazon and the
Andes. In Saweto, charismatic activist Edwin Chota returns to his
ashaninka roots, only to find that his people can't hunt for food
because the animals have fled the rainforest to escape the chainsaw
cacophony of illegal logging. Farmer Maxima Acuna is trying to grow
potatoes and catch fish on the land she bought from her uncle - but
she's sitting on top of a gold mine, and the miners will do
anything to prove she's occupying her home illegally. The awajun
community of the northern Amazon drink water contaminated with oil;
child labourer Osman Cunachi's becomes internationally famous when
a photo of him drenched in petrol as part of the clean-up efforts
makes it way around the world. Joseph Zarate's stunning work of
documentary takes three of Peru's most precious resources - gold,
wood and oil - and exposes the tragedy, violence and corruption
tangled up in their extraction. But he also draws us in to the
rich, surprising world of Peru's indigenous communities, of local
heroes and singular activists, of ancient customs and passionate
young environmentalists. Wars of the Interior is a deep insight
into the cultures alive in the vanishing Amazon, and a forceful,
shocking expose of the industries destroying this land.
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The City of Ulysses (Paperback)
Teolinda Gersao; Translated by Jethro Soutar, Annie McDermott
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R384
R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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A man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses
is their story, and the city’s love story besides. It is a story
that leads readers down multiple paths, through myth and history,
reality and fantasy, literature and the visual arts, the past and
the present, male and female relations, the crisis of civilisation
and the need to reimagine the world.
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Dead Girls (Paperback)
Selva Almada; Translated by Annie McDermott
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R354
R287
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In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of
three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the
interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old
Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year old Maria Luisa
Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and 20-year old
Sarita Mundin, whose disfigured body was found on a river bank.
Almada takes these and other tales of abused women to weave
together a dry, straightforward portrait of gender violence that
surpasses national borders and speaks to readers' consciousness all
over the world.Following the success of The Wind That Lays Waste,
internationally acclaimed Argentinian author Selva Almada dives
into the heart of this problem with a reported novel, comparable to
Truman Capote's _In Cold Blood _or John Hersey's Hiroshima, in
response to the urgent need for attention to the ongoing
catastrophe that is femicide.Not a police chronicle, not a
thriller, but a contemporary noir novel that lives in the hearts of
these women and the men who have abused them. Almada captures the
invisible, and with lyrical brutality, blazes a new trail in
journalistic fiction.
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