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And the Stones Cry Out
Clara Dupont-Monod; Translated by Ben Faccini
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R519
R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
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When Elena falls in love with Riccardo, she also falls in love with
the idea of a world beyond her sheltered life in rural Italy. And
when she loses him, she gives up her hopes for the future and her
expectations of happiness, filling the sudden void in her life with
her son and brother-in-law. It is only when the young Marco rejects
the role his mother has created for him and flees to Paris, with
its migrant populations, political protests and romantic
possibilities, that all three come to realize how tightly they have
been bound within a triangle of conspiracy and how much they must
risk to break free from the secrets of the past.
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The King's Fool (Paperback)
Mahi Binebine; Translated by Ben Faccini
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R215
R170
Discovery Miles 1 700
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It is the final year of the twentieth century and King Sidi is
dying . . . Mohamed has been the king's fool for thirty-five year,
his closest counsel, privy to his deepest secrets and most intimate
thoughts. It is an honoured position for which many would pay a
hefty price. Something Mohamed understands only too well, for this
closeness has indeed come at a terrible cost. The threat of
imprisonment looms, even as the once-mighty monarch draws his final
breaths. In the last days of this all-powerful tyrant of the
twentieth century, his faithful court fool takes stock of the
decades he spent in the Moroccan king's service. For the many years
of corrosive love and loyalty have left certain indelible wounds .
. . Translated from the French by Ben Faccini
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Cry, Mother Spain (Paperback)
Lydie Salvayre; Translated by Ben Faccini
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R311
R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and
cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never
heard the word fascista before. In any case, the villagers say
facha (the ch is a real Spanish ch, by the way, with a real spit).
Montse lives in a small village, high in the hills, where few
people can read or write and fewer still ever leave. If everything
goes according to her mother's plan, Montse will never leave
either. She will become a good, humble maid for the local
landowners, muchisimas gracias, with every Sunday off to dance the
jota in the church square. But Montse's world is changing. Her
brother Jose has just returned from Lerida with a red and black
scarf and a new, dangerous vocabulary and his words are beginning
to open up new realms to his little sister. She might not
understand half of what he says, but how can anyone become a maid
in the Burgos family when their head is ringing with shouts of
Revolucion, Comunidad and Libertad? The war, it seems, has arrived
in the nick of time.
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