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Surrender (Paperback): Ray Loriga Surrender (Paperback)
Ray Loriga; Translated by Carolina De Robertis
R416 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R75 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"[A] riveting, and original, achievement."--WIRED From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by Jose Saramago" (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation). Ten long years have passed since war first broke out, and one couple still does not know the whereabouts of their children, or what their country is even fighting for. They follow orders and their lives go by simply, routinely, until--one day--a mute boy walks onto their property. When the authorities announce that the area needs to be evacuated and that everyone must relocate to "the transparent city," the three leave together. At first, the city proves to be a paradise: a stunning glass dome of endless highways, buildings, trains, and markets. Everything its inhabitants need is provided to them--food, protection, shelter--and the family quickly, unquestioningly, settles into their new life. But, soon, a sinister underlay begins to emerge. Neither secrets nor walls are permitted here, and strict order, authoritarian calm, and transparency must always reign supreme. In a society in which everything private is public, the most chilling portent of our future emerges. Surrender is an urgent novel about dignity and rebellion and the lengths we go to preserve love, hope, and humanity. "Loriga envisions in this gripping tale an unsettling dystopia in which all secrets are forbidden...This memorable page-turner will appeal to fans of Brave New World."--Publishers Weekly

The Invisible Mountain (Paperback): Carolina De Robertis The Invisible Mountain (Paperback)
Carolina De Robertis 1
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again. As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women are emancipated, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro free Cuba, the Perons take power in Argentina, and three generations of Firielli women are to live, love, and fight for their independence and freedom. Pajarita is the founder of the dynasty, born into a rural village and constantly chafing against its narrow confines. A love-match with a circus performer offers her escape, but she is trapped in a cage of another sort when her husband becomes a monster. Her spirited daughter, Eva, enters a world shaken by revolution. Fleeing childhood abuse, and alienated from her mother, she heads to Buenos Aires, but the glittering circles she moves in cannot erase the memories of her past. Her daughter, Salome, driven by political passion becomes a guerrilla fighter, but her idealism turns to tragedy when she is captured, and brutalised. From bohemian Buenos Aires to the hills of Rio de Janeiro; from tangos to demonstrations; from the broad sweep of history to the intimate lives of the Fierelli family, THE INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN traverses a changing South America, in which some things - love, family, hope - continue forever.

The Divine Boys (Paperback): Laura Restrepo The Divine Boys (Paperback)
Laura Restrepo; Translated by Carolina De Robertis
R291 R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Save R69 (24%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From acclaimed Colombian author Laura Restrepo comes a prize-winning novel inspired by a true crime that shattered a community and exposed the dark recesses of toxic masculinity and privilege. Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined. Hauntingly true, this daringly told work of fiction explores the tragic dynamic between genders, social classes, and victim and victimizer, and between five men whose intolerable transgressions will shake the conscience of a country.

The Gods of Tango (Paperback): Carolina De Robertis The Gods of Tango (Paperback)
Carolina De Robertis
R436 R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Save R102 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Perla (Paperback): Carolina De Robertis Perla (Paperback)
Carolina De Robertis 1
R289 R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic house guest. Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession. She learned early on not to disclose in a country still reeling from the abuses perpetrated by the deposed military dictatorship. Perla understands that her parents were on the wrong side of the conflict, but her love for her papa is unconditional. Yet when Perla is startled by an uninvited visitor, she begins a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life, and to make a wrenching decision about who she is, and who she will become.

Cantoras (Paperback): Carolina De Robertis Cantoras (Paperback)
Carolina De Robertis
R477 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R116 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La montana invisible / The Invisible Mountain (Spanish, Paperback, Vintage Espanol): Carolina De Robertis La montana invisible / The Invisible Mountain (Spanish, Paperback, Vintage Espanol)
Carolina De Robertis
R503 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R80 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"La clase de novela por la que uno se acuesta tarde para terminarla y acostado sigue pensando en ella." --"The San Francisco Chronicle"
En el primer dia del siglo XX, un pequeno pueblo en lo mas profundo del campo uruguayo se reune para ver un milagro --la misteriosa reaparicion de Pajarita, una nina que se habia perdido. Anos despues, Pajarita comenzara una estirpe ferozmente independiente, tres generaciones de mujeres que lucharan por crearse una vida en su querida Uruguay, una patria que nutre sus almas a la vez que pone a prueba sus espiritus:
su hija Eva, una fragil pero ferozmente obcecada belleza decidida a ser poeta, se sobrepondra a una desgarradora traicion para seguir un camino poco convencional. Y la hija de Eva, Salome, despertara tanto a la sensualidad como al compromiso politico en medio de los turbulentos anos sesenta. "La montana invisible" es una mordaz celebracion del poder del amor familiar, de la voluntad de supervivencia en las circunstancias mas desesperadas y, sobre todo, del intenso vinculo entre madres e hijas.

Perla (Paperback): Carolina De Robertis Perla (Paperback)
Carolina De Robertis
R497 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R65 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the author of the international bestseller, "The Invisible Mountain, " comes "Perla," a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history.
Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her naval officer father in a country still reeling from the abuses of a deposed military dictatorship. But when an uninvited visitor appears in Perla's home, this encounter sets her on a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life--and to make a wrenching decision about who she is, and who she will become.

El beso de la mujer arana / The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Spanish, Paperback): Manuel Puig El beso de la mujer arana / The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Spanish, Paperback)
Manuel Puig; Prologue by Carolina De Robertis
R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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