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Surrender (Paperback)
Ray Loriga; Translated by Carolina De Robertis
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R416
R341
Discovery Miles 3 410
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"[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 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.
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The Divine Boys (Paperback)
Laura Restrepo; Translated by Carolina De Robertis
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R291
R222
Discovery Miles 2 220
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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.
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Perla (Paperback)
Carolina De Robertis
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R289
R225
Discovery Miles 2 250
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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.
"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.
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Perla (Paperback)
Carolina De Robertis
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R497
R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
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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.
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Cantoras (Paperback)
Carolina De Robertis
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R477
R361
Discovery Miles 3 610
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