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A People's History of Football
Mickaƫl Correia; Translated by Fionn Petch
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R450
R351
Discovery Miles 3 510
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***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** Football is so much more
than the billionaire buyers and eye-watering signing fees that
dominate the headlines. Look beyond the Premiership and the World
Cup, the sublime brilliance of Messi and MbappĆ©, and youāll find
a story unparalleled in the world of sport. From England, France
and Germany to Palestine, South Africa and Brazil, A People's
History of Football reveals how the 'beautiful game' has been a
powerful instrument of emancipation for workers, feminists,
anti-colonialist activists, young people and protesters around the
world. Mickaƫl Correia's history from below retraces the journeys
of professionals, amateurs and enthusiasts alike. Countering the
clichƩs about football fans, he dives into football
countercultures born after the Second World War, from English
hooligans to the ultras who played a central role in the 'Arab
Spring'. And with chapters on anti-fascism, the women's game, and
the rise in community-owned clubs, Correia reminds us that football
can be a powerful social and political force - as generous as it is
subversive.
Renato Cisneros's great-great-grandmother Nicolasa bore seven
children by her long-term secret love, who was also her priest,
raising them alone in nineteenth century Peru. More than a century
later, Renato, the descendent of that clandestine affair, struggles
to wring information about his origins out of recalcitrant
relatives, whose foibles match the adventures and dalliances of
their ancestors. As buried secrets are brought into the light, the
story of Nicolasa's progeny unfolds, bound up with key moments in
the development of the Republic of Peru since its independence.
Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach's Goldberg Variations,
Luis Sagasti's second book to appear in English takes the guise of
a musical scheherazade, recounting story after story, vibrating to
celestial harmonies. From the music born of the sun to the music
sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music,
from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for
Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering
traverses the shifting sands of fiction and history.
'This is an impressive book. In writing it the author demonstrates
great talent, as well as great courage.' **-Mario Vargas Llosa **
If I succeed in understanding who he was before I was born, perhaps
I will be able to understand who I am now that he is dead...In this
sprawling family saga stretching across Latin America, a son
embarks on a journey to understand his complex relationship with
his father and how it shaped the man he is today. Recalling Gabriel
Garcia Marquez's _One Hundred Years of Solitude _and Isabel
Allende's House of the Spirits, the renowned journalist and writer
Renato Cisneros probes deep into his own family history to try to
come to terms with his father, General Luis Federico 'The Gaucho'
Cisneros, a leading, controversial figure in the oppressive
military regime that held power in Peru during the 1970s and 1980s,
a tortuous period marked by state-sanctioned terrorism and the rise
of the Shining Path.Selling over 35,000 copies in Peru alone, The
Distance Between Us is at once excruciating in its honesty and
deeply moving in its universal relevance. Selected for a slew of
international prizes, it is now available in English for the first
time.
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Fireflies (Paperback)
Luis Sagasti; Translated by Fionn Petch
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R278
R226
Discovery Miles 2 260
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How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do
we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti's bold and
original attempt to answer these questions. Roaming across time and
geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters and events
that at first glance seem unrelated, and teases out their stories
to reveal unexpected points of contact between them. Stanley
Kubrick, Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Neil Armstrong,
Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Beatles, Japanese poets, Brazilian
priests, Russian cosmonauts and many more cross these pages, and
Sagasti finds common threads that weave them together into a single
narrative.The fireflies themselves perhaps provide the key to
understanding this book. They become a metaphor for the resistance
of certain luminous moments, certain twinkling fragments of
history, to the passing of time. They remind us that events do not
always simply disappear neatly into the darkness, but rather
remain, floating in the air, lighting up the night sky
indefinitely. Sagasti shows us that the present moment, like this
novel, is a tapestry woven of a multiplicity of times.Using his
unique, poetic and keenly observant style, Sagasti transforms the
accidents of history into a single, lyrical constellation, and for
the reader it is an extraordinary sight.
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Fate (Paperback)
Jorge Consiglio; Translated by Carolina Orloff, Fionn Petch
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R308
R251
Discovery Miles 2 510
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This novel focuses on a group of characters who are all in
different ways endeavouring to take control of their fate. Their
desire to lead a genuine existence forces them to confront
difficult decisions, and to break out of comfortable routines.Karl
and Marina have been together for ten years and have a young son,
Simon. Karl is a German-born oboist at Argentina's national
orchestra, and Marina is a meteorologist. On a field trip, she
meets fellow researcher Zarate, and what might have been just a
fling starts to erode the foundations of her marriage. Then there
is Amer, a dynamic and successful taxidermist. At a group therapy
session for smokers, Amer falls for the younger Clara. While the
relationship between Karl and Marina disintegrates, the love story
between Amer and Clara is just beginning - or is it already at an
end? One of Argentina's leading contemporary writers, Jorge
Consiglio portrays the inner worlds of these characters through the
minute details of their everyday lives, laying bare their strivings
and their frustrations with a wry gaze, and seeking in this
close-up texture a deeper truth.
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A Straggly Smile (Paperback)
Ivan Assael; Translated by Fionn Petch; Vanessa Saint Cyr
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R302
Discovery Miles 3 020
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If you look closely at people you can find crazy smiles and healing
smiles, sweet smiles, contagious ones, even hairy and genial
smiles. Marion is losing her baby teeth and all she's got is a
straggly smile. Her brother Nino helps her to discover what is
beautiful about her changing smile, while he discovers in his
neighbor Fabiana that the prettiest girls are the ones who send
messages when they smile. Reading to children between 7 and 14
years.
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