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Beyond Sleep (Paperback)
Willem Frederik Hermans; Translated by Ina Rilke
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R314
R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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A young geologist hungry for fame journeys to the mountains of
Norway's Arctic north on a research expedition, but soon realizes
he's more likely be eaten alive by mosquitoes than win glory.
Freezing, wet and plagued by insomnia, Alfred becomes increasingly
desperate and paranoid under the midnight sun, until he takes a
catastrophic decision. This dazzlingly dark classic is at once a
gripping survival story, a mordant farce and a peerless evocation
of mental disintegration.
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The Tea Lords (Paperback)
Hella S Haasse; Translated by Ina Rilke
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R284
R253
Discovery Miles 2 530
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Born into wealth and privilege, Rudolf Kerkhoven is destined to
follow his father's footsteps into the Dutch colonies, with its
uncleared jungle foothills and potential for riches. When he
arrives in Java he is immediately smitten by the landscape and the
life, and over the seasons, Rudolf's dedication and diligence
gradually transform the land into a productive estate for tea,
coffee and quinine. When he meets the independent-minded Jenny and
their two sons are born, Rudolf is happier than he thought
possible. But for Jenny, the damp austerity of their home, her
fertility, her father's secret, and the native spirits of the land
grow to overshadow their marriage and the life they've strived for
together. Lusciously atmospheric and masterfully drawn, this is an
unforgettable story of aspiration, determination, rivalry and
romance on a tropical plantation.
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The Black Lake (Paperback)
Hella S Haasse; Translated by Ina Rilke
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R302
R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
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Amid the lush abundance of Java's landscape, two boys spend their
days exploring the vast lakes and teeming forests. But as time
passes the boys come to realize that their shared sense of
adventure cannot bridge the gulf between their backgrounds, for one
is the son of a Dutch plantation owner, and the other the son of a
servant. Inevitably, as they grow up, they grow estranged and it is
not until years later that they meet again. It will be an explosive
and emblematic meeting that marks them even more deeply than their
childhood friendship did.
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Julia (Paperback)
Otto de Kat; Translated by Ina Rilke
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R276
R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
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From the moment he meets Julia, Christiaan Dudok is dangerously
close to love. But their first date is interrupted by S.A.
Brownshirts storming into the cafe. It is 1937, and Germany is
heading for war and fanaticism. Chris, a Dutchman, is both
transfixed and appalled by the effect of Hitler's manic oratory on
the people of Lubeck. The independence and freedom of thought that
Chris finds so attractive in Julia leads her to emphatically reject
the Nazi regime, and before long her courageous stance brings them
both to the Gestapo's attention. Soon Chris is forced to make an
impossible choice, the outcome of which he can only regret.
During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt
finds himself drawn into the resistance when he is visited by the
ruthless Dorbeck, who also happens to look remarkably like him.
Soon Osewoudt is carrying out dangerous missions, helping British
agents and killing collaborators with aplomb. But after the war, he
is taken for a collaborator himself. How can he prove that he was
on the right side - and how much of what he remembers is real? The
Darkroom of Damocles is a razor-sharp thriller set in a world where
everything is permitted, even murder. As unsettling and morally
challenging today as when it was first written.
Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked
thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read
more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their
protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived
intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of
a photograph. And yet the tone of these stories is far from
pessimistic: it seems that death is nothing to be afraid of.
The Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom has had a long love affair with Spain, a country where he has lived and worked part of each year for several decades. Derived from studies and sketches made between 1979 and 1992, Roads to Santiago is his many-faceted pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, taking in countless digressions through ten centuries of Spain’s history – its politics, its architecture, its landscape and its people. His scholarly curiosity leads him to unravel countless mysteries of the country and to unfold the more obscure riches of Spain. The harvest of so much learning and a long immersion in Spain’s dramatic past and its lively present is a magnificent book. In Roads to Santiago Cees Nooteboom unlocks doors to a Spain we hardly know and which he has discovered through an obsession that has lasted forty years. It is a gracefully written and thought-provoking study of a fascinating land.
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