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Petite Fleur (Paperback)
Iosi Havilio; Translated by Lorna Scott Fox
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R276
R223
Discovery Miles 2 230
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When his fireworks factory job ends explosively and his wife
returns to work, Jose is surprised to realise he has a talent for
keeping house: childcare, tidying, cleaning, cooking, gardening, he
excels at it all. On Thursdays, he hangs out and drinks good wine
with his jazz-loving neighbour. But when Jose's new talents take a
sudden and gruesome turn, life, death, resurrection, and
domesticity unexpectedly converge. In one single, hypnotic
paragraph, Petite Fleur harnesses the unpredictability of Aira and
the mysticism of Tolstoy in a discordant riff on suburban life.
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Paradises (Paperback)
Beth Fowler, Iosi Havilio
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R320
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Discovery Miles 2 640
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In contemporary Argentine literature, Paradises is an almost
perfect novel.--Tonica Albert Camus's The Outsider reimagined with
a female lead in in twenty-first-century Buenos Aires. Recently
widowed, a young woman leaves the countryside for Buenos Aires with
her four-year-old son where she seeks to build a new life for
herself. She finds work in the zoo and moves into the human zoo of
a squatted tower block at the invitation of one of its residents,
to whom she acts as nurse, giving morphine injections. Iosi
Havilio's captivating voice has brought him cult status in
Argentina.
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