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Prey for the Shadow - A Terra Alta Investigation: Javier Cercas Prey for the Shadow - A Terra Alta Investigation
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean
R325 R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political chameleon who swept to power on a populist wave, she has her enemies. Nor can she trust those closest to her. Both her ex-husband and her deputy would profit from her fall. Melchor Marín, living a quiet life in Terra Alta, is tempted back to Barcelona to work the case. But what seemed a simple matter has its roots in far more serious and disturbing crimes. With the mayor on the verge of capitulation, a shock revelation changes everything - not least the course of Melchor's life. At long last, his heart's dark desire is in his grasp. Praise for Even the Darkest Night "A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year" M W Craven "A wonderful novel. I look forward to many more Melchor stories" A N Wilson "The first in what promises to be an excellent series" Guardian Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

The Anatomy of a Moment (Paperback): Javier Cercas The Anatomy of a Moment (Paperback)
Javier Cercas 1
R426 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R40 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

_______________ 'Richly imagined, suspenseful and surprisingly poignant ... a reminder of how Spanish history might have taken a dramatically different turn' - Financial Times 'Persuasive, brilliant and absorbing' - Economist 'Cercas is a master storyteller' - Independent _______________ A suspenseful, dramatic novel by the author of Soldiers of Salamis, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister, Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firing shots. Only three members of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for cover: Adolfo Suarez, the then-outgoing prime minister, who had steered the country away from the Franco era; Guttierez Mellado, a conservative general who had loyally served democracy; and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Communist Party, which had just been legalised. In The Anatomy of a Moment, Cercas examines a key moment in Spanish history, just as he did so successfully in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. This is the only coup ever to have been caught on film as it was happening, which, as Cercas says, 'guaranteed both its reality and its unreality'. Every February a few seconds of the video are shown again and Spaniards congratulate themselves for standing up for democracy, but Cercas says that things were very quiet that afternoon and evening while all over Spain people stayed inside waiting for the coup to be defeated ... or to triumph. _______________ 'A brilliant reconfiguring of a key event in contemporary European history. Audacious and wholly fascinating' - William Boyd 'An almost Shakespearean account of soldiers, politicians, mixed motives and the lust for power' - Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph 'A mesmerising achievement' - Literary Review

Even the Darkest Night - A Terra Alta Investigation (Paperback): Javier Cercas Even the Darkest Night - A Terra Alta Investigation (Paperback)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean
R439 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R38 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

*Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022* "A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year. A contemporary police procedural with a literary edge. I was rooting for the flawed, but deeply compassionate Melchor Marin from the first page to the last. Highly recommended" M W Craven A Terra Alta Investigation. Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluna nothing quite adds up. The young cop from the big city, hero of a foiled terrorist attack, has been sent to Terra Alta till things quieten down. Observant, streetwise and circumspect, Melchor is an also an outsider. The son of a Barcelona prostitute who never knew his father, Melchor rapidly fell into trouble and was jailed at 19, convicted of driving for a Colombian drug cartel. While he was behind bars, he read Hugo's Les Miserables, and then his mother was murdered. Admiring of both Jean Valjean and Javert - but mostly the relentless Javert - he decided to become a policeman. Now he is out for revenge, but he can wait, and meanwhile he has discovered happiness with his wife, the local librarian, and their daughter, who is, of course, called Cossette. Slowly at first, and then more rapidly once ordered to abandon the case, he tracks the clues that will reveal the larger truth behind what appears at first to be a cold-blooded, professional killing. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Outlaws - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016 (Paperback): Javier Cercas Outlaws - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016 (Paperback)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean 1
R371 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R34 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

_______________ 'His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a light touch and an easy, graceful style' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent on Sunday 'The beauty of this intelligently probing novel is that one is left wondering if we ever truly know anything about anybody - that anybody including ourselves' - Scotsman 'Compelling ... the real strengths of the book are in Cercas's unadorned prose, once again deftly translated by Anne McLean, and in his ear for the rhythms of everyday speech' - Guardian _______________ Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2016, this novel from the author of Soldiers of Salamis and The Anatomy of a Moment tells the story of three teenage outsiders in post-Franco Spain In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generation of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be brief and violent... One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old Ignacio Canas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement arcade, when a charismatic teenager walks in with the most beautiful girl Canas has ever seen. Zarco and Tere take over his pinball machine and his life. Thirty years on and now a successful criminal defence lawyer, Canas has tried to put that long, hot summer of drugs, yearning and delinquency behind him. But when Tere appears in his office and asks him to represent El Zarco, who has been in prison all this time, what else can Gafitas do but accept? A powerful novel of love and hate, of loyalty and betrayal, of true integrity and the prison celebrity can become, Outlaws confirms Javier Cercas as one of the most thrilling novelists writing anywhere in the world today. _______________ 'Cercas adroitly balances the earlier criminal thrills with the later moral and emotional complexities' - New Statesman 'A moving meditation on youth, love, betrayal and the media, as well as an uncompromising political novel. Cercas has yet again expanded our idea of what fiction can do' - Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Secret History of Costaguana

Even the Darkest Night - A Terra Alta Investigation (Paperback): Javier Cercas Even the Darkest Night - A Terra Alta Investigation (Paperback)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean
R323 R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year. A contemporary police procedural with a literary edge. I was rooting for the flawed, but deeply compassionate Melchor Marin from the first page to the last. Highly recommended" M W Craven Two dead at the Adell house . . . But nothing in the duty officer's report can prepare Melchor Marin for what he finds. A wealthy couple tortured to death in an almost ritualistic manner. The little town of Gandesa in the backwater region of Terra Alta, Catalonia, is suddenly at the eye of a media storm. Melchor is no stranger to notoriety. He was sent to Terra Alta to lie low after foiling a terrorist attack. And, before that, he was jailed for his role as driver for a Colombian drug cartel, his decision to join the police inspired by a desire to avenge his mother's murder and a copy of Les Miserables from the prison library. Gradually, the leads in the Adell case dry up, and Melchor is ordered to back off. He doesn't, willing to sacrifice his reputation and career in a ruthless pursuit of the truth. But dusk is already falling on the darkest night of his life. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Lord of All the Dead (Hardcover): Javier Cercas Lord of All the Dead (Hardcover)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean 1
R572 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest" WILLIAM BOYD "There is no-one writing in English like this: engaged humanity achieving a hard-won wisdom" DAVID MILLS, The Times Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history. Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading perspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama? Wartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author's mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation.

Lord of All the Dead (Paperback): Javier Cercas Lord of All the Dead (Paperback)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean 1
R319 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Save R29 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history. Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading perspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama? Wartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author's mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Soldiers of Salamis (Paperback): Javier Cercas Soldiers of Salamis (Paperback)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean 1
R313 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R30 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War - Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, and can hear a search party and their dogs hunting him down. The branches move and he finds himself looking into the eyes of a militiaman, and faces death for the second time that day. But the unknown soldier simply turns and walks away. Sanchez Mazas becomes a national hero and the soldier disappears into history. As Cercas sifts the evidence to establish what happened, he realises that the true hero may not be Sanchez Mazas at all, but the soldier who chose not to shoot him. Who was he? Why did he spare him? And might he still be alive? Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

The Speed of Light (Paperback, New edition): Javier Cercas The Speed of Light (Paperback, New edition)
Javier Cercas
R235 R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Save R14 (6%) Out of stock

_______________ ‘Cercas's writing has echoes of Scott Fitzgerald in the intense, shining clarity of its emotion, and of Faulkner' - Independent ‘A deeply affecting novel. A reflection on war, friendship, success and failure ... Cercas's novel carries a powerful warning for the war-hungry modern world' - Scotland on Sunday ‘Presents his narrator's foibles in a lucid, supple prose, well-matched to the novel's darker elements' - Financial Times _______________ A sweeping story of youth and age, war and peace, love, friendship and the quest for meaning An aspiring young writer from Spain begins work as a teaching assistant on a Midwestern campus and finds himself sharing an office with Rodney Falk, a taciturn Vietnam veteran of strange ways and few friends. But when Rodney suddenly disappears the narrator becomes obsessed with discovering the secrets of his past. Why do people fear Rodney? What traumatic event happened at My Khe during the war? And, when the narrator's life takes a terrible twist, is Rodney the only person in the world who can save him?

The Impostor (Paperback): Javier Cercas The Impostor (Paperback)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Frank Wynne 1
R292 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCO But who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice, and a survivor of the Nazi death camps? Or, is he simply an old man with delusions of grandeur, a charlatan who fabricated his heroic war record, who was never a prisoner in the Third Reich and never opposed Franco; a charming, beguiling and compulsive liar who refashioned himself as a defender of liberty and who was unmasked in 2005 at the height of his influence and renown? In this extraordinary novel - part narrative, part history, part essay, part biography, part autobiography - Javier Cercas unravels the enigma of the man and delves with passion and honesty into the most ambiguous aspects of what makes us human - our infinite capacity for self-deception, our need for conformity, our thirst for affection and our conflicting needs for fiction and for truth. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

Independencia: Terra Alta 2 (Spanish, Paperback): Javier Cercas Independencia: Terra Alta 2 (Spanish, Paperback)
Javier Cercas
R536 R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Soldiers of Salamis (Paperback): Javier Cercas Soldiers of Salamis (Paperback)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean 2
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R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, and can hear a search party and their dogs hunting him down. The branches move and he finds himself looking into the eyes of a militiaman, and faces death for the second time that day. But the unknown soldier simply turns and walks away. Sanchez Mazas becomes a national hero and the soldier disappears into history. As Cercas sifts the evidence to establish what happened, he realises that the true hero may not be Sanchez Mazas at all, but the soldier who chose not to shoot him. Who was he? Why did he spare him? And might he still be alive?

Prey for the Shadow: Javier Cercas Prey for the Shadow
Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean
R636 R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political chameleon who swept to power on a populist wave, she has her enemies. Nor can she trust those closest to her. Both her ex-husband and her deputy would profit from her fall. Melchor Marín, living a quiet life in Terra Alta, is tempted back to Barcelona to work the case. But what seemed a simple matter has its roots in far more serious and disturbing crimes. With the mayor on the verge of capitulation, a shock revelation changes everything - not least the course of Melchor's life. At long last, his heart's dark desire is in his grasp. Praise for Even the Darkest Night "A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year" M W Craven "A wonderful novel. I look forward to many more Melchor stories" A N Wilson "The first in what promises to be an excellent series" Guardian Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

The Impostor (Hardcover): Javier Cercas The Impostor (Hardcover)
Javier Cercas; Translated by Frank Wynne 1
R583 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R60 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCO But who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice, and a survivor of the Nazi death camps? Or, is he simply an old man with delusions of grandeur, a charlatan who fabricated his heroic war record, who was never a prisoner in the Third Reich and never opposed Franco; a charming, beguiling and compulsive liar who refashioned himself as a defender of liberty and who was unmasked in 2005 at the height of his influence and renown? In this extraordinary novel - part narrative, part history, part essay, part biography, part autobiography - Javier Cercas unravels the enigma of the man and delves with passion and honesty into the most ambiguous aspects of what makes us human - our infinite capacity for self-deception, our need for conformity, our thirst for affection and our conflicting needs for fiction and for truth. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

Relatos Reales (English, Spanish, Paperback, 1. ed): Javier Cercas Relatos Reales (English, Spanish, Paperback, 1. ed)
Javier Cercas
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
El Impostor / The Impostor (Spanish, Paperback): Javier Cercas El Impostor / The Impostor (Spanish, Paperback)
Javier Cercas
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Soldados de Salamina. Novela grafica / Soldiers of Salamis: The Graphic Novel (Spanish, Hardcover): Javier Cercas, Jose Pablo... Soldados de Salamina. Novela grafica / Soldiers of Salamis: The Graphic Novel (Spanish, Hardcover)
Javier Cercas, Jose Pablo Garcia
R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Independencia (Spanish, Paperback): Javier Cercas Independencia (Spanish, Paperback)
Javier Cercas
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Las leyes de la frontera / Outlaws: A Novel (Spanish, Paperback): Javier Cercas Las leyes de la frontera / Outlaws: A Novel (Spanish, Paperback)
Javier Cercas
R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anatomia de un instante (Spanish, Paperback): Javier Cercas Anatomia de un instante (Spanish, Paperback)
Javier Cercas
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Soldados de Salamina / Soldiers of Salamis (Spanish, Paperback): Javier Cercas Soldados de Salamina / Soldiers of Salamis (Spanish, Paperback)
Javier Cercas
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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