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Flights (Paperback)
Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
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Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human
anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves
travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth
exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and
migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the
Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of
his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the
story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier
stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth
century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey
from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife
accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a
cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a
young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday
on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga
Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity
and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
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Homesick (Paperback)
Jennifer Croft
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R374
R305
Discovery Miles 3 050
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The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is
about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through
words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood.
Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled
for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and
mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she
undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually,
showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in
her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amy's
first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when
she enters university at the age of 15 her life changes drastically
and with tragic results. "Croft moves quickly between powerful
scenes that made me think about my own sisters. I love how the
language displays a child's consciousness. A haunting
accomplishment." Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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Flights (Paperback)
Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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From the International Booker Prize–winning translator, a
propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their
search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a Polish
forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish
forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned
author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus,
Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears
without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different
countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author,
begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with
work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient wooded refuge
with its intoxicating slime moulds and lichens and study her exotic
belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals
secrets — and deceptions — of Irena Rey's that they are utterly
unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow
increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and
obsession, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of
rivalries and desire, threatening not only their work but the fate
of their beloved author herself. This hilarious, thought-provoking
debut by award-winning translator and author Jennifer Croft is a
brilliant examination of art, celebrity, the natural world, and the
power of language. It is an unforgettable, unputdownable adventure
with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of
love, destruction, and creation in one of Europe’s last great
wildernesses.
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Dislocations (Paperback)
Sylvia Molloy; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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R249
Discovery Miles 2 490
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In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloy's Dislocations
records the gradual loss of a beloved friend, M.L., a disappearance
in ways expected (forgotten names, forgotten moments) and painfully
surprising (the reversion to a formal, proper Spanish from their
previous shared vernacular). There are occasions of wonder,
too-M.L. can no longer find the words to say she is dizzy, but can
translate that message from Spanish to English, when it's passed
along by a friend. This loss holds Molloy's sense of herself
too-the person she is in relation to M.L. fades as her friend's
memory does. But the writer remains: 'I'm not writing to patch up
holes and make people (or myself) think that there's nothing to see
here, but rather to bear witness to unintelligibilities and
breaches and silences. That is my continuity, that of the scribe.'
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Two Sherpas (Paperback)
Sebastian Martinez Daniell; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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R368
R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies
inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand,
exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision,
to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Kathmandu, a
sun-bleached beach town on another continent, and the pages of
Julius Caesar. Mountaineering, colonialism, obligation-in Sebastian
Martinez Daniell's effortless prose each breath is crystalline, and
the whole world is visible from here.
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A Perfect Cemetery (Paperback)
Federico Falco; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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R312
R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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"His stories shimmer like revelations - the clarity, mystery,
beauty, depth, and sheer, thrilling peculiarity of ordinary life
when the veil lifts. They're exhilarating to read, just as
exhilarating to re-read."-Deborah Eisenberg Childhood does not last
long in the Argentine mountains of Cordoba, and adult lives fall
apart quickly. In disarming, darkly humorous stories, Federico
Falco explores themes of obsessive love, romantic attachment and
the strategies we must find to cope with death and painful longing.
In the middle of a blizzard a widow watches the ruin of her
late-husband's garden, until suddenly she sees a woman running
naked in the falling snow. After telling her parents she is
abandoning her Christian faith, a girl becomes infatuated with a
Mormon missionary who reminds her of a boy killed in her village
years before. When his family's home is lost, a father desperately
offers his daughter's hand in marriage to anyone who will take them
in. And a town's mayor tries to fulfill his father's dying wish -
to design the perfect cemetery.
'A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly comic and
deeply serious' Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of
The Friend 'Intimate, irreverent, fast-paced and raw' Sunday Times
Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a
day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up a fifteen
thousand dollar advance in cash. This small fortune might solve his
problems, most importantly the unbearable tension in his marriage.
While his wife spends her days at work and her nights out on the
town - with a lover, perhaps - Lucas is stuck at home all day
staring at the blank page, caring for his son Maiko and fantasizing
about the one thing that keeps him going: the Uruguayan woman he
recently met at a conference and who he longs to see on this trip.
The Woman from Uruguay is the surprising and moving story of one
transformative day in Lucas' life. An international bestseller, it
is the masterpiece of one of Latin America's most beloved writers,
translated by Man Booker International winner Jennifer Croft. 'At
once a picaresque comedy and a penetrating study of a man on the
verge of middle age' Colm Toibin
From internationally bestselling Argentine author Pedro Mairal and
Man Booker International-winning translator Jennifer Croft, the
unforgettable story of two would-be lovers over the course of a
single day. 'A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly
comic and deeply serious' Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning
author of The Friend Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his
forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to
pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on
his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the solution to
his problems, most importantly the unbearable tension he has with
his wife. While she spends her days at work and her nights out on
the town-with a lover, perhaps, he doesn't know for sure- Lucas is
stuck at home all day staring at the blank page, caring for his son
Maiko and fantasizing about the one thing that keeps him going: the
Uruguayan woman he met at a conference several months back and who
he is longing to see on his day trip to Montevideo. The surprising,
moving story of this incredibly impactful day in Lucas' life, The
Woman from Uruguay is both a gripping narrative and tender,
thought-provoking exploration of the nature of relationships. An
international bestseller published in twelve countries, it is the
masterpiece of one of Latin America's most beloved writers. 'At
once a picaresque comedy and a penetrating study of a man on the
verge of middle age' Colm Toibin
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Homesick (Hardcover)
Jennifer Croft
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R747
R627
Discovery Miles 6 270
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In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the
continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village
in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his
persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob
Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly
fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the
Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as
he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then
Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah,
and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian
alike, with scandalous rumours of his sect’s secret rituals and
the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. In The Books
of Jacob, her masterpiece, 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
Olga Tokarczuk writes the story of Frank through the perspectives
of his contemporaries, capturing Enlightenment Europe on the cusp
of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for
transcendence.Â
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Flights (Hardcover)
Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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R656
R527
Discovery Miles 5 270
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Flights (Paperback)
Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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Discovery Miles 3 400
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Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human
anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk’s most ambitious to date. It
interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an
in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death,
motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the
story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and
drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth
century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned
Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In
the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin’s heart as it makes the
covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the
trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches
a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing
story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish
on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and
insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer
of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
Discusses drug abuse and its penalties as well as the pros and cons
of drug legalization.
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