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'Katie Kitamura's Intimacies - she's an incredible writer. It's
fiction and a really beautiful exploration of how we can live
everyday life while complete horrors and atrocities are happening
in the world - how both things coexist.' Natalie Portman An
interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at
the International Court. She's drawn into simmering personal
dramas. Her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still
entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly
random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes
increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the victim's sister.
And she's pulled into an explosive political controversy when she's
asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes.
She is soon pushed to the precipice, where betrayal and heartbreak
threaten to overwhelm her, forcing her to decide what she wants
from her life. 'Kitamura has made the existential thriller all her
own...simply stunning' Brandon Taylor 'Charged with tension and
power' Avni Doshi 'Gorgeous, destabilising' Raven Leilani
A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love.
A story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed.
Likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare, The Tempest
brings together various themes the bard explored in his prior
plays, including magic, revenge and forgiveness, order and society,
and nature versus art. The shipwreck and remote island, the
spirits, and the dukes and their children, offer rich material for
Wylie's works on paper and canvas. As the third title in David
Zwirner Books's Seeing Shakespeare series, this book pairs a
complex narrative with equally layered works by a contemporary
artist who approaches the play and art-making from a unique
perspective.
Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country
teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel by one of
international literature's rising young stars weaves a brilliant
tale of family drama and political turmoil. Since his mother's
death ten years earlier, Tom and his father have fashioned a
strained peace on their family farm. Everything is frozen under the
old man's vicious, relentless control - even, Tom soon discovers,
his own future. When a young woman named Carine enters their lives,
the complex triangle of intrigue and affection escalates the
tension between the two men to breaking point. After a catastrophic
volcanic eruption ignites the nation's smoldering discontent into
open revolution, Tom, his father and Carine find themselves
questioning their loyalties to one another and their determination
to salvage their way of life.
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Sarah Sze: Fallen Sky (Hardcover)
Sarah Sze; Edited by Nora R Lawrence; Foreword by John P. Stern; Text written by Susan Choi, Angie Cruz, …
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R1,104
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*A NEW STATESMAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021* **A NEW YORK
TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021** From the author of A Separation, a
taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many
truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and
work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and
identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's
drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is
separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her
friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime
the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends
the victim's sister. And she's pulled into an explosive political
controversy when she's asked to interpret for a former president
accused of war crimes. A woman of quiet passion, she confronts
power, love, and violence, both in her personal intimacies and in
her work at the Court. She is soon pushed to the precipice, where
betrayal and heartbreak threaten to overwhelm her, forcing her to
decide what she wants from her life. 'An amazing book, beautiful
and captivating.' Elif Shafak 'A gorgeous, destabilizing
meditation' Raven Leilani 'Kitamura writes with forceful, direct
prose that makes for a bracing read and leaves the reader
mesmerized.' Vogue *Best Books to Read in 2021*
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My Little One (Hardcover)
Germano Zullo; Illustrated by Albertine; Translated by Katie Kitamura
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R499
R407
Discovery Miles 4 070
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A mother, welcoming her tiny son into the world, tells him the
story of their lives, whispering to him as she swings him gently
around. With each successive page, he grows while she shrinks,
until she is being held by the man he has become. Albertine's
weightless strokes and billowing bodies recall the flitting
procession of a flipbook or an ephermeral notebook sketch.
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Alex Katz: Gathering (Hardcover)
Alex Katz; Edited by Katherine Brinson; Text written by Levi Prombaum, David Breslin, Jennifer Y Chuong, …
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R1,579
Discovery Miles 15 790
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*"San Francisco Chronicle" Best Book of 2012
*"Financial Times" Best Book of 2012
*"New Yorker" Best Book of 2012
FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF "THE LONGSHOT" comes this
gripping saga about the destruction of a family, a home, and a way
of life. Set on a struggling farm in a colonial country teetering
on the brink of civil war, "Gone to the Forest "is a tale of family
drama and political turmoil in which fiery storytelling melds with
daring, original prose. Since his mother's death, Tom and his
father have fashioned a strained domestic peace, where everything
is frozen under the old man's vicious control. But when a young
woman named Carine arrives at the farm, the tension between the two
men escalates to the breaking point. Hailed by the "Boston Globe
"as "a major talent," Kitamura shines in this powerful new novel.
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Longshot (Paperback)
Katie Kitamura
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R407
R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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Abrilliant, spare debut novel that follows a former mixed martial
arts star and his longtime coach over the course of three fraught
days as they prepare for his momentous comeback match.
Four years after Rivera knocked Cal from dominance, Cal's coach,
Riley, has set up a rematch--it will be good for Cal, and he's
ready for it. He's been training harder than ever, trying to shake
the lethargy that's plagued him ever since he lost. Knowing he's
going to face Rivera again, he gets his focus and energy back. He
agrees with Riley: he's ready.
But Rivera has never lost a fight, and in the final days before the
match, both Cal and Riley secretly begin to doubt that he can be
beaten now. The stakes are high for them--not only do they have no
idea what else they'll do with themselves besides MMA, they're also
desperate not to let each other down.
In taut, rhythmic language, Katie Kitamura--a journalist who has
followed MMA for years--renders the urgency, discipline, and mutual
affection of athlete and coach with depth and subtlety. As an
excruciating tension builds toward the final electrifying scene,
their plight becomes our plight, the looming fight becomes every
challenge each of us has ever taken on, however uncertain the
outcome.
This striking debut upholds a tradition of literary writing about
gritty subject matter that includes Denis Johnson and Norman Mailer
and goes back through Dos Passos, Steinbeck, and Hemingway. Fans of
literary fiction will be drawn to "The Finish"'s stylized,
sensitive portrait of two men striving to stay true to themselves
and each other in the only way they know how.
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