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Hear Our Defeats (Paperback)
Laurent Gaude; Translated by Alison Anderson
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R388
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
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A French intelligence officer, Assem, is tasked with tracking down
a former member of the U.S. Special Forces suspected of drug
trafficking during the War in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut he
shares a night with Miriam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a
race against time to save ancient artefacts across the Middle East
from the terrorist group ISIS. Punctuating these two storylines are
vignettes from the bellicose past, all turning points in world
history, each showing a will to continue in the face of defeat.
A timeless story between foundational tale and myth When Salina
dies, it falls to her youngest son to tell her story, a story of
violence and suffering, vengeance and passion. Exiled three times,
the first time as a new-born abandoned outside a village by a
mysterious horseman, Salina was taken in and raised by a clan that
only ever saw her as a stranger and an enemy to be defeated. Three
times a mother, her children born from strife, Salina never knew
love, and revenge became her reason to live. For her to gain
admittance to the cemetery, to a place of peace at last, Salina's
son must face up and tell the tale of Salina's ordeals-her rape the
most harrowing-in minute detail. He has no choice but to give voice
to all the hardship that for years fed into Salina's rage. With
this short novel set in an ancestral world, Laurent Gaude explores
a narrative space where time flows to rhythmic rituals, where fate
blurs to legend, and secrets become myth.
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Hear Our Defeats (Paperback)
Laurent Gaude; Translated by Alison Anderson
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R430
R363
Discovery Miles 3 630
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A French intelligence officer, Assem, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the U.S. Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the War in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut he shares a night with Miriam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a race against time to save ancient artefacts across the Middle East from the terrorist group ISIS. Punctuating these two storylines are vignettes from the bellicose past, all turning points in world history, each showing a will to continue in the face of defeat.
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Hell's Gate (Paperback)
Laurent Gaude
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R264
R214
Discovery Miles 2 140
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When his son is killed by gangsters' crossfire on his way to
school, Neapolitan taxi driver Matteo is consumed by despair. But
just when he feels life has lost all meaning, he encounters a man
who claims the living can find ways into the afterlife. And legend
says that there's an entrance to the underworld beneath Naples.
What if Matteo had a chance of bringing Pippo back from the dead?
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