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Memorial, 29 June (Hardcover): Tine Hoeg Memorial, 29 June (Hardcover)
Tine Hoeg; Translated by Misha Hoekstra
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Asta is invited to a memorial. It's been ten years since her university friend August died. The invitation disrupts everything - the novel she is working on and friendship with Mai and her two-year-old son - reanimating longings, doubts, and the ghosts of parties past. Soon a new story begins to take shape. Not of the obscure Polish sculptor Asta wanted to write about, but of what really happened the night of August's death, and in the stolen, exuberant days leading up to it. The story she has never dared reveal to Mai. Moving between Asta's past and present, Memorial, 29 June is a novel about who we really are, and who we thought we would become. It's a novel about the intensity with which we experience the world in our twenties, and how our ambitions, anxieties, and memories from that time never relinquish their grasp on how we encounter our future. In prose that shimmers like poetry, masterfully translated by Misha Hoekstra, Memorial, 29 June is an urgent yet tender reminder that sometimes pain is where the love is, and that grief, however thorny, should never go unspoken.

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Paperback): Dorthe Nors Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Paperback)
Dorthe Nors; Translated by Misha Hoekstra 1
R290 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R61 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister.

But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate.

Her driving instructor won't let her change gear.

And her sister won't return her calls.

Sonja's mind keeps wandering back to the dramatic landscapes of her childhood - the singing whooper swans, the endless sky, and getting lost barefoot in the rye fields - but how can she return to a place that she no longer recognises? And how can she escape the alienating streets of Copenhagen?

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal is a poignant, sharp-witted tale of one woman's journey in search of herself when there's no one to ask for directions.

The Queen, The Princes And The Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen's Most Enchanting Tales (Hardcover): Lucie Arnoux The Queen, The Princes And The Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen's Most Enchanting Tales (Hardcover)
Lucie Arnoux; Translated by Misha Hoekstra; Hans Christian Andersen
R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A girl journeys across unknown lands to rescue her friend from the clutches of The Snow Queen, who has imprisoned his heart in ice. A sister struggles to break the spell that has turned her ten princely brothers into swans. A mermaid decides to leave her underwater world behind for love. These renowned fairy tales, brimming with imaginative richness, are some of the most magical and inspiring ever written. Contains: 'The Snow Queen', 'The Wild Swans', 'The Nightingale', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The True-Hearted Tin Soldier'

Wild Swims (Paperback): Dorthe Nors Wild Swims (Paperback)
Dorthe Nors; Translated by Misha Hoekstra 1
R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a collection resplendent with longing. In these compact pages, people meet without actually connecting, travellers set off but never seem to find home. We meet them on the fjords of Norway, in the bustle of Los Angeles, and among the lights of Copenhagen. Outsiders yearn to be on the inside, insiders are desperate to be free. A writer befriends an ex-lover's mother. An elderly man offers his body to aging women. A woman's childhood memories of wild swimming draw her back to the water. In prose that is both elegantly spare and saturated with emotion, Dorthe Nors shines a light into forgotten corners and conjures darkness where it's least expected. Her characteristic sharpness and sense of humour is ever-present, catching us when the melancholy threatens to come too close. Love, cruelty, friendship, and loneliness are all here, in these stories that brim with life.

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Paperback): Dorthe Nors Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Paperback)
Dorthe Nors; Translated by Misha Hoekstra
R508 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R64 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Minna Needs Rehearsal Space (Paperback): Dorthe Nors Minna Needs Rehearsal Space (Paperback)
Dorthe Nors; Translated by Misha Hoekstra 1
R243 R204 Discovery Miles 2 040 Save R39 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Minna is feeling desperate. Lars has just dumped her by text message. Her friends are constantly flaunting their lovers, children and dogs (with Facebook as their cruel accomplice). And her neurotic sister is everywhere she turns. Minna needs security, and a place in Copenhagen to practise her music. Minna wants a child. Minna needs to stop being answerable to everyone. So, with only Ingmar Bergman for comfort and company, she decides to take a trip away from it all. In this highly original, playful, poignant yet funny novella, Dorthe Nors explores our struggles to find love, relate to others and simply be heard above the relentless noise of the modern age.

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