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Owlish (Paperback)
Dorothy Tse; Translated by Natascha Bruce
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R431
R350
Discovery Miles 3 500
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In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of
literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre
career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked
away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition: a
music box ballerina named Aliss who tantalizingly springs to life.
Guided by his mysterious friend Owlish and inspired by an
inexplicably familiar painting, Q embarks on an all-consuming love
affair with Aliss, oblivious to the sinister forces encroaching on
his city and the protests spreading across the university that have
left his classrooms all but empty. Thrumming with secrets and
shape-shifting geographies, Dorothy Tse’s extraordinary debut
novel is a boldly inventive exploration of life under repressive
conditions.
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Lake Like a Mirror (Paperback)
Sok Fong Ho; Translated by Natascha Bruce
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R385
R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
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By an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished
Malaysian writer, full stop'. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating
exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their
control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid
urbanisation, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government,
these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. In precise
and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly
atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation centre
for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed
hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with
accidentally charged politics - a world that is peopled with the
ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses,
surreal and utterly true.
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Lonely Face (Paperback)
Pway Ngon Yeng; Translated by Natascha Bruce
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R402
Discovery Miles 4 020
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