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Cremation (Paperback)
Rafael Chirbes; Translated by Valerie Miles
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R518
Discovery Miles 5 180
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Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers
scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist
resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and
pools. The booming post-Franco years have left everything up for
grabs. Cremation opens with the death of Matias, a paterfamilias
who had rejected all of these changes and whose passing sets off a
chain reaction, uncovering a past that had been buried for years,
and leading those closest to him to question the paths they've
chosen. In a rich mosaic narrative, filled with a hypnotic chorus
of voices, Cremation explores the coked-up champagne fizz of
luxurious parties shadowed by underworlds of political corruption,
prostitution, and ruthless financial speculation. The novel enters
that melancholy ouroboros of capitalist greed that led to the
financial crash and captures something essential about our values,
our choices, and our all too human mistakes. Like William Faulkner
or Francis Bacon, Chirbes stares, clear-eyed, into the abyss, and
portrays us as we really are.
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Milongas (Paperback)
Edgardo Cozarinsky, Valerie Miles
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R452
R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
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Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation
over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in
the world: the Mexico?US border. But in a melee of language and
blood, their stories and the stories of those they meet of a young
serial killer, a waitress and graphic novelist and her lover (and
former professor), and an outsider artist in a mental institution
gradually begin to coalesce. Daring in both its protagonists and
its structure, Edmundo Paz Sold n's Norte is a fast-paced, vivid,
and operatic blending of distinct voices. Together, they lay bare
the darkness of the line over which these souls like so many others
have passed. A prominent member of a new generation of Latin
American writers, Paz Soldan stands in defiant opposition to the
magical realism of the past century, instead grounding his work in
political, economic, and historical realities. Norte is no
exception; it is a tale of displacement and the very human costs of
immigration. Shocking with its violence even as it thrills with its
language, confounding rather than cowering under the clich of the
murderous, drug-dealing immigrant, Norte is a disquieting,
imperative work an undeniable reflection of our fragmented modern
world.
The foundational text for the acclaimed New York Times and international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran
The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation’s foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet’s death and announces the critic’s secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov’s enchanters—Humbert—is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past.
In this precursor to her international best seller
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov’s characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov’s experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this book evokes the reader’s quintessential journey of discovery and reveals what caused Nabokov to distinctively shape and reshape that journey for the author.
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