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  • Birds of Passage

    by Brian Castro ...
    Series Book 31 - Untapped
    Reading fragments of his ancestor’s journal Lo Yun Shan gives Australian-born Chinese man Seamus O’Young an odd sensation: familiarity. Their lives are quite different—Shan left China for the goldfields in the mid-19th century—but something links them. As Seamus seeks to understand what it is, and what it means, his mind begins to unravel in Brian Castro’s astonishing debut.‘Full of subtle colours ... Read more

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  • July's People

    by Nadine Gordimer ...
    **“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book ReviewA startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**A violent war for equality has come to the white suburbs, driving out the ruling minorityFor years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa ... Read more

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  • Pyre

    by Perumal Murugan ...
    By the author of One Part Woman: "A haunting story of forbidden love set in Southern India that illustrates the cruel consequences of societal intolerance." — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewSaroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village, where ... Read more

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  • Mother to Mother

    by Sindiwe Magona ...
    Series Book 13 - Bluestreak
    Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a life marked by oppression and injustice. Magona decided to write this novel when she discovered that Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl, who had been killed while working to organize the nation's first ever democratic elections in 1993, died just a few yards away from her own ... Read more

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  • The Lily Hand

    And Other Stories

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Sixteen unforgettable stories from a "beguiling writer" and the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael ( The Daily Telegraph ).CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorExpanding her horizons far beyond the boundaries of crime fiction, Ellis Peters offers a broad range of short stories in this collection. Two friends, cruelly torn apart when their country is violently ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Three Japanese Short Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kafu Nagai, Chiyo Uno ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international ... Read more

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  • Jump and Other Stories

    by Nadine Gordimer ...
    Nobel Prize–Winning Author: Fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging tales with settings spanning from suburban London to Mozambique."A gallery of riveting tales. . . . Gordimer's long and prolific career has left little doubt of her mastery of the art of fiction." ― The Washington Post Book WorldWith unflinching depictions of how South Africa's apartheid policies drove racial ... Read more

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  • Out of India

    a Raj Childhood

    by Michael Foss ...
    Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss's childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India. Here, beautifully evoked, is a childhood spent amongst grudging and unloving English relations; a sufferance of cruelly harsh schooling, a bleak, dank landscape; and a sense of permanent cold and a savage hunger even for ... Read more

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  • Far North

    A Novel

    by Marcel Theroux ...
    Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far ... Read more

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  • Short Stories

    Dedicated to Writer's 85th Anniversary

    by Chingiz Aitmatov ...
    This collection of three Aitmatov short stories basically was dedicated to James Riordan, the British academic and the best translator of Aitmatov into English. It contains his translation of the 1960 short story 'Camel Eye' as well as Rahima Abduvalieva's translations of 'The Boy Soldier' and 'The Monkey Girl and the Satchel'. The latter was originally written in German as a fairy tale for ... Read more

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  • Black Orchids

    by Gillian Slovo ...
    When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel, with their young son Milton, from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in the 1950s and, no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that it would, England does not take kindly to ... Read more

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  • Smallcreep's Day

    by Peter Currell Brown ...
    When factory worker Pinquean Smallcreep, who has slotted a certain type of slot into a certain type of pulley for many years, packs his sandwiches and sets out on a journey to investigate what it is he is producing, his discoveries become increasingly more bizarre and disturbing. Peter Currell Brown's brilliantly surreal satire of automation and alienation is as exhilarating and unforgettable ... Read more

    $6.29 USD