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33 Moments of happiness - Ingo Schulze
ISBN: 0330373420
An enchanting, bizarre collection of short stories by a newly prominent young German writer. Sad, whimsical, surreal, macabre, playful, these stories set in St Petersburg pay their respects to Russian writers of the past - Gogol, Chekhov, Bulgakov.
Abyssinian chronicles - Moses Isegawa
ISBN: 0330376659
An extraordinary African saga of life and death in Uganda. Set in a tribal village during the years of the Idi Amin terror in Uganda, Abyssinian Chronicles takes us into the heart of Africa, vividly immersing us in mesmerising extremes of beauty and brutality, wisdom and ignorance, wealth and poverty, hope and despair. We come to know intimately an extended family rich in centuries-old tradition in this haunting and impressive debut novel.
Answer me - Susanna Tamaro
ISBN: 0099426862
The author's second novel following the publication of her international bestseller, Follow Your Heart. A book about the nature of evil, the struggle to live without fear and the search for love. "Sometimes you find a book which you just can?t stop reading... this book is eloquent in its simplicity, at once enjoyable and heartbreaking" What's On
Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto
ISBN: 0571205372
Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. An enchanting book from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction.
Barney's version - Mordecai Richler
ISBN: 0099939207
A brilliant mock-memoir - if only he could piece all the facts and memories together - of the curmudgeonly Barney Panofsky. Barney Panofsky smokes too many cigars, drinks too much whiskey and is obsessed with two things: the Montreal Canadiens hockey team and his ex-wife Miriam. An acquaintance from his youthful years in Paris is about to publish his autobiography. In its pages he accuses Barney of an assortment of sins, including murder. It's time, Barney decides, to present the world with his own version of events - in a rambling, digressive rant, full of revisions and factual errors and enough insults for everyone.
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore
ISBN: 0571197272
A collection of some of her best stories, and an ideal introduction to one of America's most talented contemporary writers and stylists. This collection is remarkable for its range, emotional force and dark humour, the beauty and power of its language in its portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged in modern-day America.
Blue room - Georges Simenon
ISBN: 0752853805
One hundred years on from the birth of Simenon, this classic crime novel from a world master is back in print. The Blue Room is a masterpiece of psychological suspense.
Simenon, of course, is the creator of the Inspector Maigret series, many of which are also back in print, a nostalgic treat for some and a new discovery for others.
Book of disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
ISBN: 1852427582
Bernardo Soares sits, for the most part, at his desk or in his room in the heart of Lisbon, reflecting on the nature of boredom, obsessed with an existential ennui that colours not only every aspect of his own life, but his ability to act or to write. Pessoa's strange, disturbing but insightful memoir, pieced together from diary entries and manuscripts written over more than a decade, is, indeed, a disquieting meditation by a mind overburdened by consciousness.
Bridegroom - Ha Jin
ISBN: 0099422174
This collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more open society. For these men and women, beginning to feel the influence of the West, their daily dramas take place within a system that still struggles to control their every move and thought. As his characters, from an entrepreneur, transformed from black-market criminal to free market hero, to the workers at Cowboy Chicken, to the professor mistaken by the police for a saboteur, continue to struggle against petty injustices and heartbreaks, Ha Jin celebrates their lives and humanity with the understated humour and simplicity that has won him widespread acclaim.
Burger's daughter - Nadine Gordimer
ISBN: 0747549796
After the death of a legendary anti-apartheid activist, Lionel Burger, his daughter Rosa finds herself adrift in a South Africa she no longer knows. Confronting the left-wing legacy her father represented, and the rise of a militant black consciousness movement, she becomes involved in a "children's revolt" of her own. But where and how will she find her own identity.
Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has written an enduring classic of coming of age in an era of conflict and transition.
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
ISBN: 0330322699
A novel of a world where tragedy is frequent, but miracles also occur. The characters include a gambling, one armed former guano collector called Sam Pickle, Dolly, his alcoholic and unfaithful wife, a talking pig, and Oriel who dishes out ice-cream and cake from the Cloudstreet front room.
Collected stories - Gabriel Garcia Márquez
ISBN: 0140157565
Marquez's stories are an excellent introduction to the work of this writer of genius, author of 100 Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, and a gateway to exploring the rich narrative diversity of South American fiction. Terse, beautiful, magical stories by a not-to-be-missed writer.
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
ISBN: 0099448424
Still essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the great traumas of twentieth century history, and the redeeming power of literature in the modern world. An historical epic, a personal testimony and an immortal love story - and the book that others are measured against.
Embers - Sándor Márai
ISBN: 0141004312
A castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the 1930s. Two men, inseparable in their youth, meet for the first time in forty-one years. They have spent their lives waiting for this moment. Four decades earlier a murky, traumatic event - an unspoken act of betrayal - led to their sudden separation. Now, as their lives draw to a close, the devastating truth about that moment will be revealed.
Embers is an important and spellbinding book first published in 1942 and now receiving acclaim in its recent first English translation.
Emigrants - W G Sebald
ISBN: 0099448882
The four long narratives in this book appear at first to be plain accounts of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester. But, gradually, the book emerges into one evocation of the experience of exile, the loss of homeland. One of the great books of the latter part of the twentieth century, beautifully translated by Michael Hulse.
Family matters - Rohinton Mistry
ISBN: 057121553X
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young sons. The effect of the new responsibility on Yezad, who is already besieged by financial worries, pushes him into a scheme of deception. This sets in motion a series of events - a great unravelling and a revelation of the family's love-torn past - that leads to the narrative's final outcome.
