My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
The electrifying new novel from the winner of the International Booker Prize and sensational bestseller - a daring and unflinching account of loss, loneliness and the cost of survival. I heard you laughing from time to time and you stayed lying there on the flattened hay, and after you left, your body' ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funi ...Show more
Forgotten on Sunday by Valerie Perrin
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
At once melancholic and humorous, a story of past, present and undeclared love, and friendship across the generations. From the million copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers. An unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship and the scars of a broken past. "An endearing and original heroine, ...Show more
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The International Bestseller for lovers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Satoshi Yagisawa
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
40.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro: A Novel by Viola Ardone
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own life.As provincial Sicily bursts into life with t ...Show more
How to Love Your Daughter: The 'excellent and unforgettable' prize-winning novel by Hila Blum
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A woman stands on a dark street, thousands of kilometers from her home in Israel, and peeks through the windows of a home in a city in northern Holland. The two little girls she sees through the window are her granddaughters, whom she has never met, the daughters of her only daughter. At the center of ...Show more
Owlish by Dorothy Tse (translated by Natascha Bruce)
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
In a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lackluster 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 has tantalizingly spru ...Show more
Not a River by Selva Almada; Annie McDermott
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Shortlisted for the Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts of their past. B ...Show more
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
40.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, ...Show more
Juja by Nino Haratischvili
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
The debut novel by international bestseller Nino Haratischvili, author of The Eighth Life, published for the first time in English.In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Sare, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others t ...Show more
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
50.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A special hardback edition of Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, A Wild Sheep Chase. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, now with a new i ...Show more