Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan's Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and he is ins ...Show more
Blindness by José Saramago
27.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental as ...Show more
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
38.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy suffers in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a fem ...Show more
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
33.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in this strange train an ...Show more
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
1929. At a farm in Punjab, northern India, three girls are married to three brothers in one ceremony. For weeks afterwards, segregated from the men in the 'china room', heavily veiled, and meeting their husbands only under cover of darkest night, none of the girls is entirely sure which brother is hers. ...Show more
Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
** The phenomenal Indian bestseller ** **Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award ** 'Intense, lyrical, and powerful. This is a remarkable debut' Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate Saints 'Latitudes of Longing is a book to be savoured' The Hindu 'Bold and ...Show more
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
33.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
'An amazing portrait of fanaticism and cynicism among Egyptian powermongers.' - ANDRE ACIMAN 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little.' - Sunday Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Under th ...Show more
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: The international bestseller by Cho Nam-Joo
23.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her broth ...Show more
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol
30.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Revealing glimpses of the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino writer Jose Rizal emerge despite the worst efforts of feuding academics in Apostol's hilariously erudite novel, which won the Philippine National Book Award. Gina Apostol's riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymund ...Show more
My Brilliant Life by Ae-ran Kim
33.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
My Brilliant Life interweaves the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times. Areum lives life to its fullest, vicariously through the stories of his parents, conversations with Little Grandpa Jang--his sixty-year-old neighbor and best friend--an ...Show more
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
33.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue's powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands inf ...Show more
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
It takes courage to survive in a world full of trouble... In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of ...Show more