Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong (translated by by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)
40.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing throu ...Show more
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma (translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey)
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them?This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their chi ...Show more
The Details by Ia Genberg; Kira Josefsson (Translator)
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2022 (BEST FICTION)WINNER OF THE AFTONBLADET LITERARY PRIZE 2022'I wish I could write like this' Fredrik Backman, author of A MAN CALLED OVE'Mesmerizing and hot to the touch' Catherine Lacey, NEW YORK TIMES'Textured insights into human nature' THE N ...Show more
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Lit ...Show more
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger ...Show more
What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
26.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
The irresistible hardback Times bestseller and bookshop favourite about the healing power of books and community; Time magazine Top 100 books of 2023; 'An undeniable page-turner' New York Times THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-s ...Show more
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helena ...Show more
Harlequin Butterfly by Toh EnJoe; David Boyd (Translator)
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction | Series: Japanese Novellas Ser.
A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in dozens of languages, perfect for fans of David Mitchell and the work of Hideaki Anno This dizzying, witty literary caper about books and translation is a delightful work that will captivate and surprise readers, ...Show more
Mysterious Setting by Kazushige Abe; Michael Emmerich (Translator)
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction | Series: Japanese Novellas Ser.
A madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, from a Japanese literary star "Abe's superpower is to transform everything he touches into exciting literature." -- Kotaru Isaka, author of Bullet Train This surreal, twisty novel presents a provocati ...Show more
This is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
An astonishing and moving novella about a misunderstood young girl, from the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesOther people don't seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or peeking through the sliding doors at h ...Show more
A Perfect Day to be Alone by Nanae Aoyama
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tok ...Show more
Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
30.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more