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
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
2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman
26.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
'A rippingly good read' WiredFrom two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagrationOn 12 March 2034, US N ...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
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
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
30.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
Great Japanese Stories - 10 Parallel Texts by Jay Rubin (Editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
This hand-picked selection from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates the best literature to emerge from Japan since the twentieth century.From a surreal fairy tale to a heart-rending evocation of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, this vibrant collection provides unique cultural insight ...Show more
Love at Six Thousand Degrees: A Novel by Maki Kashimada
33.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
"Only Ms. Kashimada can create this kind of world."-Yoko Ogawa, author ofThe Memory Police (on Touring the Land of the Dead) A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair ...Show more