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Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Eastbound maps the fast-paced story of two fugitives on the Trans-Siberian Railway, where a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him a line of flight.; Published in France one year after Kerangal’s award-winning novel Birth of a Bridge (2010), Eastbo ...Show more
Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Early one blustery day near Le Havre, three teenagers head down to the sea together to go surfing. They are old friends: Chris, Johan and Simon. Exhausted after just one hour in the rough waves, they begin their drive back to town, but Chris, the driver, falls asleep at the wheel and the car skids off t ...Show more
Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal; Jessica Moore (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016. Now a major French film, REPARER LES VIVANTS/HEAL THE LIVING, directed by Katell Quillevere and starring Emmanuelle Seigner.A twenty-four-hour whirlwind of death and life. In the depths of a winter's night ...Show more
Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 A twenty-four hour whirlwind of death and life. In the depths of a winter's night, the heart of Simon Limbeau is resting, readying itself for the day to come. In a few hours' time, just before six, his alarm will go off and he will venture into the ...Show more
Off the Beaten Track by Maylis de Kerangal; Tom Haugomat (Illustrator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Aldana Libros Ser.
A breathtaking mountain adventure, in which a boy finds his inner strength, from the author of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning novel The Heart Paul is ten years old and lives with his aunt and uncle. Bruce, an old family friend, suddenly reappears after three years of silence, eager to keep a ...Show more
Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of contemporary fiction's most gifted sentence builders" Beejay Silcox, GuardianBehind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Métal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative painting - that art of tricksters and counterfeiters, where each knot in a plank of wood hides ...Show more
The Birth of a Bridge by Maylis de Kerangal
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Coca, Southern California. A small town on a wild river, at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the state's Native Americans still make their home. When Boa, the charismatic new mayor, decides to put Coca on the map, he plans a monumental new project: a six-lane bridge, ...Show more
The Heart by Maylis De Kerangal
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the h ...Show more
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