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Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano; Mark Polizzotti
22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations Patrick Modiano's first novel since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive undersi ...Show more
Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations Patrick Modiano's first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive undersid ...Show more
Such Fine Boys by Patrick Modiano
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a seri ...Show more
Sundays in August by Patrick Modiano
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper sto ...Show more
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of ...Show more
The Black Envelope by Norman Manea
27.95 AUD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of ...Show more
The Book of Beginnings by Francois Jullien
26.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way of thinking How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly escape from his o ...Show more
The Hatred of Music by Pascal Quignard; Matthew Amos (Translator); Fredrik Rönnbäck (Translator)
36.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny?Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s ...Show more
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell by Carlos Rojas
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
In Carlos Rojas' imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theatre in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over an ...Show more
The Last Lover by Can Xue
21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other’s fantasies, carrying on conversations that are “forever guessing games.” Their journeys reveal the deepest realms ...Show more
The poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical verse from the Jewish tradition by Peter Cole
26.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry from the world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition, MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole prov ...Show more
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's most personal novel - and arguably his most iconoclas ...Show more