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Antwerp by Roberto Bolano; Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Pearls Ser.
Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano's fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolano's enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard--which Bolano ...Show more
Because She Never Asked by Vila-Matas, Enrique, Miles, Valerie
$25.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Pearls Ser.
Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work ...Show more
PATRIOTISM by MISHIMA YUKIO
$17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Pearls Ser.
By now, Yukio Mishima's (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel. A lieutenant in the Japanese army comes home to h ...Show more
The Walk by Robert Walser
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Pearls Ser.
A pseudo-biographical "stroll" through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, "I would be dead," Walser explains, ...Show more
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