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Early Light (Storybook ND series) by Osamu Dazai
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relati ...Show more
Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixes of a "gray little librarian" with fallen arches whose name--mr herman melvill--is mere ...Show more
The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND series) by Helen DeWitt
$31.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
Maman was exigeante--there is no English word-and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified.Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl ...Show more
The Famous Magician (Storybook ND series) by César Aira
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books." Unfortunately, he is suffering from writer's block. However, that pro ...Show more
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She ...Show more
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