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My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A Sultan secretly commissions a cadre of artists to create a great book. But any work of art--an affront to Islam--is dangerous. "My Name Is Red" is a murder mystery played amidst the perils of religious repression. A "New York Times" Notable Book.
Naomi by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
$30.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation's cultural confusion. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to tra ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
$32.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
Once in Europa by Berger, J.
$33.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds--a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it--at their moment of collision. The instrument of ...Show more
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets fort ...Show more
Palimpsest - A Memoir by Gore Vidal
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Vidal on Vidal--a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject.A New York Times best American memoir"In the hands of Gore Vidal, a pen is a sword. And he points it at the high and mighty who have crossed his path." --Los Angeles Times Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's a ...Show more
Pig Earth by Berger
$35.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A fictional exposition and exploration of the crumbling foundation of traditional French peasant society and the uncomfortable implications of deracination in modern life.
RUNAWAY HORSES by YUKIO MISHIMA
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a patriotic conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war, in a Japan marked by depression, the confusion of changing social patterns, political violence and assassination. Second in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy. ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabrie ...Show more
TEMPLE OF DAWN by Mishima, Y
$33.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant law ...Show more
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash- an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea,and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news age ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappi ...Show more