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ISBN / ISSN:
9780316025263
Into the Beautiful North
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Luis Alberto Urrea
Published by:
Hachette Livre
Publisher's Promise! All the men have left the little Mexican village Nayeli calls home. When the bandidos arrive, she decides it's time to do something, and she takes off for America to bring back her father and the other men from her village.This book is a captivating portrait of the mishaps of illegal immigration, and societal problems on both sides of the US border while guaranteeing a few laughs and tears along the way.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780330510493
Amulet
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Roberto Bolano
Published by:
Picador
'Roberto Bolano redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece "2666"; with the hallucinatory narrative of "Amulet", he reimagines what literature can become' - "New Statesman". Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days, she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of the university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of Mexican poetry. This highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory novel is a potent stream of consciousness through which the poets of Mexico rage and swirl. Filled with wild, dark literary prophecies, heroic poets, mad poets, artists 'choked by the brilliance of youth', Auxilio's passionate narration - both heart-breaking and lyrical - is suffused with the essence of Bolano's art. 'We can't recommend this incredible book highly enough ..."Amulet" is a light out of darkness' - "Dazed & Confused". 'Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin ...
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9780007348664
The Island Beneath the Sea
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NZ$ 39.00 each
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Author:
Isabel Allende (tr from Spanish Margaret Sayers Peden)
Published by:
Fourth Estate
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible. Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarite - known as Tete - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tete finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father's plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the ...
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9780330509527
The Savage Detectives
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Roberto Bolano
Published by:
Picador
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in violence, flight, and permanent exile. In this dazzling novel, Roberto Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes on a twenty-year, multi-continent, tragicomic quest through a darkening universe. 'A unique voice asserting the importance and exuberance of literature...Bolano writes with such elegance, verve and style and is so immensely readable. He makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world' - "Guardian". 'Part road movie, part joyful, nostalgic confession. A masterpiece' - "Daily Telegraph". 'Extraordinary ...A ...
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9780732289188
The Winner Stands Alone
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Paulo Coelho
Published by:
HarperCollins Australia
Set during one day at the Cannes Film Festival, this is the story of a successful, driven entrepreneur, who will go to the darkest lengths to recapture a lost love. Captured in all their crassness are producers, actors, aspiring starlets, supermodels and notorious fashionistas, whose lives and actions hold sway over millions.
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9780732291655
Veronika Decides to Die (Film tie-in cover
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NZ$ 29.00 each
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Author:
Paulo Coelho
Published by:
HarperCollins
Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet Veronika is not happy; something is lacking in her life. On the morning of 10 November 1997, she decides to die. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in Vilette, the local hospital. There she is told that although she is alive, her heart has been damaged and she has only a few days to live ...The story follows Veronika through the following, intense days, as her experiences lead her to question the idea of madness, and she comes to realise that every second of existence is a choice that we all make between living and dying. This is a moving and uplifting story of life, one that reminds us that every moment in our lives is special and precious.
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9780747596172
Happy Families
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Carlos Fuentes (tr from Spanish Edith Grossman)
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A choral novel on the hopes, disillusionments and betrayals of family life in Mexico. A rich Catholic rancher wants his four sons to become priests, while the boys themselves have other plans; a bereaved mother explains her daughter's life to the man who killed her; three daughters meet up around their father's coffin for the first time in ten years; a middle-aged couple meet by chance on a cruise-ship and wonder if they were once young lovers. The result is a picture of contemporary Mexico seen through a violently fragmented narrative, not unlike the internationally successful film Amores Perros.The stories are punctuated by a chorus, commenting as if in a Greek tragedy, crudely and unsentimentally on the underbelly of modern Mexican life, offering a raw but richly textured glimpse of the inequalities of that society - street children, junkies, dead rock icons, the ideal wife, a honeymoon gone wrong, a child suicide, a man faking his ...
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9780141037455
Love in the Time of Cholera (Popular Penguin)
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Author:
Gabriel Garcia Marquex (transl. from Spanish Edith Grossman)
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
Gabriel García Márquez's
Love in the Time of Cholera
is a brilliantly crafted, beautifully written story of love and the love-sick.
Spurned as a young man, Florentino Ariza has a half century of waiting to fill before a chance to redeclare his love for Fermina Daze comes, when her husband is killed retrieving a parrot from a mango tree.
Funny, poignant and heartfelt - enduring and unrequited love have rarely been more movingly expressed.
First published in Spanish 1985; this translation 1988.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780330513883
Nazi Literature in the Americas
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Roberto Bolano
Published by:
Picador
This is the first UK publication of the brilliant and innovative work that made Bolano the most admired Spanish writer of his generation.
Nazi Literature in the Americas
presents itself as an encyclopedia of extremely right-wing writers. Composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors (the nations with the most representatives are Argentina, with eight, and the USA, with seven), this book describes, in fourteen thematic sections, the writers' lives, politics, and literary works. It includes bibliographies, cross-references, and an epilogue. Although the writers are invented, they are all carefully and credibly situated in real literary worlds: his characters encounter Allen Ginsberg, Octavio Paz, and Lezama Lima. Remarkably inventive, chilling, and witty,
Nazi Literature in the Americas
offers keen insights into the workings of an extraordinarily fecund literary imagination.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780330447430
2666
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NZ$ 33.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Roberto Bolano (tr from Spanish Natasha Wimmer)
Published by:
Picador
Written in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life,
2666
was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope. At the centre of the book is the fictional city of Santa Teresa on the Mexico-US border. It is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls like a vortex: convicts and academics, an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' writer. But there is a darker side still.As in the real town of Juarez, on which Santa Teresa is based, girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate. This is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate, visionary writer.
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction 2008.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780141045634
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Popular Penguin)
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Author:
Marquez Gabriel Garcia (tr from Spanish Gregory Rabassa)
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed wife, Ursula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquíades excites Aureliano Buendía's father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands.
First published in Spanish 1967; this translation 1970.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780099459392
By Night in Chile
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Roberto Bolano
Published by:
Vintage Books
During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film. Thus we are given glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger, General Pinochet, whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine, as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched upon his.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780099461722
Distant Star
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Roberto Bolano
Published by:
Vintage Books
An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dictatorship of General Pinochet, he embarked upon a new career that involved him in committing murder and other brutalities, and subsequently led to his emergence as a lieutenant in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. Some time later the narrator, now held in a prison camp, looks up and sees a World War II airplane writing the first words of the "Book of Genesis" in smoke in the sky. The aviator is none other Carlos Wieder, launching his own version of the New Chilean Poetry. Roberto Bolano's novel is a chilling investigation of the fascist mentality and the limits of evil, as seen in its effects on a literary ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780732289171
The Winner Stands Alone
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Author:
Paulo Coelho
Published by:
Harpercollins
A Beretta Px4 compact pistol is a little bigger than a mobile phone, weighs around 700 grams and has a capacity of 10 shots. Small and light, it leaves no visible mark in the pocket carrying it and its small calibre has an enormous advantage: instead of crossing the victim's body, the bullet shatters the bones and tears everything it finds in its path.
This is the beginning of
The Winner Stands Alone
, Paulo Coelho's 12th novel, a merciless portrait of the elites - from fashion to politics - that define the course of the world we live in. Set backstage at the Cannes Film Festival,
The Winner Stands Alone
stages film directors, producers, stylists, models, consecrated actors and candidates for stardom to narrate the story of a serial killer who, obsessed with the woman that abandoned him, spreads panic in the world of the celebrities gathered in the French city.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780141189666
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Oscar Hijuelos
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
In 1949, two young Cuban musicians, brothers Cesar and Nestor, leave Havana for New York. By day they work hard, by night they are the Mambo Kings: packing out clubs, dance halls and theatres with their sensuous, pulsing Latin music.
This is the captivating story of charming, vivacious womanizer Cesar and quiet, romantic Nestor - still nursing an unrequited love for 'beautiful Maria of my soul' - and their changing fortunes as they try to make it big in America.
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