Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
$22.99 AUD
Category: summer reading guide
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy pe ...Show more
The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang
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Category: fiction a-z
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, The Vegetarian is a beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invas ...Show more
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: trans Jennifer Croft
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." --Washington Post From the incompa ...Show more
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
$19.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, ...Show more
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Winner - Man Booker International 2019! Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated ...Show more
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