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The Black Envelope by Norman Manea
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of ...Show more
The Book of Beginnings by Francois Jullien
26.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way of thinking How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly escape from his o ...Show more
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
26.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation's horrifying recent history Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing in ...Show more
The Dirty Dust: Cre Na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
44.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley's vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of O Cadhain's ori ...Show more
The Hatred of Music by Pascal Quignard; Matthew Amos (Translator); Fredrik Rönnbäck (Translator)
36.95 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny?Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s ...Show more
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell by Carlos Rojas
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
In Carlos Rojas' imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theatre in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over an ...Show more
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz
28.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's most personal novel - and arguably his most iconoclas ...Show more