The Double by Jose Saramago
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality ...Show more
Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 dictator ...Show more
Goetz and Meyer by David Albahari
$29.95 NZD
Category: World fiction
Over the course of the summer of 1942 the Nazis exterminated the majority of Serbia's Jews. The speed of their deadly programme was due to a ruthlessly mechanical scheme using a hermetically sealed truck. Years later, by trying to find out what happened to his relatives, the narrator, a teacher, pieces ...Show more
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
To love someone, need you know everything about them? When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. She is a nurse, he a painter and decorator; both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each brings with them an emotional burden. Alice's father has bee ...Show more
Field Study by Rachel Seiffert
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author of The Dark Room comes a strikingly powerful collection of stories exploring themes of guilt, love and sacrifice with a haunting emotional precision.With a range of settings as diverse as the Scottish seaside and post-Communist eastern Germany Seiffert uses the locations of these stories ...Show more
Money - A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
$27.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and mor ...Show more
The System of the World (#3 The Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for Engla ...Show more
Keeping Secrets by Andrew Rosenheim
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It was his hideout, but now he did not feel safe at all. The birds had suddenly gone quiet, and the boy was certain the man was in the woods below him. And then a voice fractured the unnatural hush. 'I know you're in there.' The voice was harsh but high-pitched, sounding strained. It chilled the boy. ...Show more
Shanghai Nights by Juan Marse
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
For fourteen-year-old Daniel growing up in a poverty-stricken district of post-war Barcelona, a city where memories of the agonising Civil War were still fresh, life was grey and rarely easy. His father had not returned from war and he lived with his mother, filling in time between school and starting w ...Show more
Islands by Dan Sleigh (tr from Afrikaans, Andre Brink)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
For the indigenous peoples of the Dutch settlement of the Cape, it is the beginning of the end of a way of life; its seasons and rhythms, its harshness and abundance. Pieternella is the daughter of the first 'mixed' marriage of the new colony and it is she who becomes the pivot of all the action in this ...Show more