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  • Life: A User's Manual

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series Book 1 - Inspector Maigret
    In this first installment in Georges Simenon’s legendary Inspector Maigret series, M. Maigret hunts down an elusive and notorious confidence man, but finds that identifying him is a game of doubles, intrigue, and hidden crimes.When Detective Chief Inspector Maigret receives notice from Interpol that Pietr the Latvian, an infamous con man, is on his way to Paris, he rushes to intercept him at the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Great Wall of China as a Climate Frontier

    Climatic and Historical Perspectives on the Ordos Region

    Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, David Bello, Jürg Luterbacher, Elena Xoplaki ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Great Wall—the most imposing manifestation of Chinese frontier history—crosses a vast territory subject to political, environmental and climatic instabilities that the volume approaches as mutually conditioning, focusing on the Ordos region. This has been a central point of contact between sedentary East Asian and nomadic Inner Asian peoples throughout Chinese premodern history (500 BCE-1800). ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Georges Perec: A Life in Words

    by David Bellos ...
    "It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation.David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Pitards (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    Aboard a cargo ship on a hazardous voyage, ominous prophecies cause troubling misapprehensions, disputes, paranoia, and ultimately tragedy.Émile Lannec thinks it’s madness for his wife, Mathilde, to join him on the maiden voyage of his freighter, the Tonnerre-de-Dieu. She had insisted on coming, probably at the behest of her mother, Madame Pitard, who cosigned the loan to buy the ship. Predictably ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Novel of the Century

    The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

    by David Bellos ...
    **GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has' Boyd Tonkin, Economist'Any reader who hasn't yet embarked on Hugo's book might be converted to the idea by this one' Daniel Hahn, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Authentic French Noir Box Set

    Bird in a Cage, Crush, The Executioner Weeps, The Gravedigger's Bread

    by Frédéric Dard ...
    Translated by Daniel Seton, David Coward, Frank Wynne, David Bellos ...
    Series series Pushkin Vertigo
    Now available in one collection, four classic crime thrillers from the award-winning “French master of noir” (Observer)Unravelling like a paranoid nightmare, Bird in a Cage melds existentialist drama with thrilling noir to tell the story of a man trapped in a prison of his own making. Crush is a chilling 1950s suspense story of youthful naivety, dark obsession—and the slippery slope to murder. The ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Ninety-Three

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France’s greatest novelistIn the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous period with a story of courage and betrayal across the political classes. As the revolution rages, three characters – a nobleman turned revolutionary, a devoted ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cousin Bette

    Translated by Sylvia Raphael ...
    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac's characters span many classes of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Seeking Whom He May Devour

    by Fred Vargas ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series Book 2 - Commissaire Adamsberg
    In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves.Disturbing things have been happening up in the French mountains; more and more sheep are being found with their throats torn out. The evidence points to a wolf of unnatural size and strength. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere

    A Novel

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    The posthumously published first novel from the acclaimed French author of Life: A User's Manual offers "glimpses of Perec's future greatness" ( The New Yorker).Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus