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“diego marani”

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  • New Finnish Grammar

    by Diego Marani ...
    Translated by Judith Landry ...
    One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can identify him. When he regains consciousness he has lost his memory and cannot even remember what language he speaks. From a few things found on the man the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Gods Dog

    by Diego Marani ...
    'To find Marani harnessing the genre of detective story for creative effect is not surprising; after all, he plays with the form in his Europanto synthetic-language sequence Las Adventures des inspector Cabillot and The Last of the Vostyachs revolves similarly around a murderously suppressed linguistic secret. Here, though the terse economy of detective prose works to move events briskly to their ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Last of the Vostyachs

    by Diego Marani ...
    The Last of the Vostyachs won two literary prizes in Italy: The Premio Campiello and The Premio Stresa. As a child, Ivan and his father work as forced labourers in a mine in Siberia, the father having committed some minor offence against the regime. Ivan�s father is then murdered in front of his young son, after which Ivan � who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he is ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Interpreter

    by Diego Marani, Judith Landry ...
    'The Interpreter isn't merely the sequel to New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs: it is a singular and deeply felt thesis, a warped manifesto of sorts, derived from a career spent immersed in languages. For Marani is up to his old tricks. Like in its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self reflexive nature... A primordial, universal ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • F

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  • Faces in the Crowd

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    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
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  • The Arc of the Swallow

    by Sissel-Jo Gazan ...
    Translated by Charlotte Barslund ...
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    by Robert Wilson ...
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  • Lanark

    A Life in Four Books

    by Alasdair Gray ...
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    The cult classic novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism by the author of Poor Things: A work of "vivid imagination, yielding copious riches."— The Times Literary SupplementFrom its first publication in 1981, Alasdair Gray's Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece, inspiring Anthony Burgess to proclaim Gray the most important Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. With its echoes of Dante, ... Read more

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