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“irina j davidenko”

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  • The Book of Havana

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Daniel Chavarria, Irina J. Davidenko, Eduardo del Llano, Ahmel Echevarría Peré, Jorge Enrique Lage, Laidi Fernández de Juan, Eduardo Heras León, Cinthia R. Paredes, Francisco López Sacha, Eduardo Angel Santiesteban ...
    Series series Reading the City
    When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him…A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics to fully comprehend…On the day of their graduation, a group of students spend the night drinking around the ... Read more

    $11.05 CAD

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  • Cuba Diaries

    An American Housewife in Havana

    by Isadora Tattlin ...
    Isadora Tattlin is the American wife of a European energy consultant posted to Havana in the 1990s. Wisely, the witty Mrs. Tattlin began a diary the day her husband informed her of their new assignment. One of the first entries is her shopping list of things to take, including six gallons of shampoo. For although the Tattlins were provided with a wonderful, big house in Havana, complete with a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Sound of Things Falling

    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Alfaguara PrizeWinner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize'A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn't choose to fight' The Times***'***The story is compelling but through Vásquez's vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting ... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Something Fierce

    Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

    by Carmen Aguirre ...
    Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At eighteen, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Havana Fever

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    Padura’s best novel. Assured in pace and style. A suspenseful mystery, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved island, all rolled into one. 2. The titles in the Havana Quartet, Havana Red, Havana Black, Havana Blue and Havana Gold were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 70,000. 3. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Even the Darkest Night

    A Terra Alta Investigation

    by Javier Cercas ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    Series Book 1 - A Terra Alta Investigation
    INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • WINNER OF SPAIN’S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE • Barcelona detective Melchor Marín is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clear that nothing about the case is quite as it seems in this “sweeping romantic novel in the form of a police procedural” (Wall Street Journal).The first book in the internationally acclaimed series: ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

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  • Slow Train to Guantanamo

    by Peter Millar ...
    Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, Peter Millar travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and political opinions to the far end of the island, the Guantanamo naval base and detention camp. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Thursday Night Widows

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    "An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winnerThe English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!“Piñeiro’s clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.”—Publishers Weekly“Piñeiro is particularly skilful at exposing the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Book of Chameleons

    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    by José Eduardo Agualusa ...
    "Ingenious, consistently taut and witty" TLSStrange, elliptical, charming" GuardianSet in contemporary Angola, this novel is populated with characters whose victories never quite settle. Like any one of us, they can forget things that have happened to them, and remember things that never did. Theirs is a world where the truth seems to shift from moment to moment, where history itself is up for ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Crack in the Wall

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten.Claudia Piñeiro, after working as a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Reputations

    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colón, he contemplates the start of his professional life, and how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Twelve Minutes of Love

    A Tango Story

    by Kapka Kassabova ...
    Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she's danced across the world, from Auckland to Edinburgh, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, putting in hours of practice for fleeting moments of dance-floor ecstasy, suffering blisters and heart-break along the way. Here, in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD