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“michal viewegh”

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  • Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia

    by Michal Viewegh ...
    MICHAL VIEWEGH’s short and witty novel Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia is the story of Beata Kralova and her not-so-young tutor. Beata is a 20-year-old drop-out and daughter of Denis Kral (i.e., King), a Czech “new millionaire” of dubious connections. Beata embraces lover after lover as well as causes new to Eastern Europe: the environment, animal rights, feminism, consumerism, new-age religion.This ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD

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  • On Chesil Beach

    by Ian McEwan ...
    #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • The bestselling author of Saturday and Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears and romantic fantasy in his unforgettable, emotionally engaging novel.It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Checkout 19

    A Novel

    by Claire-Louise Bennett ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ"NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE“Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove KnausgaardFrom the author of the “dazzling. . . . and daring” Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Metroland

    by Julian Barnes ...
    Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants of Metroland, the ... Read more

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  • Some Rain Must Fall

    My Struggle: Book 5

    by Karl Ove Knausgaard ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett ...
    Series Book 5 - My Struggle
    The fifth installment in the epic six-volume My Struggle cycle is here, highly anticipated by Karl Ove Knausgaard's dedicated fan club—and the first in the cycle to be published separately in Canada.The young Karl Ove moves to Bergen to attend the Writing Academy. It turns out to be a huge disappointment: he wants so much, knows so little, and achieves nothing. His contemporaries have their ... Read more

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  • Inside Story

    by Martin Amis ...
    Martin Amis's dazzling autobiographical novel of a unique literary life seen through the lens of friendships, family, sex and love, is wise, warm, heartbreaking and funny: the heart-to-heart testimony of an incomparable writer.This is the portrait of an extraordinary life lived by a great writer. Martin Amis leads us through boisterous romantic entanglements and literary friendships, the ... Read more

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  • Prague

    A Novel

    by Arthur Phillips ...
    BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an exotic city newly opened to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Domina

    by L.S. Hilton ...
    In this riveting sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europe’s glamorous elite.Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh—now Elisabeth Teerlinc—can finally stop running. She’s got the paycheck, lifestyle, and wardrobe she always dreamed of, not to mention ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Hunting Gun

    by Yasushi Inoue ...
    Translated by Michael Emmerich ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A tragedy in three letters: THE masterpiece of one of Japan's greatest writersThe Hunting Gun follows the consequences of a tragic love affair. Told from the viewpoints of three different women, this is a story of the psychological impact of illicit love. First viewed through the eyes of Shoko, who learns of the affair through reading her mother's diary, then through the eyes of Midori, who had ... Read more

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  • Falling Towards England

    More Unreliable Memoirs

    by Clive James ...
    Series Book 2 - Unreliable Memoirs
    **The second instalment of his famed unreliable memoirs, Falling Towards England sees Clive James set sail for London – a long way from the acclaimed author, poet and broadcaster he would one day become . . .'A comic triumph' – Ian Hamilton, London Review of Books**Waving goodbye to Sydney, Clive James arrives in 1960s England with nothing much besides the clothes on his back, in search of fame ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Based on a True Story

    by Delphine de Vigan ...
    Translated by Mr George Miller ...
    The international sensation that sold half a million copies in France and the subject of a new film by Roman Polanski: a chilling story about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic.Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2015Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L., who embodies ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Only

    A singular memoir

    by Caroline Baum ...
    Caroline Baum's fascinating and moving memoir about being an only child in a very unusual family.Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far between. Mostly, there was only me.Only is a memoir of an unconventional childhood that explores what it ... Read more

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