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  • Chinatown

    by Oh Jung-hee ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A selection of the best short stories by Oh Jung-hee, one of South Korea’s most influential writersIn this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the city’s Chinese community comes of age among ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • We Do Not Part

    A Novel

    by Han Kang ...
    Translated by e. yaewon, Paige Aniyah Morris ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE CENTURY (SO FAR)FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION<st... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Human Acts

    by Han Kang ...
    Translated by Deborah Smith ...
    Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma.Human Acts is a ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

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  • Soldier Sailor

    'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS

    by Claire Kilroy ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024The Times Novel of the YearAnd a Guardian, FT, Economist, Irish Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Irish Independent and Independent Book of the Year'One of the finest novels published this year.' Sunday Times'I could not put it down.' ANNE ENRIGHT<b... ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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  • Untold Night and Day

    A Novel

    by Bae Suah ...
    The acclaimed Korean author weaves a "disturbing, beautifully controlled" metaphysical detective story "of doubles, shadows, and parallel worlds" ( Financial Times).It's Ayami's final day working the box-office at Seoul's only audio theater for the blind. Her last shift completed, she walks the streets with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. Their conversations take in art, love, ... Read more

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  • Of Dogs and Walls

    by Yuko Tsushima ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • My Cat Yugoslavia

    A Novel

    by Pajtim Statovci ...
    Translated by David Hackston ...
    A love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat.In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

    by Bruce Fulton ...
    ‘An ever-surprising and stylistically diverse anthology that will surely stand as the touchstone collection of Korean literature for decades to come’ Literary ReviewThis eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Willem De Kooning's Paintbrush

    by Kerry Lee Powell ...
    “Powerful. . . . Full of dark nostalgia.” —NATHAN ENGLANDER“A literary high-wire act, not for the faint of heart.” —ALISSA YORKAn unflinching and masterful collection of award-winning stories, Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush is a career-making debut. Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, ... Read more

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  • Faces on the Tip of My Tongue

    by Emmanuelle Pagano ...
    Translated by Jennifer Higgins, Sophie Lewis ...
    Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion.The late wedding guest isn't your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn't going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in summer and the sequins found between the pages of a borrowed novel will make your fortune. Pagano's stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the ... Read more

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  • The Taste of River Water

    new and selected poems

    by Cate Kennedy ...
    WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS C.J. DENNIS PRIZE FOR POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDSDisarming, warm, and always accessible, Cate Kennedy’s poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here: compassion, insight, lyrical precision, and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can turn on a ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Love

    by Ben Okri ...
    Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.'I wanted to find the right balance between the unforced beauty of art and the rough truth of life' BEN OKRISet in 1970s Nigeria, in a country trying to come to terms with the atrocity of its recent civil war, Dangerous Love introduces us to ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD