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“xavier le clerc”

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  • A Man With No Title

    by Xavier Le Clerc ...
    Translated by William Rodarmor ...
    Mohand-Said Ait-Taleb is an enigma. Living in France but ravaged by memories of the war in Algeria, he has withdrawn into his own world, away from his wife and children. When his son Xavier discovers articles by Albert Camus describing the appalling conditions his father grew up in, he starts to piece together the story of his life.Xavier retraces the steps of this dignified, illiterate and strong ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Department of Missing Persons

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    by Ruth Zylberman ...
    Translated by Grace McQuillan ...
    A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery ... Read more

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  • A House in Fez

    Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

    by Suzanna Clarke ...
    The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and Arab-style houses, gorgeous with intricate, if often shabby, mosaic work.While vacationing in Morocco, Suzanna Clarke and her husband, Sandy, are ... Read more

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  • The Black Crescent

    by Jane Johnson ...
    A captivating historical novel set in post-war Casablanca about a young man marked by djinns who must decide where his loyalties lie as the fight for Moroccan independence erupts.Hamou Badi is born in a village in the Anti-Atlas Mountains with the markings of the zouhry on his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans and djinns, capable of finding treasure, lost ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • A Carpet Ride to Khiva

    Seven Years on the Silk Road

    by Chris Aslan, Christopher Alexander ...
    The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva - a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan - immensely alluring, and stayed.Immersing himself in the language and rich ... Read more

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  • The Way of the World

    Two men in a car from Geneva to the Khyber Pass

    by Nicolas Bouvier ...
    The Way of the World, a cult classic, is the beguiling tale of an impecunious and life-enhancing journey from Geneva to the Khyber Pass in the '50s. When Nicolas Bouvier and the artist Thierry Vernet set out, they had money for four months and a sturdy Fiat Topolino. They broke their journey when money ran low, to teach and sell paintings and articles in Istanbul, Tabriz and eventually in Quetta. ... Read more

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  • Border

    A Journey to the Edge of Europe

    by Kapka Kassabova ...
    “Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free.” —Peter PomerantsevIn this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The New Granta Book of Travel

    by Jonathan Raban, Albino Ochero-Okello ...
    A collection of travel writing by some of the genre's finest authors, from Paul Theroux to Sara Wheeler, voyaging from Mississippi to Malawi and Thailand.The New Granta Book of Travel Writing represents a sea change in writers' approaches to the craft. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document ... Read more

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  • The Devil's Cup

    Coffee, the Driving Force in History

    by Stewart Lee Allen ...
    Can you handle mornings without a brew? No? Multiply that. Imagine an entire population under a cloud of lethargy, unable to kick start their days.Now introduce coffee.Bingo. The brain moves into over-drive and it's time for empire building.So goes Stewart Lee Allen's crazy theory.Only thing is, after retracing coffee's journey to world domination - by train, rickshaw, cargo freighter and donkey - ... Read more

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  • Standing Heavy

    by Gauz' ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    Series Book 42 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize • Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize • One of The Walrus' Best Fall Books of 2023A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris.All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet ... Read more

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  • The Granta Book of the African Short Story

    by Helon Habila ...
    The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as ‘the post-nationalist generation’. Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Habila has focused on younger, newer writers, interspersed with some of their older, more established peers, to give a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD