Results for: books tagged ‘Translation’
Amrita: Banana Yoshimoto
A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes ... More
Antichrista: Amelie Nothomb
When lonely sixteen-year-old university student Blanche meets the dazzling Christa, she is swept off her feet. Christa, who talks freely of her impoverished background in the Eastern Belgian town of ... More
Asleep: Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, ... More
The Black Book: Orhan Pamuk
The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric ... More
The Blue Lantern: Victor Pelevin
The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving effortlessly between different genres and moods, bursting with absurd wit and existential satire. ... More
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Milan Kundera
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, ... More
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Milan Kundera
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, ... More
The Book of Proper Names: Amelie Nothomb
The Book of Proper Names is the story of the hapless orphan girl, Plectrude. Raised by her aunt, and unaware of the dark secret behind her past, she is a ... More
A Brief Stay with the Living: Marie Darrieussecq
Marie Darrieussecq tells the story of a single day in the life of a mother and her three grown-up daughters. Now scattered between the South of France and Buenos Aires, ... More
The Character of Rain: Amelie Nothomb
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the ... More
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