The Office of Gardens and Ponds by Didier Decoin
34.99 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A mesmerising fable with a difference, set in Japan over 1000 years ago For readers of Alessandro Baricco's Silk, Patrick Süskind's Perfume and Takashi Hiraide's The Guest Cat. The village of Shimae is thrown into turmoil when master carp-catcher Katsuro suddenly drowns in the murky waters of the Kusa ...Show more
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
24.00 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventee ...Show more
Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen
37.99 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction
A jewel of modern Norwegian literature now hailed as Lars Saabye Christensen's crowning achievement - an intricate and utterly compelling narrative. Christensen is one of Scandinavia's finest and most celebrated storytellers, who has devoted the best part of his career to writing about the city of his b ...Show more
Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah; Deborah Smith (Translator)
37.00 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction
A seductive, disorienting story about parallel lives, unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer For two years, 28-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But Ayami has just been made redundant, and thinking about the future feels like s ...Show more
Grand Hotel Europa by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
35.00 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostaligia and the end of an era. ‘A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy the ages’ Trouw (The Netherlands) ‘The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the ...Show more