Euphoria by Elin Cullhed
32.99 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction
A luminous portrayal of a brilliant mind who is at once at battle with herself and with the constraints that society has placed on her. A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap ...Show more
She and her Cat by Makoto Shinkai; Naruki Nagakawa
35.00 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction | Reading Level: very good
CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN meets TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES - Heart-stopping, tender Japanese bestselling debut novel about four women and the cats in their lives, as they lurch towards self-discovery in modern-day Japan by a hugely acclaimed Japanese anime filmmaker. For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONIC ...Show more
Chronicles of A Village by Nguyen Thanh Hien
30.00 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction
A fragmentary poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies and histories of a fabulated village in modern-day Vietnam Chronicles of a Village is set in an anonymous Vietnamese village based on the author's personal memories. The surrealistic narrative touches on the country's pre-modern history ...Show more
The Trio by Johanna Hedman
37.00 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction
Elegant, reflective and sumptuously atmospheric, a debut novel about three young lovers navigating the risks and possibilities of intimacyThora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old world elite, and one an ordinary boy from the suburbs - ...Show more
My Soul Twin (PB) by Nino Haratischvili
37.00 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction
A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. Two families, one devastating secret, and an epic story of forbidden love. Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he returns, the reunion of their unconventional family will change the cours ...Show more
Swanfolk by Kristin Omarsdottir
35.00 NZD
Category: Translated Fiction
An astonishing dystopian novel about a woman's discovery of a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elisabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her carefully controlled life. Elisabet's work is the lynchpin of her ...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
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
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
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
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