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Shanghai Nights by Juan Marse
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
For fourteen-year-old Daniel growing up in a poverty-stricken district of post-war Barcelona, a city where memories of the agonising Civil War were still fresh, life was grey and rarely easy. His father had not returned from war and he lived with his mother, filling in time between school and starting w ...Show more
The Calligraphy of Dreams by Juan Marse
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This is the novel that secured for Juan Marse the biggest literary prize in the world bar the Nobel. It is the culmination of the life's work of arguably the greatest living Spanish man of letters. Gracia: a working-class district of Barcelona in the shadow of civil war. Life is hard, the city is grey, ...Show more
The Snares of Memory by Juan Marse; Nick Caistor (Translator)
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In January 1949 on an otherwise unremarkable day in an unremarkable Barcelona neighbourhood cinema, a prostitute is murdered in cold blood in the projection booth by the assistant projectionist, one Fermín Sicart. More than thirty years later, a screenwriter resolves to determine the truth behind her m ...Show more
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