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Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali; Pankaj Mishra (Introduction by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in. Ram's favorite haunt is the fashionable Cairo Snooker Club, whose members strive to emulate English gentility; but his bes ...Show more
Democracy by Joan Didion
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean--a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, D ...Show more
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir--a "wise, funny, and devastating ... discourse on love and sorrow" (The New York Times Book Review). In this "deeply stirring" book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writ ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book- a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 ...Show more
SEA by BANVILLE JOHN
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005 The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a c ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch; Willa Muir (Translator); Edwin Muir (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Broch performs with an impeccable virtuosity." --Aldous Huxley With his epic trilogy, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher equivalent of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in ...Show more
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals m ...Show more
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