Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
A Perfect Day to be Alone by Nanae Aoyama
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tok ...Show more
My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
The electrifying new novel from the winner of the International Booker Prize and sensational bestseller - a daring and unflinching account of loss, loneliness and the cost of survival. I heard you laughing from time to time and you stayed lying there on the flattened hay, and after you left, your body' ...Show more
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong (translated by by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)
40.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing throu ...Show more
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Lit ...Show more
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helen ...Show more
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
40.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
How to Love Your Daughter: The 'excellent and unforgettable' prize-winning novel by Hila Blum
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A woman stands on a dark street, thousands of kilometers from her home in Israel, and peeks through the windows of a home in a city in northern Holland. The two little girls she sees through the window are her granddaughters, whom she has never met, the daughters of her only daughter. At the center of ...Show more
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma (translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey)
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them?This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their chi ...Show more
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
40.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, ...Show more
Juja by Nino Haratischvili
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
The debut novel by international bestseller Nino Haratischvili, author of The Eighth Life, published for the first time in English.In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Sare, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others t ...Show more