The Dog Who Dared to Dream by Sun-mi Hwang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
This is the story of a dog named Scraggly. Born an outsider because of her distinctive appearance, she spends most of her days in the sun-filled yard of her owner's house. Scraggly has dreams and aspirations just like the rest of us. But each winter, dark clouds descend and Scraggly is faced with challe ...Show more
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang
$21.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
'A very special little book' Lisa See, author of the New York Times bestseller Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 'Sun-mi Hwang's lovely The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly is a novel uniquely poised at the nexus of fable, philosophy, children's literature, and nature writing' Adam Johnson, author of the Puli ...Show more
The Little Girl on the Ice Floe: A Memoir by Adélaïde Bon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
"Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there is storytelling of real quality" - LEILA SLIMANI, author of Lullaby A powerful and personal account of the devastating consequences of childhood rape: a valuable voice for the #MeToo conversation. Adélaïde Bon grew up in a wealthy neighb ...Show more
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
'A masterpiece' Guardian A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the i ...Show more
The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia
$27.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel--her first to be translated into English--about a mysterious child with the power to change a family's history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of ...Show more
The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till. Nor are her fellow employees any l ...Show more
The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy anddark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or who ...Show more
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Gustavo 'Turnpike' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world, amassing his collection of 'collectibles' and perfecting his own ...Show more
The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, The Vegetarian is a beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invas ...Show more
The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha
$32.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
The Wandering's jumping-off point is the story of Dorothy and her ruby slippers, which readers are invited to slip on, allowing them to roam on a path of their own choosing between New York, Berlin, Jakarta, Lima and beyond.Sydney-based Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha has been heralded as one of a g ...Show more
The White Book by Han Kang; Deborah Smith (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of t ...Show more
Trafalgar by Angelica Gorodischer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Science fiction meets magical realism in this brilliant novel from one of Latin America's best-loved science-fiction writers In the cafes and bars of Rosario, Argentina, there are sure to be many tall tales told. But none, perhaps, quite as spectacular as those recounted by Trafalgar Medrano. With a cof ...Show more