Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda
$17.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The glamorous world of Kyoto's geisha is familiar to many readers but Sayo Masuda's tale tells a different story, one that bears little resemblance to the elegant geisha quarters frequented by illustrious patrons. Masuda was a geisha at a rural hot-springs resort where the realities of sex for sale were ...Show more
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
$17.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In 1971, Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 're-educated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoe ...Show more
The Good Women of China by Xinran
$17.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, "Words on the Night Breeze" became famous through the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern C ...Show more
Red Dust by Ma Jian
$17.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'My painter friends think I am a die-hard conservative, my writer friends think I am a man of loose morals. In Jushlin Temple I am a quiet disciple, in the Propaganda Department I am a decadent youth. Women call me a cynical artist, the police call me a hooligan. Well, they can think what they like. I o ...Show more
Like Heaven by Niala Maharaj
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Like Heaven is a vivid and evocative portrait of an Indian family in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Ved Saran is forced to leave his childhood behind when he takes on the family business, sacrificing his own personal desires to make it a success. As he prospers, he is pulled further away from the ramshack ...Show more
Out by Natsuo Kirino
$17.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
In the Tokyo suburbs, four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering ...Show more
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working o ...Show more
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true.Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to ...Show more
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye ...Show more
The Religion by Tim Willocks
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Malta, in May 1565 - From the shores of the Golden Horn, Suleiman the Magnificent, Emperor of the Ottomans, has sent the greatest armada since antiquity to wipe out Islam's most implacable foe, the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, in their stronghold on the island of Malta. To the Turks the knights a ...Show more
Le Bal and Snow In Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Le Bal" depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending. But Madame Kampf is resolved not to present her ...Show more
The Courilof Affair by Irene Nemirovsky
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee. The assassination, he is told, must take place in public and be in most grandiose m ...Show more