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The Memoir of an Anti-Hero by Kornel Filipowicz
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes. Meticulously he recounts his experiences: the slow unravelling of national events as well as uncomfortable personal encounters on the street, in the café, at the office, in his ...Show more
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
$16.80 NZD
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back to the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Spending the summer wandering its valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel obsessively returns in memory to the farm where he worked as an adolescent ...Show more
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these, he embarks upon an ever-more-puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's ...Show more
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate; Julian Fellowes (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowsh ...Show more
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
$26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed ...Show more