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The Dancing and the Death in Lemon Street
Published: 2011
Paperback: 276 pages
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Violence rendered things visible, writes Denis Hirson in this beautifully crafted, musical story, which is as much about seeing how people lived at that time as it is about desire, loneliness and the desperate, blind need for revenge. Lemon street runs downslope through a leafy, peaceful suburb of Johannesburg....
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Published: 2014-07-11
Kindle Edition: 298 pages
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1994. The world is about to change. The first truly democratic election in South Africa’s history is about to unite Nelson Mandela’s rainbow nation at the ballot box. And, across the world, those in exile, those who could not return home, those who would not return home, wait. Watch an...
The Last Crossing: A Novel
Published: 2004-11-30
Paperback: 416 pages
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The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father to find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. Charle...
Two Kinds Of Wonderful
Published: 2001
Paperback: 352 pages
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Ten years have passed since Roz committed the ultimate sin of motherhood: she left her family behind when she walked out on her husband. Now, drawn back into that world by the death of their redoubtlable grandmother, Nan, Roz finds herself embroiled in the lives of her grown-up children.
Flights of Love: Stories (Vintage International)
Published: 2007-12-18
Kindle Edition: 320 pages
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Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters–men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception–are uneasily suspended between the desire for lo...
The Wasted Vigil (Vintage International)
Published: 2009-09-08
Paperback: 336 pages
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In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan.There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; Dav...
Maps: A Novel (Blood in the Sun)
Published: 2016-02-02
Paperback: 272 pages
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?Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.”?Nadine Gordimer Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the ...
Butterfly Moments: Encouraging Encounters At An Inner-City High School
Published: 2018-10-15
Paperback: 252 pages
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Be prepared to be deeply moved by the stories of the adolescents you will meet in Butterfly Moments. This unique collection of real life encounters, compassionately shared by Caroline Green, is set an inner-city high school on the edge of Hillbrow. Here, where poverty dictates, gangsters c...
The Hum of the Sun
Published: 2018-04-06
Kindle Edition: 288 pages
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After burying their sister and mother, two brothers embark on a journey to the city in search of their only remaining family. On the brink of manhood, Ash must protect eight-year-old Zuko, who does not speak, his words stuck somewhere between his thoughts and his mouth. But Zuko, enchanted by nature...
Far to Go: A Novel
Published: 2011-04-19
Paperback: 336 pages
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"Deftlystructured and . . . seamless." —Globe and Mail (Toronto) "[A]nuanced and layered portrait of betrayal. . . . The strength of Far to Golies in Pick's ability to show precisely why one person could turn on another,how a single word spoken on impulse could have devastating results....
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