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  • Selected Plays by Griselda Gambaro

    Siamese Twins; Mother by Trade; As the Dream Dictates; Asking Too Much; Persistence; Dear Ibsen, I Am Nora; The Gift

    by Griselda Gambaro ...
    Translated by Gwen MacKeith ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Griselda Gambaro is arguably one of Argentina's most important dramatists, as well as a playwright of international significance, whose poetics not only interpret Argentine reality but transcend cultural and geographical borders. Despite international recognition, her plays remain little performed in the UK, an absence which makes this anthology of new translations a welcome contribution to ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays

    by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, Fabián Miguel Díaz, Leonel Giacometto, Franco Calluso, Juan Ignacio Fernandez, Candelaria Sabagh ...
    Translated by Catherine Boyle, Gwen MacKeith, William Gregory, Rosalind Harvey0, Kate Eaton1 ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    From Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world to the edges of the great Paraná river, and from the city of Buenos Aires to its fertile plains and the estuaries of northern Argentina, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays provides a unique insight into the preoccupations and the creative responses of one of the major theatre-producing countries in Latin America.Includes the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Before We Were Free

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    Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship.Using the strength and courage of her family, ... Read more

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  • The Schooldays of Jesus

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, an astonishing novel of new beginnings and the troubles of youth.'Brilliant... Tenaciously absorbing' Daily TelegraphDavid is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make friends and he has the big dog Bolívar to watch over him.But ... Read more

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  • The Dancer Upstairs

    by Nicholas Shakespeare ...
    This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth century terrorism. Colonel Rejas was the policeman charged with the task of capturing the Peruvian guerrilla leader Ezequiel, but having been dismissed he finds the burden of silence and secrecy too heavy. On meeting Dyer, a foreign correspondent, he is moved to relate the tortuous progress of the manhunt for ... Read more

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  • Carnality

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    by Lina Wolff ...
    Translated by Frank Perry ...
    In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide ... Read more

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  • The Whispering City

    by Sara Moliner ...
    Translated by Mara Faye Lethem ...
    Winner of an English PEN 'PEN Translates!' award.Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the exclusive Tibidabo district, the police scramble to seize control of the investigation. Ana Martí Noguer, an eager young journalist, is ... Read more

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  • A Crack in the Wall

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten.Claudia Piñeiro, after working as a ... Read more

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  • The Poet's Wife

    by Rebecca Stonehill ...
    An unforgettable journey into the heart of one family torn apart by war.Granada, 1920. Free-spirited Luisa and young poet Eduardo fall in love, cementing a bond that can never be broken.Behind the jasmine filled courtyard, perched amongst houses like clouds on a hilltop, stands a beautiful villa; Carmen de las Estrellas. Beneath its walls live Eduardo and Luisa with their thriving family, but war ... Read more

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    by Lina Wolff ...
    At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Cambó, writer of violent short stories, who left ... Read more

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  • Lorca: Three Plays

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    by Federico García Lorca ...
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    Three of Federico García Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume, translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.'There's fire burning in my head.There's an ocean drowning my heart.'Lorca's passionate, lyrical tales of longing and revenge put the spotlight on the rural poor of 1930s Spain and are considered masterpieces of twentieth-century ... Read more

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