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“ina rilke”

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  • Julia

    by Otto de Kat ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    One summer's afternoon in 1981, a factory owner, Christiaan Dudok, is found dead in his study having taken his own life. He has left no suicide note, but on his desk is a newspaper from 2 April 1942, reporting on the bombing of the north German town of Lübeck. The list of the dead includes the highlighted name of Julia Bender. As a young man finishing his studies in Lübeck in 1938, Christiaan is ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Black Lake

    by Hella S. Haasse ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    Amid the lush abundance of Java's landscape, two boys spend their days exploring the vast lakes and teeming forests. But as time passes the boys come to realize that their shared sense of adventure cannot bridge the gulf between their backgrounds, for one is the son of a Dutch plantation owner, and the other the son of a servant. Inevitably, as they grow up, they grow estranged and it is not until ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Max Havelaar

    Or, the Coffee Auctions of The Dutch Trading Company

    by Multatuli ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke, David McKay ...
    A fierce indictment of colonialism, Max Havelaar is a masterpiece of Dutch literature based on the author's own experience as an adminstrator in the Dutch East Indies in the 1850s.A brilliantly inventive fiction that is also a work of burning political outrage, Max Havelaar tells the story of a renegade Dutch colonial administrator’s ultimately unavailing struggle to end the exploitation of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • My Fellow Skin

    by Erwin Mortier ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    My Fellow Skin is a beautiful, affectionate novel told from the point of view of an impressionable young boy. The novel opens before the boy can talk, and we follow Anton’s first, tentative steps on the path to adulthood. He gradually begins to grasp an understanding of time and death, and when he goes to school he falls in love for the first time – not with the schoolgirls his peers are ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Foxes Come at Night

    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    by Cees Nooteboom ...
    Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. In 'Paula', the narrator evokes the mysterious, brief life of a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Shutterspeed

    by Erwin Mortier ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    A wonderful, balanced novel about how the remains of the past reverberate in the present, Shutterspeed sensitively and delicately describes the powerful emotions which lie just beneath the surface of the unruffled sheen of village life. Joris’ father died young, and his mother moved to Spain, so he has lived with his aunt and uncle since early childhood. He is quiet and introverted, and his aunt ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Marcel

    by Erwin Mortier ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village. The mysterious death of Marcel, the family favourite, has always haunted the young boy. With the help of his schoolteacher, he starts to discover the secrets of Marcel’s ‘black’ past. The story of his death on the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Eline Vere

    by Louis Couperus ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. Eline Vere is a young heiress: dreamy, impulsive, and subject to bleak moods. Though beloved among her large coterie of friends and relations, there are whispers that she is an eccentric: she has been known to wander alone in the park as well indulge in long, lazy ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Of Dogs and Walls

    by Yuko Tsushima ...
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    'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its ... Read more

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  • The Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)

    by A.S. Byatt ...
    Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of stories themselves.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of ... Read more

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  • A Short Walk from Harrods

    A Memoir

    by Dirk Bogarde ...
    _______________'The autobiography comes full circle - appropriately enough, because this is a book in which people come to terms with the past, make peace with inner demons, learn to say goodbye to loved ones and become sensitive, caring human beings' - The Independent**_______________First published in 1993, A Short Walk from Harrods is volume six of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs.**Forced ... Read more

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