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Giacomo Joyce: Faber Stories by James Joyce
9.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love? The manuscript of 'Giacomo Joyce', written in James Joyce's best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste. Most likely written in 1914, some of it served as a rehearsal for passages in Ulysses. Had Joyce meant ...Show more
Homeland (Faber Stories) by Barbara Kingsolver
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.' When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Chero ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Faber Stories) by Milan Kundera
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
Mostly Hero (Faber Stories) by Anna Burns
12.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn't want to be, but that's just how it goes. Written by Anna Burns before she ...Show more
Mr Salary: Faber Stories by Sally Rooney
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is on ...Show more
Shanti (Faber Stories) by Vikram Chandra
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return? It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman. Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot miss ...Show more
Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Faber Stories) by ALAN BENNETT
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer. "I didn't know you were interested in football," said Betty.' No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the ...Show more
The Cheater's Guide to Love (Faber Stories) by Junot Diaz
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda [. . .] You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more. In Yunior, a Dominican-American writer and Harvard professor, Junot Díaz has created an irresistibly erratic pro ...Show more
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