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  • The Lonely Londoners

    by Sam Selvon ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novelsAt Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lonely Londoners

    by Sam Selvon, Mr Roy Williams ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    London will do for you for now… And I will do for London.London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through Moses Aloetta's door only to find Moses and his friends already deflated by city life. Will the London fog dampen Galahad's dreams? Or will these Lonely Londoners make a home in a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Housing Lark

    by Sam Selvon ...
    **The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canonA Penguin Classic**Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark explores the Caribbean migrant experience in the "Mother Country" by following a group of friends as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ways of Sunlight

    by Sam Selvon ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards ... for humour, sprightliness and downright exuberance at being alive' Sunday Times'You could be lonely as hell in the city, then one day you look around you and you realise everybody else is lonely too'This irresistible, bittersweet collection of short stories from the supreme chronicler of West Indian lives in Britain brings ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    The Lonely Londoners

    by Sam Selvon ...
    Narrated by Carl Mason ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 10 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels.**At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    by Solvej Balle ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

    by Solvej Balle ...
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    “A literary phenomenon nearly forty years in the making, and a speculative masterwork” (New York Magazine), Balle’s epic On the Calculation of Volume in Book III introduces new thrills to the adventures of Tara Selter’s endless November daySHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN... ... Read more

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  • We Are Green and Trembling

    by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ...
    Translated by Robin Myers ...
    Lyrical and swashbuckling, tender and surreal, Gabriela Cabezón Camara’s new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin AmericaWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREDeep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a ... Read more

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  • The Hearing Trumpet

    by Leonora Carrington, Olga Tokarczuk ...
    An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel.Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a ... Read more

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  • This Mournable Body

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    by Tsitsi Dangarembga ...
    Series series Nervous Conditions Series
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable authors**Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow’s boarding house and ... Read more

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  • Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

    by Sappho ...
    Translated by Aaron Poochigian ...
    'We hear the voice of a great and enduring poet in our ear again' Carol Ann Duffy'Go, girls, pursue the violet Muses' brightGifts and the plangent lyre, lover of hymns'By turns subversive, erotic and poignant, Sappho is one of the most versatile and exquisite poets in Classical literature. Invoking female deities, Sappho summons the Muses for inspiration and beseeches Aphrodite's allegiance in a ... Read more

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