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Cop - A Journalist Infiltrates the Police by Valentin Gendrot; Frank Wynne (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Police officers are obliged to give an account of every incident they are involved in. But what happened today will never be logged. Because that's what police solidarity means- what happens in the van stays in the van. Police officers are obliged to give an account of every incident they are involved i ...Show more
Found in Translation by Frank Wynne (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence' George Steiner. It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No culture exists in isolation; all writers are part of the intertwining braid of literature. Found In Translationbri ...Show more
Outrageous Horizon by Adrien Bosc; Frank Wynne (Translator)
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Category: Fiction
Two hundred and fifty members of a new society, floating, stranded at sea, heading for unknown lands, fleeing a Europe in flames.
Queer: A Collection Of LGBTQ Writing From Ancient Times To Yesterday by Frank Wynne (Editor)
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Category: Fiction
100 of the finest stories celebrating LGBTQI love, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho , from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin ...Show more
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne
39.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share great triumphs and deep despairs; to praise the virtues of their lover, extol their loneliness and pro ...Show more
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild by Mathias Énard; Frank Wynne
36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture the essence of rurality, the intrepid scholar shuttles around restlessly on his moped to interview l ...Show more
The Art of Patience by Frank Wynne Sylvain Tesson
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Category: Science & Natural History
"The Art of Patience sees the renowned French adventurer and writer Sylvain Tesson undertake an expedition to the mountains of Tibet in search of the famously elusive snow leopard. After the publication of The Consolations of the Forest (2014), Sylvain Tesson had a devastating climbing accident that br ...Show more
The French Art of War by Alexis Jenni; Frank Wynne
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Category: Fiction
It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a veteran of the great colonial wars of Indochina, Vietnam and Algeria, a commander who had led his soldiers ac ...Show more
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre; Frank Wynne (Translator)
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Category: Fiction
Now a major French film Au revoir l#65533;-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Ir#65533;ne and Camille.October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends t ...Show more
The Impostor by Javier Cercas; Frank Wynne (translator)
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCO But who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice, and a survivor of the Nazi death ca ...Show more
The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar; Frank Wynne (Translator)
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Category: Fiction
Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction.With this debut collection, film le ...Show more
The Patagonian Hare - A Memoir by Claude Lanzmann; John Gaffney (Translator); Frank Wynne (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Even if I lived a hundred lives, I still wouldn't be exhausted." These words capture the intensity of the experiences of Claude Lanzmann, a man whose acts have always been a negation of resignation: a member of the Resistance at sixteen, a friend to Jean-Paul Sartre and a lover to Simone de Beauvoir, a ...Show more