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  • Notes from the Other Side of Night

    From Communism to a Fragile Freedom

    by Juliana Geran Pilon ...
    Series series Curations
    A lyrical memoir of living under, and escaping from, anti-Semitism and the tyranny of communism.“There are scenes in this book that the reader will never forget.”—Mircea EliadeWith a new Afterword by the author and a new Introduction by bestselling historian Wilfred M. McClayIn Notes from the Other Side of Night, Juliana Geran Pilon provides a beautiful memoir of a return to her native Romania in ... Read more

    $33.55 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Everything is Illuminated

    by Jonathan Safran Foer ...
    THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth'Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing' The Times'One... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Speak, Memory

    An Autobiography Revisited

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Lost In Translation

    A Life in a New Language

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.Her autobiography is profoundly personal but also tells one of the most universal and important narratives of twentieth ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • For Two Thousand Years

    by Mihail Sebastian ...
    Translated by Philip Ó Ceallaigh ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him.Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Sleepless Nights

    by Elizabeth Hardwick ...
    In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick’s finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American ... Read more

    $17.91 AUD

  • The House of Government

    A Saga of the Russian Revolution

    by Yuri Slezkine ...
    On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri ... Read more

    $64.93 AUD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Xenophobe's Guide to the Russians

    by Vladimir Zhelvis ...
    Series series Xenophobe's Guides
    A guide to understanding the Russians which goes behind the curtain of bearishmess to reveal their soft underbelly. ... Read more

    $1.48 AUD

  • The Snows of Yesteryear

    by Gregor Von Rezzori ...
    Translated by H. F. Broch de Rothermann ...
    Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of ... Read more

    $21.28 AUD

  • The Prague Orgy

    by Philip Roth ...
    In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writers with whom he ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Budapest Diary

    In Search of the Motherbook

    by Susan Rubin Suleiman ...
    Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Rubin Suleiman (71,000 words and 2 photographs)Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth — where she speaks the language like a native but with an accent. Suleiman left Budapest in 1949 as a young child with ... Read more

    $18.16 AUD

  • Snapshots...Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain

    by Eva Kende ...
    Description:In a collection of reminiscences, Eva Kende dips into her painful childhood to share her impressions of living a part of history that most people only heard of through news reports.While this is Eva's personal story, it reflects the minutiae of everyday life in post war Hungary until the 1956 Revolution when thousands felt compelled to flee to the west to seek a freer life in ... Read more

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