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The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen
R225.00WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
R270.00Lale is a Slovakian Jew and tattooist in Auschwitz. His job is to scratch the identity numbers onto the arms of his fellow inmates. For this duty he gets special privileges, which he uses to barter money and jewellery of dead Jews for extra food and blankets to keep those he can alive.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
R200.00Australian author Heather Morris recently visited our shores for the Franschhoek Literary Festival. Her novel based on the true experiences of Lale Sokolov has become a worldwide bestseller, and if you have not yet read this phenomenal story, then there is no better time to do so. Lale is a Slovakian Jew who is pulled out of his home and sent to Auschwitz.
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The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brockett – John Boyne
R185.00There’s nothing unusual about the Brockets. Normal, respectable, and proud of it, they turn up their noses at anyone strange or different. But from the moment Barnaby Brocket comes into the world, it’s clear he’s anything but ordinary. To his parents’ horror, Barnaby defies the laws of gravity – and floats.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
R125.00In your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control – of riches and minds, and over death itself.
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The Three by Sarah Lotz
R285.00Three is a complex and creepy thriller surrounding the crashes of four different passenger airplanes which happen at the same moment in four different places around the globe. The story is mostly told as a book written by the narrator and takes the form of a series of interviews and articles on the crashes and the increasingly sinister behaviour of the three child survivors. One child, inexplicably and miraculously, survives each of the three crashes and a fourth suspected survivor is searched for. One adult woman manages to leave a cryptic message on her phone before she dies that ignites a wave of fear among Christian followers and the widespread hysteria this creates serves the purposes of key political figures. Lotz’s story is a thrilling exploration of the insanity behind mass fear and hype. Tension is held superbly throughout the book as the reader joins the fact-finding mission of the narrator; trying to understand and make sense of the evidence which increasingly points to an answer terrifying to contemplate…
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The Tortoise Cried Its Only Tear – Carol Campbell
R240.00Carol Campbell has previously written about the Karretjiemense of the Karoo in her books My Children Have Faces and Esther’s House. The stories are a social comment on the Karretjiemense, who are a marginalised people living endlessly nomadic, rootless lives, on the brink of total poverty.
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The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
R205.00Pulitzer Prizewinner in 2017 for fiction, The Underground Railroad is centred on slavery in southern USA, Georgia, in the early 1800s. Colson ingenuously reimagines the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad, which serves as an allegorical tool for a story about Cora, a young slave, and her quest for freedom.
