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A Study Guide for Clarice Lispector's Family Ties by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375379809
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375379809Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study... -
Antonio by Beatriz Bracher 9780811227384
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.20Benjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three... -
Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction: Gender and the Scientific Imaginary Tess C. Rankin 9781836245605
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.16An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. The early twentieth century was... -
Clarice Lispector: Novos aportes críticos by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey 9781930744295
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.30Colaboran: Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey | Moacyr Scliar | Nadia Batella Gotlib | Lucia Helena | Nelson Vieira | Renata R. Mautner Wasserman | Debra A. Castillo | Maria Aparecida Ribeiro | Claire... -
Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction: Gender and the Scientific Imaginary by Tess C. Rankin 9781837644742
Booksplease Price: £37.30An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. The early twentieth century was... -
Cousins by Aurora Venturini 9780571372393
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23** With an introduction by Mariana Enriquez **A Granta Book of the Year'Cruel and strange and colourful.' Catherine Lacey 'Brimming with life, humour and a vital twist of darkness.' Alexandra Kleeman... -
Paradise Rot: A Novel by Jenny Hval 9781804294529
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder."Chris Kraus, author of I Love DickJo is in a strange new country for university and having... -
Examining Whiteness: Reading Clarice Lispector Through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison by Lucia Villares 9781906540470
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34By reading Clarice Lispector's work of whiteness through concepts developed by Bessie Head and Toni Morrison, the author deals with the ways in which Lispector's texts raise questions concerning the... -
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai 9781804270387
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket, visits friends and gossips with... -
How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism by Yael Segalovitz 9781438498690
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.67Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism... -
Letters from a Seducer Hilda Hilst 9781805331384
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In Letters from a Seducer, Hilst describes the everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex. Karl writes and sends... -
A Companion to Latin American Literature by Stephen M. Hart 9781855661479
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67The evolution of Latin American literature. A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America... -
The Obscene Madame D Hilda Hilst 9781805331360
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Obscene Madame D is the electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature's most significant and controversial writers. At sixty years old, Hille decides to abandon conventional... -
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America by Victoria Saramago 9780810142596
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in... -
The Impostor: and Other Stories by Silvina Ocampo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride... -
On the Edge of the Holocaust - The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture by Edna Aizenberg
Booksplease Price: £32.30In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both... -
Geography of Rebels Trilogy: The Book of Communities, The Remaining Life, and In the House of July & August by Maria Gabriela Llansol
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.96"If anyone might be profitably compared to Clarice Lispector, it might well be Maria Gabriela Llansol. This is because of the fundamentally mystical impulse that animates them both, their... -
Tamarisk Row by Gerald Murnane 9781911508366
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.93Clement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing... -
Spontaneous Acts Yoko Tawada 9780349704234
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.51The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though... -
Cannibal Translation Volume 44: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America by Isabel Gómez 9780810145962
Booksplease Price: £110.15A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source... -
Cannibal Translation Volume 44: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America by Isabel Gómez
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source... -
Eccentricities: Writing in the Margins of Modernism: St. Petersburg to Rio De Janeiro Sharon Lubkemann Allen 9780719087707
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how... -
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize'A savagely short novel of immeasurable ambition and violent beauty. This is the language of genius.' Juan Pablos Villalobos'How often, honestly, does... -
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann 9780241555842
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and... -
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived... -
Stigmata: Escaping Texts by Helene Cixous
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Helene Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time.Acclaimed... -
Helene Cixous: Critical Impressions Lee A. Jacobus 9789057005015
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.74First published in 1999. Each volume in the Lit Book Series will contain a wide range of essays on a particular author, theme or genre. By offering a forum for oftentimes competing, but equally... -
Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period by David George
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period deals with the theater produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially postmodernist directors, women playwrights,... -
A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Forced back to her remote hometown by the war, Giulia is immediately drawn to a couple in a similar situation: graceful, spontaneous Ada and her husband Paolo, a sickly teacher and partisan in hiding... -
Stigmata: Escaping Texts by Helene Cixous 9780415345453
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.55A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Helene Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her... -
A Poetics of Church: Reading and Writing Sacred Spaces of Poetic Dwelling by Jennifer Reek
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This innovative book aims to create a 'poetics of Church' and a 'religious imaginary' as alternatives to more institutional and conventional ways of thinking and of being 'Church'. Structured as a... -
Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing by Mireille Calle-Gruber
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to... -
Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis Teresa Brennan 9780415014908
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.95In this landmark collection of original essays, outstanding feminist critics in Britain, France, and the United States present new perspectives on feminism and psychoanalysis, opening out deadlocked... -
(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach by Serena J. Rivera 9780367499129
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South... -
The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck 9781398529397
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in... -
The Helene Cixous Reader by Susan Sellers
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama... -
Thinking Creative Writing: Critique from the international New Writing journal by Graeme Harper 9780367730543
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Thinking Creative Writing explores the many ways in which creative writing can be critically considered, and understood, as well as the teaching and learning of creative writing. Featuring thematic... -
Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms Monique Roelofs 9781478038658
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this... -
A Season: Poems Michael Joseph Walsh 9780820375526
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £14.23A Season is a visionary meditation born out of a spiritual crisis. As the poems attempt to remake a life within the ghostly limbo into which they've fallen-between self and world, sound and echo, the... -
Forty Stories by Dave Eggers
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright...