ANOUILH, JEAN: ANTIGONE
Written in 1942, Jean Anouilh's Antigone is an adaptation of Sophocles' tragic play which can also be seen as represent the struggle of the French Resistance movement against the forces of the Vichy government during the Nazi occupation.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Table Rond ISBN: 9782710330400 - £7.40
ENGLISH TRANSLATION -
Methuen Drama ISBN: 9780413695406 - £8.99
BA, MARIAMA: UNE SI LONGUE LETTRE
Une si longue lettre is a semi-autobiographical novel written by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ on the theme of women in Western African society.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Alphee Editions ISBN: 9782842612894 - £8.25
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - SO LONG A LETTER.
Heineman ISBN: 9780435913526 - £10.20
BEGAG, AZOUZ: LE GONE DU CHAÂBA
Autobiographical novel about a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown in Lyon, known as The Chaâba by its residents.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Editions du Seuil ISBN: 9782020800327 - £9.45
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - SHANTYTOWN KID : LE GONE DU CHAABA
University of Nebraska Press ISBN 9780803262584 - £14.99
BEN JALLOUN, TAHAR: LE RACISME EXPLIQUÉ À MA FILLE
During a demonstration against French immigration law, a father answers his daughter's questions about the reasons for racism.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Editions du Seuil ISBN: 9782021002812 - £12.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - RACISM EXPLAINED TO MY DAUGHTER
New Press ISBN: 9781595580290 - £9.99
CAMUS, ALBERT: L'ÉTRANGER
Camus looks at all the events leading up to a man shooting another man dead, as well as exploring the issued of the meaninglessness of life.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Gallimard ISBN: 9782070360024 - £6.95
Routledge, ISBN: 9780415025867 - £21.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - OUTSIDER
Penguin ISBN: 9780141198064 - £7.99
CÉSAIRE, AIMÉ: UNE SAISON AU CONGO
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Editions du Seuil ISBN: 9782020486248 - £7.80
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - A SEASON IN THE CONGO
Seagull Books London Ltd ISBN: 9781905422944 - £12.50
COLETTE: LE BLÉ EN HERBE
Colette’s, at the time a controversial novella, set in the 1920s describing the physicality relationship of two friends moving from childhood into adulthood.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Garnier Flammarion, ISBN: 9782081354524 - £5.10
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - RIPENING SEED - AT PRESENT OUT OF PRINT
Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780140183214
ERNAUX, ANNIE: LA PLACE
A daughters reflexion on her father's life beginning with her father's birth in 1899 till is death in 1967
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Folio ISBN: 9782070377220 - £6.55
Routledge ISBN: 9780415059268 - £21.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - A MAN'S PLACE
Seven Stories Press. ISBN: 9781609804039 - £8.99
ETCHERELLI CLAIRE: ELISE OU LA VRAIE VIE
Set in 1957 a young woman falls in love with a young Algerian immigrant at the height of the conflict between France and Algeria.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Editions Flammarion ISBN: 9782070369393 - £8.65
Routledge ISBN: 9780415050937 - £21.99
GRIMBERT, PHILIPPE: UN SECRET
Spanning half a century, the multi-layered narrative revolves around a Jewish family torn asunder during the impending German occupation of France during World War II.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
LGF ISBN: 9782253183143 - £8.10
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - SECRET
Portobello Books Ltd ISBN: 9781846270444 - £8.99
DVD - UN SECRET/A SECRET (15) 2007 FRANCE MILLER,CLAUDE - £19.99
GUÈNE, FAIZA: KIFFE KIFFE DEMAIN
The Parisian Paradise estate is where Doria and her mother are fated to spend of the rest of their lives. However Doria set out to prove that there is more to where they live than Rap, Football and religions conflict.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Librairie generale francaise ISBN: 9782253113751 - £7.30
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - KIFFE KIFFE TOMORROW/GHADAN KIFFE KIFFE
Bloomsbury ISBN: 9789992142431 - AT PRESENT REPRINTING - £7.99
JOFFO, JOSEPH.: UN SAC DE BILLES
Memoir about young Joseph Joffo who, as a ten year old Jew, is given five thousand francs and instructed with his brother to flee Nazi-occupied Paris.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge ISBN: 9780415017152 - £21.99
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253029496 - £6.50
Hachette ISBN: 9782011611543 - £8.10
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - A BAG OF MARBLES
Univ.Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226400693 - £18
LABRO, PHILIPPE: LE PETIT GARÇON
A child’s view of living in Vichy France during the war and the wait for liberation.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Editions Flammarion ISBN: 9782070385263 £9.25
LAROUI, FOUAD: UNE ANNÉE CHEZ LES FRANÇAIS
1969, the year of the moon landings, 10 year old scholarship student, Mehdi, arrives at the prestigious Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca from his remote village in the Atlas Mountains. This new world is as alien to him as the moon.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Pocket ISBN: 9782266218658 - £8.40
MAUPASSANT, DE GUY: BOULE DE SUIF
The ten travellers, constituting a microcosm of French society, share a stagecoach to flee to Le Havre in the Franco-Prussian War.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Editions Gallimard (Folio Plus Collège) ISBN: 9782070793167 - £3.55
Boule de suif : et autres nouvelles Editions Larousse ISBN: 9782035834232 - £4.10
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - IN - THE BEST SHORT STORIES
Wordsworth Classics. ISBN: 9781853261893 - £1.99
MAURIAC, FRANÇOIS: THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX
Cleared of poisoning her husband we follow Therese Desqueyroux through her banishment, escape to Paris, and final years of solitude.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253004219 £6.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THERESE
Penguin Modern Classics ISBN: 9780141186221
MOLIÈRE: LE TARTUFFE
First performed in 1664 this play is about the religious fraud Tartuffe, who has wormed his way into the affections and household of rich merchant, Orgon.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Larousse ISBN: 9782035859174 - £4.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION -
Nick Hern Books ISBN: 9781854596376 - £4.99
MOLIÈRE (PG) 2007 FRANCE TIRARD, LAURENT £19.99
Period drama brings to life the youth of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who would later become known to the world as Moliere, but at the age of 22 he was only a struggling actor.
PAGNOL, MARCEL: LE CHÂTEAU DE MA MÈRE
The novel tells the story of growing up in Provence in the early part of the 1900s.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
De Fallois ISBN: 9782877065085 - £7.60
DVD - LE CHATEAU DE MA MERE (U) 1991 FRANCE YVES, ROBERT £19.99
One of the most successful French films based on a Pagnol novel, telling the story of growing up in Provence .
PAGNOL, MARCEL: LA GLOIRE DE MON PÈRE
Story of growing up in Provence in the early part of the 1900s.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
De Fallois ISBN: 9782877065078 £7.60
DVD - GLOIRE DE MON PERE (U) 1990 FRANCE YVES, ROBERT £19.99
One of the most successful French films based on a Pagnol novel, telling the story of growing up in Provence .
PREVERT, JACQUES: SELECTED POEMS
In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation
Selected Poems - Bilingual edition
City Lights Books ISBN: 9780872860421 - £7.99
ROCHEFORT, CHRISTIANE: LES PETITS ENFANTS DU SIÈCLE
Written in 1961 this critique of postwar French society follows Josyane Bouvier, who is living in a souless housing estates, from child to young woman.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Le Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253002949 - £6.85
SAGAN, FRANÇOISE: BONJOUR TRISTESSE
Published in 1954, by 18 year old Sagan, the story centres on self-absorbed 17 year old Cécile staying for the summer with her father and his mistress. Her Cécile attempts to understand and control the world around her.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Presses Pocket ISBN: 9782266195584 - £6.45
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - BONJOUR TRISTESSE : AND, A CERTAIN SMILE
Penguin Classics. ISBN: 9780141198750 - £7.99
DVD - BONJOUR TRISTESSE (PG) 1958 USA PREMINGER, OTTO CAN BE PLAYED IN FRENCH £12.99
Drama based on Francoise Sagan’s novel.
SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL : LES MAINS SALES
Intriguing play about political violence in which a young communist is sent to assassinate another party member who’s qualities he begins to admire.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Folio. ISBN: 9782070368068 - £7.80
Routledge ISBN: 9780415039352 - £20.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - IN THE COLLECTION - NO EXIT AND THREE OTHER PLAYS
Vintage ISBN: 9780679725169 - £14.95
VERCORS: LE SILENCE DE LA MER
Published in 1942 by Jean Bruller in Nazi-occupied Paris under the pseudonym "Vercors", the book became a symbol of resistance against German occupiers.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253003106 - £5.15
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE SILENCE OF THE SEA / LE SILENCE DE LA MER : A NOVEL OF FRENCH RESISTANCE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR BY 'VERCORS'
Bloomsbury ISBN: 9780854963782 - £10.99
DVD - LE SILENCE DE LA MER (PG) 1949 FRANCE MELVILLE, J.P. £19.99
Melville's debut film is an adaptation of the novella by French resistance author Vercors, which was clandestinely written in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of France in WWII
VIGAN, DELPHINE DE: NO ET MOI
Lou Bertignac, who has an IQ of 160, meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets, and Lou persuades her parents to let No live with them. No's presence forces Lou and her parents to finally face the sadness that has enveloped the family.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253124801 - £8.70
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - NO AND ME
Bloomsbury ISBN: 9780747599647 - £8.99
VOLTAIRE: CANDIDE
Open-minded young man Candide is brought up in a household of a powerful Baron, but is cast out and travels the world as a series of disasters test his optimism.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253098089 - £3.99
Larousse ISBN: 9782035866011 - £4.10
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - CANDIDE, OR OPTIMISM
Penguin Classics ISBN: 9780140455106 - £5.99
ANDERSCH, ALFRED: SANSIBAR ODER DER LETZTE GRUND
Five people, in a small seaside town, attempt to save a statue due to be destroyed by the Nazis.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Diogenes, ISBN: 9783257236019 - £11.50
BÖLL, HEINRICH: DAS BROT DER FRÜHEN JAHRE
Insecurity and cynicism Walter Fendrich remembers the hunger and deprivation of the early, postwar years and is obsessed never to feel like that again. However one day his world is
transformed when he meets a woman and discovers that love dispels his cravings as bread never could.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
DTV, ISBN: 9783423013741 - £9.95
BÖLL, HEINRICH: DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM
Hard-working Katharina Blum spends a night with a young revolutionary on the run from the police. Innocent Katharina becomes implicated city's leading newspaper as imoral, a communist and an atheist and becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and threats.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
DTV, ISBN: 9783423011501 - £7.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM
Vintage Publishing, ISBN: 9780749398989 - £8.99
BRECHT, BERTOLT: DER KAUKASISCHE KREIDEKREIS
Brecht set an ancient Chinese story in Soviet Georgia, where two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, justice is done and the peasant woman keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Suhrkamp, ISBN: 9783518188422 - £8.30
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE.
Bloomsbury, ISBN: 9780413544506 - £9.95
BRECHT, BERTOLT: DAS LEBEN DES GALILEI
Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Suhrkamp, ISBN: 9783518100011 - £7.95
Suhrkamp Basisbibliothek, ISBN: 9783518188019 - £7.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - - LIFE OF GALILEO.
Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9780413577801 - £9.99
BRECHT, BERTOLT: MUTTER COURAGE UND IHRE KINDER
Brecht's great anti-war play that chronicles of the Thirty Years War, as Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon, but paying a terrible price in the process.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Suhrkamp TB, ISBN: 9783518100493 - £8.30
Methuen Drama Parallel text edition, ISBN: 9781408111512 - £12.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN.
Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9780413702906 - £9.99
DÜRRENMATT, FRIEDRICH: DER BESUCH DER ALTEN DAME
Wealthy older woman returns to her hometown with a dreadful bargain: The townspeople areto kill the man who got her pregnant, then jilted her, in exchange, she will provide enough money to revitalize the town.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge, Paperback, ISBN: 9780415051408 - £21.99
(The full German text of Durrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.)
Diogenes, Paperback, ISBN: 9783257230451 - £12.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - VISIT
Grove Press ISBN: 9780802144263 - £10.99
FRISCH, MAX: ANDORRA
Based on the author's own experience of anti-semitism in Switzerland and is about Andri, a young man who is believed to be a Jew and who is persecuted by his community as a result
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge, ISBN: 9780415115643 - £21.99
Suhrkamp TB, ISBN: 9783518367773 - £7.10
Suhrkamp Basis Bibliothek, Paperback, ISBN: 9783518188088 - £8.50
Reclam, ISBN: 9783150081709 - £3.20
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FRISCH THREE PLAYS : "FIRE RAISERS", "ANDORRA", "TRIPTYCH".
Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9780413665607 - £14.99
FRISCH, MAX: BIEDERMANN UND DIE BRANDSTIFTER
Dark comedy is set in a town that is being regularly attacked by arsonists.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge, ISBN: 9780415027588 - £21.99
Suhrkamp TB, ISBN: 9783518100417 - £6.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FRISCH THREE PLAYS : "FIRE RAISERS", "ANDORRA", "TRIPTYCH".
Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9780413665607 - £14.99
HEINE, HEINRICH: GEDICHTE-BUCH DER LIEDER
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Insel, Paperback, ISBN: 9783458317333, 12.50
Fischer TB, ISBN: 9783596900176 £8.70
HENSEL, JANA: ZONENKINDER
Jana Hensel childhood ended with the fall of the Wall . Her everyday activities of life in East Germany disappeared overnight and she had to adjust to a completely new life.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Rowohlt TB., ISBN: 9783499235320 - £9.95
HERMANN, JUDITH: SOMMERHAUS, SPÄTER UND ANDERE ERZÄHLUNGEN.
Set in todays Berlin this elegant, measured, reflective collection of stories of the monotony of modern urban life and the promise of bright colours lying just out of reach of our grey daily routines.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Fischer TB. ISBN: 9783596147700 - £8.60
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE SUMMER HOUSE, LATER.
Flamingo ISBN: 9780007115761 £9.99
HERRNDORF, WOLFGANG: TSCHICK
Mike doesn't get why people think he's boring. Sure, he doesn't have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) One day Tschick, the odd new boy at school, shows up at Mike's house out of the blue. He dares him to go on a road trip with him.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Rowohlt TB, ISBN: 9783499256356 - £9.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - WHY WE TOOK THE CAR
Andersen Press. ISBN: 9781783440313 - £7.99
KAFKA, FRANZ: DIE VERWANDLUNG
When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed
into a dung beetle.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Reclam, ISBN: 9783150099001 - £3.50 (g)
Suhrkamp TB, ISBN: 9783518188132 - £5.95
Fischer TB, ISBN: 9783596258758 - £8.65
Routledge, (Annotated) ISBN: 9780415098779 - £20.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES.
OUP ISBN: 9780199238552 - £7.99
THE TRIAL: METAMORPHOSIS: IN THE PENAL COLONY : THREE THEATRE ADAPTATIONS FROM FRANZ KAFKA PLAYSCRIPT.
Amber Lane Press Ltd ISBN: 9780906399842 - £9.99
KAMINER, WLADIMIR: RUSSENDISKO
A series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the Russian emigres in the multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Goldmann TB, ISBN: 9783442541751 - £8.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - RUSSIAN DISCO
Ebury Press, ISBN: 9780091886691 - £8.99
KONIG, KARIN : ICH FÜHL MICH SO FIFTY-FIFTY.
1989, Sabine lives in Leipzig but is torn with the decision of leaving and joining her older brother who lives in West.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
DTV, ISBN: 9783423780209 - £7.65 (g)
LENZ, SIEGFRIED: FUNDBÜRO
Henry has no desire to get on the career ladder and works in a railway lost property office. Her he marvels at the items that get lost on the trains.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Hoffmann + Campe, HB, ISBN: 9783455042801 £15.95
MANN, THOMAS: TONIO KRÖGER
Tonio Kröger becomes a famous writer living in southern Germany and believes an artist must be an outsider to "respectable" society.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Fischer TB, ISBN: 9783596213818 - £6.45
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN AND OTHER STORIES.
Minerva ISBN: 9780749386627 £10.99
PLENZDORF, ULRICH: DIE NEUEN LEIDEN DES JUNGEN W.
Absurd, funny and touching, this cult German bestseller of life in the GDR and a hymn to youthful freedom.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Suhrkamp TB. ISBN: 9783518368008 - £6.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE NEW SORROWS OF YOUNG W.
Pushkin Press. ISBN: 9781782270942 - £10
SCHLINK, BERNHARD: DER VORLESER
For 15-year-old Michael Berg has a chance meeting with an older woman, Hanna, which leads to far more than he ever imagined. However Hanna has a dark secret.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Diogenes TB, ISBN: 9783257229530 - £11.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE READER -
Phoenix, ISBN: 9780753804704 - £8.99
TIMM, UWE: DIE ENTDECKUNG DER CURRYWURST
The narrator of the story, interviews Lena Brücker and her story of how she invented curry sausage. As the story slowly emerges, she also tells the story of a love affair that took place at Zero Hour (die Stunde Null) in 1945 in Hamburg
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
DTV ISBN: 9783423128391 - £10.95
ESB. (Easy Readers German) ISBN: 9780850480108 - £6.75
WOLF, CHRISTA: DER GETEILTE HIMMEL
First published in 1963, in East Germany, the book tells the story of a young couple, living in socialist East Germany, where there relationship is tested by the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
DTV, ISBN: 9783423009157 - £10.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THEY DIVIDED THE SKY : A NOVEL BY CHRISTA WOLF.
University of Ottawa Press. ISBN: 9780776607870 - £18.95
ALLENDE, ISABEL: EVA LUNA
Story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788497592512 - £11.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - EVA LUNA
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780241951651 - £7.99
ALLENDE, ISABEL: LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITOS
Family saga spanning four generations of eccentric cast of characters, with men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history, converge in this entertaining book.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788483462034 - £11.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
Black Swan. ISBN: 9780552995887 - £8.99
DVD - HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (15) 1993 AUGUST, BILLE IN ENGLISH £15.99
Isabelle Allende's bestselling romantic novel with dashes of politics and 'magic realism' set in Chile, is turned into an international co-production epic filmed in Portugal with an all-star cast.
BECQUER, GUSTAVO ADOLFO: RIMAS Y LEYENDAS
Collection of poetry and short stories.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Colección Austral. ISBN: 9788467033311 - £10.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - RHYMES AND LEGENDS (BILINGUAL EDITION)
Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486447889 - £12.99
BORGES, JORGE LUIS: FICCIONES
Anthology of wildly original and influential collection of tales
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788499089508 - £11.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FICTIONS
Penguin Books. ISBN: 9780141183848 - £8.99
CASTRESANA, LUIS DE: EL OTRO ÁRBOL DE GUERNICA
Autobiographical story of Basque children evacuated during the Spanish Civil War to Belgium
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Ediciones Internacionales Universitarias. ISBN: 9788484691594 - £13.95
CERCAS, JAVIER: LOS SOLDADOS DE SALAMINA
Escaped writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas is confronted by an unknown soldier who turns and walks away. Who was the soldier who chose not to shoot, why did he spare him? And might he still be alive?
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Tusquets Editores ISBN: 9788483101612 - £12.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS
Bloomsbury isbn: 9780747568230 - £8.99
ESQUIVEL, LAURA: COMO AGUA POR CHOCOLATE
Set in revolutionary Mexico the book is a comic fairy tale of romance, repression, revolution and cooking in the all-female De La Garza family.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Punto de lectura. ISBN: 9788466327954 - £9.80
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
Black Swan. ISBN: 9780552995870
DVD - COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE/LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (15) MEXICO 1993 ARAU, ALFONSO £15.99
Mexico’s biggest international hit, based on Laura Esquivel’s novel, it’s a captivating comic fairy tale of romance, repression, revolution and cooking.
FERNAN GOMEZ, FERNANDO: LAS BICICLETAS SON PARA EL VERANO.
A play about being a teenager in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Austral Nuevo Formato ISBN: 9788467035469 - £11.95
GRANDE, ALMUDENA: MODELES DE MUJER
Seven stories about women exploring the themes of love, obsession, body image and
self-empowerment.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Tusquets Editores ISBN: 9788483106020 - £6.95
LAFORET, CARMEN: NADA
Eighteen-year old Andrea moves to Barcelona to pursues her dreams of studying at university and moves into a crumbling apartment with an eccentric collection of misfits whose psychological ruin and violent behaviour echoes that of the recent civil war.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
ISBN: 9788423342792
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - NADA
Vintage. isbn: 9780099494195 - £8.99
LORCA, FEDERICO GARCIA: BODAS DE SANGRE
Play is set in a village community in Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn together in the face of an arranged marriage.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Cátedra ISBN: 9788437605609 - £9.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - BLOOD WEDDING
Methuen ISBN: 9780713685169 - £9.99
DVD - BODAS DE SANGRE/BLOOD WEDDING (U) 1981 SPAIN SUARA, CARLOS £15.99
Antonio Gades and his troupe rehearse and perform a flamenco ballet version of Lorca's tragedy of outraged honour and revenge. Filmed in a bare day-lit studio, director Carlos Saura concentrates on the gestures, ceremony and conventions in the ballet itself injecting the story with dramatic and cinematic passion.
LORCA, FEDERICO GARCIA: LA CASA DE BERNADA ALBA
Widow Bernarda Alba and her five daughters are in mourning, however the want top break free in this tale of the repression of women within Catholic Spain before the Spanish Civil War.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Alianza - El Libro de Bolsillo ISBN: 9788420671772 - £13.75
BILINGUAL EDITION - THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA : LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA
Methuen Drama ISBN: 9780713686777 - £9.99
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL: CRÓNICA DE UNA MUERTA ANUNCIADA
Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers, twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788497592437 - £9.80
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780241968628 - £8.99
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL: EL CORONEL NO TIENE QUIEN LE ESCRIBA
Atmospheric novel is set in a small Colombian town where the frustrated and stubborn Colonel is waiting for many years for the letter authorising payment of his war pension.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXTS -
Manchester University Press. ISBN: 9780719008368 - £10.99
Debolsillo. ISBN: 9788497592352 - £8.55
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780241968734 - £8.99
MOLINA, ANTONIO MUNOZ: EL DUEÑO DEL SECRETO
Set in the final years of the Franco dictatorship a Journalism students gets involved in anti Franco movement in Madrid.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Booket Planeta ISBN: 9788432217661 - £8.95
NERUDA, PABLO: VEINTE POEMAS DE AMOR Y UNA CANCIÓN DESESPERADA
Collection of romantic poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924 when Neruda was 19.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Debolsillo. ISBN: 9788497933056 - £6.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - TWENTY LOVE POEMS : AND A SONG OF DESPAIR
Jonathan Cape. ISBN: 9780224074414 - £7.99
RIVAS, MANUEL: EL LÁPIS DEL CARPINTERO
Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral, the Portico da Gloria using a carpenter's pencil, however he replace the faces of the sculptures with his fellow Republican prisoners. In post-Franco Spain, a survivor of that period, returns from exile and the threads of past memories begin to be woven together.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788490628843 £10.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE CARPENTER'S PENCIL
Vintage ISBN: 9780099448464 - £8.99
RIVAS, MANUEL: ¿QUÉ ME QUIERES, AMOR?
Sixteen stories written with tenderness and humour starting with Tino, a lovesick man who suffers unrequited love.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788490628898 - £10.95
SÁBATO , ERNESTO: EL TÚNEL
Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Colección Austral. ISBN: 9788432248368 - £9.35
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE TUNNEL
PENGUIN. ISBN: 9780141194547 - £8.99
SENDER, RAMON: RÉQUIEM POR UN CAMESINO ESPAÑOL.
Catholic priest Mosén Millán is preparing requiem mass to celebrate the life of a young peasant named Paco killed by the Nationalist in the Spanish Civil War. As he waits he hear the Priests thoughts and feelings.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Booket Planeta ISBN: 9788423342396 - £9.35
Manchester University Press. ISBN: 9780719032226 - £10.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - REQUIEM FOR A SPANISH PEASANT
Aris & Phillips Ltd isbn: 9780856687822 - £15
VALLEJO, ANTONIO BUERO: HISTORIA DE UNA ESCALERA
One-act play about the frustrations of tenants living in a run down apartment block in Madrid in the 1940s.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Austral nuevo formato ISBN: 9788467033281 - £11.95
ZAFON, CARLOS RUIZ: LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Booket Planeta ISBN: 9788408112310 - £14.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
Orion Publishing . ISBN: 9780753820254 - £8.99