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Days of AngerBy: Sylvie Germain "A murdered woman, lying buried in the forests of the Morvan, is the still beating heart of Days of Anger. A rich, eventful saga of blood, angels, obsession and revenge, this marvellous novel is a compulsive, magical read, passionate and spell binding." James Friel in Time Out RRP: £8.99 |
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Infinite PossibilitiesBy: Sylvie Germain "Anything less likely than a spreading patch of damp on a toilet ceiling as the starting point for a novel of intense beauty and rare emotional insight would be hard to imagine. But this 'flower of passing time', as Prokop Poupa calls his unorthodox interior decor, is the inspiration for Sylvie Germain's Infinite Possibilities : a novel of kaleidoscopic richness and colour." Mary Scott in The Literary Review RRP: £8.99 |
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Invitation to a Journey ( Eclats de Sel )By: Sylvie Germain In Invitation to a Journey, Sylvie Germain guides us with her illuminated prose through deserts of despair and the dark shades of night, and brings us unerringly to the threshold of a new and joyous day. RRP: £7.99 |
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MagnusBy: Sylvie Germain Magnus is a deeply moving and enigmatic novel about the Holocaust, which has been Sylvie Germain most commercially successful novel in France. Magnus is a man searching for his own identity, who pieces together the complex puzzle of his life, which turns out to be closer to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed was his mother. Sylvie Germain in Magnus uses imagination and intuition to unlock the enigma of human life and confer on history the power of myth and fable. RRP: £9.99 |
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Night of AmberBy: Sylvie Germain Night of Amber ranges from the terror and atrocity of the Algerian War, the Paris of the 1960s and an unforgettable evocation of la France profonde with a host of memorable characters. RRP: £8.99 |
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Prague Noir:The Weeping Woman on the Streets of PragueBy: Sylvie Germain "a haunting classic" Madeleine Kingsley in She Magazine “An intricate, finely crafted and polished tale, The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague brings magic-realism to the dimly lit streets of Prague. Through the squares and alleys a woman walks, the embodiment of human pity, sorrow, death. Everyone she passes is touched by her, and Germain skilfully creates an intense mood and feel in her attempt to produce a spiritual map of Prague." The Observer RRP: £8.99 |
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The Book of NightsBy: Sylvie Germain "The Book of Nights is a masterpiece. Germain is endowed with extraordinary narrative and descriptive abilities... She excels in portraits of emotional intensity and the gritty realism of raw emotions gives the novel its unique power." Ziauddin Sardar in The Independent RRP: £8.99 |
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The Book of TobiasBy: Sylvie Germain "The book of Tobit in the Biblical apocrypha tells how Tobit's son of Tobias went on a journey with the angel Raphael, encountering a woman who brought death to all her suitors. Sylvie Germain recasts the tale in modern France, creating a powerful and visionary novel of family relationships, grief and redemption, which begins when young Tobias's mother is killed in a freak riding accident." Andrew Crumey in Scotland on Sunday RRP: £7.99 |
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The Medusa ChildBy: Sylvie Germain "Sylvie Germain's The Medusa Child beautifully translated from the French by Liz Nash, tells a heartbreaking and violent story about sin and redemption in fantastical language; a myth from la France profonde." Michelle Roberts in Books of the Year in The Independent on Sunday RRP: £8.99 |
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The Song of False LoversBy: Sylvie Germain An albino foundling, abandoned by her unknown mother one August night on the eve of the Second World War, she spends her first few years with a community of nuns. But her presence among them is not wholly welcome, and in 1944 the little girl is dispatched into the outside world. This marks the start of what proves to be a lifelong odyssey that brings her into contact over the years with an extraordinary array of fascinating characters. Of their often-tumultuous lives she becomes the compassionate chronicler, plumbing the mysterious depths of the human heart. RRP: £8.99 |