Summer Catalogue 2011-12 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Fiction
Daniel Stein,
Interpreter
Ludmila Ulitskaya
PB $32.95
Stein is a Polish Jew, who
miraculously survives the
Holocaust. After the war,
he converts to
Catholicism, becomes a
priest and emigrates to
Israel. The character is
based on the life of
Oswald Rufeisen, the real
Brother Daniel. Feeling his life was saved in the war
for a reason, Stein dedicates himself to bringing
understanding and reconciliation to a violent world,
in his own compassionate and irreverent way.
The Sense Of
An Ending
Julian Barnes
HB $29.95
The Sense of an Ending
is the story of one man
coming to terms with the
mutable past. Laced with
trademark precision,
dexterity and insight, it is
the work of one of the
world’s most
distinguished writers.
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco
PB $32.95
Nineteenth-century Europe
abounds with the ghastly
and the mysterious.
Conspiracies rule history.
But what if, behind all of
these conspiracies both
real and imagined, lay one
lone man? What if that evil
genius created the most
infamous document of all?
The Prague Cemetery is the story of a secret agent
who weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues and
attacks, and helps determine the historical and
political fate of the Continent.
Apricot Jam And
Other Stories
Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn
PB $24.95
After years of living in
exile, Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn returned to
Russia in 1994 and
published a series of
eight powerfully paired
stories. These
groundbreaking stories
join Solzhenitsyn’s already available work as some
of the most powerful literature of the 20th century.
Open City
Teju Cole
PB $29.99
Along the streets of
Manhattan, a young
Nigerian doctor doing his
residency wanders
aimlessly. The walks are a
release from the tightly
regulated mental
environment of work and
they give him the
opportunity to process
his relationships, his present and his past. A
haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty,
loss, dislocation and surrender, Teju Cole’s Open
City seethes with intelligence.
The Seamstress
Maria Duenas
PB $32.99
The Seamstress is the
inspiring international
bestseller of a seemingly
ordinary woman who
uses her talent and
courage to transform
herself first into a
prestigious couturier and
then into an undercover
agent for the Allies
during World War II.