Giramondo publishing co (91 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. '.an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My Mother is both a political and personal collection, angry and tender, propelled by the need to remember, yet brimming with energy and vitality qualities that distinguished her previous, prize-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight. Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as 'Inside My Mother' and 'Lament'. There is defiance and protest in 'Clapsticks' and 'I Tell You True'. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch. Ali Cobby Eckermann awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell writing prize. Read the full article in the The New York Times. '.an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.' Judges' citation, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Paperback. Minor rubbing and shelfwear to cover, slight sun fade around edge of book pages without obstructing text but otherwise sharp, presentable copy with clean, unmarked pages throughout. Binding is solid.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Winner: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult FictionShortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia, Young Adult FictionShortlisted: Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult FictionMichael's older brother dies at the beginning of the summer he turns 15, but as its title suggests The Incredible Here and Now is a tale of wonder, not of tragedy. Presented as a series of vignettes, in the tradition of Sandra Cisneros' Young Adult classic The House on Mango Street, it tells of Michael's coming of age in a year which brings him grief and romance; and of the place he lives in Western Sydney where 'those who don't know any better drive through the neighbourhood and lock their car doors', and those who do, flourish in its mix of cultures. Through his perceptions, the reader becomes familiar with Michael's community and its surroundings, the unsettled life of his family, the girl he meets at the local pool, the friends that gather in the McDonalds parking lot at night, the white Pontiac Trans Am that lights up his life like a magical talisman. Teacher's resources can be found here: Winner: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lostand then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgotten even her name, but she remembers with unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known where she loved and was loved. She heads west and into mind-boggling adventures, carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest.The joint winner of The Novel Prize, It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over is a sharp and funny tale for our dispossessed times. Astounding, inventive, and utterly original, Anne de Marcken has written a freakish classic with wisdom to spare about life, death, and the eerily vast space between. I was absolute putty in this books hands. Alexandra KleemanAnne de Marcken must write in a charmed ink that first erases the line between the living and the dead, and then with prose as elegant as it is spooked tells the story of what lies underneath. I have never read anything like this brilliant debut. Sabrina Orah Mark Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. With Giramondo's publication of Barley Patch and A History of Books, Gerald Murnane has attracted renewed interest as a brilliant writer and Nobel Prize contender. First published 25 years ago, Inland is one of Murnane's most complex and rewarding works, a study of guilt, longing and regret rich in metaphysical insights. From his native district in the Melbourne suburb of Pascoe Vale, Murnane's narrator imagines another world, in Szolnok county Hungary, and within that world another, in Ideal South Dakota, each haunted by the betrayal of a young girl, each driven by the possibility of restitution. Murnane's mastery over language and his pressing towards the edges of what fiction can accomplish make this book a landmark in Australian literature. With Giramondo's publication of Barley Patch and A History of Books Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Literary Journal. Authors include: Mandy Sayer, James Bradley, Peter Craven, Robert Nelson, John Scott, Bernard Cohen, Elizabeth Allen, Dorothy Porter, Simon West, Sarah Holland-Batt, Ronny Someck.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. 'I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest, which of all my book-children was the most brutally treated in its early years,' Murnane writes in his foreword to this new edition. In hindsight it can be seen to contain some of his best writing, and to offer a wide-ranging exploration of the different landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer.Five of the six loosely connected stories also trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. The sixth story, 'The Battle of Acosta Nu', is remarkable for its depth of emotion, as it imagines a Paraguayan man imagining a country called Australia, while his son sickens and dies before his eyes. Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after The Plains Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. **Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025**Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now living alone in the Adelaide Hills. In The Chinese Postman he reflects on his life with what he calls the mannered and meditative inaction of age, offering up memories and anxieties, obsessions and opinions, his thoughts on solitude, writing, friendship and time. He ranges widely, with curiosity and feeling, digressing and changing direction as suits his experience, and his role as a collector of fragments and a surveyor of ruins. He becomes increasingly engaged in an epistolary correspondence with Iryna Zarebina, a woman seeking refuge from the war in Ukraine. As the correspondence opens him to others, the elaboration of his memories tempers his melancholy with a playful enjoyment in the richness of language, and a renewed appreciation of the small events in nature. This understanding of the experience of old age is something new and important in our literature. As Quin comments, In Australia, the old made way for the young. It guaranteed a juvenile legacy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Originally published in 2014, Alexis Wrights classic novel The Swan Book is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy, Wrights first work of fiction since 2014.The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginal people still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute young woman called Oblivia, the victim of gang rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. The Swan Book offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the energy and humour in her writing, which draws freely on myth and legend, finds hope in the bleakest situations.The Swan Book was the winner of the ALS Gold Medal and the Kate Challis RAKA Award, and shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award, Stella Prize, NSW Premiers and Victorian Premiers Literary Awards. This is not myth as Western culture understands it: not an imagined dimension, but a literal if incorporeal one that bisects and animates the physical world; it makes for marvellous theatre. Elizabeth Lowry, London Review of BooksThis is a novel written out of the very thing it describes: sovereignty, the sheer taken-for-granted fact of itThe Swan Book is about the ethics of hope in our post-apocalyptic world. Sydney Morning Herald Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The 2022 recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the late Antigone Kefala was one of the first writers to open Australian fiction to a diversity of voices. She is known for her nuanced and evocative prose style, which portrays the full gamut of the immigrant experience, the fleeing from war, the resettlement in foreign countries, the difficult negotiation of personal relationships, the hauntings of memory and dream. This collection brings together Kefalas three early novellas The First Journey, The Boarding House and The Island, which have long been out of print, and her three later novellas, published together as Summer Visit by Giramondo in 2022. It also includes her childhood fable Alexia: A Tale of Two Cultures and ten short stories, previously only published in literary magazines, dating back to the beginnings of her career at the end of the 1950s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Following his acclaimed exploration of disability in Human Looking, the poems in Andy Jackson's new collection Askew widen the lens, to feel their way into the impairments of our ecologies and our dialogues. How might our world itself be disabled? How can we live together within this reality?These poems use an array of established and invented forms sonnet, pantoum, erasure, prose poem, ghazal, cento and more turning them to unusual effect under the pressure of our collective grief and bewilderment. They face the extinction and climate crises, the distortions of social-media division, the fracturing of solidarity in the wake of the Covid pandemic, and the problems of masculinity, with undaunted tenderness. They express, with an extraordinary intensity, the sense of vulnerability, both as human, and as poetic value.Engaging in aslant conversation with musicians and composers, poets and artists, while reckoning with historical and contemporary thinkers, this is poetry that affirms the value of collaboration and interdependence, with all of its promise and difficulty. Following his acclaimed exploration of disability in Human Looking, the poems in Andy Jackson's new collection Askew widen the lens, to feel their way into the impairments of our ecologies and our dialogues. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wrights Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy, Wrights first work of fiction since 2014.Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnights renegade Eastend mob 2007 on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wrights storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce.Carpentaria was the 2007 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, ALS Gold Medal, Queensland Premiers Literary Award and Victorian Premiers Literary Award. It has been published in the US, UK, France, Italy and China.a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel: stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humour, sweetened by spiralling lyricism and swaggering with the confident promise of a tale dominated by risk, roguery and revelation. The AustralianWright breaks all the rules of grammar and syntax to sweep us along on a great torrent of language that thrills and amazes with its inventiveness and humour and with the sheer power of its storytelling. Its brutal and confronting and its sad and funny at the same time. Sydney Morning Herald Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which is likely to get international media attention.This volume brings together Gerald Murnane's shorter works of fiction, most of which have been out of print for the past twenty five years. They include such masterpieces as 'When the Mice Failed to Arrive', 'Stream System', 'First Love', 'Emerald Blue', and 'The Interior of Gaaldine', a story which holds the key to the long break in Murnane's career, and points the way towards his later works, from Barley Patch to Border Districts. Much is made of Murnane's distinctive and elaborate style as a writer, but there is no one to match him in his sensitive portraits of family members parents, uncles and aunts, and particularly children and in his probing of situations which contain anxiety and embarrassment, shame or delight.Gerald Murnane is the author of eleven books of fiction, including Tamarisk Row, Inland, Barley Patch, A History of Books, A Million Windows and Border Districts, and a collection of essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, which have been published by Giramondo. He is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award.Read The New York Times Magazine profile of Gerald Murnane here'He is without question both the most original and most significant Australian author of the last 50 years, and one of the best writers Australia has produced. This claim will be hotly contested by many and perhaps most Australian critics and readers, but I suspect it will become a commonplace sentiment internationally.' Emmett Stinson, the Guardian Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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paperback. Condición: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Hafni says: I dont want to be me.I want to change who I am.I dont know how to change who I am.Hafni says shes getting divorced. To celebrate, she sets out across southern Denmark on a smorrebrod tour, to sample Danish classics, open-faced sandwiches and afternoon teas. A month later, she makes a phone call from a rest stop to the novels narrator a main character from Helle Helles previous novel they to explain how she went wrong, and why a trip that was meant to take a week has ended up consuming an entire month. Her storytelling seems to incarnate how Hafni herself digresses how her past unfolds as one long series of accidents and mishaps, the accumulation of which somehow became the life she is living. Infused with Helle Helles subtlety and dark humour, and brought into English in Martin Aitkens virtuosic translation, Hafni Says explores the desire to be anyone but yourself and what it means to try to make yourself anew.Praise for they by Helle Helle:Helle Helle will enchant readersthe luminous presence she brings to the present tense, the terse transfiguration of the ordinary into poetic strangeness. Sydney Morning Herald Book of the WeekPrecise, controlled and unforgettablea book that begs the reader to slow down and take notice. The GuardianStrangely, wonderfully absorbingSlow your heart, slow your attention span youll be mesmerised. The TelegraphSweetly oriented to a disciplined, detached way of telling, Helle balances glassy brilliance with radiant feeling. The Saturday PaperWhimsical, charming and tremendously movingThe patience of the narrative and steadiness of observation becomes a way of holding onto things, of staying with events that have already happened or are yet to come. ABC Arts Infused with Helle Helles subtlety and dark humour, and brought into English in Martin Aitkens virtuosic translation, Hafni Says explores the desire to be anyone but yourself and what it means to try to make yourself anew. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. They go for a walk by the playing fields, the anemones are out.They a mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter live in an apartment above a hairdressers shop in a small island town. Each day is marked by routine and quiet intimacy. They are so enmeshed, so alike in their manners and opinions, it can be hard to tell them apart.Then the mother begins to feel unwell. They carry on with their lives, talk about anything but the diagnosis. The mother goes in and out of hospital, and the daughter, just starting high school, makes new friends Tove Dunk, Hafni, Bob, Desert Boots but remains essentially alone. Illness, and the possibility of loss, cast a growing shadow over her life.Writing in a multi-layered, perpetual present tense, Helle Helle finds a tender voice for the comedy and awkwardness of her heroines lives, rendered into riveting and affecting English by acclaimed translator Martin Aitken. they is an exquisite portrait of the fragile love between a mother and daughter, and a love letter to 1980s life on the island of Lolland, where the author grew up. Praise for Helle Helle:Helle has enchanting gifts as a storytellerthe words so light they nearly float off the page. New York TimesOne of my favorite Danish writers shes the master. Olga Ravn, The GuardianOne of Scandinavias finest authors. DagbladetHelle Helles minimalism isnt boring; it crackles with mystery. Its the everyday, and yet its insistently beautiful. WeekendavisenYou laugh and laugh, cry and cry. Not bawling or sobbing, but quiet and intense. Thats what its like reading Helle Helle. Politiken From the award-winning, cult Danish writer, an exquisite portrait of a mother and daughter. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Sean Rabin, Giramondo Publishing Co. Michael, an aspiring writer who has recentlyfinished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, LucianClarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past, who lives ina cottage in a village on a mountain outside Hobart which gives the book itstitle, Wood Green . Peopled by anensemble cast, the local publican the single mother who manages the pub'skitchen, the unhappily married couple that runs the corner store, a newcomerfrom Johannesburg with a murky past, a snivelling B&B proprietor and adetermined ex-girlfriend, Wood Green artfully evokes the claustrophobia of small-town life. While Michael believeshe is making a new life for himself, Lucian has other plans. Rabin writes withwit and intelligence and deftly executes an unsuspected plot twist in hisexploration of the perils of literary ambition and the elusive prospect of artisticlegacy. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Sean Rabin has worked asa dishwasher, cook, script reader, copy-editor and journalist. He has lived inIreland, Italy, London and New York, and now resides in Sydney, Australia. Whennot writing, he is reading and listening to music. His short stories have beenpublished in Australia and the United States. Reading Group notes for Wood Green here. Paperback.…

Secondhand, Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: John Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 206 In Someone Else award-winning essayist John Hughes pays homage to twenty one artists, writers and musicians who have had a formative influence on his imagination. From Chekhov and Borges and Beckett, to Proust, Rothko and Cage - each essay brings its subject to life in unexpected ways. Kafka rewrites the parable of Abraham and Isaac, with no one to stay Abraham's knife. Wittgenstein considers the relationship between turtles and time. Bob Dylan stars in a fantasy of travellers and deserts and women with knives and silver earrings. Just around the corner from where Hughes works, Dostoyevsky fries kidneys in the kitchen of his Stanley Street terrace. Like The Idea of Home, Someone Else uses the essay as a form of autobiography. Here, however, the essays are fictions. Or are they? Hughes tells the stories of the figures who live in his mind by making them tell his stories - and in doing so engages in an art of literary ventriloquism. Secondhand, Paperback.…

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Paperback. Felicity Castagna, Giramondo Publishing Co. Newnovel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now , won the 2015 Prime Ministers Award forYoung Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's LiteraryAwards. No More Boats tackles the fear of refugees head on, portraying the anxieties of a man who wasonce a migrant himself, brought to breaking point by the Tampa crisis, when thenation itself is thrown into a xenophobic frame of mind. Itis 2001. 438 refugees sit in a boat called Tampa off the shoreline of Australiawhile the TV and radio scream out that the country is being flooded, inundated,overrun by migrants. Antonio Martone, once a migrant himself, has been forcedto retire, his wife has moved in with the woman next door, his daughter runsoff with strange men, his deadbeat son is hiding in the garden smokingmarijuana. Amidst his growing paranoia, the ghost of his dead friend shows upand commands him to paint 'No More Boats' in giant letters across his frontyard. The Prime Minister of Australia keeps telling Antonio that we willdecide who comes to this country and the circumstance in which they come , but Antonio's not sure he wants tothink about all those things that led him to get on a boat and come toAustralia in the first place. A man and a nation unravel together. Felicity Castagna is the author of the award-winningnovel The Incredible Here and Now , and its stage adaptation which willpremiere at The National Theatre of Parramatta in 2017. Her collection of shortstories Small Indiscretions was namedan ABR book of the year. Her work has appeared on ABC Radio and TV as well asin national journals and newspapers. She holds a PhD from Western SydneyUniversity and has served as the National Ambassador for Literacy and as adirector at WestWords. She runs the storytelling series Studio Stories . Read more about Felicity Castagna and her stunning work of fiction, No More Boats , here. 'It is exciting to read a work of fiction that makesan explicit connection between its characters' personal narratives and thespecific events of political history; something of a tradition in Americanfiction, but rarer in an Australian context.' - Delia Falconer 'Afantastic, timely novel that makes a significant contribution to contemporaryAustralian literature - well-written, insightful, entertaining, provocative,funny, intelligent and moving.' - Nathanael O'Reilly 'I was blown away by Felicity Castagna's depictions ofWestern Sydney in The Incredible Here andNow .There is something really quite magical and visceral about connectingwith character and place in a book.' - Randa Abdel-Fattah. Paperback.…