Binu And The Great Wall

 By: ryan    8:51 AM  Fiction, Fiction - Su Tong   No comments

Title: Binu And The Great Wall
Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Canon Gate
ISBN: 9781841959153

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When her husband vanishes from their home, Binu is determined to find him. Her journey will take her across Great Swallow Mountain to a place where armies of men are labouring on one of the greatest building projects the world has ever seen: The Great Wall of China.

Through Bunu's extraordinary story, Su Tong illuminates one of China's most magical myths. It is an unforgettable adventure.
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All The Sad Young Literary Men

 By: ryan    5:33 PM  Fiction   No comments

Title: All The Sad Young Literary Men
Author: Keith Gessen
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 9780099513193

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A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they over think their college years, under think their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them, to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame.

At every turn, at each character's misstep, this assured debut radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.

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Dream Angus

 By: ryan    5:04 PM  Fiction   No comments

Title: Dream Angus
Author: Alexander McAll Smith
Publisher: Canon Gate
ISBN: 9781841958439


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Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. You may spot him skipping across the hills, his bag of dreams by his side. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is also the god of love, youth, and beauty. Divine Angus is adored by all, but fated to love only the beautiful Caer, a swan maiden of his own dreams.

Five exquisite fables of modern dreamers unfold alongside Angus's search for Caer. Mesmerically weaving together the tales of the Celtic Eros and his contemporary alter egos, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?

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Christ The Lord: The Road to Cana

 By: ryan    4:34 PM  Fiction   No comments

Title: Christ The Lord: The Road to Cana
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Arrow Books
ISBN: 9780099484189

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Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. These are turbulent times for Israel, a troubled land of turmoil and insurrection.

Now in his thirtieth years, Jesus and his tight-knit family endure a long, dusty winter of disruption and chaos. Whisper of his virgin birth still persist, and while he struggles with the demands of his family and the weight of his great destiny, those around him wait for some sign of the path he will take.

But this quiet man of Nazareth is instead called upon to found a ministry which utterly transform an unsuspecting world..

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Stick Out Your Tongue

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Title: Stick Out Your Tongue
Author: Ma Jian
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 9780099481331


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A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses a sky burial, shares a tent with a nomad on a pilgrimage to atone for sleeping with his daughter, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover on the walls of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between fact and fiction becomes confused and the man is drawn deep into an alien culture which haunts his dreams.

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Carry Me Down

 By: ryan    11:42 AM  Fiction   No comments

Title: Carry Me Down
Author: M.J. Hyland
Publisher: CanonGate
ISBN: 97841959719

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"This is fiction writing of the highest order..John Egan is a brave, resourceful boy, intelligent and self-aware, yet skating on the edge of madness. The story of John's twelfth year is both sympathetic and disturbing. It is also rich un understated humour." J.M. Coetzee


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The Road

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Title: The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9780330469487

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A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they wearing, a cart of scavenged food and each other.

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Two Books That I've Bought....

 By: ryan    11:38 PM  Classic, Fiction   No comments

Title: The Pilgrimage
Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780007214709
The Price: RM21.90 (+15% discount)

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In his first major book, which paved the way for his bestselling phenomenon The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho documents the experiences of his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela on a contemporary quest for ancient wisdom.

Following the legendary road travelled by pilgrims of San Tiago, Coelho's journey becomes a truly initiatory experience, and he is transformed forever as he learns to understand the nature of truth through the simplicity of life.

Title: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140621372
The Price: RM8.90 (+15% discount)


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Oscar Wilde is celebrated for his plays, wit and poetry, but he was also a brilliant conjuror of fairy stories. The nine tales gathered here (making uo Happy Prince and A House of Pomegranates) continue to delight children and adults around the world.

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The Rights of The Reader

 By: ryan    8:27 PM  Fiction   No comments

Title : The Rights of The Reader
Author: Daniel Pennac
Publisher: Walker Books
ISBN : 9781406300918
Pages : 174


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The Rights of The Reader
1. The right not to read.
2. The right not to skip.
3. The right not to finish a book.
4. The right to read it again.
5. The right to read anything.
6. The right to mistake a book for real life.
7. The right to read anywhere.
8. The right to dip in.
9. The right to read out loud.
10. The right to be quiet.

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Snuff

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Title: Snuff
Author: Chuck Palaniuk
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN: 9780307456236


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In the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends to cap her career by breaking the world record for serial fornication by having sex with 600 men on camera, where one of whom may want to kill her.

Told from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, Mr. 600, and Sheila, the talent wrangler who must keep it all under control, Snuff is a dark, wild, and lethally funny novel that brings the presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction.

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