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1 1 y separately published work icon Το Ομορφότερο Τέλος Στον Κόσμο The Most Beautiful End in the World Pol Koutsakis , Athens : Εκδόσεις Πατάκη (Ekdoseis Pataki) , 2019 18769095 2019 single work novel crime She lost it ten years ago.

Today he will discover that he is alive.

'Her husband will ask him to find her again ...

'Christos Pallis in his twenty-two had no one beside him and nothing to fill him. On a trip to Chania she met Marianna Petraki by chance, fell madly in love and spent two magical years until Marianna was killed in a car accident.

'Today, ten years later, Christos is - by his will - a well-known private detective. He lives with a lazy dog ​​and a teenage girl who has been rescued from difficult conditions and his personal life is non-existent - he never wanted to rebuild it. It is enough for him to remember Marianna.

'Until the door of his office is knocked on by a shipowner's spokesman. He shows him the photo of his boss's wife, who has disappeared.

'The woman in the photo is Marianna.' (Translated abstract : https://www.patakis.gr/product/610565/vivlia-logotexnia-ellhnikh-logotexnia/To-omorfotero-telos-ston-kosmo/

 
3 y separately published work icon The Koala Who Could Rachel Bright , Jim Field (illustrator), London : Orchard Books , 2016 10246730 2016 single work picture book children's

'Sometimes change comes along whether we like it or not . . . but if you let it, change can be the making of you. Kevin the Koala discovers this and more in this delightful picture book from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside! ' (Publication summary)

15 8 y separately published work icon The Harsh Cry of the Heron Lian Hearn , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2006 Z1296146 2006 single work novel fantasy

'Thanks to his enlightened leadership, 15 years of peace and prosperity have passed since Otori Takeo united the Three Countries, but his enemies continue to plot their revenge—including the Tribe, a ninja-like group of assassins, and the duplicitous Lord Zenko, one of Takeo's retainers. Perhaps the greatest threat, however, is the prophecy of a holy woman that Takeo will die only at his son's hand; his only son, an unacknowledged bastard, is being raised by his sworn enemy Kikuta Akio, the head of a Tribe family. With his beautiful (and legitimate) daughter and heir Shigeko by his side, Takeo must navigate these treacherous shoals to save his lands and his legacy from destruction'. (Publisher's blurb)

1 y separately published work icon Οζυμανδίας (Ozymandias) Athens : Εκδόσεις Πατάκη (Ekdoseis Pataki) , 2007 8150347 2007 series - publisher non-fiction
4 2 y separately published work icon Giving Offense : Essays on Censorship J. M. Coetzee , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 6324533 1996 selected work essay

In Giving Offense, South African writer J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. Widely acclaimed for his many novels, Coetzee is also a brilliant literary critic and essayist. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Subscribing neither to the myth of the writer as a moral giant nor to that of the writer as persecuted innocent, Coetzee argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship.

From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn engaging in a trial of wits with the organs of the Soviet state, Giving Offense focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship. It also analyzes the arguments of Catharine MacKinnon for the suppression of pornography and traces the operations of the old South African censorship system. Finally, Coetzee delves into the early history of apartheid and critizes the blankness of contemporary political science in its efforts to address the deeper motives behind apartheid. (Source: Libraries Australia).

25 10 y separately published work icon Grass for His Pillow Lian Hearn , Sydney : Hodder Headline Australia , 2003 Z1068839 2003 single work novel fantasy young adult

'The pseudonymous Hearn's second thrilling installment of her Tales of the Otori trilogy (after 2002's Across the Nightingale Floor) is once again set in a magic-haunted version of medieval Japan where no one wields unchallenged authority and no one is safe. The swirl of treacherous, shifting clan alliances threatens to overwhelm young lovers and aristocrats Takeo and Kaede. Separated throughout most of the action, the two must develop their talents while trying to maintain their integrity. Takeo possesses superhuman gifts such as the ability to become invisible, project a double image of himself and hear distant conversations; however, he must discipline his skills and control his impetuous temper. He also must work out his relationship with the Tribe, a treacherous secret organization of spies and assassins that saved his life but that may have murdered his father. Kaede, meanwhile, has to escape the powerless role of a woman if she is to protect herself and her family domain from predatory neighbors'.

Source: bookseller's website.

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