{"title":"Translated Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-godmotherpaperback","title":"The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe French bestseller La Daronne\u003cbr\u003e\nNow a major film starring Isabelle Huppert \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nMeet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid French-Arabic translator who specialises in police phone taps. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is wedged between the costs of raising her daughters and the nursing home fees for her ageing mother. She’s laboured for twenty-five years to keep everyone’s heads above water.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nHappening upon an especially revealing set of wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in – and infiltrating – the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path: Patience becomes ‘the Godmother’.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nWith a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians more real than life itself, and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore Cayre’s bestselling novel shines a torchlight on a European criminal underworld that has rarely been seen, casting a piercing and darkly humorous gaze on everyday survival in con­temporary France.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n‘Devourable in a sitting’ —Sarah Krasnostein\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Vivid, smoky dialogue and a sly ending that ticks all the boxes . . . Masterly’ —Le Figaro\u003cbr\u003e\n‘A visceral delight’ —Angela Savage\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39619598090375,"sku":"9781760641610","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0313\/7211\/6103\/products\/cover_8_e7bedd13-d13a-4c02-bc20-934d09fd716f.jpg?v=1636529516"},{"product_id":"the-rome-zoopaperback","title":"The Rome Zoo by Pascal Janovjak","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Swiss Literature Award, the Prix Michel-Dentan and the Prix du public de la RTS \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n  Rome, too, wants the sound of roaring as evening falls . . .  \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Rome Zoo: a place borne of fantasy and driven by a nation’s aspirations. It has witnessed – and reflected in its tarnished mirror – the great follies of the twentieth century. Now, in an ongoing battle that has seen it survive world wars and epidemics, the zoo must once again reinvent itself, and assert its relevance in the Eternal City.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nCaught up in these machinations is a cast of characters worthy of this baroque backdrop: a man desperate to find meaning in his own life, a woman tasked with halting the zoo’s decline and a rare animal, the last of its species, who bewitches the world.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nDrifting between past and present,  The Rome Zoo  weaves together these and many other stories, forming a colourful and evocative tapestry of life at this strange place. It is both a love story and a poignant juxtaposition of the human need to classify, to subdue, with the untameable nature of our dramas and anxieties.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nSpellbinding and disturbing, precise and dream-like, this award-winning novel is unlike any other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39619599630471,"sku":"9781760642754","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0313\/7211\/6103\/products\/cover-2021-11-10T145306.214.jpg?v=1636516415"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.schwartzbooks.com.au\/collections\/translated-fiction.oembed","provider":"Schwartz Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}