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  • My Brother Andrés
    Peter Purchase
    Mexico City, 1968. The Olympic Games are due to be held in October. Under the strict authoritarian presidency of Díaz Ordaz, Mexico is going up in flames. Rebellious school and pro-democracy university students are protesting and their demonstrations are threatening the Games. Eighteen-year-old Andrés Serrano is among the demonstrating university students. Part Tarahumaran Indi...
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  • Alicia
    Peter Purchase
    Alicia tells the spellbinding story of young, free-spirited Mexican, Alicia Serrano, who experiences romance, tragedy and hope in her adventurous life. Alicia’s life is beset with challenges and setbacks from the moment she’s born in 1960. From an early age she must develop a steely resolve to overcome them. She is highly intelligent and a gifted athlete, characteristics she sh...
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    11,66 €

  • The Glass Cenotaph
    Peter Purchase
    In the late 1990s, Stefan’s life is unravelling. A brilliant glass technician, his business is failing and his Indigenous partner, Tania, has left him without explaining why.In the midst of this turmoil, Indigenous Australian sculptor Lennard Currie contacts Stefan and invites him to Fremantle. He plans to model a cenotaph on Jandamarra’s Rock in the Kimberleys-where he lost th...
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    14,66 €

  • The Life and Times of Gerrit de Waal
    Peter Purchase
    Gerrit de Waal’s world is thrown into confusion when his seafaring father’s ship mysteriously disappears in the Indian Ocean in 1694. He’s eight years old and growing up in cosmopolitan Middelburg, Zeeland, during the Dutch Golden Age. How will he survive to adulthood?At twenty-six, determined to find out what happened to his father, Gerrit signs on as senior carpenter aboard t...
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