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  • George Orwell’s Elephant & Other Essays
    Subhash Jaireth
    George Orwell’s Elephant & Other Essays is the latest collection from Subhash Jaireth, one of Australia’s most distinctive and intellectually adventurous essayists. Born in Punjab and trained as a geologist in Soviet-era Moscow before migrating to Australia in 1986, Jaireth brings a rare double vision to his work - the precision of a scientist and the sensitivity of a poet - as...
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    19,87 €

  • To Silence
    Subhash Jaireth
    Don’t be deceived by this tardis of a book, its three small monologues contain multitudes. Through the gently detailed lives of its subjects whole civilisations emerge: the fifteenth-century India of the dying and illiterate poet, Kabir; the Stalinist Russia of Chekhov’s younger sister, Maria; and the early seventeenth-century, Inquisition-ravaged Italy of the Calabrian theolog...
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    19,18 €

  • Rain Clouds
    Meerabai / Subhash Jaireth
    Meerabai (1498-1556) was a poet, singer and dancer and a devotee of Hindu god Krishna. She is revered as one of the prominent voices of the Bhakti Movement: a movement of religious reformation which valued personal engagement with deities over traditional ritualistic practices.Rain Clouds offers fifteen of her devotional love poems in both Hindi and English, translated by multi...
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    8,95 €

  • Incantations
    Subhash Jaireth
    ‘Those who have eyes,’ writes Georges Braque, my favourite cubist painter, ‘know just how irrelevant words are to what they see.’ Does this mean that I don’t have the eyes tosee? Perhaps it does. But it also shows my propensity to take refuge in words. I can’t draw or paint. It’s only words that I can rely on. If I turn to them, this is because when my eyes look at a painting, ...
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    19,70 €

  • Moments
    Subhash Jaireth
    ’When I listen to Bach, I seem to turn into a fish’.'Bach (Pau) in Love.'’We forget because we want to live. We forget because we live in hope for a better life. It’s this wretched hope that demands that we forget the unforgettable’.'The Last Smile of Graf Tolstoy.'These stories explore the nature of love, loss and memory: central to them is the uneasiness the narrators feel ab...
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    22,38 €