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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. n THE VOYAGE, piano manufacturer and salesman Frank Delage travels to Vienna from Sydney, hoping to introduce a new design to replace the respected old pianos of Europe. He walks the great musical city, offering an impassioned defense of his piano's technical superiority to any who will hear it. When his ambitions are ignored by the city's staid musical elite, Delage's finds his situation suddenly transformed by a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla, an elegant grande dame of Viennese society. Now sailing home to Australia aboard the container ship Romance with his new bride, Amalia's daughter Elisabeth von Schalla, Delage and his story begin to come to light in a hypnotic sequence of memories, voices, and snatches of conversations. Bail's prose sidewinds like a slipstream as Delage's story moves between the glittering society of the von Schalla's Vienna and the rough landscape of Australia. The VoyageTHE VOYAGElity and the immediacy emotion, as well as revealing a great basin of interior life. THE VOYAGE was a finalist for the NSW Premier's Liter y Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, WA Premier's Book Awards, and the Queensland Literary Awards. Author of EUCALYPTUS. As new, unread first edition, first printing , in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L135.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First U.S. Edition. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Asa Larsson 's Rebecka Martinsson series was included on a list of Top Mysteries Every Woman Should Read by Oprah Winfrey, who called Rebecka Martinsson a "brilliant, believable" female detective. Now Rebecka Martinsson's courageis put to the test once more in her most twisted and unpredictable case yet.After successfully tracking down and killing a rogue bear in the wilderness of northern Sweden, a group of hunters is shaken by a grisly discovery when they dress the bear carcass: human remains in the stomach. Far away in the remote village of Kurravaara, an elderly woman is found murdered with frenzied brutality, crude abuse scrawled above her bloodied bed. Her young grandson, known to live with her, is nowhere to be found. Only Kiruna prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson sees a connection between the two events, but thanks to the machinations of a jealous rival, she is dropped from the case. Continuing to pursue answers in an unofficial capacity, and with the reluctant assistance of her friend and police inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka stands alone against a ruthless killer. At the root of it all is a horrifying, century-old crime, the tendrils of which continue to hold the small community in their grip. Author's first novel, THE SAVAGE ALTAR, won the Swedish Crime Writer's Association prize for best debut novel. Its sequel, THE BLOOD SPILT, was chosen as Best Swedish Crime Novel of 2004. The previous Rebecca Martinsson novel is UNTIL THY WRATH BE PAST. As new, unread, first edition, first printing copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M76.