Buzo: 8 books

*‘Buzo has something real and immediate to say about Australian attitudes. He makes the audience uneasy about the unperceptiveness of an “average” Aussie confronted by a well-mannered, educated Pakistani student. Norm parades many of the proper, accepted attitudes which […] are shot through...

Full of brigands and bogans, legends and sledgends, Legends of the Baggy Green is an acerbic commentary on the codes and manners of cricket behaviour. Part social history, part blooper tape, this book takes sports comedy back to where it all began. The sins of modern cricket-sledging, chucking,...

Love is awkward, as fans of Rainbow Rowell and E. Lockhart well know. Funny and heartbreaking in equal measure, this grocery store romance was a Morris Award Finalist for Best YA debut. "Smart, honest and full of achingly real characters. And it made me laugh. What else would you want...

Throughout the 1990s, North Korea has operated under a skeptical international eye, due largely to the countrys rigorous self-imposed isolation, its on-going confrontation with South Korea, a controversial nuclear arms program, and the near-total collapse of its economy. North Koreas leaders have...

Politics and Leadership in North Korea, now fully updated in this second edition, presents an accessible and comprehensive account of North Korea's political, economic and foreign policies since its creation in 1945. Moving away from media representations of North Korea as dangerously erratic and...

This fully updated third edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present day. The text is unique in analysing domestic developments in the two Koreas in the wider context of regional and international affairs. Key features...

22 contos Nessas variações sobre uma miséria urbana banalizada, a favela aparece como uma imagem inédita. Alternadamente realistas, irônicas ou desesperadas, essas histórias retratam seu quotidiano. Mães solteiras, adolescentes, trabalhadores, bandidos e policiais corruptos... A situação...

Vingt-deux nouvelles, comme des courts-métrages littéraires : dans ces variations sur une misère urbaine banalisée, la favela apparaît sous un visage inédit : vue sur la colline, ses débrouilles et ses légendes. Tour à tour réalistes, ironiques ou désespérantes, ces histoires révèlent...